For the primary time, a former Kosovo Liberation Military commander has been discovered responsible of battle crimes at a particular tribunal within the Hague.
Salih Mustafa was sentenced to 26 years for homicide and torture at a jail he ran in the course of the 1998-99 independence battle with Serbia.
The choose described the case as a milestone choice. "There appears to be a false impression that these costs have been introduced towards the Kosovo Liberation Military as such or towards the individuals of Kosovo as an entire," Mappie Veldt-Foglia informed the court docket.
"Nothing may very well be farther from the reality. It was the individuals of Kosovo by way of the parliament who selected to create and empower this establishment."
Mustafa has repeatedly denied the fees.
Mustafa was arrested in 2020 in Kosovo and despatched to the Netherlands to face trial on the European Union-backed Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a department of the nation’s authorized system arrange particularly to take care of allegations of battle crimes dedicated as ethnic Albanian rebels united within the Kosovo Liberation Military fought a bloody battle to interrupt away from Serbia in 1998-99.
Greater than 13,000 individuals are believed to have died in the course of the rebellion in Kosovo when it was nonetheless a part of Serbia.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008, though Belgrade nonetheless doesn't acknowledge it.
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