Serb police

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the verdict finding former Serb reservist policeman Nenad Arsic guilty of war crimes and confirmed his six-year prison sentence.

Arsic was found guilty of committing the crimes on May 21, 1999 during a police operation against Kosovo Albanian civilians in Pristina's Emshir neighbourhood.

Kosovo's Special Prosecution filed an indictment on Friday charging Zoran Vukotic with committing rape and participating in the expulsions of ethnic Albanian civilians from the town of Vushtrri/Vucitrn.

Petar Djukic, a former high-ranking Serb police officer in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, told the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday and Wednesday that military volunteers who came to Bosanski Samac in Bosnia in April 1992 were brought by political parties and not by Serbian State Security, SDB.

That's what President Aleksandar Vucic warned about on Wednesday.

According to him, the excuse for the arrests is that they had participated "in corruption, and the like."

Thousands of people gathered in the village of Prekaz in Drenica region visiting the memorial of Adem Jashari and his family to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of a man whose "defiant stand against Serb police and military helped inspire Kosovo's war for independence".

At the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague, a prosecution witness said Serb police robbed and killed Croats in an attack on a Croatian village in 1991.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Police Director Milorad Veljovic and representatives of the Kosovo police will discuss integration of Serb police officers from the southern Serbian province in the Kosovo police structure, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday.

PRISTINA - Members of the Drenica Group who are charged with war crimes committed against civilians in the prison camp of former (ethnic Albanian paramilitary unit) Kosovo Liberation Army in 1998 have been released pending trial, Pristina media reported.

A former Serb police chief told Ratko Mladic’s trial that he reported “incidents” at the Susica detention camp in Vlasenica, where 150 Bosniak prisoners are estimated to have been killed.