Police have detained the mayor of Skenderaj/Srbice, Sami Lushtaku, and four other suspects for alleged war crimes against civilian prisoners during the 1999 conflict.
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The ‘Llapi Group’, three leading Kosovo Liberation Army ex-fighters accused of torturing prisoners during wartime, should be jailed, an EU prosecutor said at their trial.
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The Serbian special police unit officer detained on suspicion of helping to massacre at least 65 Albanian civilians in a Kosovo village in 1999 is Vladan Krstovic, BIRN can reveal.
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A witness at the trial of former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters accused of abusing prisoners at the wartime Klecka jail said he was never beaten and accused EU prosecutors of pressurising him.
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Serbian police have arrested two men, including a current member of the country’s special police unit, on suspicion that they helped murder at least 65 Albanian civilians in a Kosovo village.
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Officials have launched a week-long series of events aimed at raising awareness about tolerance, reconciliation and peaceful coexistence between different religious faiths in Kosovo.
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Former high-ranking Serbian interior ministry official Vlastimir Djordjevic admitted war crimes were committed against Kosovo Albanians during the 1999 conflict and apologised to civilian victims.
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Lawmakers were advised to find different ways of remembering wartime fighters and victims after a series of parliamentary sessions commemorating individual ‘martyrs’.
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A witness in the high-profile trial of the ‘Llapi Group’ denied that there were beatings and torture at a wartime Kosovo Liberation Army detention centre in Llapashtica/Lapastica.
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After five men were convicted of involvement in the illegal trading of human organs from a Kosovo clinic, EU prosecutors said they were investigating eight new suspects.
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A Kosovo court has convicted five men of participating in an illegal organ-trading ring that harvested and sold human kidneys at the Medicus clinic near Pristina.
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As Kosovo marked its annual missing persons day, its president promised justice for all those whose bodies still haven’t been found since the late 1990s war with Serbian forces.
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The EU said its investigation into allegations that Kosovo Liberation Army fighters harvested and sold prisoners’ organs during the late 1990s conflict will be completed next year.
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A former legal adviser to the Kosovo Liberation Army told the war crimes trial of Fatmir Limaj that the ex-commander didn’t order the abuse of prisoners at the Klecka jail.
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The EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo has formally launched an investigation into what is alleged to be the largest mass killing by Serbian forces during the late 1990s conflict.
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Hashim Thaci 'From 'Snake' to Prime Minister
Thaci, born in 1968, joined the Albanian independence cause as a student, becoming one of the leaders of the protest movement in the early 1990s. As the Serbian crackdown intensified, he left for Switzerland, studying history and international relations in Zurich.