New indictments for war crimes announced

High Court and the Appellate Court in Belgrade referred to the Law on Personal Data Protection and obscured the names of judges, lawyers and defendants. As the most obvious example of this, Orlović listed the case against the Gnjilane group.

The Gnjilane group comprises members of the para-military ethnic Albanian forces in Kosovo and Metohija, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, who were sentenced to a total of 116 years of imprisonment for aggravated torture, rape and robbery of the property of 80 Serb civilians and other non-Albanians in the territory of Gnjilane from June to December 1999.

In the appeal proceedings, the Appellate Court decided to acquit all the 11 defendants due to lack of evidence.


To the prosecutor:

Question: How did you manage to get a conviction at the lower court if there was a lack of evidence at the Appellate level. You only end up looking stupid and biased if you had no evidence to convict. Is this the way Serbian justice operates!

High Court and the Appellate Court in Belgrade referred to the Law on Personal Data Protection and obscured the names of judges, lawyers and defendants. As the most obvious example of this, Orlović listed the case against the Gnjilane group.

The Gnjilane group comprises members of the para-military ethnic Albanian forces in Kosovo and Metohija, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, who were sentenced to a total of 116 years of imprisonment for aggravated torture, rape and robbery of the property of 80 Serb civilians and other non-Albanians in the territory of Gnjilane from June to December 1999.

In the appeal proceedings, the Appellate Court decided to acquit all the 11 defendants due to lack of evidence.


To the prosecutor:

Question: How did you manage to get a conviction at the lower court if there was a lack of evidence at the Appellate level. You only end up looking stupid and biased if you had no evidence to convict. Is this the way Serbian justice operates!