Haradinaj trial continues Monday

Next week at the Hague Tribunal new witnesses will give testimonies in the trial of former KLA leader Ramush Haradinaj. After a week-long pause, the prosecution will tomorrow resume presenting evidence against Haradinaj and co-defendents Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj that stand accused of having committed war crimes against Albanians, Serbs and Romas in the spring and summer of 1998, in the Decani valley in Kosovo. Haradinaj trial continues Monday A status conference in the case of former Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) General Pavlo Strugar has been scheduled for tomorrow as well. Strugar was found guilty and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment for the shelling of Dubrovnik in December 1991. His defense appealed the verdict but decided to shelve the motion once Judge Wolfgang Schomburg suggested that Strugar would be allowed to serve his time in Montenegro. However, since the ICTY Secretariat ascertained that the convicted general could not serve his sentence in his home country after all, Strugar reactivated the appeal. On Tuesday, at the trial of former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic and five co-defendants charged with the 1999 war crimes in Kosovo, in a case known as the Kosovo Six, a witness of the defense will give testimony. Beside Milutinovic, former Serbian Army CoS General Dragoljub Ojdanic, then Federal Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic, and Generals Nebojsa Pavkovic, Vladimir Lazarevic and Sreten Lukic are charged with forcible removal, deportation, murder and expulsion of Albanians in Kosovo in the first half of 1999. Defense lawyers of third-accused Ojdanic are now presenting their case.

Haradinaj trial continues Monday

A status conference in the case of former Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) General Pavlo Strugar has been scheduled for tomorrow as well. Strugar was found guilty and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment for the shelling of Dubrovnik in December 1991.

His defense appealed the verdict but decided to shelve the motion once Judge Wolfgang Schomburg suggested that Strugar would be allowed to serve his time in Montenegro.

However, since the ICTY Secretariat ascertained that the convicted general could not serve his sentence in his home country after all, Strugar reactivated the appeal.

On Tuesday, at the trial of former Serbian President Milan Milutinović and five co-defendants charged with the 1999 war crimes in Kosovo, in a case known as the Kosovo Six, a witness of the defense will give testimony.

Beside Milutinović, former Serbian Army CoS General Dragoljub Ojdanić, then Federal Prime Minister Nikola Šainović, and Generals Nebojša Pavković, Vladimir Lazarević and Sreten Lukić are charged with forcible removal, deportation, murder and expulsion of Albanians in Kosovo in the first half of 1999.

Defense lawyers of third-accused Ojdanić are now presenting their case.