THE HAGUE, June 11 (Hina) - Yugoslav troops killed or wounded and then torched more than one hundred Albanians in a house in Mala Krusa village in March 1993, two surviving Albanians testified in the trial against former Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague on Tuesday.
THE HAGUE, June 11 (Hina) - Yugoslav troops killed or wounded and
then torched more than one hundred Albanians in a house in Mala
Krusa village in March 1993, two surviving Albanians testified in
the trial against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in
The Hague on Tuesday. #L#
"They set us on fire. They threw hay on us ... I was among the dead and
wounded," Mehmet Avdyli said, showing the judges burn wounds on his
wrists.
"I walked outside because I thought it would be better to die from
bullets than to be burned alive," he said.
Witness Lufti Ramadani described how, after they forced all the men
into a house, policemen set a man in a wheel-chair at the door to
prevent them exiting. Then they opened fire through the door and
windows and tried to burn the bodies after.
Ramadani testified that he survived because bodies fell on him,
shielding him from bullets, so policemen who walked up close to the
bodies and shot them from close range, did not kill him.
Albanian Sabri Popaj from Bela Crkva earlier described how the Serb
police killed several dozens residents in his village, including
his two sons.
"I buried them myself. They were covered with blood," Popaj said
showing a photograph of two small boys.
While he spoke about his son's deaths and looked for another picture
of his sons among other photographs, Milosevic tries to interrupt
him.
Let him finish, chairman of the panel of judges, Richard May said.
The indictment accuses Serbian police troops of killing more than
80 residents of Bela Crkva on March 25, 1993.
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