BELGRADE, April 25 (Hina) - The Office of the Serbian Prosecutor forWar Crimes on Tuesday issued an indictment against eight members ofthe Serbian Interior Ministry's special forces and state securitydepartment for crimes committed
against civilians in Suva Reka inKosovo in 1999, during the NATO air campaign against the FederalRepublic of Yugoslavia.
BELGRADE, April 25 (Hina) - The Office of the Serbian Prosecutor
for War Crimes on Tuesday issued an indictment against eight members of the
Serbian Interior Ministry's special forces and state security department for
crimes committed against civilians in Suva Reka in Kosovo in 1999, during the
NATO air campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The
indictment refers to the killing of 48 members of the Berisha family from Suva
Reka, including six children aged 1-4, seven children aged 7-13, a 100-year-old
woman and a woman eight months pregnant.
Their bodies were found in 2001 in a mass grave on a military range in
Batajnica near Belgrade. Serbian police general Vlastimir Djordjevic has been
indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for this crime. Djordjevic
fled Serbia in late 2000 and, according to some Serbian media, has lived in
Russia since.