Prosecutor Tells Special Court Founding History

For the establishment of the Kosovo Special Court, which would address war crimes cases was discussed 13 years ago between local and international experts.

That's what he said about Telegrafi, Ali Rexha, prosecutor at the Special Prosecutor of Kosovo.

“In 2005 or 2006, we went to official work in Pristina with Enver Peci. After we did things, we continued at the UNMIK Department of Justice. The chairman of the UNMIK Court of Judges during the conversation told us that the Special Court in Kosovo will be established. He said we'd open the competition and you'd be in the interview. We willingly expressed that we were going. and everything will be cut off from that day, The subject was never mentioned again. No more information. A year from now, we're in Special Prosecutor's Department. In 2007 the Special Prosecutorship was established. We have often talked with our colleague and assessed that it is necessary to establish the Special Court in Kosovo, as do the countries of the region and deal with the most serious cases, not to call war crimes”, Rexha said.

He has called the establishment of the Special Court for Kosovo in The Hague great damage, saying political circumstances, the fragile justice system in Kosovo, as well as other factors, have influenced it.

In my opinion there are many components, more or less because of fragility, more or less because of politics, but also for other political reasons, so it is a huge damage that was founded there. But, however, it must function”, he said.

Rexha has indicated that by the time the Special Court of Kosovo's special establishment talks were held, local prosecutors have been unwilling to handle cases where war commanders were involved, but as he put it, there are now professional and courageous prosecutors in Kosovo who can treat anyone indiscriminately.

Regarding the abolition of the Special Court Law, Rexha said this issue belongs to politics, but, according to him, Kosovo has already entered international obligations and turning back is difficult.

I don't have much to talk about, because it's a political issue, the decision to deal with it, but we've entered international obligations with the state of the Netherlands, with the International Community, which has allocated 300m euros for this open court. On the legal basis any decision can be revoted, changed, completed, eliminated, but we're in an international relationship, so I think it's very difficult to go back to”, potential Rexha. /