A Kosovo Serb who has spent several months in jail has been charged with war crimes committed in 1999 in the town of Pec, the KoSSev news portal reported on Tuesday.

The Special Prosecution indicted Zoran Djokic of Pec for war crimes against the civilian population in March and April of 1999, a prosecution press release said.

By gathering evidence during the investigation, we have come to the reasonable suspicion that Radoicic worked with people who are now in custody, and who are suspected of having participated or assisting the perpetrators of the murder of the SDP leader, Oliver Ivanovic. Of course, all this has yet to be confirmed, says the Kosovo Special Prosecutor, Sylë Hoxha to the Belgrade based weekly NIN, KIM radio is quoting.

UNMIK and EULEX missions with a large number of prosecutors failed to solve murders and abductions of journalists, and local prosecutors are expected now to redeem what the international ones failed to do.

Pristina Special Prosecution took over the investigation of Oliver Ivanovic murder in March, and one of the prosecutors in this case Syle Hoxha said there are no suspects identified, adding that “gathering of evidence is still underway,” KIM Radio reported.

The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) would today for the seventh time place a memorial plaque next to the Orahovac-Velika Hoca road, dedicated to the missing Radio Pristina journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic, Radio kontakt plus reported.

The Basic Court in Pristina ordered detention up to 30 days to Dejan Slavic from Obilic on suspicion of allegedly committing a war crime against the civilian population during the Kosovo conflict, reports Serbian media.

Lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic, defense attorney for the arrested Slavic, told RTS that he received the court's decision on detention and that late on he would be able to give more details.