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Wednesday, 12.08.2009.

09:50

KPS arrest "Serb war crimes suspect"

Kosovo police, KPS, spokesman Arber Beka said last night its members arrested a Serb "suspected of having committed war crimes in Kosovo".

Izvor: Tatjana Njezic

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Peggy

pre 14 godina

Peggy wrote: Why aren't you supporting this man?

C'mon Peggy, you should know better than this. How can we support him when he is a criminal.
(Nexh, 13 August 2009 03:37)

You don't have any problems supporting Albanian criminals.
What am I thinking. There is no such thing as an Albanian criminal. They are all freedom fighters and politicians.

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Jasenovic's death toll was clearly inflated and imagined. The Serbs claim that 700,000 were killed there. A total and imagined lie from partizan and serb sources. Shame on them for defaming the true victims. The Serbs believe that if they keep saying this number it will stick. Lies
(BOBAN77, 13 August 2009 18:52)

Whoa! STOP THE PRESS.

Our first holocaust denier of the day. Praise the Lord!

Mr. Curiosity

pre 14 godina

OK, 48 hours passed already.
Does anybody know if that man has been charged or reliesed?
B92! Any info on this subject?
Thank you in advance.

roberto

pre 14 godina

As i've said many times, being attacked by the serb nationalists is a true badge of honor. keep it up, it helps me know i'm str8t on course.

here is my message to others who are attacked or intimidated by those "nice" people -- do not let it bother you! their message is exactly the same as from the 90's, just insert a different name here and there. and look what happened to the balkans in the 90s. is that our best answer?

the truth is that people like myself (outsiders, though along w/ so many diaspora, but anyways) are not affected by the naysayers, but domestic posters are. this is ONE reason why we see so few non and anti-nationalist serb posters -- when thy do (rarely) appear in these pages, they are gone after with such a degree of in-group nastiness, they hardly dare show themselves. i mean it is relatively easy for me and for many of our albanian colleagues here who are outside of serbia (luckily for them) and not phased by what they generally view as their adversaries. but inside the country is quite another matter.

think about when andrej nosov (youth initiative) tried to mount an art exhibit in belgrade that featured albanian/ inter-ethnic artists: it came down so quick you'd have missed it if you'd blinked. so much for the great tolerance of the democratic serbia, so to speak.

as for my dear frnds at b92, again, i am so grateful for your granting me that special privilege of hearing every personal attack and insult, uncensored. you guys and gals are the greatest, and i return the love, believe me!

roberto
frisco

johny

pre 14 godina

You arrest our people in Presheva; our institutions will reciprocate that with your people in Kosova. Simple as that. You think you're smart doing whatever you want with our people in Presheva we will use your own methods and tactics and apply them to your people in Kosova. You set the rules of the game we will play it equally and apply it to your people.

Roger7

pre 14 godina

"Nail on the head Mike for exposing this guy's (roberto) hypocrisy and latent racism towards Serbs. I couldnt have said it better myself"

Bravo!

BOBAN77

pre 14 godina

Jasenovic's death toll was clearly inflated and imagined. The Serbs claim that 700,000 were killed there. A total and imagined lie from partizan and serb sources. Shame on them for defaming the true victims. The Serbs believe that if they keep saying this number it will stick. Lies

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Our resident humanitarian from frisco wrote

"it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty."

It seems to me, and a number of other people there, that our a-nationalist friends and their sympathizers do the same. You were rather conveniently absent for a few days when a Serb couple was found dead in their home, and you've been known to explain away the arrest of alleged Albanian terrorists in Presevo and elsewhere. Your objectivity and calls for impartiality might actually be taken seriously were you not driven by your own apparently selective prejudices.
(Mike, 12 August 2009 21:46)

Nail on the head Mike for exposing this guy's hypocrisy and latent racism towards Serbs. I couldnt have said it better myself.

Frankly 'roberto' I'm getting sick and tired of your crocodile tears. Your continued platitudes are as empty as your false 'humanitarianism'.

Ace

pre 14 godina

Guys this is funny from the serbian site, writing that no albanians were arrested since 1999, in Kosovo.
I am asking this question to our neighbours, did any serbian criminal arrested in serbia?
And one thing, I would ask you guys to concentrate, catching these two, criminals G.Hadzic, adn R Mladic.
(prizreni, 13 August 2009 02:36)

Open your eyes, Prizreni. Serbia has arrested, charged, and convicted its own for multiple war crimes. It has admitted to its own peoples' crimes... which is far, far4 more than I can say for the Albanian camp. They deny, deny, deny.

Jason

pre 14 godina

This is so transparent... The Serb arrested was a returnee. This is Pristina's way of trying to prevent any more returnees from coming back to Kosovo. This accused "war criminal" is accused of bulldozing an Albanian building 10 years ago. Since KPS is such an efficient police force, how about they try and solve the double murder of the elderly Serbian couple that occurred this month as well?

Way to go, KPS.

Nexh

pre 14 godina

Peggy wrote: Why aren't you supporting this man?

C'mon Peggy, you should know better than this. How can we support him when he is a criminal.

prizreni

pre 14 godina

Guys this is funny from the serbian site, writing that no albanians were arrested since 1999, in Kosovo.
I am asking this question to our neighbours, did any serbian criminal arrested in serbia?
And one thing, I would ask you guys to concentrate, catching these two, criminals G.Hadzic, adn R Mladic.

The Swiss

pre 14 godina

The spokesman specified that the suspect was born in 1973 and that EULEX prosecution and special prosecutions in Priština and Prizren were "informed" about the arrest.

According to this, the suspect has been remanded in custody for 48 hours. Beka could not say what war crime he is suspected of committing.

That would be a good test of how the "justice" will function.

These days all the EU
eyes are pointed at one direction...., and of course watch out, Dick Marty will be back soon!

Peggy

pre 14 godina

i hope this serb gets life prison
(dan-ch, 12 August 2009 18:29)

Good thing you are not on that jury.

Another example of guilt because of being a Serb.

Albanians, I am only dishing out exactly what you are all the time. Read your posts on any topic and you won't be able to dispute this.

Attack me at will, I don't care but the truth is that. You defend yours even when it's obvious but condemn a Serb on just say so.

GVUK

pre 14 godina

Robert, how can any truth be in your post when you talk about "Jasenovic," when there is no such place. It is " Jasenovac ".

In regards to the news story, why has not even one Albanian faced justice in Kosovo since 98,' and yet you go around accusing serbs for not cooperating.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Dear Peggy, I am not going to jump to conclusion without hearing the facts, unlike you guys.
Just read your own coments for past 2-3 days and see where you and I stand on these issues. You are contradicting your own self today from what you wrotte yesterday about the alledged yellow house.
(Kosova-USA, 12 August 2009 13:13)

I was hoping someone will come along and say exactly what you said.
One of the reasons I wrote that was precisely to hear one of you say that you don't make conclusions without evidence when all around we see exactly the opposite.

Mike

pre 14 godina

Our resident humanitarian from frisco wrote

"it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty."

It seems to me, and a number of other people there, that our a-nationalist friends and their sympathizers do the same. You were rather conveniently absent for a few days when a Serb couple was found dead in their home, and you've been known to explain away the arrest of alleged Albanian terrorists in Presevo and elsewhere. Your objectivity and calls for impartiality might actually be taken seriously were you not driven by your own apparently selective prejudices.

arti

pre 14 godina

"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović won"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović wondered.

Wrong,based on the Serbian warrants and evidence against former KLA comanders and fighters were arrested or turned themself in and released because they had no reason or evidence that indicts them of any crime,incontrary happened with the Serbia because there was plenty of evidence and not just some political blackmail.

Hakmarrje

pre 14 godina

---“No one has been arrested for the murder of two children in Goraždevac and other crimes committed against Serbs from 1998 until today, and during the time that KFOR and UNMIK arrived in Kosovo,”

Dozens upon dozens have been arrested and sentenced by UNMIK /KPS. EULEX has another 1000 cases pending. Serbia will lose the war with "how about those two people killed," Albanians have many more stories. Like arresting Ceku but the people that killed Ceku's father and 140 other civilians are free in Serbia (everyone knows their names)

“Goran never wore uniform”

---"Dušan Vučković, the brother of the arrested Serb, said that his brother Goran never wore a uniform during the war in Kosovo."

Is this a defense? he never committed any crimes or never held a gun might help him more. Uniform or no uniform people can do horrible things. Goran was 26 then, maybe his Albanian neighbors have a different memory.

Serbia and Kosova should reach an agreement to let Hague or another court to try criminals, otherwise it will be like in Croatia and Serbia where Serbs and Croats are still being arrested in tit-for-tat. The fact that neighbors called the police is a huge step forward, it could have ended differently.

Oh, and arresting Albanians in Presheva for PR purposes doesn't help the situation. Remember this? http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?mm=12&dd=26&yyyy=2008

Dragan

pre 14 godina

'The spokesman specified that the suspect was born in 1973 and that EULEX prosecution and special prosecutions in Priština and Prizren were "informed" about the arrest.'

'Previously, the spokesman stated that “police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats, and some witnesses later recognized him as a perpetrator of war crimes in Kosovo."

Someone born in 1973 is not 32 years old. These keystone cops are a joke, and the whole thing would be funnier than a Three Stooges episode if this wasn't so tragic.
The KPS are really the KLA, in other words, a bunch of narcoterrorist human and organ traffickers.
The only way there will be peace and order in Kosovo is when the Serbian army is back in charge. That day is getting closer.

roberto

pre 14 godina

First of all, I think it is ridiculous for any of us to presume the guilt or innocence of any given individual, whatever their ethnicity (duh)unless they are some well known monster like mladic. or unless we possess specific evidence on that individual, which most of us would not.

having said that, it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty. they believe that their cause was just (one way or another) whether in croatia, bosnia, or certainly "holy" kosovo/a -- and then if you press them they preach about jasenovic, etc.

this is no joke -- when i was in email contact with my "frnd" fr novi sad early in 99, he sent me an email from a supposed jewish serb who had almost "been thrown in the fires" of jasenovic. now quite aside from the seamy political connections and questionable background of this "jewish serb," i was really forced to ask: why, when there is war and horror happening right this second in kosovo/a, i'm being treated to a lecture about jacenovic? but somehow from that side it all connects, it all justifies whatever happened in the 90s.

anyway, back to the present. all such upcoming trials, whether in pristina or in belgrade, need to take place with international standards, and i don't mean those of n. korea, iran, and putin-russia! i mean accepted intl standards, international monitoring, etc. eulex is there for a reason and they need to be doing their job (for once.) just too bad they're not also in blgd.

roberto
frisco

Little Russia

pre 14 godina

"What about massive graves in Serbia?"

Iuan, another lie to justify NATO invasion.

The team of Spanish experts was sent to Kosovo. "We were told we were going to the worst part of Kosovo, that we should be prepared to perform more than two thousand autopsies...We uncovered 187 corpses", said chief inspector Juan Lopez Palafox.
"First, in the vast majority of cases, the bodies were buried individual, not mass graves. Second, the Tribunal will not say what sex or age the alleged victims are, let alone what nationality. There were many causes of violent death in the province: over 100 Serb and Albanian civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks by the Albanian KLA since its insurrection began in 1998; 462 Serb soldiers and 114 Serb Interior Ministry police were killed during the war; the KLA, which had tens of thousands of men under arms, also sustained casualties"

To explain the difference between the tens of thousands of deaths announced and the actual number of bodies, the Serbs were accused of having "destroyed the evidence of their crimes". Investigators were even sent to conduct examinations, but they found nothing. Another team analysed ashes - they found no teeth or other signs of burnt bodies.
All allegations against Serbs were based mainly on the Western media reports and were refuted as soon as any exepert began to examine the issue.

Now tell me, if Albanians have nothing to conceal, why they don't let investigators to do their job?
Accusations of organ harvesting in Kosovo are based not only on witnesses' testimonies. Human Rights Watch called the allegations from Del Ponte's book "serious and credible" and wrote to Thaci to open investigation, but he rejected to do that.

Hank the Tank

pre 14 godina

"There a simple answer, The Serbs neighbors and friends tell on each other, While the Albanian stays silent when it comes to neighbors and friends."
George - USA

In other words, Serbs are more honest!

paulie

pre 14 godina

I don't think that its simply a matter of who supports which side's wild goose chases, but rather that the kps, and party seem only genuinely interested in arresting individuals of serbian ethnicity. when some tragic number of uninvestigated cases are sitting in the kps coffers, many of which include cases of recent violence against serbian, or non albanians, and many older cases of the same ilk are brushed aside in order to jump to the latest and greatest non-albanian potential criminal, then we seem to have a true problem within the state's policing mentality. if one uses basic models of criminal activity to population, it would seem that the 90+% of the population will commit somewhere near (wait for it) 90+% of the crimes (but lets be fair and say even as low as 50%), we should see many more non-non-albaians captured, imprissioned etc. but we don't.
however, in serbia we do see the serbian police forces willing to arrest anyone and everyone that is suspected of criminal activity. be it a serbian national of serbian ethnicity, a foriegn national of serbian ethnicity, a serbian national of foriegn ethnicity, they will all get arrested. even if they are albanians in presevo, and they act ill willed towards the laws of the land, they too will get arrested.
if the kps is allowed to very obviously select who it wants to imprision, then i don't understand how the pro-albanian camp can justify its outrage when a presevo valley albanian gets arrested for something. aren't we all suppose to be supporting a police force. and by the camp's behaviour in supporting visibly selective with a high likelihood of corruption of the kps, one would assume that they'd always support the outwardly fairer acts of the serbian policing forces as well.
tisk tisk my pro-albanian friends, and some of my pro-serbian friends as well; instead of truely searching for truths you're mostly searching for excuses to continue this nonesense.

George - USA

pre 14 godina

Daniel wrote:

"That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?"

There a simple answer, The Serbs neighbors and friends tell on each other, While the Albanian stays silent when it comes to neighbors and friends.

Zoran

pre 14 godina

"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović wondered.

“No one has been arrested for the murder of two children in Goraždevac and other crimes committed against Serbs from 1998 until today, and during the time that KFOR and UNMIK arrived in Kosovo,” Ivanović continued.

He also said that EULEX should explain how evidence is found so quickly for arresting a Serb, while there is no evidence to arrests perpetrators of any crime committed thus far against Serbs.
--
Nemanja seems to have a good point. Because those criminals are in the KPS?

Kosovo is a lawless province.

Ace

pre 14 godina

Olf
Ramush Haradinaj was accused of killing his "brothers" Albanians as well, not only Serbs and Romas, didn't you know?
(Little Russia, 12 August 2009 16:02)

Good point. In fact, the Haradinaj brothers are all but dead (I think two remain) because of the war with another crime family, the Musajs. I think there is only 1 Musaj brother left as the rest were killed by Haradinajs... Serbs had nothing to do with this, but at least the crime syndicates take care of themselves:)

Mike

pre 14 godina

Let me guess. This is the Serb who disrupted that Albanian wedding yesterday on the way to Veliki Hoca. That he had the audacity to disrupt the wedding for being a Serb deacon and get some already drunk Albanians in an even bigger tizz is bad enough, but that he very well might have been driving with PR plates instead of KS is an affront to normal decency. Bravo to KPS for keeping the streets clean of such villany.

Nelli_Canada

pre 14 godina

Just saw and heard conversations on RTK website of a serb man offering another serb up to 100 thousand euro to make false statements that he witnessed so called organ transplants, the video clearly shows who's paying that sum of money and that is the government of serbia.
The wolf changes its fur, but not its nature. Too bad for Serbia that Kosova's intelegence agency just cought you commiting horrible crimes. My question is how serbia is going to explain all this stupidity once Kosova decides to sue Serbia for war crimes at the Hague?. The evil doers will have no choice but to tell the prosecutor in Prishtina exactly who's the criminal inside serbia's government who's offering that sum of money. Hopefully a copy of that video recording will be sent to the EU Headquarters and let the Serb government do the translation into English. Good job Kosova on arresting the worst criminals in the history of humankind. So much for the "yellow house".

MikeC

pre 14 godina

"If that is the case, then we have plenty of Serbs only in the Prishtina region to arrest them!"
OA KS

If Serbs were not "protected" by barbed wire and NATO more Serbs would be arrested for sure.

Has Pristina arrested even ONE albanian suspected of war crimes? If not, why?

luan

pre 14 godina

I am a little but not very surprised with what Serbian supporters write here. Do you want to say that Serbs are angels; they did not kill any Albanian during the war???? What about massive graves in Serbia? Probably those Albanians went in vocation in Serbia and than just did a suicide there, or probably KLA killed them??? You should show a little smartness, honesty and dignity when dealing with war crimes performed by Serbians in Kosovo. I can clearly conclude that almost all of you have prejudgments about government and people of Kosovo (Albanians). You should be in the service of a better future in region, prejudgments does not help. However, while the number of killed Albanians during the war is 5 or 6 times bigger, assumption can lead to a bigger number of Serbs involved in crimes. It makes you naïve to people who read English when trying to prove a general innocence for Serbs. People around the word including your historical friends saw in recent wars what kind of angles you are. I am not talking about USA, but some European countries which supported you for centuries, and who supported the independence of Kosovo now.

Carl, Sweden

pre 14 godina

"Nobody scares whoever that has clean hands, but those who have dirty hands better dissappear.
(Eagle, 12 August 2009 11:34)"

And this goes for all nationalities I suppose?

Little Russia

pre 14 godina

Oh, yeah ... Just give heed to the fact that this arrest took place that very time when Albanians had prevented Council of Europe from investigating the case of organs' trade. What a trivial PR trick!
And also I'd like to know about those so-called war crimes. As far as we know, international experts found out less than 200 bodies in Kosmet in different places, and those findings didn't shed light on who, under which circumstances killed them. Everybody knows now that Kosovo case is a fake.

The way Kosovo police works doesn't surprise any more. As one of the examples: in 1998 KLA abducted Serbs in the Orahovac area of Kosovo, then murdered and buried them. It was discovered in 2005. Jose Pablo Barajbar, the former head of the UN Office on Missing Persons and Forensics, said that they had everything to start investigation - victims, evidence and witnesses, but the Hague said that it was too late for a new investigation, because it ceased its work in 2010. Kosovan police wasn't interested in carrying out that investigation - guess why....
P.S. But when it came to Karadzic, the Hague required to prolong its work.

Berkeley

pre 14 godina

Peggy, when it comes to the claimed organ harvesting case mentioned in Carlas book, then you and most of your Serbian friends here definitely jump to the conclusion without being able to present a single proof. What does this tell us? That for many Serbs to be an Albanian is to be guilty enough, something what we already know to good, especially during the 90s when Albanians in Kosovo got slapped into the face on a daily base...when the were lucky. On the other hand, we know that the massmurder and architect of genocide, Mladic, still hides in Serbia.

Nemanja, Connecticut

pre 14 godina

Daniel wrote:

"That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?"

Because those war criminals are in the KPS.

Hakmarrje

pre 14 godina

To the above posters: remember when your MUP paraded 10 arrested Albanian "terrorists" and most of you cheered? I am pretty sure KPS has at least as much evidence against him,if not he will be released. At least K has EULEX there to put some pressure on justice.

--“police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats, and some witnesses later recognized him as a perpetrator of war crimes in Kosovo."

This is very good cooperation with the local people, had that person not recognized him he might still be free. Others should not be scared of returning back to Kosova, the government is helping you (even building 80 flats,) but crimes need to be solved.

Olf

pre 14 godina

10.000-15.000 K-Albaninas were killed by someone, they did not comit suicide.Those people are alive somewhere.
This guy is suspect nothing more. Further investigation will bring results.

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

It's amazing how EULEX is quick to arrest a Serb on someone's say so, but so far not one Albanian was arrested for crimes against the Serbs on evidence of an actual crime.

C'mon albnians. Let's hear you defend a man who got arrested on someone's say so. Normally you would say things like it's all bull. No evidence etc. Why aren't you supporting this man?

Oh wait. He is a Serb so he has to be guilty.
(Peggy, 12 August 2009 12:19)

Dear Peggy, I am not going to jump to conclusion without hearing the facts, unlike you guys.
Just read your own coments for past 2-3 days and see where you and I stand on these issues. You are contradicting your own self today from what you wrotte yesterday about the alledged yellow house.

Daniel

pre 14 godina

That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?

rolandi

pre 14 godina

look at rtk live arrest of three serbs 2month before what did they said on front of hiden camera about kla killing serbs and send them to albania

AO KS

pre 14 godina

To Peggy:

Nobody said he is guilty, and the (non)guiltiness will be proved in the court, not here in B92!

To MikeC:

If that is the case, then we have plenty of Serbs only in the Prishtina region to arrest them! It is not what you or me say, but what the prosecution says!

Why do you, or say WE, have to jump to conclusions whenever there's an arrest, be that of an Albanian or a Serb? Let us wait for the truth be heard before we regret of what we said!

If he's guilty of whatever crime committed, thank you KP (Kosova Police)!

Greets from Prishtina!

szemi

pre 14 godina

Stalinist type witch-hunt.This is the result when you try to turn some narcoterorists into policemen.You will never make good bacon from dog.

peter, sydney

pre 14 godina

> “police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats,.."

Minorities are especially privileged in Kosovo in that this crime only applies to them, wheras poor old K-albanian majority can't even get charged with murder.

KOSOVARi:
And the above is an example of irony. Know the difference?

Peggy

pre 14 godina

It's amazing how EULEX is quick to arrest a Serb on someone's say so, but so far not one Albanian was arrested for crimes against the Serbs on evidence of an actual crime.

C'mon albnians. Let's hear you defend a man who got arrested on someone's say so. Normally you would say things like it's all bull. No evidence etc. Why aren't you supporting this man?

Oh wait. He is a Serb so he has to be guilty.

Eagle

pre 14 godina

This is a GOOD NEWS that I have heard, Kosova Police is doing what they suppose to do, this is just the beginning, soon you'll see more war criminals getting caught..
TO: KOSOVARI,

Nobody scares whoever that has clean hands, but those who have dirty hands better dissappear.

MikeC

pre 14 godina

"Beka could not say what war crime he is suspected of."

What a surprise! Could it be because he is not really suspected of anything besides being Serb?

Nenad from Melbourne

pre 14 godina

And the cleansing of Serbs continues. Sure, there will be many Albanians who will say that the KPS are doing a great job, but we know better.

KOSOVARi

pre 14 godina

This is clearly a message sent by the pseudo-fake & illegal state of Kosovo in order to scare all serbs from ever returning to their birth-place.

its called sarcasm

Nenad from Melbourne

pre 14 godina

And the cleansing of Serbs continues. Sure, there will be many Albanians who will say that the KPS are doing a great job, but we know better.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

It's amazing how EULEX is quick to arrest a Serb on someone's say so, but so far not one Albanian was arrested for crimes against the Serbs on evidence of an actual crime.

C'mon albnians. Let's hear you defend a man who got arrested on someone's say so. Normally you would say things like it's all bull. No evidence etc. Why aren't you supporting this man?

Oh wait. He is a Serb so he has to be guilty.

MikeC

pre 14 godina

"Beka could not say what war crime he is suspected of."

What a surprise! Could it be because he is not really suspected of anything besides being Serb?

szemi

pre 14 godina

Stalinist type witch-hunt.This is the result when you try to turn some narcoterorists into policemen.You will never make good bacon from dog.

Eagle

pre 14 godina

This is a GOOD NEWS that I have heard, Kosova Police is doing what they suppose to do, this is just the beginning, soon you'll see more war criminals getting caught..
TO: KOSOVARI,

Nobody scares whoever that has clean hands, but those who have dirty hands better dissappear.

Daniel

pre 14 godina

That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?

MikeC

pre 14 godina

"If that is the case, then we have plenty of Serbs only in the Prishtina region to arrest them!"
OA KS

If Serbs were not "protected" by barbed wire and NATO more Serbs would be arrested for sure.

Has Pristina arrested even ONE albanian suspected of war crimes? If not, why?

Nemanja, Connecticut

pre 14 godina

Daniel wrote:

"That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?"

Because those war criminals are in the KPS.

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

It's amazing how EULEX is quick to arrest a Serb on someone's say so, but so far not one Albanian was arrested for crimes against the Serbs on evidence of an actual crime.

C'mon albnians. Let's hear you defend a man who got arrested on someone's say so. Normally you would say things like it's all bull. No evidence etc. Why aren't you supporting this man?

Oh wait. He is a Serb so he has to be guilty.
(Peggy, 12 August 2009 12:19)

Dear Peggy, I am not going to jump to conclusion without hearing the facts, unlike you guys.
Just read your own coments for past 2-3 days and see where you and I stand on these issues. You are contradicting your own self today from what you wrotte yesterday about the alledged yellow house.

luan

pre 14 godina

I am a little but not very surprised with what Serbian supporters write here. Do you want to say that Serbs are angels; they did not kill any Albanian during the war???? What about massive graves in Serbia? Probably those Albanians went in vocation in Serbia and than just did a suicide there, or probably KLA killed them??? You should show a little smartness, honesty and dignity when dealing with war crimes performed by Serbians in Kosovo. I can clearly conclude that almost all of you have prejudgments about government and people of Kosovo (Albanians). You should be in the service of a better future in region, prejudgments does not help. However, while the number of killed Albanians during the war is 5 or 6 times bigger, assumption can lead to a bigger number of Serbs involved in crimes. It makes you naïve to people who read English when trying to prove a general innocence for Serbs. People around the word including your historical friends saw in recent wars what kind of angles you are. I am not talking about USA, but some European countries which supported you for centuries, and who supported the independence of Kosovo now.

peter, sydney

pre 14 godina

> “police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats,.."

Minorities are especially privileged in Kosovo in that this crime only applies to them, wheras poor old K-albanian majority can't even get charged with murder.

KOSOVARi:
And the above is an example of irony. Know the difference?

Little Russia

pre 14 godina

Oh, yeah ... Just give heed to the fact that this arrest took place that very time when Albanians had prevented Council of Europe from investigating the case of organs' trade. What a trivial PR trick!
And also I'd like to know about those so-called war crimes. As far as we know, international experts found out less than 200 bodies in Kosmet in different places, and those findings didn't shed light on who, under which circumstances killed them. Everybody knows now that Kosovo case is a fake.

The way Kosovo police works doesn't surprise any more. As one of the examples: in 1998 KLA abducted Serbs in the Orahovac area of Kosovo, then murdered and buried them. It was discovered in 2005. Jose Pablo Barajbar, the former head of the UN Office on Missing Persons and Forensics, said that they had everything to start investigation - victims, evidence and witnesses, but the Hague said that it was too late for a new investigation, because it ceased its work in 2010. Kosovan police wasn't interested in carrying out that investigation - guess why....
P.S. But when it came to Karadzic, the Hague required to prolong its work.

Ace

pre 14 godina

Olf
Ramush Haradinaj was accused of killing his "brothers" Albanians as well, not only Serbs and Romas, didn't you know?
(Little Russia, 12 August 2009 16:02)

Good point. In fact, the Haradinaj brothers are all but dead (I think two remain) because of the war with another crime family, the Musajs. I think there is only 1 Musaj brother left as the rest were killed by Haradinajs... Serbs had nothing to do with this, but at least the crime syndicates take care of themselves:)

Olf

pre 14 godina

10.000-15.000 K-Albaninas were killed by someone, they did not comit suicide.Those people are alive somewhere.
This guy is suspect nothing more. Further investigation will bring results.

AO KS

pre 14 godina

To Peggy:

Nobody said he is guilty, and the (non)guiltiness will be proved in the court, not here in B92!

To MikeC:

If that is the case, then we have plenty of Serbs only in the Prishtina region to arrest them! It is not what you or me say, but what the prosecution says!

Why do you, or say WE, have to jump to conclusions whenever there's an arrest, be that of an Albanian or a Serb? Let us wait for the truth be heard before we regret of what we said!

If he's guilty of whatever crime committed, thank you KP (Kosova Police)!

Greets from Prishtina!

Berkeley

pre 14 godina

Peggy, when it comes to the claimed organ harvesting case mentioned in Carlas book, then you and most of your Serbian friends here definitely jump to the conclusion without being able to present a single proof. What does this tell us? That for many Serbs to be an Albanian is to be guilty enough, something what we already know to good, especially during the 90s when Albanians in Kosovo got slapped into the face on a daily base...when the were lucky. On the other hand, we know that the massmurder and architect of genocide, Mladic, still hides in Serbia.

Zoran

pre 14 godina

"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović wondered.

“No one has been arrested for the murder of two children in Goraždevac and other crimes committed against Serbs from 1998 until today, and during the time that KFOR and UNMIK arrived in Kosovo,” Ivanović continued.

He also said that EULEX should explain how evidence is found so quickly for arresting a Serb, while there is no evidence to arrests perpetrators of any crime committed thus far against Serbs.
--
Nemanja seems to have a good point. Because those criminals are in the KPS?

Kosovo is a lawless province.

Hakmarrje

pre 14 godina

To the above posters: remember when your MUP paraded 10 arrested Albanian "terrorists" and most of you cheered? I am pretty sure KPS has at least as much evidence against him,if not he will be released. At least K has EULEX there to put some pressure on justice.

--“police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats, and some witnesses later recognized him as a perpetrator of war crimes in Kosovo."

This is very good cooperation with the local people, had that person not recognized him he might still be free. Others should not be scared of returning back to Kosova, the government is helping you (even building 80 flats,) but crimes need to be solved.

Nelli_Canada

pre 14 godina

Just saw and heard conversations on RTK website of a serb man offering another serb up to 100 thousand euro to make false statements that he witnessed so called organ transplants, the video clearly shows who's paying that sum of money and that is the government of serbia.
The wolf changes its fur, but not its nature. Too bad for Serbia that Kosova's intelegence agency just cought you commiting horrible crimes. My question is how serbia is going to explain all this stupidity once Kosova decides to sue Serbia for war crimes at the Hague?. The evil doers will have no choice but to tell the prosecutor in Prishtina exactly who's the criminal inside serbia's government who's offering that sum of money. Hopefully a copy of that video recording will be sent to the EU Headquarters and let the Serb government do the translation into English. Good job Kosova on arresting the worst criminals in the history of humankind. So much for the "yellow house".

Mike

pre 14 godina

Let me guess. This is the Serb who disrupted that Albanian wedding yesterday on the way to Veliki Hoca. That he had the audacity to disrupt the wedding for being a Serb deacon and get some already drunk Albanians in an even bigger tizz is bad enough, but that he very well might have been driving with PR plates instead of KS is an affront to normal decency. Bravo to KPS for keeping the streets clean of such villany.

Mike

pre 14 godina

Our resident humanitarian from frisco wrote

"it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty."

It seems to me, and a number of other people there, that our a-nationalist friends and their sympathizers do the same. You were rather conveniently absent for a few days when a Serb couple was found dead in their home, and you've been known to explain away the arrest of alleged Albanian terrorists in Presevo and elsewhere. Your objectivity and calls for impartiality might actually be taken seriously were you not driven by your own apparently selective prejudices.

Carl, Sweden

pre 14 godina

"Nobody scares whoever that has clean hands, but those who have dirty hands better dissappear.
(Eagle, 12 August 2009 11:34)"

And this goes for all nationalities I suppose?

Little Russia

pre 14 godina

"What about massive graves in Serbia?"

Iuan, another lie to justify NATO invasion.

The team of Spanish experts was sent to Kosovo. "We were told we were going to the worst part of Kosovo, that we should be prepared to perform more than two thousand autopsies...We uncovered 187 corpses", said chief inspector Juan Lopez Palafox.
"First, in the vast majority of cases, the bodies were buried individual, not mass graves. Second, the Tribunal will not say what sex or age the alleged victims are, let alone what nationality. There were many causes of violent death in the province: over 100 Serb and Albanian civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks by the Albanian KLA since its insurrection began in 1998; 462 Serb soldiers and 114 Serb Interior Ministry police were killed during the war; the KLA, which had tens of thousands of men under arms, also sustained casualties"

To explain the difference between the tens of thousands of deaths announced and the actual number of bodies, the Serbs were accused of having "destroyed the evidence of their crimes". Investigators were even sent to conduct examinations, but they found nothing. Another team analysed ashes - they found no teeth or other signs of burnt bodies.
All allegations against Serbs were based mainly on the Western media reports and were refuted as soon as any exepert began to examine the issue.

Now tell me, if Albanians have nothing to conceal, why they don't let investigators to do their job?
Accusations of organ harvesting in Kosovo are based not only on witnesses' testimonies. Human Rights Watch called the allegations from Del Ponte's book "serious and credible" and wrote to Thaci to open investigation, but he rejected to do that.

Dragan

pre 14 godina

'The spokesman specified that the suspect was born in 1973 and that EULEX prosecution and special prosecutions in Priština and Prizren were "informed" about the arrest.'

'Previously, the spokesman stated that “police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats, and some witnesses later recognized him as a perpetrator of war crimes in Kosovo."

Someone born in 1973 is not 32 years old. These keystone cops are a joke, and the whole thing would be funnier than a Three Stooges episode if this wasn't so tragic.
The KPS are really the KLA, in other words, a bunch of narcoterrorist human and organ traffickers.
The only way there will be peace and order in Kosovo is when the Serbian army is back in charge. That day is getting closer.

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Our resident humanitarian from frisco wrote

"it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty."

It seems to me, and a number of other people there, that our a-nationalist friends and their sympathizers do the same. You were rather conveniently absent for a few days when a Serb couple was found dead in their home, and you've been known to explain away the arrest of alleged Albanian terrorists in Presevo and elsewhere. Your objectivity and calls for impartiality might actually be taken seriously were you not driven by your own apparently selective prejudices.
(Mike, 12 August 2009 21:46)

Nail on the head Mike for exposing this guy's hypocrisy and latent racism towards Serbs. I couldnt have said it better myself.

Frankly 'roberto' I'm getting sick and tired of your crocodile tears. Your continued platitudes are as empty as your false 'humanitarianism'.

Hank the Tank

pre 14 godina

"There a simple answer, The Serbs neighbors and friends tell on each other, While the Albanian stays silent when it comes to neighbors and friends."
George - USA

In other words, Serbs are more honest!

Peggy

pre 14 godina

i hope this serb gets life prison
(dan-ch, 12 August 2009 18:29)

Good thing you are not on that jury.

Another example of guilt because of being a Serb.

Albanians, I am only dishing out exactly what you are all the time. Read your posts on any topic and you won't be able to dispute this.

Attack me at will, I don't care but the truth is that. You defend yours even when it's obvious but condemn a Serb on just say so.

Jason

pre 14 godina

This is so transparent... The Serb arrested was a returnee. This is Pristina's way of trying to prevent any more returnees from coming back to Kosovo. This accused "war criminal" is accused of bulldozing an Albanian building 10 years ago. Since KPS is such an efficient police force, how about they try and solve the double murder of the elderly Serbian couple that occurred this month as well?

Way to go, KPS.

paulie

pre 14 godina

I don't think that its simply a matter of who supports which side's wild goose chases, but rather that the kps, and party seem only genuinely interested in arresting individuals of serbian ethnicity. when some tragic number of uninvestigated cases are sitting in the kps coffers, many of which include cases of recent violence against serbian, or non albanians, and many older cases of the same ilk are brushed aside in order to jump to the latest and greatest non-albanian potential criminal, then we seem to have a true problem within the state's policing mentality. if one uses basic models of criminal activity to population, it would seem that the 90+% of the population will commit somewhere near (wait for it) 90+% of the crimes (but lets be fair and say even as low as 50%), we should see many more non-non-albaians captured, imprissioned etc. but we don't.
however, in serbia we do see the serbian police forces willing to arrest anyone and everyone that is suspected of criminal activity. be it a serbian national of serbian ethnicity, a foriegn national of serbian ethnicity, a serbian national of foriegn ethnicity, they will all get arrested. even if they are albanians in presevo, and they act ill willed towards the laws of the land, they too will get arrested.
if the kps is allowed to very obviously select who it wants to imprision, then i don't understand how the pro-albanian camp can justify its outrage when a presevo valley albanian gets arrested for something. aren't we all suppose to be supporting a police force. and by the camp's behaviour in supporting visibly selective with a high likelihood of corruption of the kps, one would assume that they'd always support the outwardly fairer acts of the serbian policing forces as well.
tisk tisk my pro-albanian friends, and some of my pro-serbian friends as well; instead of truely searching for truths you're mostly searching for excuses to continue this nonesense.

The Swiss

pre 14 godina

The spokesman specified that the suspect was born in 1973 and that EULEX prosecution and special prosecutions in Priština and Prizren were "informed" about the arrest.

According to this, the suspect has been remanded in custody for 48 hours. Beka could not say what war crime he is suspected of committing.

That would be a good test of how the "justice" will function.

These days all the EU
eyes are pointed at one direction...., and of course watch out, Dick Marty will be back soon!

GVUK

pre 14 godina

Robert, how can any truth be in your post when you talk about "Jasenovic," when there is no such place. It is " Jasenovac ".

In regards to the news story, why has not even one Albanian faced justice in Kosovo since 98,' and yet you go around accusing serbs for not cooperating.

Ace

pre 14 godina

Guys this is funny from the serbian site, writing that no albanians were arrested since 1999, in Kosovo.
I am asking this question to our neighbours, did any serbian criminal arrested in serbia?
And one thing, I would ask you guys to concentrate, catching these two, criminals G.Hadzic, adn R Mladic.
(prizreni, 13 August 2009 02:36)

Open your eyes, Prizreni. Serbia has arrested, charged, and convicted its own for multiple war crimes. It has admitted to its own peoples' crimes... which is far, far4 more than I can say for the Albanian camp. They deny, deny, deny.

Roger7

pre 14 godina

"Nail on the head Mike for exposing this guy's (roberto) hypocrisy and latent racism towards Serbs. I couldnt have said it better myself"

Bravo!

KOSOVARi

pre 14 godina

This is clearly a message sent by the pseudo-fake & illegal state of Kosovo in order to scare all serbs from ever returning to their birth-place.

its called sarcasm

rolandi

pre 14 godina

look at rtk live arrest of three serbs 2month before what did they said on front of hiden camera about kla killing serbs and send them to albania

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Jasenovic's death toll was clearly inflated and imagined. The Serbs claim that 700,000 were killed there. A total and imagined lie from partizan and serb sources. Shame on them for defaming the true victims. The Serbs believe that if they keep saying this number it will stick. Lies
(BOBAN77, 13 August 2009 18:52)

Whoa! STOP THE PRESS.

Our first holocaust denier of the day. Praise the Lord!

Hakmarrje

pre 14 godina

---“No one has been arrested for the murder of two children in Goraždevac and other crimes committed against Serbs from 1998 until today, and during the time that KFOR and UNMIK arrived in Kosovo,”

Dozens upon dozens have been arrested and sentenced by UNMIK /KPS. EULEX has another 1000 cases pending. Serbia will lose the war with "how about those two people killed," Albanians have many more stories. Like arresting Ceku but the people that killed Ceku's father and 140 other civilians are free in Serbia (everyone knows their names)

“Goran never wore uniform”

---"Dušan Vučković, the brother of the arrested Serb, said that his brother Goran never wore a uniform during the war in Kosovo."

Is this a defense? he never committed any crimes or never held a gun might help him more. Uniform or no uniform people can do horrible things. Goran was 26 then, maybe his Albanian neighbors have a different memory.

Serbia and Kosova should reach an agreement to let Hague or another court to try criminals, otherwise it will be like in Croatia and Serbia where Serbs and Croats are still being arrested in tit-for-tat. The fact that neighbors called the police is a huge step forward, it could have ended differently.

Oh, and arresting Albanians in Presheva for PR purposes doesn't help the situation. Remember this? http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?mm=12&dd=26&yyyy=2008

George - USA

pre 14 godina

Daniel wrote:

"That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?"

There a simple answer, The Serbs neighbors and friends tell on each other, While the Albanian stays silent when it comes to neighbors and friends.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Dear Peggy, I am not going to jump to conclusion without hearing the facts, unlike you guys.
Just read your own coments for past 2-3 days and see where you and I stand on these issues. You are contradicting your own self today from what you wrotte yesterday about the alledged yellow house.
(Kosova-USA, 12 August 2009 13:13)

I was hoping someone will come along and say exactly what you said.
One of the reasons I wrote that was precisely to hear one of you say that you don't make conclusions without evidence when all around we see exactly the opposite.

Mr. Curiosity

pre 14 godina

OK, 48 hours passed already.
Does anybody know if that man has been charged or reliesed?
B92! Any info on this subject?
Thank you in advance.

roberto

pre 14 godina

First of all, I think it is ridiculous for any of us to presume the guilt or innocence of any given individual, whatever their ethnicity (duh)unless they are some well known monster like mladic. or unless we possess specific evidence on that individual, which most of us would not.

having said that, it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty. they believe that their cause was just (one way or another) whether in croatia, bosnia, or certainly "holy" kosovo/a -- and then if you press them they preach about jasenovic, etc.

this is no joke -- when i was in email contact with my "frnd" fr novi sad early in 99, he sent me an email from a supposed jewish serb who had almost "been thrown in the fires" of jasenovic. now quite aside from the seamy political connections and questionable background of this "jewish serb," i was really forced to ask: why, when there is war and horror happening right this second in kosovo/a, i'm being treated to a lecture about jacenovic? but somehow from that side it all connects, it all justifies whatever happened in the 90s.

anyway, back to the present. all such upcoming trials, whether in pristina or in belgrade, need to take place with international standards, and i don't mean those of n. korea, iran, and putin-russia! i mean accepted intl standards, international monitoring, etc. eulex is there for a reason and they need to be doing their job (for once.) just too bad they're not also in blgd.

roberto
frisco

arti

pre 14 godina

"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović won"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović wondered.

Wrong,based on the Serbian warrants and evidence against former KLA comanders and fighters were arrested or turned themself in and released because they had no reason or evidence that indicts them of any crime,incontrary happened with the Serbia because there was plenty of evidence and not just some political blackmail.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Peggy wrote: Why aren't you supporting this man?

C'mon Peggy, you should know better than this. How can we support him when he is a criminal.
(Nexh, 13 August 2009 03:37)

You don't have any problems supporting Albanian criminals.
What am I thinking. There is no such thing as an Albanian criminal. They are all freedom fighters and politicians.

Nexh

pre 14 godina

Peggy wrote: Why aren't you supporting this man?

C'mon Peggy, you should know better than this. How can we support him when he is a criminal.

prizreni

pre 14 godina

Guys this is funny from the serbian site, writing that no albanians were arrested since 1999, in Kosovo.
I am asking this question to our neighbours, did any serbian criminal arrested in serbia?
And one thing, I would ask you guys to concentrate, catching these two, criminals G.Hadzic, adn R Mladic.

roberto

pre 14 godina

As i've said many times, being attacked by the serb nationalists is a true badge of honor. keep it up, it helps me know i'm str8t on course.

here is my message to others who are attacked or intimidated by those "nice" people -- do not let it bother you! their message is exactly the same as from the 90's, just insert a different name here and there. and look what happened to the balkans in the 90s. is that our best answer?

the truth is that people like myself (outsiders, though along w/ so many diaspora, but anyways) are not affected by the naysayers, but domestic posters are. this is ONE reason why we see so few non and anti-nationalist serb posters -- when thy do (rarely) appear in these pages, they are gone after with such a degree of in-group nastiness, they hardly dare show themselves. i mean it is relatively easy for me and for many of our albanian colleagues here who are outside of serbia (luckily for them) and not phased by what they generally view as their adversaries. but inside the country is quite another matter.

think about when andrej nosov (youth initiative) tried to mount an art exhibit in belgrade that featured albanian/ inter-ethnic artists: it came down so quick you'd have missed it if you'd blinked. so much for the great tolerance of the democratic serbia, so to speak.

as for my dear frnds at b92, again, i am so grateful for your granting me that special privilege of hearing every personal attack and insult, uncensored. you guys and gals are the greatest, and i return the love, believe me!

roberto
frisco

BOBAN77

pre 14 godina

Jasenovic's death toll was clearly inflated and imagined. The Serbs claim that 700,000 were killed there. A total and imagined lie from partizan and serb sources. Shame on them for defaming the true victims. The Serbs believe that if they keep saying this number it will stick. Lies

johny

pre 14 godina

You arrest our people in Presheva; our institutions will reciprocate that with your people in Kosova. Simple as that. You think you're smart doing whatever you want with our people in Presheva we will use your own methods and tactics and apply them to your people in Kosova. You set the rules of the game we will play it equally and apply it to your people.

KOSOVARi

pre 14 godina

This is clearly a message sent by the pseudo-fake & illegal state of Kosovo in order to scare all serbs from ever returning to their birth-place.

its called sarcasm

Eagle

pre 14 godina

This is a GOOD NEWS that I have heard, Kosova Police is doing what they suppose to do, this is just the beginning, soon you'll see more war criminals getting caught..
TO: KOSOVARI,

Nobody scares whoever that has clean hands, but those who have dirty hands better dissappear.

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

It's amazing how EULEX is quick to arrest a Serb on someone's say so, but so far not one Albanian was arrested for crimes against the Serbs on evidence of an actual crime.

C'mon albnians. Let's hear you defend a man who got arrested on someone's say so. Normally you would say things like it's all bull. No evidence etc. Why aren't you supporting this man?

Oh wait. He is a Serb so he has to be guilty.
(Peggy, 12 August 2009 12:19)

Dear Peggy, I am not going to jump to conclusion without hearing the facts, unlike you guys.
Just read your own coments for past 2-3 days and see where you and I stand on these issues. You are contradicting your own self today from what you wrotte yesterday about the alledged yellow house.

AO KS

pre 14 godina

To Peggy:

Nobody said he is guilty, and the (non)guiltiness will be proved in the court, not here in B92!

To MikeC:

If that is the case, then we have plenty of Serbs only in the Prishtina region to arrest them! It is not what you or me say, but what the prosecution says!

Why do you, or say WE, have to jump to conclusions whenever there's an arrest, be that of an Albanian or a Serb? Let us wait for the truth be heard before we regret of what we said!

If he's guilty of whatever crime committed, thank you KP (Kosova Police)!

Greets from Prishtina!

Peggy

pre 14 godina

It's amazing how EULEX is quick to arrest a Serb on someone's say so, but so far not one Albanian was arrested for crimes against the Serbs on evidence of an actual crime.

C'mon albnians. Let's hear you defend a man who got arrested on someone's say so. Normally you would say things like it's all bull. No evidence etc. Why aren't you supporting this man?

Oh wait. He is a Serb so he has to be guilty.

MikeC

pre 14 godina

"Beka could not say what war crime he is suspected of."

What a surprise! Could it be because he is not really suspected of anything besides being Serb?

Nelli_Canada

pre 14 godina

Just saw and heard conversations on RTK website of a serb man offering another serb up to 100 thousand euro to make false statements that he witnessed so called organ transplants, the video clearly shows who's paying that sum of money and that is the government of serbia.
The wolf changes its fur, but not its nature. Too bad for Serbia that Kosova's intelegence agency just cought you commiting horrible crimes. My question is how serbia is going to explain all this stupidity once Kosova decides to sue Serbia for war crimes at the Hague?. The evil doers will have no choice but to tell the prosecutor in Prishtina exactly who's the criminal inside serbia's government who's offering that sum of money. Hopefully a copy of that video recording will be sent to the EU Headquarters and let the Serb government do the translation into English. Good job Kosova on arresting the worst criminals in the history of humankind. So much for the "yellow house".

Olf

pre 14 godina

10.000-15.000 K-Albaninas were killed by someone, they did not comit suicide.Those people are alive somewhere.
This guy is suspect nothing more. Further investigation will bring results.

Nenad from Melbourne

pre 14 godina

And the cleansing of Serbs continues. Sure, there will be many Albanians who will say that the KPS are doing a great job, but we know better.

Nemanja, Connecticut

pre 14 godina

Daniel wrote:

"That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?"

Because those war criminals are in the KPS.

luan

pre 14 godina

I am a little but not very surprised with what Serbian supporters write here. Do you want to say that Serbs are angels; they did not kill any Albanian during the war???? What about massive graves in Serbia? Probably those Albanians went in vocation in Serbia and than just did a suicide there, or probably KLA killed them??? You should show a little smartness, honesty and dignity when dealing with war crimes performed by Serbians in Kosovo. I can clearly conclude that almost all of you have prejudgments about government and people of Kosovo (Albanians). You should be in the service of a better future in region, prejudgments does not help. However, while the number of killed Albanians during the war is 5 or 6 times bigger, assumption can lead to a bigger number of Serbs involved in crimes. It makes you naïve to people who read English when trying to prove a general innocence for Serbs. People around the word including your historical friends saw in recent wars what kind of angles you are. I am not talking about USA, but some European countries which supported you for centuries, and who supported the independence of Kosovo now.

Berkeley

pre 14 godina

Peggy, when it comes to the claimed organ harvesting case mentioned in Carlas book, then you and most of your Serbian friends here definitely jump to the conclusion without being able to present a single proof. What does this tell us? That for many Serbs to be an Albanian is to be guilty enough, something what we already know to good, especially during the 90s when Albanians in Kosovo got slapped into the face on a daily base...when the were lucky. On the other hand, we know that the massmurder and architect of genocide, Mladic, still hides in Serbia.

roberto

pre 14 godina

First of all, I think it is ridiculous for any of us to presume the guilt or innocence of any given individual, whatever their ethnicity (duh)unless they are some well known monster like mladic. or unless we possess specific evidence on that individual, which most of us would not.

having said that, it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty. they believe that their cause was just (one way or another) whether in croatia, bosnia, or certainly "holy" kosovo/a -- and then if you press them they preach about jasenovic, etc.

this is no joke -- when i was in email contact with my "frnd" fr novi sad early in 99, he sent me an email from a supposed jewish serb who had almost "been thrown in the fires" of jasenovic. now quite aside from the seamy political connections and questionable background of this "jewish serb," i was really forced to ask: why, when there is war and horror happening right this second in kosovo/a, i'm being treated to a lecture about jacenovic? but somehow from that side it all connects, it all justifies whatever happened in the 90s.

anyway, back to the present. all such upcoming trials, whether in pristina or in belgrade, need to take place with international standards, and i don't mean those of n. korea, iran, and putin-russia! i mean accepted intl standards, international monitoring, etc. eulex is there for a reason and they need to be doing their job (for once.) just too bad they're not also in blgd.

roberto
frisco

szemi

pre 14 godina

Stalinist type witch-hunt.This is the result when you try to turn some narcoterorists into policemen.You will never make good bacon from dog.

Hakmarrje

pre 14 godina

To the above posters: remember when your MUP paraded 10 arrested Albanian "terrorists" and most of you cheered? I am pretty sure KPS has at least as much evidence against him,if not he will be released. At least K has EULEX there to put some pressure on justice.

--“police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats, and some witnesses later recognized him as a perpetrator of war crimes in Kosovo."

This is very good cooperation with the local people, had that person not recognized him he might still be free. Others should not be scared of returning back to Kosova, the government is helping you (even building 80 flats,) but crimes need to be solved.

Little Russia

pre 14 godina

Oh, yeah ... Just give heed to the fact that this arrest took place that very time when Albanians had prevented Council of Europe from investigating the case of organs' trade. What a trivial PR trick!
And also I'd like to know about those so-called war crimes. As far as we know, international experts found out less than 200 bodies in Kosmet in different places, and those findings didn't shed light on who, under which circumstances killed them. Everybody knows now that Kosovo case is a fake.

The way Kosovo police works doesn't surprise any more. As one of the examples: in 1998 KLA abducted Serbs in the Orahovac area of Kosovo, then murdered and buried them. It was discovered in 2005. Jose Pablo Barajbar, the former head of the UN Office on Missing Persons and Forensics, said that they had everything to start investigation - victims, evidence and witnesses, but the Hague said that it was too late for a new investigation, because it ceased its work in 2010. Kosovan police wasn't interested in carrying out that investigation - guess why....
P.S. But when it came to Karadzic, the Hague required to prolong its work.

MikeC

pre 14 godina

"If that is the case, then we have plenty of Serbs only in the Prishtina region to arrest them!"
OA KS

If Serbs were not "protected" by barbed wire and NATO more Serbs would be arrested for sure.

Has Pristina arrested even ONE albanian suspected of war crimes? If not, why?

Dragan

pre 14 godina

'The spokesman specified that the suspect was born in 1973 and that EULEX prosecution and special prosecutions in Priština and Prizren were "informed" about the arrest.'

'Previously, the spokesman stated that “police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats, and some witnesses later recognized him as a perpetrator of war crimes in Kosovo."

Someone born in 1973 is not 32 years old. These keystone cops are a joke, and the whole thing would be funnier than a Three Stooges episode if this wasn't so tragic.
The KPS are really the KLA, in other words, a bunch of narcoterrorist human and organ traffickers.
The only way there will be peace and order in Kosovo is when the Serbian army is back in charge. That day is getting closer.

Daniel

pre 14 godina

That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?

Hakmarrje

pre 14 godina

---“No one has been arrested for the murder of two children in Goraždevac and other crimes committed against Serbs from 1998 until today, and during the time that KFOR and UNMIK arrived in Kosovo,”

Dozens upon dozens have been arrested and sentenced by UNMIK /KPS. EULEX has another 1000 cases pending. Serbia will lose the war with "how about those two people killed," Albanians have many more stories. Like arresting Ceku but the people that killed Ceku's father and 140 other civilians are free in Serbia (everyone knows their names)

“Goran never wore uniform”

---"Dušan Vučković, the brother of the arrested Serb, said that his brother Goran never wore a uniform during the war in Kosovo."

Is this a defense? he never committed any crimes or never held a gun might help him more. Uniform or no uniform people can do horrible things. Goran was 26 then, maybe his Albanian neighbors have a different memory.

Serbia and Kosova should reach an agreement to let Hague or another court to try criminals, otherwise it will be like in Croatia and Serbia where Serbs and Croats are still being arrested in tit-for-tat. The fact that neighbors called the police is a huge step forward, it could have ended differently.

Oh, and arresting Albanians in Presheva for PR purposes doesn't help the situation. Remember this? http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?mm=12&dd=26&yyyy=2008

peter, sydney

pre 14 godina

> “police first received a report that a 32 year-old man had committed the criminal act of making threats,.."

Minorities are especially privileged in Kosovo in that this crime only applies to them, wheras poor old K-albanian majority can't even get charged with murder.

KOSOVARi:
And the above is an example of irony. Know the difference?

Ace

pre 14 godina

Olf
Ramush Haradinaj was accused of killing his "brothers" Albanians as well, not only Serbs and Romas, didn't you know?
(Little Russia, 12 August 2009 16:02)

Good point. In fact, the Haradinaj brothers are all but dead (I think two remain) because of the war with another crime family, the Musajs. I think there is only 1 Musaj brother left as the rest were killed by Haradinajs... Serbs had nothing to do with this, but at least the crime syndicates take care of themselves:)

Little Russia

pre 14 godina

"What about massive graves in Serbia?"

Iuan, another lie to justify NATO invasion.

The team of Spanish experts was sent to Kosovo. "We were told we were going to the worst part of Kosovo, that we should be prepared to perform more than two thousand autopsies...We uncovered 187 corpses", said chief inspector Juan Lopez Palafox.
"First, in the vast majority of cases, the bodies were buried individual, not mass graves. Second, the Tribunal will not say what sex or age the alleged victims are, let alone what nationality. There were many causes of violent death in the province: over 100 Serb and Albanian civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks by the Albanian KLA since its insurrection began in 1998; 462 Serb soldiers and 114 Serb Interior Ministry police were killed during the war; the KLA, which had tens of thousands of men under arms, also sustained casualties"

To explain the difference between the tens of thousands of deaths announced and the actual number of bodies, the Serbs were accused of having "destroyed the evidence of their crimes". Investigators were even sent to conduct examinations, but they found nothing. Another team analysed ashes - they found no teeth or other signs of burnt bodies.
All allegations against Serbs were based mainly on the Western media reports and were refuted as soon as any exepert began to examine the issue.

Now tell me, if Albanians have nothing to conceal, why they don't let investigators to do their job?
Accusations of organ harvesting in Kosovo are based not only on witnesses' testimonies. Human Rights Watch called the allegations from Del Ponte's book "serious and credible" and wrote to Thaci to open investigation, but he rejected to do that.

Mike

pre 14 godina

Our resident humanitarian from frisco wrote

"it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty."

It seems to me, and a number of other people there, that our a-nationalist friends and their sympathizers do the same. You were rather conveniently absent for a few days when a Serb couple was found dead in their home, and you've been known to explain away the arrest of alleged Albanian terrorists in Presevo and elsewhere. Your objectivity and calls for impartiality might actually be taken seriously were you not driven by your own apparently selective prejudices.

BOBAN77

pre 14 godina

Jasenovic's death toll was clearly inflated and imagined. The Serbs claim that 700,000 were killed there. A total and imagined lie from partizan and serb sources. Shame on them for defaming the true victims. The Serbs believe that if they keep saying this number it will stick. Lies

roberto

pre 14 godina

As i've said many times, being attacked by the serb nationalists is a true badge of honor. keep it up, it helps me know i'm str8t on course.

here is my message to others who are attacked or intimidated by those "nice" people -- do not let it bother you! their message is exactly the same as from the 90's, just insert a different name here and there. and look what happened to the balkans in the 90s. is that our best answer?

the truth is that people like myself (outsiders, though along w/ so many diaspora, but anyways) are not affected by the naysayers, but domestic posters are. this is ONE reason why we see so few non and anti-nationalist serb posters -- when thy do (rarely) appear in these pages, they are gone after with such a degree of in-group nastiness, they hardly dare show themselves. i mean it is relatively easy for me and for many of our albanian colleagues here who are outside of serbia (luckily for them) and not phased by what they generally view as their adversaries. but inside the country is quite another matter.

think about when andrej nosov (youth initiative) tried to mount an art exhibit in belgrade that featured albanian/ inter-ethnic artists: it came down so quick you'd have missed it if you'd blinked. so much for the great tolerance of the democratic serbia, so to speak.

as for my dear frnds at b92, again, i am so grateful for your granting me that special privilege of hearing every personal attack and insult, uncensored. you guys and gals are the greatest, and i return the love, believe me!

roberto
frisco

arti

pre 14 godina

"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović won"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović wondered.

Wrong,based on the Serbian warrants and evidence against former KLA comanders and fighters were arrested or turned themself in and released because they had no reason or evidence that indicts them of any crime,incontrary happened with the Serbia because there was plenty of evidence and not just some political blackmail.

Carl, Sweden

pre 14 godina

"Nobody scares whoever that has clean hands, but those who have dirty hands better dissappear.
(Eagle, 12 August 2009 11:34)"

And this goes for all nationalities I suppose?

rolandi

pre 14 godina

look at rtk live arrest of three serbs 2month before what did they said on front of hiden camera about kla killing serbs and send them to albania

Zoran

pre 14 godina

"How is it possible that Serbs are being arrested for war crimes accusations of come sort, while no one has been arrested for a single crime committed against Serbs," Ivanović wondered.

“No one has been arrested for the murder of two children in Goraždevac and other crimes committed against Serbs from 1998 until today, and during the time that KFOR and UNMIK arrived in Kosovo,” Ivanović continued.

He also said that EULEX should explain how evidence is found so quickly for arresting a Serb, while there is no evidence to arrests perpetrators of any crime committed thus far against Serbs.
--
Nemanja seems to have a good point. Because those criminals are in the KPS?

Kosovo is a lawless province.

Hank the Tank

pre 14 godina

"There a simple answer, The Serbs neighbors and friends tell on each other, While the Albanian stays silent when it comes to neighbors and friends."
George - USA

In other words, Serbs are more honest!

Peggy

pre 14 godina

i hope this serb gets life prison
(dan-ch, 12 August 2009 18:29)

Good thing you are not on that jury.

Another example of guilt because of being a Serb.

Albanians, I am only dishing out exactly what you are all the time. Read your posts on any topic and you won't be able to dispute this.

Attack me at will, I don't care but the truth is that. You defend yours even when it's obvious but condemn a Serb on just say so.

johny

pre 14 godina

You arrest our people in Presheva; our institutions will reciprocate that with your people in Kosova. Simple as that. You think you're smart doing whatever you want with our people in Presheva we will use your own methods and tactics and apply them to your people in Kosova. You set the rules of the game we will play it equally and apply it to your people.

prizreni

pre 14 godina

Guys this is funny from the serbian site, writing that no albanians were arrested since 1999, in Kosovo.
I am asking this question to our neighbours, did any serbian criminal arrested in serbia?
And one thing, I would ask you guys to concentrate, catching these two, criminals G.Hadzic, adn R Mladic.

GVUK

pre 14 godina

Robert, how can any truth be in your post when you talk about "Jasenovic," when there is no such place. It is " Jasenovac ".

In regards to the news story, why has not even one Albanian faced justice in Kosovo since 98,' and yet you go around accusing serbs for not cooperating.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Dear Peggy, I am not going to jump to conclusion without hearing the facts, unlike you guys.
Just read your own coments for past 2-3 days and see where you and I stand on these issues. You are contradicting your own self today from what you wrotte yesterday about the alledged yellow house.
(Kosova-USA, 12 August 2009 13:13)

I was hoping someone will come along and say exactly what you said.
One of the reasons I wrote that was precisely to hear one of you say that you don't make conclusions without evidence when all around we see exactly the opposite.

Mike

pre 14 godina

Let me guess. This is the Serb who disrupted that Albanian wedding yesterday on the way to Veliki Hoca. That he had the audacity to disrupt the wedding for being a Serb deacon and get some already drunk Albanians in an even bigger tizz is bad enough, but that he very well might have been driving with PR plates instead of KS is an affront to normal decency. Bravo to KPS for keeping the streets clean of such villany.

George - USA

pre 14 godina

Daniel wrote:

"That's ok if the man is a war criminal, but there are also 100s of Albanians who have also committed crimes during the war. Why the KPS does not put them under arrest?"

There a simple answer, The Serbs neighbors and friends tell on each other, While the Albanian stays silent when it comes to neighbors and friends.

paulie

pre 14 godina

I don't think that its simply a matter of who supports which side's wild goose chases, but rather that the kps, and party seem only genuinely interested in arresting individuals of serbian ethnicity. when some tragic number of uninvestigated cases are sitting in the kps coffers, many of which include cases of recent violence against serbian, or non albanians, and many older cases of the same ilk are brushed aside in order to jump to the latest and greatest non-albanian potential criminal, then we seem to have a true problem within the state's policing mentality. if one uses basic models of criminal activity to population, it would seem that the 90+% of the population will commit somewhere near (wait for it) 90+% of the crimes (but lets be fair and say even as low as 50%), we should see many more non-non-albaians captured, imprissioned etc. but we don't.
however, in serbia we do see the serbian police forces willing to arrest anyone and everyone that is suspected of criminal activity. be it a serbian national of serbian ethnicity, a foriegn national of serbian ethnicity, a serbian national of foriegn ethnicity, they will all get arrested. even if they are albanians in presevo, and they act ill willed towards the laws of the land, they too will get arrested.
if the kps is allowed to very obviously select who it wants to imprision, then i don't understand how the pro-albanian camp can justify its outrage when a presevo valley albanian gets arrested for something. aren't we all suppose to be supporting a police force. and by the camp's behaviour in supporting visibly selective with a high likelihood of corruption of the kps, one would assume that they'd always support the outwardly fairer acts of the serbian policing forces as well.
tisk tisk my pro-albanian friends, and some of my pro-serbian friends as well; instead of truely searching for truths you're mostly searching for excuses to continue this nonesense.

Nexh

pre 14 godina

Peggy wrote: Why aren't you supporting this man?

C'mon Peggy, you should know better than this. How can we support him when he is a criminal.

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Our resident humanitarian from frisco wrote

"it seems to me that our s-nationalist posters never concern themselves with the guilt of "their" people, for the simple reason that they don't see any of them as guilty."

It seems to me, and a number of other people there, that our a-nationalist friends and their sympathizers do the same. You were rather conveniently absent for a few days when a Serb couple was found dead in their home, and you've been known to explain away the arrest of alleged Albanian terrorists in Presevo and elsewhere. Your objectivity and calls for impartiality might actually be taken seriously were you not driven by your own apparently selective prejudices.
(Mike, 12 August 2009 21:46)

Nail on the head Mike for exposing this guy's hypocrisy and latent racism towards Serbs. I couldnt have said it better myself.

Frankly 'roberto' I'm getting sick and tired of your crocodile tears. Your continued platitudes are as empty as your false 'humanitarianism'.

The Swiss

pre 14 godina

The spokesman specified that the suspect was born in 1973 and that EULEX prosecution and special prosecutions in Priština and Prizren were "informed" about the arrest.

According to this, the suspect has been remanded in custody for 48 hours. Beka could not say what war crime he is suspected of committing.

That would be a good test of how the "justice" will function.

These days all the EU
eyes are pointed at one direction...., and of course watch out, Dick Marty will be back soon!

Jason

pre 14 godina

This is so transparent... The Serb arrested was a returnee. This is Pristina's way of trying to prevent any more returnees from coming back to Kosovo. This accused "war criminal" is accused of bulldozing an Albanian building 10 years ago. Since KPS is such an efficient police force, how about they try and solve the double murder of the elderly Serbian couple that occurred this month as well?

Way to go, KPS.

Ace

pre 14 godina

Guys this is funny from the serbian site, writing that no albanians were arrested since 1999, in Kosovo.
I am asking this question to our neighbours, did any serbian criminal arrested in serbia?
And one thing, I would ask you guys to concentrate, catching these two, criminals G.Hadzic, adn R Mladic.
(prizreni, 13 August 2009 02:36)

Open your eyes, Prizreni. Serbia has arrested, charged, and convicted its own for multiple war crimes. It has admitted to its own peoples' crimes... which is far, far4 more than I can say for the Albanian camp. They deny, deny, deny.

Roger7

pre 14 godina

"Nail on the head Mike for exposing this guy's (roberto) hypocrisy and latent racism towards Serbs. I couldnt have said it better myself"

Bravo!

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Jasenovic's death toll was clearly inflated and imagined. The Serbs claim that 700,000 were killed there. A total and imagined lie from partizan and serb sources. Shame on them for defaming the true victims. The Serbs believe that if they keep saying this number it will stick. Lies
(BOBAN77, 13 August 2009 18:52)

Whoa! STOP THE PRESS.

Our first holocaust denier of the day. Praise the Lord!

Mr. Curiosity

pre 14 godina

OK, 48 hours passed already.
Does anybody know if that man has been charged or reliesed?
B92! Any info on this subject?
Thank you in advance.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Peggy wrote: Why aren't you supporting this man?

C'mon Peggy, you should know better than this. How can we support him when he is a criminal.
(Nexh, 13 August 2009 03:37)

You don't have any problems supporting Albanian criminals.
What am I thinking. There is no such thing as an Albanian criminal. They are all freedom fighters and politicians.