War Crime Trials

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

Kosovo Court of Appeals Upholds Guilty Verdict Against Kosovo Bosniak Convicted of War Crimes

The Kosovo Court of Appeals has upheld the Prishtina Basic Court’s guilty verdict against Kosovo Bosniak Ekrem Bajrović, a member of Serbian forces during the 1998-99 Kosovo war , who was convicted for war crimes, including the beating, torture, and killing of ethnic Albanian civilians in the municipality of Istog/Istok in May 1999.

An OSCE officer checks the Studencane and Suva Reka area in Kosovo, February 1999. Photo: EPA/ATTILA KISBENEDEK/STF/AK/CL/OW.

Balkan Insight’s First Despatch: Net Closes On Alleged Suva Reka Killers

In the first ever report published by Balkan Insight, BIRN revealed that ten Serb policemen accused of carrying one of the worst massacres in the Kosovo war were about to face justice. For BIRN's 20th anniversary, we are republishing the original report - plus an update on what happened next.

Former U.S. Presidential Advisor on Kosovo-Serbia, Richard Grenell, visits Kosovo in September 2020. Photo: EPA / Valdrin Xhemaj.

Trump Envoy Slams ‘Wrongful Imprisonment’ of Kosovo’s ‘Founding Father’ Thaci

US envoy Richard Grenell denounced the imprisonment and Hague trial of Hashim Thaci for war crimes and blamed Europeans and Kosovo's own institutions for "failing to bring this injustice to an end".

Kosovo Indicts Yugoslav Army Ex-Reservist for War Crimes Against Villagers

Srdjan Lazovic, a Kosovo Serb arrested in June, is accused of taking part in the mass detention and torture of hundreds of civilians at a village in the Malisheve/Malisevo area in 1999.

Kosovo Serbs Protest as Court Detains Five War-Crime Suspects

Hundreds of Kosovo Serb villagers protested after a Kosovo court announced that five Serbs had been arrested and given 30 days' detention for suspected war crimes in 1999.


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