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A Serb is arrested in Kosovo on suspicion of war crimes in the municipality of Zvecan.

Politiko 2025-05-15 15:14:00

A Serb is arrested in Kosovo on suspicion of war crimes in the municipality of

Kosovo authorities have arrested a person suspected of committing war crimes in the municipality of Zvecan, in northern Kosovo, the Kosovo Special Prosecution announced on Thursday. MD, of Serbian nationality, was arrested on Wednesday morning, on the orders of prosecutor Florije Salihu-Shamolli. The suspect's arrest was carried out after several months of investigations, in cooperation with war crimes investigators, the Special Prosecution announced in a statement.

The Special Prosecution Office has said that MD is suspected of having participated in the murder, deportation, looting, torture, and beating of Albanian civilians in his capacity as commander of the Police unit in the Zvecan region, within the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, during 1998-99.

"It is alleged that during April 1999, the defendant MD, together with Serbian forces organized in structured formations, including the Yugoslav Army and the Serbian Police, participated in the operation in the village of Zhazha, where seven civilians were killed," the Special Prosecution Office said in a statement.

In recent years, the number of indictments filed in Kosovo for committing the criminal offense of “war crimes against the civilian population” has increased significantly. Since the end of the war in Kosovo, local and international judicial institutions have convicted approximately 74 people for war crimes in Kosovo.

During the war in Kosovo, from 1998 to 1999, over 13,000 civilians were killed, while thousands more disappeared. Over 1,600 people are still missing – the majority of them Albanians.

The Kosovo judiciary took over the handling of war crimes cases in June 2018. The Kosovo Special Prosecution Office has had a war crimes department since 2015. By the end of 2024, a total of 14 indictments had been filed in absentia against 72 members of the Serbian forces. At the end of last year, the first verdict in absentia was also announced. Çedomir Aksić was sentenced to 15 years in prison./ REL

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