Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor

Kosovo Orders Retrial of Wartime Guerrilla Unit Commander

Remzi Shala's lawyer, Natal Bullakaj, told BIRN on Thursday that the Supreme Court has upheld the former guerrilla commander's appeal against his war crime conviction and sent the case for a retrial.

The retrial will be held at Prizren Basic Court, where Shala was originally sentenced in July last year to 14 years in prison.

Chief prosecutor of Kosovo war crimes court appointed

THE HAGUE - David Schwendiman of the United States has been appointed chief prosecutor of a Hague-based special court that will investigate war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.

The court is looking at atrocities committed against Serbs by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the conflict, Reuters reported.