Bytyqi brothers murder trial continues
The trial of two police officers accused of killing the Bytyqi brothers in 1999 in Petrovo Selo continued yesterday.
Wednesday, 12.12.2007.
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The trial of two police officers accused of killing the Bytyqi brothers in 1999 in Petrovo Selo continued yesterday. President of the Trial Chamber for War Crimes in Belgrade Vesko Krstajic announced that the witnesses that had already been questioned would not be called again, which the defense and prosecution both agreed to. Bytyqi brothers murder trial continues He said that 53 witnesses and two experts had thus far taken the stand. The case will continue with the testimony of the remaining witnesses. U.S. citizens Agron, Mehmet, and Yli Bytyqi were kidnapped at the end of June 1999 as they were leaving Prokuplje prison where they had served a sentence for illegally entering the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from Albania. Their remains were recovered from a mass grave in Petrovo Selo in 2001. Former Special Police members Sreten Popovic and Milos Stojanovic have been accused of committing war crimes against three U.S. citizens, by depriving them of a fair hearing and thus assisting unidentified MUP officers in their murder. The brothers were taken to the Police Training Center in Petrovo Selo where they were subsequently executed with shots to the back of the head. Popovic and Stojanovic pleaded not guilty to all the charges at the beginning of the trial on November 13, 2006. They pleaded not guilty once again yesterday, stating that they had been following orders issued by their superiors. Popovic explained in detail how he had received orders from then public security chief Vlastimir Djordjevic to organize and pick up three persons of Albanian nationality at the Prokuplje district prison and hand them over to “colleagues from the Interior Ministry.” The Bytyqi brothers were members of the Atlantic Brigade, a volunteer group which served under the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999.
Bytyqi brothers murder trial continues
He said that 53 witnesses and two experts had thus far taken the stand. The case will continue with the testimony of the remaining witnesses.U.S. citizens Agron, Mehmet, and Yli Bytyqi were kidnapped at the end of June 1999 as they were leaving Prokuplje prison where they had served a sentence for illegally entering the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from Albania.
Their remains were recovered from a mass grave in Petrovo Selo in 2001.
Former Special Police members Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović have been accused of committing war crimes against three U.S. citizens, by depriving them of a fair hearing and thus assisting unidentified MUP officers in their murder. The brothers were taken to the Police Training Center in Petrovo Selo where they were subsequently executed with shots to the back of the head.
Popović and Stojanović pleaded not guilty to all the charges at the beginning of the trial on November 13, 2006.
They pleaded not guilty once again yesterday, stating that they had been following orders issued by their superiors.
Popović explained in detail how he had received orders from then public security chief Vlastimir Đorđević to organize and pick up three persons of Albanian nationality at the Prokuplje district prison and hand them over to “colleagues from the Interior Ministry.”
The Bytyqi brothers were members of the Atlantic Brigade, a volunteer group which served under the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999.
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