"Scandalous" verdict for Kosovo Serb
A Kosovo Serb has been found guilty of committing war crimes and sentenced to seven years in prison in the town of Peć.
Wednesday, 10.11.2010.
11:15
A Kosovo Serb has been found guilty of committing war crimes and sentenced to seven years in prison in the town of Pec. Vukmir Cvetkovic, a native of Klina, was charged in connection to crimes committed during the 1999 war in the province. "Scandalous" verdict for Kosovo Serb The indictment said that in late March 1999, he drove members of two ethnic Albanian families in Klina out of their houses, threatening them with weapons, and then burned those houses. Cvetkovic's lawyer Ljubomir Pantovic says the verdict, passed by two EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, judges, "and one local judge", is "scandalous". "He (Cvetkovic) has been convicted without evidence. The witnesses contradicted each other so the audience (in the courtroom) at times laughed at their testimonies," said the lawyer, and announced he would file an appeal against the verdict. Cvetkovic was charged with committing war crimes against civilians and violating the Geneva Convention. His Klina neighbors made the accusation. Cvetkovic went to Norway in 2007, and spent 17 months in extradition prison there before he was sent to Kosovo in July this year, on a request lodged by EULEX. Cvetkovic was one of the Serbs driven out of Kosovo in 1999, who returned to his town in 2005. For the next two years, he worked for the Kosovo police, KPS, and was the only Serb from Klina who joined that formation.
"Scandalous" verdict for Kosovo Serb
The indictment said that in late March 1999, he drove members of two ethnic Albanian families in Klina out of their houses, threatening them with weapons, and then burned those houses.Cvetković's lawyer Ljubomir Pantović says the verdict, passed by two EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, judges, "and one local judge", is "scandalous".
"He (Cvetković) has been convicted without evidence. The witnesses contradicted each other so the audience (in the courtroom) at times laughed at their testimonies," said the lawyer, and announced he would file an appeal against the verdict.
Cvetković was charged with committing war crimes against civilians and violating the Geneva Convention.
His Klina neighbors made the accusation. Cvetković went to Norway in 2007, and spent 17 months in extradition prison there before he was sent to Kosovo in July this year, on a request lodged by EULEX.
Cvetković was one of the Serbs driven out of Kosovo in 1999, who returned to his town in 2005. For the next two years, he worked for the Kosovo police, KPS, and was the only Serb from Klina who joined that formation.
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