The court decides: A month's detention for Serb suspected of war crimes in Kosovo

Kosovo police have said they have arrested this person on December 15th.

The Special Prosecutor's request for the detention measure has reportedly been said to have participated in acts linked to mistreatment, torture, robbery, murder of civilians, and the violent deportation of Vushtrri residents in 1999.

On December 16th, the director of the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government, Petar Petkovovic, has said the detainee is former Serbian police officer Slagjan Trajkovic.

“How the evidence against Serbs is emerging suddenly, as soon as they left the institutions, which did not exist until they were part of Kosovo institutions”, Petkovic wrote on Twitter.

Since the beginning of November, Serb members of the Kosovo Police in the four Serb-dominated municipalities have resigned from their positions, as a sign of opposition to the Kosovo Government's decision to reregister Serbian license plates to the Kosovo Republic.

In the war fought in Kosovo in 1998/99, more than 13,000 civilians have been killed, and thousands more have disappeared.

Over 1,600 people continue to be found still, most of them Albanians.

Kosovo has declared independence in 2008 and is recognised by over 100 countries in the world.

Serbia does not recognise its independence, and in the Constitution it continues to consider it part of its territory.