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.
Dejan Slavic who was in detention under war crimes charges raised the Basic Court in Pristina was set free, his lawyer, Nebojsa Vlajic confirmed to KoSSev portal.
Basic Court in Mitrovica has found Zoran Vukotic, a former police reserve, guilty of war crimes against Albanian civilian population and has sentenced him to six and a half years in prison. Vukotic was convicted for illegal detention and cruel and inhumane treatment of persons in the detention centre of Smrekovnica but was acquitted of the charge relating to the attack on a convoy of Albanian civilians in the village of Studime.
Chair of the Basic Court Council in Prizren, Artan Sejrani hold a first hearing for accused Darko Tasic from Mala Krusa, KIM Radio reported.
A regular UN Security Council session on Kosovo will be held on Monday in New York. Serbia is represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic.
The session will discuss the UN secretary-general's report on the work of the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, covering the period from January 17 to April 15.
At the Jarinje crossing in northern Kosovo, D. S. (44) was arrested on suspicion of committing war crimes in Kosovo, reports Serbian media based in Kosovo.
D.S. who lived in Obilic until 2003, and currently lives in Lazarevac, was arrested at the Jarinje crossing, and he was given a measure of detention for up to 48 hours.
Kosovo Special Prosecutor for war crimes, Habibe Salihu interrogated today Milorad Zajic, returnee from Klina, within the investigation on events that took place during the conflict in the village of Dusevic.
Kosovo Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) said that during the court proceeding against the Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Fatmir Limaj in Djakovica Basic Court, some prosecution witnesses gave up on accusing testimonies they made in earlier hearings, therefore become witnesses of the opposite party in the case, Insajder portal reported.
Serbian Justice Minister, Nela Kuburovic told RTS Serbia remains committed to achieving the justice for Serbian victims of the war crimes, pointing out that the Serbian victims did not find the justice before the international bodies.