The president of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, Ekatarina Trendafilova, told BIRN the new court has no ethnic bias, will protect its witnesses from intimidation and deliver justice impartially and independently
In her first interview as president of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, judge Ekatarina Trendafilova told BIRN that the newly-established Hague-based institution that will try former Kosovo Liberation Army members for wartime and post-war human rights abuses will not be ethnically biased as it will only prosecute suspected criminals, not the guerrilla organisation itself.
Trendafilova also promised that the court would protect its witnesses properly – a failing in previous attempts to prosecute Kosovo Liberation Army fighters – and expressed hope that its work will help to enhance the rule of law in Kosovo.
