Kosovo Serb Sladjan Trajkovic indicted for war crimes

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The Special Prosecutor's Office in Pristina filed an indictment with the Special Department of the Basic Court against Sladjan Trajkovic, on suspicion that he allegedly committed war crimes during the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija (in the late 1990s) in the area of Vucitrn.

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"The Special Prosecutor's Office announces that the indictment against Sladjan Trajkovic was raised on suspicion that during the war in Kosovo, in the period 1998-1999, in the region of Vucitrn, individually and in complicity with other persons, in serious violation of the rules of international law, as a member of the Serbian police and military forces, he contributed to murders, raids, beatings, mistreatment, arrests, torture, cruel and inhumane treatment of Albanian civilians," a statement reads, RTS reports.

Trajkovic is further accused of allegedly "holding in slavery conditions, deporting and expelling thousands of Albanian civilians as well as looting, burning and destroying the houses of the civilian population of Albanian nationality who did not directly participate in the conflict, in which case he seriously violated the rules of international law during a war."

"Through these actions, the defendant S.T., in co-perpetration with other unknown members of the aforementioned Serbian police unit and other armed and uniformed persons, committed the criminal offense of 'war crime against the civilian population', envisaged and punishable under articles 142 and 22 of the Criminal Code of the former SFRJ (Yugoslavia)," said the statement.

Sladjan Trajkovic was a Kosovo police officer in the northern Kosovska Mitrovica region until late 2022, when he resigned in protest together with his other Serb colleagues.

Soon after, he was arrested in Bosnjacka Mahala.

(Telegraf.rs)