NAMING NAMES: SERBIAN MILITIA MEMBERS IDENTIFIED

New Report Details Executions in Kosovo

(New York-October 26, 1999) Five individuals from the Serbian security forces have been named and identified in photographs by witnesses to their actions, Human Rights Watch announced today. One man is implicated in the killing of six family members and two men were seen as part of an armed unit in the village of Cuska on May 14, 1999, when forty-one ethnic Albanians were summarily executed.

In a report released today, "A Village Destroyed: War Crimes in Kosovo," the organization details the grisly events in Cuska, as well as two neighboring villages in western Kosovo, Zahac and Pavljan, where Serbian forces killed another twenty-five people on the same day. The report

contains the photographs of the five members of the Serbian security forces who have been identified. It is the first human rights report to name and provide pictures of people who may be responsible for or have first-hand knowledge of war crimes in Kosovo.

In Cuska, Serbian forces took three groups of men into three different houses, where they were sprayed with machine guns, and then set on fire. In each of the three groups of men, one man survived. Their stories and those of other witnesses are provided in the report.o start attaching names and faces to those crimes," said Holly Cartner, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division. "Identifmethodology employed was to show the photographs to only one person at a time, preferably in a one-on-one setting. All of the photographs were shown one at a time on

the computer screen without any comment or suggeograph no. 6 published in the report, Salipur is standing next to Nebojsa Minic.

The motive for the killing in Cuska, Pavljan and Zahac reed on the Human Rights Watch web.