Kosovo Court Detains Five Serbs for Massacre That Catalysed NATO Intervention
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Kosovo Court Detains Five Serbs for Massacre That Catalysed NATO Intervention
Five Serbs have been placed in 30-day pre-trial detention by the Pristina Basic Court on war crimes charges for alleged involvement in the January 1999 massacre in Recak/Racak, which left 45 dead and sparked the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
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der Standard DEAccording to the prosecutor, the men are suspected of having been involved in the murder of more than 40 ethnic Albanians by Serbian troops in the village of Racak in 1999
In Kosovo, five Serbs were arrested for alleged involvement in war crimes more than 25 years ago.
The Serb massacre of Albanians in the village of Recak called Nato on the agenda in 1999. Even today, the prosecutor's office in Pristina is working on the investigation of these war crimes. The police are now arresting five Serbs, who were said to have belonged to special units who were murdered at that time.
The Kosovo police have arrested five ethnic Serbs, including four former police officers, on suspicion of involvement in one of the worst crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians during the war in the 1990s, according to the Public Prosecution Service.
Kosovo police have arrested five ethnic Serb former police officers suspected of involvement in the 1999 massacre in the village of Racak, prosecutors said. According to the prosecution, these are the first arrests in the investigation into the massacre of more than 40 civilians by Serbian forces in Racak.
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