International Law Professor Requires Establishment of a Tribunal for Judgment of Serbian Crimes in Kosovo

Proposal of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity against President Hashim Thaci, leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Kadri Veselini, and several other people have sparked numerous reactions in the country.

In addition to institutions, civil society and public personalities, there have been reactions from international rule of law connoisseurs.

International Law Professor Esfort Besfort Rrecaj in an interview for Kosovo has accused Serbia of not taking any legal action to whiteen war crimes in Kosovo.

According to him, Serbia has only lost time and has tried to take advantage of the inter-competitive community, becoming as if it was investigating 2 thousand and 500 people for war crimes.

“From Serbian crimes in Kosovo has become white under 2 per cent of the cases. And no legal action was taken for these 2,500 people in 2019. Serbia seeks to house criminals and crimes in Kosovo. Serbia has only opened investigative procedures for face-to-face. However, these appear to be going nowhere, because we have no merit cases where concrete persons are tried for crimes committed as the Razak massacre, Izbica mask and installations like the Panda initiated by Serbian authorities in order to take up campaigns against the civilian population in Kosovo in the 98-99 years in Kosovo. ”, he says.

He recalls Yugoslavia's Tribunal, which he says has been committed to resolving cases of crimes that have occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, while he says neither did The Hague Tribunal achieve a priority of Serbian crimes in Kosovo. It appeals to the international community for the dawning of Serbian crimes in the Balkans.

It is the last time for international co-operation to realize that peace in the Balkans is achieved after dealing with major crime in the Balkans. I believe the International Community has not addressed Serbia's crimes in Kosovo well. I believe that if the crimes that were committed in Kosovo were to be punished, then first point would have to focus on the crimes that were committed by Serbia, which was the aggressor, and all other eventual crimes that occurred in the country”, he points out.

The founding of a new tribunal according to the Radicate would be the best solution for addressing and punishing Serbian crimes in Kosovo.

He says only in this way could justice be established for crimes committed.

“The only solution to impose justice for Serbian crimes in Kosovo is once again the establishment of a tribunal, or address, at the International Criminal Court”, he says of Kosovo Press.

Otherwise, on July 14th, civil society I has been addressed with a letter to the US Senate that has asked them not to allow Russia and Serbia to tarnish the KLA war, at the same time, its US war.

“In the continuation of these operations aimed at covering the genocide made by Serbia in Kosovo during 1998-1999, we are very kindly asked by your honoured commission to present the Senate's resolution of the victims' commemoration and recognition of freedom fighters in Kosovo's painful fight for its universal and insecurable rights for freedom and democracy. Over the past two decades, we signatories many of us witness the crimes committed by Serbs we have promoted truth and justice as cornerstones for the reconciliation process that would bring lasting peace and spiritual fulfillment to victims and their families”, writes among other things in this letter to civil society for the US Senate Commission for Foreign Relations.

On June 24th, the Specialised Prosecutor's Office announced that on April 24th it has made a proposal of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity against President Thaci, Democratic Party of Kosovo Chairman Kadri Veselini, and some others whose names have not been made public. /Kosovo pres/