Haradinaj trial: Witness testifies to abduction

The trial of three former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders continued Thursday.

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Haradinaj trial: Witness testifies to abduction

The trial of three former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders continued Thursday.

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The trial of Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj continued with the testimony of an elderly Albanian man, who gave his evidence as Witness 8, with image and voice distortion.

According to the allegations in the prosecution’s pre-trial brief, Witness 8 gave evidence about an incident on 20 July 1998, when two Albanians were taken off a bus between Đakovica and Priština and subsequently killed.

In his 15-minute long testimony, the witness confirmed he was from the Đakovica area and he was present on the bus from which the two Albanians – Isuf Hoxha and Hajrullah Gashi – were taken off near Mališevo.

Ramush Haradinaj and other uniformed KLA members under his command allegedly entered the bus on 20 July 1998, saying they were looking for Hoxha and Gashi, two Albanian men married to Serb women.

They  took Hoxha and Gashi off the bus and drove them in the direction of Glođani in a black Golf vehicle. Their bodies were found in a canal near the Radonjić Lake later that year.

The trial of the three former KLA commanders will continue on Monday, 16 April.

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