Crime in Kosovo

A working group set up by the Serbian Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, will create "an archive" documenting the crimes committed by the KLA.

A special court to try crimes committed by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) will be set up in The Hague and should start work during the year.

Announced on Friday, the move was welcomed by Dutch officials, who said it was important that justice be done, Tanjug reported.

The long-anticipated special court to try senior Kosovo Liberation Army fighters for war crimes and post-war offences will be set up in The Hague this year, it has been announced.

Kosovo's Special Prosecution Office on Monday issued an indictment against for Xhemshit Krasniqi for war crimes allegedly committed in Kukes in Albania.

The European Commission’s annual progress report on Kosovo said local prosecutors lack the willingness to investigate war crimes allegedly committed by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters.

Between July and September, Serbian police uncovered eight organised crime groups with a total of 42 members.

Between July and September, Serbian police uncovered eight organised crime groups with a total of 42 members, who had been involved in financial, general and high-technology crime, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Thursday.

A spate of recent incidents in Kosovo Serb villages in the western Kosovo Peja area have left locals feeling nervous, although it remains unclear what provoked them.

Since last week, the village of Gorazdevac saw two shooting incidents, one at the police and one at a car with Belgrade license plates.

Marko Djuric says Serbia wants the UN to set up "a special international court or tribunal to prosecute crimes of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)."

Kosovo Liberation Army veterans will protest against the creation of a new EU-backed court that will try ex-fighters suspected of war crimes allegedly committed during and after the 1998-99 conflict.

EU Special Representative in Pristina Samuel Zbogar says he sees no valid reason to further delay the establishment of a special court for war crimes in Kosovo.