Ten former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters charged with war crimes
“The indictment charges the defendants with various counts of war crimes against the civilian population and prisoners of war,” the EU’s rule of law and justice mission said. The mission’s judge confirmed a prosecutor’s indictment in July accusing the ten of perpetrating the crimes in 1999 against Serbs, ethnic Albanian civilians and Serb military and police officers.
The indictment is likely to harm the ruling Democratic Party of premier Hashim Thaci because Limaj is one of its main figures and longstanding ally of the PM. Parliament will have to scrap Limaj’s immunity to allow the court to try him. The victims were detained in the village of Klecka from early 1999 until mid-June 1999, when 72 days of Nato airstrikes ended a conflict between the KLA and Serbian forces.