A Serbian former police force reservist has been indicted for the wartime rape of a Kosovo Albanian man – the latest in a series of Serbian war crime suspects that Kosovo prosecutors want to be tried in absentia.
Serbian citizen Caslav Jolic, who was arrested by Kosovo police in June, has been charged with torturing three civilians during the 1998-99 war.
An ethnic Albanian who holds Serbian citizenship was charged with committing war crimes during a massacre by Serbian forces in the Kosovo village of Izbica in March 1999, when 147 civilians were killed.
Chief Prosecutor orders higher-level investigation as doubts grow over authenticity of published recordings of state officials and judiciary members apparently discussing abuses of power on the phone.
