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Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006Prosecutor’s Office for War CrimesThe Office was founded on July 1 st , 2003, and on July 23 rd , 2003. SerbianAssembly elected Vladimir Vukcevic the War Crimes Prosecutor 688(hereinafter: Prosecutor). Dragoljub Stankovic, Veselin Mrdak, MilanPetrovic, Bogdan Stankovic and Dusan Knezevic 689 were elected DeputyProsecutors.Apart from the abovementioned, completed cases, there are some othersin the pre-criminal or investigative phase: “Minic” 690 , “Povlen”, “PustoSelo” 691 , “Cuska”, “Zahac”, “Suva Reka” 692 , “Orahovac”, “Meja” 693 , “MejaOrize” 694 , “Korenica” 695 , “Bistrazin” 696 , “Izbice (Srbica)” 697 , “Gnjilane” 698 ,“Bitiqi” 699 and others 700 .On March 1 st 2006, the Office requested for initiating investigation on twopersons, based on reasonable doubt of having committed the criminal actof crime against prisoners of war 701 . 702 Victims of this crime were AgronBitiqi, Ilil Bitiqi and Mehmed Bitiqi, all American citizens murdered in 1999,whose bodies were recovered in 2001, in Petrovo village near Kladovo. 703Immediately after requesting the instigation of investigation, Districtprosecutor in Negotin, Miroslav Srzentic was anonymously threatened onthe phone „to be careful, for his own good, for protecting murderers“. 704Srzentic got similar threats in 2001. Fatos Bitiqi, brother of the murdered,said: “Order for my brothers’ murder was issued by the present GendarmerieChief of MUP Serbia Goran Radosavljevic Guri”. I saw that in the statementgiven to the Investigative judge in Kladovo by a police officer from Pristina.688 See the web site http://www.tuzilastvorz.org.yu/html lat/onama.html, visited on November 25th, 2006689 Ibid690 12 casualties691 92 casualties692 48 casualties693 103 casualties694 15 casualties695 13 casualties696 1 casualty697 116 casualties698 7 casualties699 3 casualties700 See the web site http://www.tuzilastvorz.org.yu/html_lat/predmeti.html, visited on November 25 th , 2006701 Criminal Code of SFRY, Article 144702 See the web site http://www.tuzilastvorz.org.yu/html_lat/saopstenja/s_01_03_2006.htm , visited on November25 th , 2006703 Investigation on brothers Betiqi murderers, B92, March 1 st 2006. See B92 web site: http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2006&mm=03&dd=01&nav_id=190153&nav_category=64 , visited on November 25 th , 2006704 The Prosecutor threatened over Betiqi case, B92, March 8 th , 2006. See B92 web site: http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2006&mm=03&dd=08&nav_id=190964, visited on November 25 th , 2006124
Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006I went to Kladovo last year and talked to the judge; I was urged to sign thecriminal reports against Vlastimir Djordjevic and I asked what happenedwith others, what was happening with the investigation against Guri, policeinspector for foreigners in Prokuplje Zoran Stankovic, jail headmasterAleksandar Djordjevic...The judge remained silent. Vlastimir Djordjevic issaid to be in Moscow, all right, but all the others are either still in office orretired” 705 Djordjevic was threatened by anonymous callers as well and told:“We’ll kill you if you come back, we know that you intend to return”. 706The War Crimes Prosecution filed an indictment against Sreten Popovic 707and Milos Stojanovic 708 for committing war crimes against prisoners ofwar 709 . The indictment reads: “Sreten Popovic ordered Milos Stojanovic todeprive the damaged parties of liberty in front of the Prokuplje DistrictPrison and to take them to the instruction center in Petrovo Selo. MilosStojanovic engaged members of the unit Aleksandar Nikolic and DejanStamenkovic, who took over the damaged parties, deprived them of liberty,by putting handcuffs on their hands. He took them to the instruction centerin the handcuffs and handed them over to Sreten Popovic, who held themthere and put them into a room with metal doors, which was located inan unfinished building under the runway, and held them in those closedconditions until July 9, 1999. Late in the evening of July 9, he handedthem over to the so far unidentified members of the Serbian police andSpecial Antiterrorist Unit (SAJ), who tied the damaged parties with wire,,took them to a pit for depositing waste, which is some 500 meters behindthe instruction center, and then they gun fired projectiles into the back ofthe heads of the three damaged parties, which caused their death...” 710 .705 Bojan Toncic: Goran Radosavljević Guri ordered my brothers murder, DANAS, February 19 th , 2004706 R. Femic: I am not afraid of dying; I am coming to Belgrade, DANAS March 25 th , 2006707 A.k.a. “Priest”, employee of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, during 1999 he was patrol and sabotage platooncommander of operational pursuit units, now lieutenant colonel at the gendarmerie708 A.k.a. “Seselj”, employee of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, during 1999 he was commander of the patroland sabotage platoon department of the operational pursuit units, now sergeant first class at the gendarmerie709 The indictment is available at http://www.tuzilastvorz.org.yu/html_lat/optuznice/bitici.htm, visited on 25 th ,2006710 Ibid125
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