NGO accuses army chief of war crimes

NGO accuses army chief of war crimes

BELGRADE -- The Humanitarian Law Center (FHP) NGO says it possess documents which indicate that Army chief General Ljubisa Dikovic is "directly responsible for war crimes."

As was announced at a press conference to present "Dossier Rudnica," Dikovic is responsible for the crimes committed in the villages of Rezala and Staro Cikatovo and for hiding bodies in a mass grave in Raska.

The dossier, among other things, provides insight into the data and evidence on the four crimes of VJ and MUP committed in April and May 1999 in Kosovo, in which civilians were killed - Kosovo Albanians whose bodies were exhumed from a mass grave in Rudnica in 2014, and the process of "sanitation of the battlefield" in which the bodies of the victims had been taken from the crime scene, and then hidden for 15 years.

The FHP stated that the document was created on the basis of authentic military and police documents, statements by survivors of the crime, family members of victims, forensic reports, testimonies of VJ and MUP officials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and other relevant material.

Executive Director of the FHP Sandra Orlovic urged the prosecution for war crimes to as soon as possible launch an investigation into war crimes in Kosovo which are associated with the mass grave near Raska where the bodies were found of 52 civilians.

She added that it is important to find out who the people who were killed are, who is responsible for these crimes, who and in what way transported and hid the bodies in mass graves in Serbia and characterized the act as "an extended crime toward the victims and their families."

As stated, the FHP has obtained data that...