Kosovo Local Court Sentences Serb Student for War Crimes

On September 20, 2000, a local court with Kosovo Albanian judges and one French judge sentenced Milos Jokic, 21, to 20 years in prison for killing ethnic Albanians in the first trial for war crimes committed in Kosovo during the violence and crackdown by Yugoslav forces last year. Mr. Jokic was convicted of murdering Rexhep Emerllahu, 27, ordering the killing of another ethnic Albanian and of raping an ethnic Albanian woman. He was also found guilty of illegal possession of arms. Jokic denied the charges...[more]