Three Kosovo Albanians, one of them who was already wanted to a prison sentence, were detained on suspicion of attacking a Serb - the latest of several recent assaults on members of the Serb minority in the country.
Police arrested an ethnic Albanian who holds Serbian citizenship on suspicion of committing war crimes during a massacre by Serbian forces in the Kosovo village of Izbica in March 1999.
Former Prime Minister Agim Ceku and 11 other defendants were acquitted of falsifying a list of Kosovo Liberation Army war veterans so non-combatants could illegally claim welfare benefits.
The head of Kosovo’s Missing Persons Commission told BIRN that 11 war victims’ remains were exhumed this year, but many more remain to be found at hidden grave sites in the country and in neighbouring Serbia.
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers confirmed the indictment of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans’ Organisation, Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj, for obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses.
Newly-resigned Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders are charged with committing war crimes and crimes against humanity between March 1998 and September 1999 in Kosovo and Albania.
President Hashim Thaci, a former Kosovo Liberation Army leader, announced that he is resigning to face war crimes charges in The Hague after his indictment was confirmed by a judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.
Armed police raided former Kosovo Liberation Army spokesman and ex-parliamentary speaker Jakup Krasniqi’s houses in Kosovo and arrested him on war crimes charges.
They are Muslims like the majority of Kosovo Albanians, and speak a similar language to Serbs, but Kosovo’s minority Bosniaks have encountered discrimination, violence and poverty as they endeavoured to survive the turbulent wartime and post-war.
Evidence in terrorism cases is proving difficult to find, while experts warn that the reintegration and rehabilitation of foreign fighters is an even greater challenge.