[A-PAL] A-PAL Dubrava Photos(shocking and graphic)

[Alice Mead]

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ALBANIAN PRISONER ADVOCACY
  July 31, 2001




                           A-PAL STATEMENT
Until now, we have refrained from using graphic or shocking evidence 
to prove our point that the courts and justice system which Milosevic 
transfered to Serbia are the same ones who organized and even 
participated in gross crimes against humanity such as the Dubrava 
massacre(seen here) in which 125 Albanians were murdered, hundreds 
were wounded. Lipjan Prison was run just like the Omarska Torture 
Camp in Bosnia. If the war had lasted another ten days, the hundreds 
of prisoners trapped there would have died of starvation, 
wounds,madness, and infection from living in their own filth. As it 
is several died.

These photos we hope will show the morally corrupt level of the 
judges and supervisors involved in the criminal justice system in 
Kosovo, who are responsible for such acts. These judges were then 
given jurisdiction (by decree of Milosevic) to conduct trials against 
the same prisoners who were in these torture camps and the massacre 
shown here. Where? Not in Kosovo. These judges are now in Serbia, 
where Milosevic then single-handedly set up a court system 
specifically for these unfortunate people. The Serb Ministry of 
Justice claimed it "had" to do this because there was no court system 
under UNMIK in June, 1999. This separate judicial system was created 
simply to continue the persecution of Albanians as it had done with 
impunity before the NATO war in Kosovo. They sentenced these people 
without evidence, based on forced confessions made under extreme 
torture. How extreme? Take a look.

Now the new government, and international leaders, support the 
ongoing operation of this false system created by Milosevic. The 
judicial review, which was supposed to bring releases to the final 
350 prisoners, did not.
This whole episode is an outrage to lawful people everywhere. These 
judges who participated in the killings, torture, and transfer of 
these cases should be under investigation. The victims of this 
persecution should be released. If these judges truly, legally 
represent the courts of Kosovo in 1999-2001, why not transfer the 
judges and prisoners back to Kosovo where they could supercede the 
UNMIK courts in some unprecedented manner and have them retry these 
prisoners there? At least that way, the full impact of the gross 
mishandling of these cases would suddenly be visible to all. The 
judges could then be held morally responsible for what they have 
actually done in sentencing these detainees to terms of 13 to 20 
years instead of holding themselves accountable for their lack of 
integrity and their political corruption.
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