Darko Tasic

"We have come to express our revulsion and dissatisfaction with the reduction of the sentence of the criminal Darko Tasic. We will now go inside with a group of five family members and talk to the president of the court and see what he will tell us," Selami Hoti, a representative of one of the families of the victims of the Krushe e Vogel/ Mala Krushe massacre, told BIRN.

Kosovo's Court of Appeals on Tuesday halved the prison sentence handed down against a Serbian former police officer over the massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians in the village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusha in March 1999.

Agron Limani has been invited to give an interview to the Kosovo Specialist Prosecution in The Hague, which is investigating alleged violations by Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA fighters during and just after the 1998-99 war, he confirmed on Tuesday.

Limani told BIRN that he has been invited for interview as a witness, without giving more details.

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.

A massacre survivor told the trial of former Serb fighter Darko Tasic said he saw the defendant looting and burning the houses of ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusha in 1999.

A witness at the trial against of Serb ex-fighter Darko Tasic said they saw the defendant with a truck carrying dead bodies after a massacre in the Kosovo village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusha in 1999.

Kosovo’s Appeals Court rejected an appeal from the defence of former reservist Darko Tasic, upholding his indictment for committing war crimes in the village of Krusha e Vogel/ Mala Krusa in March 1999.

Former Serbian reservist Darko Tasic is accused of robbery and destruction of property in the Kosovo village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusa in March 1999, and of burning victims’ bodies and throwing them in a river.