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SPECIAL PROSECUTION FILED THE FIRST INDICTMENT FOR RAPE DURING THE WAR IN KOSOVO 

 

Prishtinë, May 2, 2023 – Special Prosecution of the Republic (SPRK) filed the first indictment in absentia at the Prishtina Basic Court - Special Department, against the accused with initials D.R. for rape during the war in Kosovo.

The Special Prosecution Office announces that the accused D.R. has provided evidence that, as members of the military reserve forces of Serbia, during the war in Kosovo, in violation of the rules of international humanitarian law, during a large and systematic attack by the Serbian military, police and paramilitary forces, against the Albanian civilian population in the entire territory of Kosovo, knowing about the existence of such an attack, with the use of violence and other inhuman actions, committed sexual violence against the woman of Albanian nationality, who suffered physical injuries to the body as well as serious permanent psychic trauma.

With these actions, the accused D.R. has committed the criminal offense "War crimes against the civilian population" from article 142 of the Criminal Code of Yugoslavia, currently incriminated as Crimes against humanity from article 143 paragraph 1 under paragraph 1.7 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo.

Also, the Special Prosecution Office has proposed for the trial be held in absentia as all the efforts to find the accused have been exhausted.