Kosovo Minister Gives Prosecutor Documents ‘Proving Serbian Crimes’

Behgjet Pacolli said on Tuesday that he has given the Kosovo prosecution "thousands of materials that prove the Serbian genocidal policy against Kosovo" and offer evidence of mass killings by the Yugoslav Army, the Serbian Interior Ministry, Belgrade-controlled paramilitaries and local armed groups during the Kosovo war.

Pacolli wrote on Twitter that the perpetrators currently "all walk free in Belgrade" and that international justice has "failed on these crimes".

He told a press conference on December 10 that he had 10,000 pages of documents that have not yet been used in trials, which prove that Serbia committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Kosovo.

He said the documents describe the crimes in detail and that around 95 per cent of the alleged criminals mentioned in them have not been indicted.

Pacolli explained that the documents were "obtained from various sources through legal means", but gave no details about what kind of documents they are or where they came from.

Serbian officials dismissed Pacolli's claims to have important evidence.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that he himself had "tons of material that says best who expelled who from Kosovo and Metohija", and was ready to give it to war crimes prosecutors in The Hague.

Pacolli also alleged on Tuesday that the Serbian Interior Ministry had "falsified documents" that were used by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty, who wrote an explosive report in 2010 accusing Kosovo Liberation Army fighters of wartime crimes.

Marty's report eventually led to the establishment of the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, which will put KLA ex-fighters on trial for crimes committed between 1998 and 2000.

Pacolli said that using...