Crime in Kosovo

EP committee adopts draft on Kosovo

BRUSSELS -- The EP Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday asked authorities in Kosovo to show "strong commitment" to strengthen the rule of law.

Pristina is also asked to commit to fighting corruption and organized crime on all levels, and to set up a war crimes court headquartered outside of Kosovo.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic talked on Thursday with U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp about prosecuting war crimes that took place in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

As the interior ministry stated in a release, Stefanovic and Rapp discussed the crimes against Serbs, but also those for which Serbs are responsible.

War crime prosecutors have no will to investigate the Serbian army chief's alleged war crimes in Kosovo, the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre said.

BELGRADE - The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor asked the Humanitarian Law Center (FHP) on Friday to provide the files in its possession related to the crimes committed in the Rudnica case, including the witness statements, in order for all the allegations concerning the culprits to be investigated.

The Serbian President and Prime Minister said claims in a new report that Army chief Ljubisa Dikovic committed war crimes in Kosovo were malicious and intended to destroy the military’s reputation.

The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre accused the current head of the Serbian Army of commanding troops who attacked four Kosovo villages in 1999, when at least 69 civilians were killed.

NGO accuses army chief of war crimes

BELGRADE -- The Humanitarian Law Center (FHP) NGO says it possess documents which indicate that Army chief General Ljubisa Dikovic is "directly responsible for war crimes."

West accused of "allowing genocide in Kosovo"

BELGRADE -- Retired Czech Lt. Col. Marek Obrtel, who recently returned the military medals he received from NATO, says that "genocide against Serbs" took place in Kosovo.

Obrtel called the western military alliance "a criminal organization" because of the policies it conducts.

BELGRADE - The Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has said in a release that it fully supports the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee's assessment that the UNMIK mission has failed to conduct efficient investigations in cases related to organ trafficking in KiM in 1999 and 2000.

UNMIK "failed to efficiently investigate Kosovo organ trade"

BELGRADE -- An association of families of kidnapped and murdered Serbs in Kosovo has voiced its support for a recent opinion of a UN committee related to human organ trade.