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Milosevic’s troops massacred civilians, including women and children, in Kosovo
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THE
HAGUE, September 6 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A Serb soldier
on Friday, September 6, told the war crimes trial of war crimes
suspect Slobodan Milosevic that he received orders to massacre
civilians, including women and children, when he served in the 1998-99
war in Kosovo, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
"The
order was given to leave no survivors," said the soldier, known
only as K41 to shield his identity, testifying through a video-link
from Banja Luka in Bosnia. His face was also blurred on the courtroom
television sets.
Milosevic,
the former Yugoslav president, is charged with war crimes and crimes
against humanity committed by his troops in Kosovo.
K41
told the court of many executions perpetrated by the Yugoslav army in
the Kosovo province. When he arrived in Trnje, a small village close
to Prizren in March of 1999 he received the order to kill everybody,
AFP reported.
He
described how the soldiers forced around a dozen people, including
women, children and elderly persons, at gunpoint to leave a house and
sit in a garden.
Presiding
Judge Richard May interrupted him at that moment to remind K41 that he
was not obliged to give evidence that might incriminate him, but the
witness continued.
"The
sergeant gave us the order to kill them. Every one of us fired from
their positions. The people fell over one another. There was a baby
that was shot with three bullets. I remember he cried unbelievably
loud," the soldier said.
K41
admitted he personally participated in this massacre, said AFP.
He
told the court that after the people were taken out of the houses, the
buildings were set on fire and the soldiers went on their way.
Five
men that his brigade met in the road were also executed by the
soldiers, he added.
The
witness said that during this campaign his brigade never met any
resistance from the village they attacked. He had never seen a
uniformed member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Milosevic
has claimed throughout the fist part of his trial, dealing only with
Kosovo, that his army was fighting the KLA and that his forces would
not kill civilians.
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