Vukotic

Pristina Basic Court of Pristina handed down its first-ever conviction for wartime sexual violence, sentencing former Serb policeman Zoran Vukotic to ten years in prison - a verdict that was hailed as a landmark by campaigners.

Vukotic was convicted of committing rape and participating in the expulsions of ethnic Albanian civilians from the town of Vushtrri/Vucitrn on May 22, 1999.

He used to be a police reservist in Vushtrri/Vucitrn, and was also a prison guard during the war, when he took part in the illegal detention of a large number of ethnic Albanian civilians at the nearby Smrekovnica detention centre from May to early June 1999.

Zoran Vukotic, a Serb former policeman in Kosovo, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years for for the mistreatment and torture of ethnic Albanian civilian prisoners at a jail in 1999.

Zoran Vukotic, a Serb former policeman on trial for war crimes, told a Kosovo court that he did not kill four ethnic Albanian civilians in May 1999.

A witness testified that Zoran Vukotic, a former Serb policeman on trial for war crimes in Kosovo, was involved in killing his son and three of his friends in May 1999.

Witnesses told the war crimes trial of Zoran Vukotic, a former Serb policeman, that he and another man assaulted them, stole their money and drew crosses on their foreheads in May 1999.

At the trial of Zoran Vukotic, a Serb ex-policeman charged with war crimes in 1999, two Kosovo Albanian witnesses testified about the defendant’s alleged brutality against civilian prisoners.

Kosovo Albanian witnesses at the trial of Zoran Vukotic, a former Serb policeman charged with war crimes in 1999, testified that they were beaten by him and saw him committing murder.