War Crime Trial

Ekrem Bajrovic in court on Friday, July 19, 2024. Photo: BIRN/Verone Zymberi

Court Finds Kosovo Bosniak Guilty of War Crimes

Ekrem Bajrovic was sentenced on Friday to 12 years' imprisonment for his role in the beating, torture and killing of ethnic Albanian civilians who were fleeing towards Albania.

Kosovo Begins Two War Crime Trials of Serbs in Absentia

The trials of former Serbian policeman Milovan Jovanovic and former Serbian military reservist Dejan Racic, both accused of war crimes against ethnic Albanians, opened in Pristina in the defendants' absence.

Kosovo Court Acquits Serb of Wartime Assault

Pristina Basic Court cleared Zlatan Arsic of violently assaulting a man and burning his house in an attack by Serbian police in the Kamenice/Kamenica area during the Kosovo war in March 1999.

Former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Commander Salih Mustafa (R) appears for the first public hearing before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, in The Hague, The Netherlands, 09 June 2021. Photo: EPA/SEM VAN DER WAL

Hague Court Cuts Kosovo’s Commander Cali’s Sentence by Four Years

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers Appeal Panel reduced the prison sentence of former KLA commander Salih Mustafa for the crimes of arbitrary detention, torture and murder from 26 to 22 years.

Kosovo’s Thaci Didn’t Give Orders to Guerrillas: Trial Witness

Former Kosovo Liberation Army officer Sadik Halitjaha told the trial of Hashim Thaci and other wartime guerrilla leaders in The Hague that contrary to prosecution claims, the KLA’s General Staff didn’t give orders and the guerrilla force didn’t have a defined military structure.