Musa Dragusha, former head of the Kosovo Chamber of Advocates writes in an opinion piece that Dick Marty’s report on Kosovo was followed by different reactions. Dragusha writes that although the media and civil society devoted considerable attention to it, Kosovo institutions treated it as unimportant. “The report was not taken seriously even when on the basis of this report was established the Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) led by prosecutor Williamson. Only when, based on those findings, it appeared that certain former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) members would be allegedly accused for war crimes, Kosovo institutions started to take this matter seriously,” writes Dragusha.
The author writes that government should allocate funds to set up defensive teams with the necessary infrastructure for technological equipment and support staff for evidence field research and legal analysis. Dragusha thinks that this should be followed by the establishment of an open ‘Resource Office’ that would liaise the defense activities with the competent institutions. “This would ensure the lawyers have access to information and documents, in order to effectively provide legal aid,” he concluded.
