Prizren Basic Court
Kosovo Convicts Wartime Guerrilla of Kidnapping Suspected Collaborator
Prizren Basic Court on Tuesday convicted former Kosovo Liberation Army member, Remzi Shala, known by the nom de guerre Molla e Kuqe (The Red Apple) of committing a war crime by kidnapping an ethnic Albanian man from Duhel, a village in the Suhareka/Suva Reka area, during the Kosovo war.
Murdered Kosovo Albanian Could Have Been Serb Collaborator: Witness
Witness Shefki Bujari, who was the head of the village Duhel/Dulje for many years, told Remzi Shala's retrial at Prizren Basic Court on Wednesday that several murders during the Kosovo war, particularly in his village, could have happened because of personal resentments or suspicions that the victims were collaborating with Serbian forces.
Kosovo Orders Retrial of Wartime Guerrilla Unit Commander
Remzi Shala's lawyer, Natal Bullakaj, told BIRN on Thursday that the Supreme Court has upheld the former guerrilla commander's appeal against his war crime conviction and sent the case for a retrial.
The retrial will be held at Prizren Basic Court, where Shala was originally sentenced in July last year to 14 years in prison.
Serb Fighter ‘Transported Kosovo Massacre Victims’ Bodies’
The Darko Tasic trial on Wednesday at Prizren Basic Court. Photo: BIRN.
The truck was then set on fire and pushed into the river with the bodies inside, according to the witnesses.
Witness Tome Prekpalaj, from the village of Bregu i Drinit near Prizren, testified that he saw the defendant and his father with the truck carrying the corpses of Albanian civilians.