Families of the victims of Terrnje village, municipality of Suhareka/Suvareka, have informed the judge Mirjana Ilic, head of the Department for war crimes in Belgrade, at the same time the head of the Judicial panel in the file against officers Rajko Kozlina and Pavle Gavrillovic, for murder of 27 woman, children and elderly on 25 March 1999, that they will not take part in further proceedings because of the decision for the exclusion of representatives of the families, lawyers from Kosovo, reasoning this that they are not registered in the Bar Association of Serbia.
Humanitarian Law Center in Kosovo (HLC), through a press release considers that the judge Mirjana Ilic does not respect standards achieved in the representation of the damaged party from Kosovo, in the files of war crimes and reparations before the courts in Serbia, in which the damaged, without any problems are represented before the courts in Serbia, and that this decision is not based on judicial reasons. HLC Kosovo calls on the judge Ilic to annul her decision and enable the start of the trial for perpetrators of this heavy crime and to begin with the participation of witnesses and the family members of the victims.
