Hague War Crime Prosecutors to Quiz Kosovo Ex-Guerrilla

Agron Limani has been invited to give an interview to the Kosovo Specialist Prosecution in The Hague, which is investigating alleged violations by Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA fighters during and just after the 1998-99 war, he confirmed on Tuesday.

Limani told BIRN that he has been invited for interview as a witness, without giving more details.

Announcing the invitation on Facebook however, Limani criticised Kosovo MPs who voted in August 2015 for the establishment of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, which will try those indicted by the Specialist Prosecution.

Although based in The Hague, the Specialist Chambers are part of Kosovo's justice system and were established under pressure from the country's US and EU allies.

"Coming from a village where Serb forces aimed to exterminate all the Albanian civilian population, the establishment of this court created the impression that it would deal mainly with the Serb genocide committed in many parts of Kosovo. But you immediately get disappointed when you understand that this court will mainly organise trials against Albanians," Limani said.

Limani is a former KLA member and comes from the village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusa near Prizren, where Serbian forces killed 109 Albanian civilians in March 19, 1999.

His father and two brothers were among those killed in the massacre.

In November 2018, Limani appeared as a witness in a war crime trial at Prizren court, where a member of the Yugoslav reservist police forces, Darko Tasic, was on trial for burning the dead bodies of Kosovo Albanians and throwing them into river.

"The longtime indifference of our [Kosovo] institutions towards Serbia's crimes has served as a motive for establishing this discriminatory anti-Albanian court,...