Veterans accuse police of brutality

Four former soldiers arrested on Sunday say that MUP policemen who detained them subjected them to a brutal beating.

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Monday, 22.12.2008.

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Four former soldiers arrested on Sunday say that MUP policemen who detained them subjected them to a brutal beating. The four were protesting near Kursumlija, along with about a thousand others, demanding that the state pay their overdue war wages. Veterans accuse police of brutality On their way toward the administrative line with Kosovo, where they annouced peaceful protests, the veterans were stopped by hundreds of Gendarmerie (Zandarmerija) and riot police officers, after which they clashed with the police. A local healthcare center in Kursumlija said last night that 12 Gendarmes, five policemen and four ex-soldiers reported with injuries. B92 has learned that ten were sent to Prokuplje for further treatment – seven of them MUP members. Meanwhile, the leader of an association gathering former Yugoslav Army (VS) reserve soldiers from Prokuplje, Tomica Stevanovic, claims that his fellow veterans who were arrested yesterday were beaten afterwards, while they were tied up and transported to a local police station. The station's commander, Radislav Milenkovic, confirmed that a number of policemen were hurt in the violence, but would not comment on the accusations that the officers brutally assaulted those in their custody after arresting them. The scene near Kursumlija on Sunday (Beta)

Veterans accuse police of brutality

On their way toward the administrative line with Kosovo, where they annouced peaceful protests, the veterans were stopped by hundreds of Gendarmerie (Žandarmerija) and riot police officers, after which they clashed with the police.

A local healthcare center in Kuršumlija said last night that 12 Gendarmes, five policemen and four ex-soldiers reported with injuries. B92 has learned that ten were sent to Prokuplje for further treatment – seven of them MUP members.

Meanwhile, the leader of an association gathering former Yugoslav Army (VS) reserve soldiers from Prokuplje, Tomica Stevanović, claims that his fellow veterans who were arrested yesterday were beaten afterwards, while they were tied up and transported to a local police station.

The station's commander, Radislav Milenković, confirmed that a number of policemen were hurt in the violence, but would not comment on the accusations that the officers brutally assaulted those in their custody after arresting them.

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