Kosovo - News according to Justice Info

5 February 2018 by François Sergent JusticeInfo.net

Week in Review: Testing times for TJ from Kosovo to Burundi This was a bad week for transitional justice, in Kosovo, Tunisia and Burundi. In Kosovo, the authorities are trying to stop the special tribunal charged with trying war crimes committed by UCK rebels between 1998 -2000, explains P [...]

1 February 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University

Will contested Kosovo tribunal ever get off the ground? Is the Kosovo war crimes tribunal dead before it even begins? Parliamentarians close to the country’s President and Prime Minister are trying to sabotage it. Meanwhile Switzerland has granted it funding support. In January 2018, S [...]

7 September 2017 by AFP

Kosovo's 'Rambo', Serbia's arch-antagonist, set to be PM A hero at home but considered a war criminal by Belgrade, Ramush Haradinaj is set to become Kosovo's prime minister just a few months after fighting against extradition to Serbia. If parliament approves his appointment as expected [...]

3 July 2017 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor

Geneva conference on Kosovo: a judicial and a humanitarian approach to find the 1658 missing persons In contexts of political violence, one of the worst forms of psychological torture is not to know what happened to loved ones. And it gets worse with time. Has that person been taken by the army or an armed group? Have they been a [...]

28 June 2017 by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva

Families of 1,658 Kosovo disappeared still searching for their loved ones A two-day conference this week in Geneva aims to relaunch the process of identifying 1,658 people who disappeared during the war in Kosovo (1998-1999). On the eve of the conference, families of Serb and Kosovar victims together ur [...]

14 June 2017 by JusticeInfo.net

Kosovo proposes Truth Commission, as leaders suspected of war crimes Following elections in Kosovo on Sunday June 11, Ramush Haradinaj is the favourite to be next Prime Minister. Although acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, he is still accused of war crimes b [...]

11 June 2017 by AFP

Kosovo elections with war crimes court and international justice in mind Kosovo voted Sunday for a new parliament that will have to navigate tense relations with Serbia, endemic corruption and possible war crimes indictments for some of its leaders. The early general election is only the third since Ko [...]

10 May 2017 by Marija Ristić

New Kosovo Court Pledges to Finally Prosecute Ex-Guerrillas The new special court will try to make up for the failures of several international efforts to bring former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters to justice for 1990s crimes, but witness protection, legitimacy and outreach remain key ch [...]

28 April 2017 by JusticeInfo.net

“Who will testify to Kosovo tribunal?” asks the man who exposed organ trafficking Former Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty this week spoke publicly for the first time in years about his explosive December 2010 report on illegal human organ trafficking in Kosovo. He was speaking to a “Carrefour de Sarajevo” forum at N [...]

27 April 2017 by AFP

French court refuses to extradite ex-Kosovo PM Haradinaj to Serbia A French court on Thursday rejected a request by Serbia to extradite former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj, who Belgrade accuses of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 war in the Serbian Kosovo. Haradinaj, 48, was a [...]

26 April 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague

Mission impossible for Kosovo war crimes court? In a few days, the 19 judges of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), a European Union initiative ratified by Kosovo’s parliament in 2016, will have their own Rules of Procedure and Evidence. In theory, everything will then be rea [...]

13 April 2017 by Marija Ristic

War Justice Strategy for Kosovo Undermined by Divisions A Kosovo government-backed working group set up to draft a national strategy for dealing with the wartime past has been troubled by divisions, disputes and failures to deliver, a new report says. Kosovo’s Inter-Ministerial Working [...]

30 January 2017 by Franck Petit

French arrest of former Kosovo PM is a “test for Europe” The name of Ramush Haradinaj is again on the lips of European diplomats. This former nightclub bouncer was head of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war with Serbia in 1998. Emerging victorious from the war, he was seen [...]

8 March 2016 by AFP

Next Kosovo president says 'nothing to hide' from war crimes court Kosovo's president-elect has pledged to "fully support" a new war crimes court prosecuting members of the guerrilla group he once led -- despite a question mark hanging over whether he himself will be indicted. Hashim Thaci, elect [...]

2 March 2016 by Zoran Culafic, Balkans correspondent

Special Court Stokes Hot Debate in Kosovo Kosovo’s outgoing President Atifete Jahjaga has ratified an agreement between Kosovo and the Netherlands on a Special Court to try senior Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters for war crimes. But media reports say the process of r [...]

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18 January 2016 by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net

Week in Review: The Wheels of Transitional Justice Grind Slowly This has been an eventful week showing the important role transitional justice can play in places like Cambodia, Kosovo, Kenya and Burundi, but that a hesitant international community often sets it in motion late. On Friday, the [...]

15 January 2016 by AFP

New court to open in The Hague to try Kosovo war crimes A new EU-backed court to try war crimes allegedly committed by ethnic Albanian guerrillas during the Kosovo war will open this year in The Hague, the Dutch government said Friday."The court will try serious crimes allegedly commit [...]

13 October 2015 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.Net Head of Project

European Court in View on Kosovo Organ Trafficking War crimes, international organ trafficking, mafia networks and corruption involving top officials of a Balkan State, Kosovo: it sounds like the scenario for a John Le Carré novel. Tragically, though, it seems to be true. Eight ye [...]