The authorities used a municipal waste-disposal service to remove the bodies of Albanians massacred in Kosovo in 1999, a witness told the war crimes trial of 13 Serbian paramilitaries.
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At the trial of former KLA commander Fatmir Limaj for war crimes against prisoners at the Klecka detention centre, the guerrillas’ ex-legal adviser said the defendant didn’t control the jail.
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As the trial of alleged members of an illegal kidney-trading ring in Kosovo nears its end, it emerged that the Medicus clinic at the centre of the charges has been sold.
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A key prosecution witness told the trial of 13 members of the Serbian ‘Jackals’ paramilitary unit how they massacred scores of ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999.
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Lutfi Dervishi, accused of being the leader of an illegal kidney-trading ring at Kosovo’s Medicus clinic, told his trial that he had never been part of a criminal plot.
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A EULEX prosecutor requested the Pristina court to return to detention the former KLA commander, Fatmir Limaj, charged with war crimes in Kosovo in 1999.
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EULEX judges acquitted two persons charged with wartime rape and convicted only one of them, for unauthorised ownership, control, possession or use of weapons.
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Medicus case EULEX prosecutor Jonathan Ratel said the traffickers were “well structured and acted in concert”, recalling that transplants were carried out without an official license.
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In his final statement, Medicus case EULEX prosecutor Jonathan Ratel displayed evidence of an alleged international organ trafficking network, saying illegal transplants undoubtedly took place in the clinic.
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Two assistant anaesthetists at a Kosovo clinic accused of illegal kidney-trading said they took part in organ transplants but did not know the operations were illegal.
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Witnesses in the high-profile trial of the ‘Llapi Group’ claimed Kosovo Liberation Army commanders beat, tortured and killed their relatives at a wartime detention centre in Llapashtica/Lapastica.
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The EU rule of law mission in Kosovo has recovered the remains of seven people who have been missing since the conflict with Serbian forces in the late 1990s.
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A former anaesthetist at a Kosovo clinic accused of illegal kidney-trading confirmed that transplants were carried out at the clinic, but said he was not aware it had no license.
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Serbia’s appeals court quashed the guilty verdict against Marko Kasnjeti, a former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter jailed for war crimes against Serb civilians in 1999.
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Kosovo’s President Atifete Jahjaga criticised MPs who staged a parliamentary debate about an ethnically-charged land dispute at the historic Serbian Orthodox monastery at Decan/Decani.
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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.