.: Police Officers accused of torture only get 3 months behind bars

Friday, October 31, 2008

Police Officers accused of torture only get 3 months behind bars

Podgorica, Montenegro - Five members of the special anti-terrorist police (SAJ) will be spending only three months in prison for their excessive abuse and torture of 19 Albanians arrested in September 2006 in the case depicted "Eagle’s Flight.”

SAJ commander Marko Kalezić, Darko Šekularac, Nenad Šćekić, Milorad Mitrovic and Branko Radičković were found guilty for using excessive force on detainees held during trial proceedings for illicit charges of “terrorism.”

The abuses also led to the death of Pjeter Sinishtaj who later died from internal injuries suffered by blows to the head and organs, which consequently led to a fatal stroke.

According to reports, Sinishtaj was asleep beside his two grandchildren when the SAJ stormed into his house without warning and started kicking Sinishtaj on the head and body.

Sinishtaj’s daughter, Paulina Nikpreljaj, was outraged at the sentencing claiming that the SAJ purposely "killed her father." Nikprelaj stated that she witnessed first hand what passed through her father during his battle with life for 13 months. His pain and suffering ultimately led to a stroke which took his life, his honor, and left him humiliated in the hands of reckless and uncontrolled police.

An appeal is pending

Source: Vijesti

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Anonymous said...: It is corruption at it's finest moment!

Their arrests, trial, and sentencing were all made-up to appease the pressure mounting on the DPS during the real trial -- "Eagle's Flight"

On the surface, Montenegro did the right thing: arrest those police officers that beat, tortured, sexually abused, and mentally tormented 19 Albanians since 2006.

But when you scratch that surface, you get dirty politics plagued with corrupt cronies from Dukanovic's party elite that will not hesitate to carry out the same illicit tactics they used before.

The DPS and other authorities (including judges) involved in this mockery of a political system are sitting in their villas laughing until blue in the face on how they managed to FUCK the Albanians over again! And this time without any real consequences.; 1:21 PM

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New York Times article published May 21, 1911

"ALBANIAN JOAN OF ARC: Handsome Heroine Takes Father's Place and Vanquishes Turks" – Cetinja, May 21, 1911 - A young girl, whose first name corresponds to that of the given name of the Maid of Orleans, is now being sung in the songs of the Montenegrin bards in the inns and coffee houses in Podgorica. When at the battle of Vranje last week, her father, the hereditary commander of his clan, fell, she immediately stepped to his place and led the Martinajs to victory against the Turks. Aside from the romantic phase of the affair, for Janitza Martinaj (Tringa e Grudes) is very beautiful, the battle is important as showing that the Montenegrins on the frontier had joined with the Albanians. According to a person who is well acquainted with her, this new Joan of Arc is “a tall, handsome, well-developed young woman. All the Albanian women are brave, and are trained from their girlhood to the use of firearms, and in times of war, as there are no mules, they carry the provisions and ammunition for their soldiers and go into the firing line to distribute them.” “And are sometimes killed?” “Yes, often that happens.” Janitza would probably have carried a Martini rifle; or, as many of the Marininis were collected last year by the Turks, her weapon may perhaps have been one of the old-fashioned Albanian rifles, which are handsomely decorated with silver and have very long, narrow barrels. Shooting is almost the only amusement of the young men and women in Albania. Both boys and girls learn to shoot when they are 12 years old. At weddings the parties amuse themselves by dancing and shooting: at christenings shootings is again the principal amusement – firing at large targets for some little prize – and at festivals there is shooting all day long. It’s one of the great difficulties that Turks have to contend with, for it is part of the national life; the people use their rifles by day and sleep with them by their side by night. The custom has grown up with the prevailing insecurity from vendettas at home and border troubles abroad. Physically, the Albanians are the finest race in Europe. Their women are handsome, with dark hair, though their eyes are sometimes gray. To see them walk is a delight. We like to see the ballet in Servia. The first time I saw the Albanians walk it gave me just the same pleasure. Their movements are so graceful, elegance and strength together. Yes, they are a very fine and very gifted race. They are like the Scots in the 17th century, and they will be by and by the finest race, intellectually as well as physically, in the Balkans. If you go to Constantinople you will find that many of the finest men, not only soldiers but also statesmen are Albanians. Their fault, due to their present degree of civilization, is that they cannot grasp the idea of State. The clan is their highest organization; they are unable to see the importance of combining the clan with the higher organization of making a state. But that will come.

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Police Officers accused of torture only get 3 months behind bars

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