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More than two decades after she fled her hometown Pristina in the aftermath of the war, Marija Novakovic got back the keys to her apartment in Kosovo’s capital and returned to live alongside her ethnic Albanian neighbours.
War victims hope they will be able to win compensation after verdicts are delivered at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague – but experts have warned that the process could prove difficult if they want to remain anonymous.
Kosovo Serb villager Svetomir Bacevic is charged with seizing an ethnic Albanian woman from her home and mistreating her in the Peja/Pec municipality during the war in 1998.
Serb returnee Drasia Gasic, now well known in the media, said she was delighted after Gjakova Basic Court threw out the municipality's request to annul her apartment contract.
23 years on, residents from Qirez and Likoshan recall how their relatives were murdered in attacks by Serbian forces that galvanised support for armed resistance to the Yugoslav regime.
