Serbian Police detain 9 over alleged war crimes
March 13, 2010 05:41 pm
The group was detained on Friday, prosecutor Bruno Vekaric
told The Associated Press. Vekaric said the nine are accused of killing 41
ethnic Albanian civilians in the
Vekaric said that in total 26 people are under investigation
for the massacres of 200 people in Cuska and the surrounding villages, which
took place during the NATO air war against
“Horrific crimes were committed there,” Vekaric said. “The only motive was looting.”
Natasa Kandic, a prominent human rights activist who has investigated war crimes in Kosovo, said the attack on Cuska was a “well-planned, organized action.”
She said the Serb troops raided the village, separated men from the women and children and looted them before rounding them up in a house which was then set on fire.
“Two men managed to jump out of the house and run away,” Kandic told the AP. “I later saw the remains of that house and the bones of the victims.”
Kandic added that the crime in Cuska “illustrates the liberty to kill that was widespread then.”
Vekaric said that many of the suspects live outside
Thousands of people, many of them civilians, were killed during the 1998-99 war.
The arrests in
The war in Kosovo ended after NATO bombed