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| |  | | Isak Musliu | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | Acquitted | | particulars : | On 30 November 2005, acquitted on all charges; motion of appeal filed by the Prosecution on 29 March 2006; Acquittal uphed by the Appeals Chamber on 27 September 2007 | | position : | Member of the Kosovo Liberation Army; Commander of Sector Lapusnik |
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| | | | Isak Musliu was born on 31 October in Raèak (Reçak), in the Municipality of Stimje (Shtime) in the autonomous province of Kosovo.
At the beginning of 1998, after years of increasing violence and tension, armed conflict broke out in Kosovo between Serb Forces and the “Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës“ (UÇK), known in English under the name of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Together with Serb civilians, Albanian civilians who were perceived by the KLA as either refusing to cooperate or as resisting the KLA by non military means (often described as “collaborators” by members of the KLA), were targeted for intimidation, imprisonment , violence and murder.
According to the ICTY indictment, at the time the acts were committed (May to August 1998), Isak Musliu was a member of the KLA and a commander in the military sector of Lapusnik (Llapushnik) and also of the Lapusnik prison camp where he occasionally held the role of warden.
The charges against Musliu are that:
a. He commanded, controlled, directed and otherwise exercised effective control over other KLA soldiers and guards at the Lapusnik Prison Camp.
b. He planned, instigated, ordered and personally participated in the enforcement of the detention of Serb civilians and perceived Albanian collaborators at the Lapusnik Prison Camp.
c. He planned, instigated, ordered and personally participated in the interrogation of Serb civilians and perceived Albanian collaborators at the Lapusnik Prison Camp.
d. He planned, instigated, ordered and personally participated in the brutal and inhumane treatment, physical and psychological assault, torture, and beatings of Serb civilians and perceived Albanian collaborators imprisoned at the Lapusnik Prison Camp.
e. He planned, instigated, ordered and personally participated in the murder of Serb civilians and perceived Albanian collaborators imprisoned at the Lapusnik Prison Camp.
f. He participated in efforts to keep the existence of the Lapusnik Prison Camp, and events that occurred there, secret by threatening prisoners not to observe or discuss events occurring in the Camp.
g. He instigated and aided and abetted the crimes alleged in this indictment by consistently failing to prevent, investigate or punish crimes committed by his subordinates against Serb civilians and perceived Albanian collaborators, as well as by the example of his own participation in such crimes.
Musliu was apprehended by the KFOR on 17 February 2003 and transferred to the ICTY the next day. | |     click for more... | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Albania | | | date of birth : | | | 31.10.1970 | | | also known as : | | | Qerqiz | | | period of charges : | | | 05.1998 - 08.1998 | | | judgement period : | | | 15.11.2004 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 29.09.2007 |
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