Policemen deny knowledge of Bytyqi murders

The trial of those accused of the murder of the Bytyqi brothers in July 1999 continued today.

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Tuesday, 12.02.2008.

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The trial of those accused of the murder of the Bytyqi brothers in July 1999 continued today. Four police officers who at the time of the murders had been undergoing training at a camp in Petrovo Selo, where the brothers’ bodies were later found, took the stand this morning. Policemen deny knowledge of Bytyqi murders Kragujevac policemen Savo Timotijevic, Srdjan Zivadinovic, Srdjan Lazovic and Radisa Miletic told the Belgrade District Court's War Crimes Chamber that they had found out about the murders in the media. They said that they had had no idea that any civilians had been kept in the half-built Teaching Center in Petrovo Selo, and that they had left the training camp led by instructors from the then Special Operations Unit after five days because of “harassment.” Police officers Sreten Popovic and Milos Stojanovic are accused of being accessories to the murders of the three brothers and of denying the men the right to a fair trial. The Bytyqi brothers were arrested at the end of June when they left the prison in Prokuplje where they had served a 15 day sentence for entering the territory of the former Yugoslavia illegally through Albania. Popovic is accused of holding the brothers captive in the half-built camp in Petrovo Selo, before, on June 9, 1999, handing them over to unidentified Serbian MUP members who took them away and executed them, shooting them in the back of the head. Their bodies were discovered in a mass grave in Petrovo Selo in 2001, with their hands tied with wire. The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges at the start of the trial on November 13, 2006, saying that they had handed them over to MUP on the orders of Hague accused Vlastimir Djorcevic, but they had not known what was going to happen to them.

Policemen deny knowledge of Bytyqi murders

Kragujevac policemen Savo Timotijević, Srđan Živadinović, Srđan Lazović and Radiša Miletić told the Belgrade District Court's War Crimes Chamber that they had found out about the murders in the media.

They said that they had had no idea that any civilians had been kept in the half-built Teaching Center in Petrovo Selo, and that they had left the training camp led by instructors from the then Special Operations Unit after five days because of “harassment.”

Police officers Sreten Popović and Miloš Stojanović are accused of being accessories to the murders of the three brothers and of denying the men the right to a fair trial.

The Bytyqi brothers were arrested at the end of June when they left the prison in Prokuplje where they had served a 15 day sentence for entering the territory of the former Yugoslavia illegally through Albania.

Popović is accused of holding the brothers captive in the half-built camp in Petrovo Selo, before, on June 9, 1999, handing them over to unidentified Serbian MUP members who took them away and executed them, shooting them in the back of the head.

Their bodies were discovered in a mass grave in Petrovo Selo in 2001, with their hands tied with wire.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges at the start of the trial on November 13, 2006, saying that they had handed them over to MUP on the orders of Hague accused Vlastimir Đorćević, but they had not known what was going to happen to them.

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