The first on the list, according to many of them, is General Ljubisa Dikovic, who until recently served as chief of the Serbian Army's General Staff.
Speaking for Prva TV's morning program on Monday, Dikovic said that his conscience is clear on this matter. He also said that according to his knowledge, the indictment against him exists, and that it was written in Belgrade.
Serbian Working Group for gathering facts and evidences in shedding the light on crimes committed in Kosovo and Metohija urged embassies of states that were part of KFOR’s contingents to open their archives, Serbian media report.
Several thousand documents, Serbia got hold of, were presented to the ambassadors and international community representatives, urging them again to open their archives.
Specialist Prosecution for war crimes committed in Kosovo is aware the public impatiently awaits raising of first indictments, which would be done when evidences and circumstances necessary to fulfill the highest standards of the international legal practice allow it, the Spokesperson of the Specialist Prosecution Christopher Bennett told Tanjug news agency.
According to him, aiming to protect the right, privacy and security of all those the indictments could have an impact on, including victims and indicted, all decisions are to be made after full and careful data examination.
Two senior Serbian officials on Tuesday criticized official Belgrade for not doing enough to solve crimes committed against Kosovo Serbs.
Commission for Missing Persons chief Veljko Odalovic told the “Unpunished Crimes” gathering that the authorities in Belgrade had “taken part in events which were not good for the state”. There are no inmates convicted of war crimes in Serbian prisons, they have been freed or pardoned, he said.
The Pristina authorities urged the EU and US to intervene after Serbia arrested a German citizen of Kosovo origin on suspected war-related charges while travelling back from his summer holiday in Kosovo.
Kosovo’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned the arrest of German citizen Ibrahim Matoshi as he crossed the Serbian border and demanded an end to what it called the “witch hunt by the Serbian authorities” against people of Kosovo origin.
Vitomir Ilic (58) from the village of Korminjane, near Ranilug arrested yesterday by Kosovo police was released today, RTV Puls reports.
There are no proceedings launched against him, his lawyer Vasilije Arsic confirmed to RTV Puls.
Vitomir Ilic, retired member of Serbian MUP was suspected of taking part in the Serbian police action in the village of Zegovce, Gnjilane municipality. However, during the interrogation, it was confirmed Ilic was not in Gnjilane region at that time, but in other part of Kosovo, Serbian media reported.
Special Kosovo police unit arrested this morning Vitomir Ilic (58) in the village of Korminjane, near Ranilug and took him for informative interrogation to the police station in Gnjilane, RTV Puls reports.
Kosovo police for Gnjilane region spokesperson Ismet Hasani confirmed the arrest of a person of Serb nationality, without mentioning identity and reasons for the arrest.
Vitomir Ilic is a former member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and was retired ten years ago. He spent the entire time after the armed conflict in Kosovo in his home place with the family.
Kosovo Serb Radomir Antic (65) was placed under one-month detention, while Kosovo prosecution launched an investigation against him over alleged war crimes committed in 1999 in the area of Zegovacka Vrbica village, near Gnjilane, Radio kontakt plus reported.
Antic was arrested a few days ago and police found a hunting weapon with expired licence, gun and 40 bullets of different calibre in his house.
Kosovo prosecutors are discussing amending the criminal procedure code so that they could try war crimes suspects in absentia, as an extradition deal with Serbia seems unlikely.
Kosovo’s judicial authorities are considering changes to the criminal code in order to prosecute war crimes suspects in absentia, as they see little chance of Kosovo signing an agreement with Serbia on judicial cooperation.
Serbia said it would ask Montenegro to hand over a former Serbian fighter accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 and arrested in the Adriatic republic last week.
Serbia’s justice ministry told BIRN on Tuesday it would ask neighbouring Montenegro to extradite Predrag Vukovic, a Yugoslav Army veteran accused of involvement in the massacre of 46 ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999.