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Kosovo Liberation Army ex-leaders turned politicians Hashim Thaçi and Kadri Veseli pleaded not guilty to additional charges filed by Hague prosecutors alleging they committed further wartime and post-war crimes against civilians.
On the day commemorating missing persons from the independence war, justice remains sought for the fate of over 1,600 people still missing since 1998-1999.
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.
Kosovo's leaders expressed sorrow after the death of former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who they see as a hero for helping to drive out Serbian forces during the 1999 war.
British journalist Vaughan Smith told BIRN how he witnessed Serbian forces’ bloody assault on the complex of Kosovo Liberation Army co-founder Adem Jashari in March 1998 – the incident that marked the beginning of the Kosovo war.
