On 26 December 2008, Serbian authorities arrested 10 ex-KLA members from Gjilan group suspected of torturing, looting and raping Serb and non-Serb civilians.
[4] Victims had their nails pulled out, tongues stabbed with knives, lighters hammered into skulls, and were in the end choked with plastic bags and garroted with wires.
[1] On 21 January 2011, the Belgrade Higher Court sentenced nine former KLA members to a total of 101 years for torturing, raping and murdering Serb and other civilians in the eastern Kosovo town of Gnjilane.
[4] The War Crime Chamber of the Appellate Court in Belgrade quashed the verdict on 7 December 2011 and set the case for a retrial.
[5] The presiding judge noted however, that while the court accepted the testimonies of the protected witnesses as authentic, it acknowledged discrepancies in their accounts.