Bytyqi trial: Policemen testify

Three policemen today took the stand in the trial of the persons accused of aiding the murder of the Bytyqi brothers.

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Monday, 10.03.2008.

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Three policemen today took the stand in the trial of the persons accused of aiding the murder of the Bytyqi brothers. The officers – Nebojsa Djokic, Sasa Maric and Dejan Djordjevic – were undergoing training at MUP's special operations base in Petrovo Selo, eastern Serbia, at the time the incident took place in 1999. Bytyqi trial: Policemen testify But today the policemen told Belgrade's District Court War Crimes Chamber that they were unaware that the three American citizens of Albanian origins were killed there at the time. Former policemen Sreten Popovic and Milos Stojanovic have been indicted of aiding the murder of the three Bytyqis on July 9, 1999, shortly after the end of the NATO bombing and the war in Kosovo. The prosecution claims the two are guilty of arresting the Bytyqis as they were leaving a Prokuplje jail after serving a 15-day sentence for illegally entering Serbia from Albania, to hand them over to unidentified MUP members. The brothers were taken to the Petrovo Selo ranges to be executed with bullets to the back of their heads. Their bodies, with hands tied behind their backs with wire, were recovered in a mass grave near the village in 2001. The Bytyqis arrived in Kosovo earlier that year to join the so-called Atlantic Brigade of the KLA, outlawed by Belgrade as a terrorist organization. However, when arrested, they were not charged with terrorism. The two accused men pleaded not guilty and rejected the indictment as the trial started on November 13, 2006. A panel of judges presiding over the process has released them from custody. The trial continues tomorrow.

Bytyqi trial: Policemen testify

But today the policemen told Belgrade's District Court War Crimes Chamber that they were unaware that the three American citizens of Albanian origins were killed there at the time.

Former policemen Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović have been indicted of aiding the murder of the three Bytyqis on July 9, 1999, shortly after the end of the NATO bombing and the war in Kosovo.

The prosecution claims the two are guilty of arresting the Bytyqis as they were leaving a Prokuplje jail after serving a 15-day sentence for illegally entering Serbia from Albania, to hand them over to unidentified MUP members.

The brothers were taken to the Petrovo Selo ranges to be executed with bullets to the back of their heads. Their bodies, with hands tied behind their backs with wire, were recovered in a mass grave near the village in 2001.

The Bytyqis arrived in Kosovo earlier that year to join the so-called Atlantic Brigade of the KLA, outlawed by Belgrade as a terrorist organization. However, when arrested, they were not charged with terrorism.

The two accused men pleaded not guilty and rejected the indictment as the trial started on November 13, 2006. A panel of judges presiding over the process has released them from custody.

The trial continues tomorrow.

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