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"Killings of reporters in Kosovo must be investigated" (B92)

The Serbian Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists on Monday urged the Specialist Chambers for crimes committed by the so-called KLA to be investigated. The killing and kidnapping of journalists in Kosovo in the period from 1998 to 2000, the period that encompasses the mandate of the Specialist Chambers for KLA crimes must be the topic of the investigation of the Specialist Prosecutor's Office and prosecuted at the Specialist Chambers. This is the case because these 14 unresolved cases of kidnappings and murders represent the largest number crimes carried out with impunity, targetin

Initiative to abolish court for KLA crimes fizzles out (Tanjug, B92)

Eight out of 43 members of the Kosovo Assembly who supported an initiative to annul the law on the Specialist Chambers have withdrawn their signatures. The Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office, referred to colloquially as "the special KLA court," were set up in 2015 under the auspices of the EU to deal with the crimes committed by KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") members during and after the war in Kosovo. Investigations into these crimes started after then Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteur Dick Marty submitted

Kosovo: War Court Challenged, Ex-Guerrillas Acquitted (Balkan Insight) 

MPs staged a dramatic intervention to try to stop the new special court which will try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, while courts in Pristina acquitted two prominent politicians and ex-guerrilla commanders. As the year drew to a close in Pristina, a group of MPs made a controversial attempt on the night of December 22 to scrap the law that established the new Kosovo Specialist Chambers, as the new Hague-based court prepares to issue its first indictments of former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters for wartime and post-war crimes. Forty-three MPs out of a total of 120 signed a demand f

Reactions of Serb officials on Specialist Court initiative (RTS, Tanjug, Novosti, TV Palma, KIM Radio)

Chairperson of Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun commenting on an initiative to repeal or revoke the Law on Special Court for the War Crimes told RTS “it is about a well-thought plan, which, although it was clear would not pass, should serve as a message that the situation in Kosovo could destabilize if Kadri Veseli, Hashim Thaci and other KLA leaders found themselves on indictments of the court.” “Thaci has thrown down the gauntlet in the face of Washington and Brussels.