war crimes (Kosovo 1999)
Serbian special police have arrested ten ethnic Albanian guerrillas (the so-called "Group of Gnjilane") in Presevo valley (Serbia) suspected of kidnapping Serb civilians and murdering more than 50 people shortly after the 1998-1999 Kosovo conflict. All the suspects were heavily armed. Some of those arrested had entered Presevo, a region of Serbia with a large ethnic Albanian community, to celebrate the New Year with relatives. Police also searched 17 locations and found arms as well as proof that they had been KLA(Kosovar Albanian terrorist organization) members. The suspects are also wanted for the alleged "rape, incarceration, mutilation, torture, and plunder" of Serb and non-Albanian civilians. The three leaders of the 'Group of Gnjilane'... are out of reach of Serbia's security forces. They live in Gnjilane in Kosovo and Serbia will demand UNMIK [the UN mission in Kosovo] to bring them to justice as there is evidence against them. The Presevo valley, situated on Serbia's southern border next to both Macedonia and Kosovo, is a predominantly ethnic Albanian area where clashes occurred in 2000 and 2001 between Serbian forces and local separatists. Ethnic Albanian militants in Presevo waged an insurgency against Belgrade in 2001 which was ended with the help of Nato and EU diplomacy.
Monsters from the so-called Group of Gnjilane had a task to scare off the remaining Serbs in Kosovo, by looting, raping and killing in such cruely and inhumanly way that other non-Albanians would flee Kosovo and never return. Victims' limbs were torn apart, bodies mutilated and cut to pieces. Their death was slow and painful.
Their names are: Nazif Hasani, Ahmet Hasani, Faton Hajdari, Samet Hajdari, Ferat Hajdari, Kamber Sahiti, Agus Memisi, Burim Gazliju and Selimon Sadiki, all ethnic Albanians.
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A mass grave with bodies of Serbs has been found in a village of Burelj in Albania says the sources close to the war crimes prosecution office in Belgrade. The prosecution has found that the top Kosovo Albanian separatist leadership ran a kidnapping network via tunnels and border crossings at Cafa, Prshit and Vrbnica to the psychiatric hospital in Burelj that was registered as Prison 320. Kosovo Serbs were brought to this facility from several other concentration camps in Albania such as Tropoja, Kuks, Bajram Curi and Koljsh. The body parts and organs were then extracted in the psychiatric hospital. When the person whose organs were taken out died, the body was then buried in the grave that was just found. Serbian war crimes prosecution says that it has evidence that the organ extraction network was ran by a former Kosovo Albanian so-called prime minister Ramush Haradinaj who was pronounced innocent at the war crimes trial in the Hague. Albanian authorities rejected cooperation requests made by Serbia. Serbia prosecution for war crimes launched the investigation after the former chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal Carla Del Ponte wrote in her book ‘The Hunt’ about suspicions of the Tribunal’s prosecution over illegal removal of body organs in the ‘yellow house’ for the purpose of sale







