Police officer testifies at Suva Reka trial

A police officer from Prizren testified today at the Suva Reka war crimes trial.

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Thursday, 17.01.2008.

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A police officer from Prizren testified today at the Suva Reka war crimes trial. During the NATO bombing in 1999, Nikola Ljubisavljevic worked as an assistant to a team carrying out investigations in Suva Reka. Police officer testifies at Suva Reka trial Ljubisavljevic told the Belgrade District Court that he had heard about the crime that, according to the indictment, took place on March 26 1999, a day or two later in Prizren, where he was working on reducing crime in general in Suva Reka. “I heard that there had been some sort of disturbance and that some people had been killed,” said the witness, adding that he had discussed the matter with his colleagues, but that no-one knew the identities of the culprits. A number of policemen from Suva Reka have been charged with shooting dead several older members of the Berisha family, before taking the remaining men, women and children to the nearby Kalabria pizzeria and locking them inside. The accused then threw two hand grenades inside, before shooting dead anyone who was still showing any signs of life. Ljubisavljevic said that he had helped bury 18 bodies that, he claimed, had been brought from Prizren in a lorry. The site, he said, had been guarded by police officers from Suva Reka, while the bodies, of which two had been identified, were buried in plastic bags in a nearby cemetery. Then commander of the Nis Battalion Radoslav Mitrovic, Suva Reka Chief of Police Radojko Repanovic, his assistant Nenad Jovanovic, and police officers Sladjan Cukaric, Miroslav Petkovic, Zoran Petkovic, Ramiz Papic and State Security operative Milorad Nisavic are charged with the murders of 48 members of the Berisha family on March 26, 1999. The trial resumes tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. at the Special Court.

Police officer testifies at Suva Reka trial

Ljubisavljević told the Belgrade District Court that he had heard about the crime that, according to the indictment, took place on March 26 1999, a day or two later in Prizren, where he was working on reducing crime in general in Suva Reka.

“I heard that there had been some sort of disturbance and that some people had been killed,” said the witness, adding that he had discussed the matter with his colleagues, but that no-one knew the identities of the culprits.

A number of policemen from Suva Reka have been charged with shooting dead several older members of the Berisha family, before taking the remaining men, women and children to the nearby Kalabria pizzeria and locking them inside. The accused then threw two hand grenades inside, before shooting dead anyone who was still showing any signs of life.

Ljubisavljević said that he had helped bury 18 bodies that, he claimed, had been brought from Prizren in a lorry.

The site, he said, had been guarded by police officers from Suva Reka, while the bodies, of which two had been identified, were buried in plastic bags in a nearby cemetery.

Then commander of the Niš Battalion Radoslav Mitrović, Suva Reka Chief of Police Radojko Repanović, his assistant Nenad Jovanović, and police officers Slađan Čukarić, Miroslav Petković, Zoran Petković, Ramiz Papić and State Security operative Milorad Nišavić are charged with the murders of 48 members of the Berisha family on March 26, 1999.

The trial resumes tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. at the Special Court.

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