The Special Department of the Basic Court in Pristina has issued arrest warrants for Milan Radoičić and 19 other people on suspicion of committing war crimes against the civilian population, namely killing more than a hundred Albanian civilians and mistreating 300 others in Gjakova, reports the Reporteri.net portal.
According to the court's arrest warrant, the bodies of Albanian civilians suspected of being killed by the group were found in a mass grave in Batajnica, and their murder took place in Gjakova from May 7 to 10, 1999.
The Reporteri.net portal published a facsimile of the court decision, issued on April 15th at the request of the Special Prosecutor's Office on March 27th.
The decision of the preliminary proceedings judge Ljutfij Šalje ordered the immediate forcible transfer of the suspects.
The Special Prosecutor's Office has filed a request for the issuance of arrest warrants for: Milovan Kovačević, Radomir Čolić, Miloš Đošan, Predrag Ristić, Srđan Krstić, Ljubiša Obradović, Živko Sarić, Spas Sarić, Lazar Drašković, Zvonko Ristić, Darko Gligorijević, Čedomir Božović, Vladimir Božović, Robert Dobrunaj, Radomir Raković, Ljubiša Raković, Miloš Šćepanović, Milan Radoičić, Svetislav Gligorijević and Tomica Avramović.
They are suspected of committing the criminal offense of "war crime against the population" in connection with Article 22 of the Criminal Code of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was in force at the time of the commission of the criminal offense, and currently sanctioned by Article 146 of the Criminal Code of Kosovo.
As stated, at a place called "Taliki most" in Gjakova from May 7 to May 10, 1999, members of uniformed Serbian military and police forces, including the suspects, began entering house after house and taking everyone present out, separating men from women and children.
They killed a total of 106 civilians of Albanian nationality, and after the war their bodies were found in a mass grave in Batajnica, the explanation for the arrest warrant states.
Kosovo has also issued an arrest warrant against Radoičić, the former vice president of the Serbian List, as the main suspect in the organization of a terrorist attack in northern Kosovo in September 2023.
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