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Former police commander Dragutin Naskovic denied being present in the eastern villages of Zheger/Zegra and Llashtice/Vlastica, where 29 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed during the war in 1999.
The court sentenced ex-police officer Sacir Lutvija, an ethnic Gorani, to ten years in prison for his involvement in assaulting ethnic Albanian prisoners, one of whom died.
Former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla Pjeter Shala appealed against the verdict jailing him for 18 years for war crimes – but the prosecution and victims’ representative insisted the sentencing was fair.
Kosovo's Justice Minister and Albania's Prime Minister slated the decision not to allow former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci to attend his father's funeral on Tuesday as "shameful".
In the first ever war crime trial in absence, Prishtina Basic Court sentenced former Serbian fighter Cedomir Aksic to 15 years’ imprisonment for involvement in the mistreatment, expulsions and murders of Kosovo Albanian civilians in Shtime/Stimlje municipality.
