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The crimes by the Yugoslav military, paramilitary and police amounted to crimes against humanity and a war crime of torture. [28] Although numbers are difficult to determine, following the conflict, there were cases of women committing suicide, aborting their pregnancies, giving birth to children and later raising them or placing them up for ...
Two Kosovo Serbs, Jovica Dejanovic and Djordje Bojkovic, were accused of war crimes against civilians and of raping Krasniqi. On April 4, 2013, the Basic Court of Mitrovica, composed of three EULEX judges, began their judicial review of the case. Over seven days they heard from twelve witnesses. Nine witnesses were called by the prosecution.
Crime in Kosovo. Kosovo within communist Yugoslavia had the lowest rate of crime in the whole country. [1] Following the Kosovo War (1999), the region had become a significant center of organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking and organ theft. There is also an ongoing ethnic conflict between Kosovar Albanians and Kosovan Serbs.
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers, seated in the Netherlands and staffed by international judges and lawyers, was set up in 2015 to handle cases under Kosovo law against former KLA guerrillas.
Women in Kosovo are women who live in or are from the Republic of Kosovo. As citizens of a post-war nation, some Kosovar (or Kosovan) women have become participants in the process of peace-building and establishing pro-gender equality in Kosovo's rehabilitation process. [1] Women in Kosovo have also become active in politics and law enforcement ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges at a special Kosovo court upheld Thursday the convictions of a former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army for arbitrarily detaining and torturing ...
In 2010, Swiss politician Dick Marty authored a Council of Europe-report in which he noted war crimes had been committed by the KLA. Partly based on that report, the prosecutor of the Special Investigative Taskforce (SITF) of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX Kosovo) concluded sufficient evidence existed for prosecution of "war crimes, crimes against humanity as well as ...
The crimes of rape by the Serb military, paramilitary and police amounted to crimes against humanity and a war crime of torture. On 27 April 1999, a mass execution of at least 377 Kosovo Albanian civilians, of whom 36 were under 18 years old, was committed by Serbian police and Yugoslav Army forces in the village of Meja near the town of Gjakova