"Hague verdicts not objective"

Rasim Ljajić says the Hague didn't do enough to secure evidence to establish Fatmir Limaj’s guilt for crimes committed in Kosovo.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 19.07.2008.

09:39

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Rasim Ljajic says the Hague didn't do enough to secure evidence to establish Fatmir Limaj’s guilt for crimes committed in Kosovo. The president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal added that the Serbian Prosecutor’s Office would prove in the course of the investigation that the verdict passed by the Hague Tribunal was not an objective one. "Hague verdicts not objective" “Some parts of the text of the order to open an investigation, submitted by the Prosecutor's Office, are identical to the indictment raised by the Hague Prosecutor against Limaj, and will be used in the evidence procedure before domestic judicial organs,” Ljajic told reporters. "In launching proceedings before domestic judicial organs, we will demonstrate that the indictment and verdict of the Hague Tribunal were not objective," he said. On Thursday, the Office of the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor ordered the opening of an investigation into the activities of Limaj and 27 other members of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspected of committing war crimes against 22 Serb and ethnic Albanian civilians in the territory of Kosovo from June to October 1998, as members of the KLA 121st Brigade. These crimes were not covered by the indictment raised against Limaj by the Hague. In late 2005, the Hague found Limaj and Isak Musliju not guilty of suspected crimes committed against civilians in the Lapusnik Camp in Kosovo. The court concluded that the Hague Prosecutor's Office had failed to prove that the two defendants had held command positions or that they had been in effective control of KLA members who held ethnic Albanian and Serb civilians captive at Lapusnik from May to July 1998. Ljimaj is a member of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo, which won the most votes at the Kosovo elections in November 2007. Rasim Ljajic (FoNet, archive)

"Hague verdicts not objective"

“Some parts of the text of the order to open an investigation, submitted by the Prosecutor's Office, are identical to the indictment raised by the Hague Prosecutor against Limaj, and will be used in the evidence procedure before domestic judicial organs,” Ljajić told reporters.

"In launching proceedings before domestic judicial organs, we will demonstrate that the indictment and verdict of the Hague Tribunal were not objective," he said.

On Thursday, the Office of the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor ordered the opening of an investigation into the activities of Limaj and 27 other members of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspected of committing war crimes against 22 Serb and ethnic Albanian civilians in the territory of Kosovo from June to October 1998, as members of the KLA 121st Brigade.

These crimes were not covered by the indictment raised against Limaj by the Hague.

In late 2005, the Hague found Limaj and Isak Musliju not guilty of suspected crimes committed against civilians in the Lapušnik Camp in Kosovo.

The court concluded that the Hague Prosecutor's Office had failed to prove that the two defendants had held command positions or that they had been in effective control of KLA members who held ethnic Albanian and Serb civilians captive at Lapušnik from May to July 1998.

Ljimaj is a member of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo, which won the most votes at the Kosovo elections in November 2007.

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