The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, writes today that the Government of Serbia on one side, with the help of Russia, blocks the United Nations Resolution on Srebrenica and refuses to accept that the massacre of more than 8,000 men in Srebrenica was genocide, while on the other side the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic takes part in the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of this massacre.

According to the writer of this editorial peace, Halil Matoshi, the request of Kosovo allies to establish the special court for the alleged war crimes is a confirmation of Kosovo’s sovereignty as a subject of the international justice. If the opposite was the case, considers Matoshi, then, based on Resolution 1244, the United Nations together with Serbia, would establish a court which would have jurisdiction over Kosovo.

Lumir Abdixhiku in his weekly column for the paper writes that Kosovo continues to make wrong decisions that can likely affect the fate of a whole generation. In this respect, the failed vote on the establishment of specialist chambers by the members of the Kosovo Assembly was a step in the wrong direction and the motion’s opponents created certain myths while arguing against the court, says Abdixhiku.

According to KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi there was only one Kosovo Albanian MP who spoke about all crimes alleged to have occurred in the Kosovo conflict and that was Ilir Deda from Vetevendosje. In his speech at the Assembly session on the establishment of specialist chambers, Deda said that crimes were not only committed against Albanians but also against other communities and absolutely all should be addressed by a Kosovo war crimes court which Pristina authorities would have to set up. According to Kelmendi, no MP has ever called for justice for non-Albanian victims.

Koha Ditore’s publisher Flaka Surroi writes in an opinion piece that the outcome of the events in the Kosovo Assembly and those in Brussels will be that Serbia will gallop towards EU while Kosovo will remain complacent in the belief it is a success story.

In an opinion piece published in the paper today, Andrea Lorenzo Capussela, former head of the economics unit of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, starts off with an explanation of how western officials transformed the originally-titled special court into specialist court after learning that the term “special” is part of dictatorial systems and was used as such by the Italian fascist regime.

Kosovo’s Minister of Health, Imet Rrahmani, and World Bank Kosovo Country Manager Jan-Peter Olters officially launched yesterday the Kosovo Health Project funded through a World Bank loan and aimed at financial protection and quality improvement of healthcare services in Kosovo. Olters said on the occasion that the project’s goal is to strengthen relevant institutions and the Ministry of Health is implementing important reforms to address the identified shortcomings in the healthcare sector.

Columnist Lumir Abdixhiku says he doesn’t understand why Slovenia should come to the assistance of Serbia by detaining leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) Ramush Haradinaj. Abdixhiku adds that detention of anyone from Kosovo on purely political basis of another country gives a bitter taste to Kosovo’s dignity. Once Slovenia decided to recognise Kosovo as an independent country, it was supposed to consult Kosovo authorities on the authenticity and the nature of Serbia’s arrest warrants, suggests Abdixhiku.

Reporters Without Borders monitor for Kosovo Ismet Hajdari, in an open letter writes that the lynching campaign that is going on through social networks against publicist Veton Surroi, has caused great concern to Reporters Without Borders organization.

The paper’s columnist, Enver Robelli, in an opinion piece today argues that if no one from the former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders committed war crimes or other crimes, then why all this resistance against the special court? According to him, the reason is clear: a part of the current political leaders fear that some of the witnesses who witnessed their not-so-patriotic actions might be still alive. “Kosovo society is hostage to these “saviors” who fear the past and worry about bags of money they have filled since June 1999,” Robelli writes.