Lipljan

Kosovo Supreme Court Upholds Serb Ex-Policeman’s War Crimes Sentence

Kosovo's Supreme Court on Thursday made public its ruling confirming the sentencing of Goran Stanisic to 15 years' imprisonment for war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in the town of Lipjan/Lipljan during the Kosovo war in 1999.

The Supreme Court ruling upheld the previous Court of Appeals verdict convicting Serb wartime reservist policeman Stanisic.

Last Despatches: Kosovo Journalist Disappears After Visiting Guerrilla Base

Ismail Berbatovci closed the door of his apartment in the small central Kosovo town of Lipjan/Ljipljane for the last time on the morning of July 23, 1998.

His wife Peme remembers that he went out to do an interview with Rame Buja, a senior leader from the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, at the guerrilla force's local base in the nearby mountains.

Switzerland: Elderly woman murders 7-year-old from Kosovo

The boy was returning home from school when he was killed.

The victim, whose parents moved to Switzerland from the town of Lipljan in Kosovo, was killed on Thursday.
The incident happened only some 200 meters from his school.
The woman used a knife to stab the boy and then left him lying in a pool of blood on the sidewalk.

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