IT-04-84bis-T 7306 D7306 - D7132 08 November 2012 MC THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA CASE NO. IT-04-84bis-T IN TRIAL CHAMBER II Before: Judge Bakone Justice Moloto, Presiding Judge Burton Hall Judge Guy Delvoie Registrar: Mr. John Hocking Date filed: 8 November 2012 THE PROSECUTOR v. RAMUSH HARADINAJ IDRIZ BALAJ LAHI BRAHIMAJ PUBLIC NOTICE OF FILING OF PUBLIC REDACTED VERSION OF HARADINAJ DEFENCE FINAL TRIAL BRIEF AND REQUEST TO ASSIGN EXHIBIT NUMBERS The Office of the Prosecutor: Counsel for Ramush Haradinaj: Mr. Paul Rogers Mr. Ben Emmerson QC Mr. Rodney Dixon Mr. Andrew Strong Counsel for Idriz Balaj: Mr. Gregor Guy-Smith Ms. Colleen M. Rohan Counsel for Lahi Brahimaj: Mr. Richard Harvey Mr. Paul Troop Case No.: IT-04-84bis-T 8 November 2012 7305 IT-04-84bis-T 1. The Defence for Ramush Haradinaj hereby files the public redacted version of the Defence Final Trial Brief of 11 June 2012 in accordance with the Trial Chamber’s Confidential Decision of 29 August 2012.1 It is attached hereto as Annex A. 2. The Defence also notes that three exhibits that were cited in the Defence Final Brief (in Annex 1) have not been assigned exhibit numbers: P251, P257 and P193 from the original trial.2 These exhibits were admitted into evidence in the retrial by the Trial Chamber on 29 August 2011,3 the Prosecution and Defence having agreed that these documents should be admitted as additional associated exhibits for two witnesses whose testimony and exhibits from the original trial had been admitted into evidence.4 These three exhibits need only be assigned exhibit numbers for the record, which the Defence requests the Registry is directed to so assign. Word Count: 232 Dated this day the 8th of November 2012 Counsel for Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, Ben Emmerson QC 1 Confidential Decision on Prosecution’s Request to File Public Redacted Version of Final Trial Brief, Notification of Corrigendum to Final Trial Brief and Request to Lift the Under Seal Status of an Exhibit, 29 August 2012. 2 Cited in Annex 1 to the Defence Final Brief, footnotes 2 and 46. 3 See T.777: 9-24. 4 See emails of 24 and 25 August 2011 between the Prosecution and the Defence on admission of additional associated exhibits for witnesses from the original trial whose testimony and exhibits were admitted in the retrial. Case No.: IT-04-84bis-T 1 8 November 2012 7304 IT-04-84bis-T Rodney Dixon Andrew Strong Case No.: IT-04-84bis-T 2 8 November 2012 7303 IT-04-84bis-T THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA CASE NO. IT-04-84bis-T IN TRIAL CHAMBER II Before: Judge Bakone Justice Moloto, Presiding Judge Burton Hall Judge Guy Delvoie Registrar: Mr. John Hocking Date filed: 11 June 2012 THE PROSECUTOR v. RAMUSH HARADINAJ IDRIZ BALAJ LAHI BRAHIMAJ PUBLIC REDACTED VERSION FINAL BRIEF ON BEHALF OF RAMUSH HARADINAJ FOR THE PARTIAL RETRIAL The Office of the Prosecutor: Counsel for Ramush Haradinaj: Mr. Paul Rogers Mr. Ben Emmerson QC Mr. Rodney Dixon Mr. Andrew Strong Counsel for Idriz Balaj: Mr. Gregor Guy-Smith Ms. Colleen M. Rohan Counsel for Lahi Brahimaj: Mr. Richard Harvey Mr. Paul Troop IT-04-84bis-T 11 June 2012 7302 IT-04-84bis-T Contents PART 1: INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 3 The charges for the partial retrial ................................................................................... 3 Defence submissions .......................................................................................................... 5 Structure of Final Brief .................................................................................................... 6 Overview of Defence submissions .................................................................................... 7 Direct evidence .............................................................................................................. 7 Circumstantial evidence .............................................................................................. 9 KLA organisation ....................................................................................................... 10 Serb intelligence reports ............................................................................................ 14 Incidents unrelated to Jabllanicë/Jablanica counts ................................................ 15 Military context of the Indictment ................................................................................ 16 Early Serb attacks ...................................................................................................... 17 Serbian offensives that followed in Spring 1998 ...................................................... 18 The Summer offensives .............................................................................................. 22 September offensive ................................................................................................... 25 The state of KLA defences ......................................................................................... 27 PART 2: THE ALLEGED JOINT CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE ................... 29 Summary submissions .................................................................................................... 29 Legal requirements ......................................................................................................... 31 A. Mr. Haradinaj’s alleged presence when crimes committed ............................... 33 Witness 81 ................................................................................................................... 33 Witness 80 ................................................................................................................... 49 Other evidence of presence in Jabllanicë/Jablanica ................................................ 56 Summary submissions................................................................................................ 59 B. KLA organisation and command .......................................................................... 59 Defence submissions ................................................................................................... 59 The emergence of the KLA in the Dukagjin area ................................................... 62 Other organisational allegations relied on by the Prosecution .............................. 77 Summary submissions................................................................................................ 80 C. The alleged “association” between the Accused .................................................. 81 Defence submissions ................................................................................................... 81 Importation of weapons ............................................................................................. 82 Military activities ........................................................................................................ 83 Formation of Operative Staff of the Dukagjini Plain ............................................. 84 Black Eagles ................................................................................................................ 85 Allegation of propensity to violence .......................................................................... 87 1 IT-04-84bis-T Public Redacted 11 June 2012 7301 IT-04-84bis-T Summary submission ................................................................................................. 95 D. The alleged “context of violence” .......................................................................... 95 Defence submissions ................................................................................................... 95 KLA communiqués .................................................................................................... 97 “Blacklists” ................................................................................................................. 98 Military Police ............................................................................................................ 99 VJ and Serb police and intelligence reports .......................................................... 100 Alleged incidents of violence outside of Jabllanicë/Jablanica .............................. 102 Summary submissions .................................................................................................. 107 PART 3: ALLEGATIONS IN EACH OF THE SIX JABLLANICË/JABLANICA COUNTS ....................................................... 108 COUNT 1: Ivan Zarić, Agron Berisha and Burim Bejta ......................................... 108 COUNT 2: Ukë Rexhepaj and NesretAlijaj ............................................................... 110 Witness 54 ................................................................................................................. 111 Witness 78 ................................................................................................................. 112 Witness 79 ................................................................................................................. 112 Shefqet Kabashi ........................................................................................................ 114 Summary submissions.............................................................................................. 114 COUNT 3: Witness 6 .................................................................................................... 115 Witness 6 ..................................................................................................................