“Batajnica chosen by General Đorđević”

“Batajnica chosen by General Đorđević”

The witness testified with image and voice distortion as protective measures. The statement he gave to the OTP investigators in October 2004 was admitted into evidence, and neither the prosecution nor the defense had questions for him.

In the course of his brief testimony, K-87 made a couple of amendments to the statement he had given to the OTP. Those amendments indicated that he had been involved in the transfer of dead Kosovo Albanians and their burial in the mass graves in Batajnica in the spring of 1999.

He said that Vlastimir Đorđević, former head of the public security in the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP), had actually selected a place in Serbia proper where the bodies of Albanian victims would be buried.

Đorđević said “it was to be done at the firing range of the Special Antiterrorist Units (SAJ) center in Batajnica,” the witness explained, adding that he had been given those instructions in General Đorđević’s office.

After that, he said, “I executed the order I was given”.

General Đorđević is included in the indictment for the Kosovo crimes as the six Serbian politicians and generals on trial now, but for the past four years he has been a fugitive from justice.

Several witnesses have confirmed General Đorđević’s involvement in the transport and burial of the dead Albanian civilians.

The trial of Milan Milutinović, Nikola Šainović, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Nebojša Pavković, Vladimir Lazarević and Sreten Lukić continues on Monday.

Among the witnesses who will testify next week, as the prosecution indicated, is Phillip Coo, Canadian military analyst.