Search Results for: kosovo liberation army

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), a court established in 2017 as a means of trying war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo from 1998-2000, announced Monday that Albanian authorities have arrested Dritan Goxhaj for impeding the administration of justice. Goxhaj previously served as a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighter. Albanian authorities arrested Goxhaj under [...]

READ MORE

Trial Panel I Friday announced its judgement in Specialist Prosecutor v. Salih Mustafa, finding Mustafa guilty of four counts of war crimes including arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture and murder. The verdict is the first case at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, an EU-backed special court to investigate the Kosovo War, to involve war crime charges. [...]

READ MORE

Kosovo police used pepper spray Monday to disperse a crowd of war veterans protesting a failed bill that would raise the minimum wage for the public sector but exclude veterans. According to the police, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) veterans began to gather in front of the parliament for a planned rally and attempted to push into [...]

READ MORE

The basic international law One of the most fundamental rules of international law is that States are prohibited from using force to resolve their international disputes. Any State that uses force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another State violates this solemn rule of international law. Applying this rule, the use of force [...]

READ MORE

Belgian authorities arrested a Kosovo war crimes suspect on Tuesday. Pjetёr Shala was wanted “pursuant to an arrest warrant and confirmed indictment related to war crimes” according to a pre-trial judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC). He is being held in Belgium until he can be moved to the KSC detention facilities in The [...]

READ MORE

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci stepped down Thursday to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the 1990s armed conflict against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) for Kosovo’s independence. Thaci was indicted in June on crimes of persecution, imprisonment, illegal or arbitrary arrest and detention, other inhumane acts, cruel treatment, [...]

READ MORE

Kosovo’s Specialist Chambers announced the arrest and transfer to The Hague of accused war criminal Salih Mustafa on Thursday. Mustafa is the first person arrested and third to be indicted by the office. Established in 2015, the chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office are charged with investigating and trying people accused of committing war crimes [...]

READ MORE

Hashim Thaci, the President of Kosovo, was indicted Wednesday by the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) for crimes against humanity committed during the 1998-1999 Serbian civil war. The SPO filed a 10-count indictment “charging Hashim THAÇI, Kadri VESELI, and others with a range of crimes against humanity and war crimes, [...]

READ MORE