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Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has vowed to revive the controversial idea of launching an international court case against Serbia for alleged genocide during the 1998-99 war, despite experts’ warnings that it’s unlikely to succeed.

A UN probe into the conflict in Libya led investigators to a small airstrip south of Belgrade, where an ‘agricultural’ plane – modified to carry rockets and traced to US security contractor Erik Prince – was serviced in 2018.

Human rights activists in Kosovo are preparing to open a museum focusing on children’s experiences of the 1998-99 war and are asking people to give them personal items and testimonies from their childhood for exhibition.

In an attempt to prevent infections within its detention facilities, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague has restricted family visits for former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders who are awaiting trial.

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Twenty-one years after a massacre by Yugoslav Army soldiers in Kosovo, the trial of the alleged perpetrators is still ongoing and a Serbian court has ruled that senior commanders cannot be held legally responsible for crimes committed by their subordinates.

Delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic made the slow progress of war crimes trials in Serbia even slower in 2020, delaying justice even longer, says a new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre.

For Shaqir Koloshi, who lives in the mountain village of Beles in north-eastern Albania, near the border with Kosovo, getting around is an everyday struggle after the explosion that devastated his legs.

A public opinion survey suggested that a majority of Montenegrins believe their country is failing to properly address the crimes of the 1990s and that the judiciary is incapable of dealing with war-related cases.

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Thirty years after a Macedonian soldier was killed during clashes at a protest against the Yugoslav military’s presence in the Croatian city of Split, the perpetrator remains unknown and arguments continue about which side shot the teenage conscript.

The Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo urged the municipality of Podujevo to correct a recently-unveiled memorial to bus passengers killed in a NATO air strike in 1999 because it excludes the names of Serb victims.

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Kosovo PM Revives Plan to Sue Serbia for Genocide

Serviced in Serbia: The Lethal Crop Duster Destined for War in Libya

Kosovo Museum to Preserve Childhood Memories of Wartime

COVID-19 Limits Family Visits for Kosovo War Defendants

Serbia Shields Commanders from Kosovo Wartime Atrocity Cases

Pandemic Slows Progress of War Crime Trials in Serbia: Report

Landmine Blasts on Albania-Kosovo Border Blight Survivors’ Lives

Montenegro ‘Failing to Deal with Wartime Crimes’: Survey

Mystery of Macedonian Conscript’s Death in Croatian War Unsolved

Serbs Excluded from Kosovo Memorial to NATO Attack Victims

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