Fetah Rudi, a former schoolteacher and political activist, has been using a wheelchair for 17 years, ever since unidentified gunmen unloaded 14 bullets into his stomach and shoulder in a drive-by shooting near his small village in central Kosovo.
He has no hope of ever walking again but, thanks to a new war crimes tribunal, he finally has some hope that, after 10 years as an independent country, Kosovo will belatedly grapple with a singularly taboo topic: why ethnic Albanians like him kept getting attacked and in some cases killed even after their Serbian tormentors had fled.
He has watched in dismay over the years as the United Nations and then the European Union — which have both tried to establish the rule of law in this tiny Balkan nation since it broke free from Serbia in 1999 — failed to deliver justice for a wave of violence that followed Serbia’s retreat.
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