Milosevic’s secret police chief jailed
Yugoslavia’s former secret police chief and two other top security aides of former President Slobodan Milosevic were jailed in Belgrade today for revealing state secrets.
Radomir Markovic, the once-feared head of state security, and two other defendants, who were also high-ranking state security officers - are the first top Milosevic aides to be sentenced since Milosevic’s overthrow last October.
The jailing of the top Milosevic aides who are also believed to be linked to Kosovo atrocities came as Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic said the bodies of about 800 Kosovo Albanians have been buried in mass graves throughout Serbia.
Mihajlovic claimed that the Kosovo atrocities, mostly carried out during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, were not performed by regular Yugoslav police or army units, but ‘‘individuals dressed in police and military uniforms.’’
‘‘All those who carried out the crimes will be held accountable,’’ Mihajlovic said.
Serbian police have accused Milosevic of ordering his associates to cover up all evidence of war crimes in Kosovo. They said that Milosevic tried hide the atrocities by ordering the bodies to be buried in Serbia proper in locations far from the province.
The four former top Milosevic security officials were sentenced to a year today for allowing unauthorised people to see confidential papers and computer data while destroying the information after Milosevic’s overthrow.
They also allegedly removed confidential data, which is considered a violation of state secrecy laws.
