5 hours agoVjosa Osmani worked in UNMIK with Lulzim Basha and Clinton Williams of the Special Court
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)LDK's candidate for prime minister, Vjosa Osmani, who in the years 2000-2004 had started his career as an interpreter in UNMIK, is found to have worked simultaneously and at the same place as Clinton Williams and Lulzim Basha, at the Department of Justice. This is confirmed by a registry of phone numbers, e-mails and Justice Department offices [...]
A registry of phone numbers, e-mails and offices of the UNMIK Justice Department, which Periscope has provided, testifies to this.
Which Williams was engaged in the establishment of the Special Court, which will address the war crimes charges during 1999-2000 filed against members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Chief Prosecutor Williams, in July 2014, had announced that he had found evidence to file charges against several former KLA leaders.
DP Chairman Lulzim Basha, meanwhile, at the time he was an interpreter in UNMIK, had been rumoured of gathering evidence concerning the possible KLA crimes against the Serb population.
Long ago, media in Albania had written that Basha was one of those who could be called a Special Court witness.
Former head of the Missing Office in UNMIK, Jose Pablo Baraybar, in an interview for the newspaper Le Temps (https://www.letemps.ch/mond/sang-mers-sering-poubelle), had also mentioned the name of DP Chairman in Albania Lulzim Basha, saying he had worked as his translator.
Baraybar had claimed that Lulzim Basha had worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
He was with me... He's had the file”, Baraybar said.
But could Vjosa Osmani, like Lulzim Basha, be invited as a Special Court witness?
That remains to be seen.
Vjosa Osmani, who had worked at the Department of Justice in UNMIK, according to its CVs, which are published on the Pristina University page, had also offered legal and administrative assistance to international judges and prosecutors, as well as personally worked and participated in investigations and judgments, including those for genocide and war crimes in Kosovo.
Vjosa Osmani's résumés, which testify in detail to its work on UNMIK, can be read here:
The UN mission in Kosovo, U n NMIC, in charge of protecting human rights, had largely investigated the kidnappings and murders of Serbs, following the war in Kosovo.
In mid-June 1999 and December 2008, UNMIK police and international prosecutors, who were involved in investigating crimes under international law, were obliged to probe deeply the disappearance and violent kidnappings of Serbs.
EULEX, according to official figures, has inherited from UNMIK 1,200 war crimes cases allegedly committed by Albanians.
UMIK's investigation, as stated, was then focused 90 percent on alleged KLA crimes, while 10 percent on Serbian crimes.
At the time that Vjosa Osmani was engaged in UNMIK, shortly after the war, charges had been filed and arrests were carried out against figures of high profiles of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Among them were Commander of The NLA for the Llap Operative Zone, Rrustem Mustafa-Remi, as well as Commanders Latif Gashi and Daut Haradinaj.
Vjosa Osmani was employed in UNMIK, on 17 April 2000, as 17 years old. /Periscopi/
