Milosevic Trial Witness Recalls Serbian Brutality
Serbian forces mutilated ethnic Albanian villagers during a crackdown in Kosovo in the late 1990s, a witness testified at the U.N. war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague.
The witness, Sabit Kadriu of the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms, investigated reports of killings by the Serbian police and army in several villages.
Kadriu said he saw mutilated bodies, with their eyes gouged out, their throats slit or skulls smashed.
In a May 1999 attack, Kadriu said, Serbian forces killed 109 ethnic Albanians who were fleeing under a civilian banner.
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