Prosecutor Seeks Sentence of 45 Years for Former KLA Chiefs

And we're standing up to what we've put in our file, which is that we stand by the fact that we demand the punishment of concrete persons, so we don't demand the punishment for general staff, but for concrete persons.

The ZPS demands a verdict of condemnation for all points of the indictment and of establishing a single verdict of 45 years based on individual crime contributions made or committed by each of the persons, the prosecutor said.

These crimes are war, crimes against humanity, and they are grave in nature, and these charges have not lost their value over time. It remains very heavy”, she added.

It has claimed 100 people have been killed and hundreds more have been abused, in and around 50 plus Kosovo Liberation Army detention camps (UÇK).

This issue has to do with the aim of four accused to gain and exercise control throughout Kosovo. This determination for competence and power was faced with something, and it had to do with persons who had emerged as opponents or were determined to be collaborators with Serb forces, or Serbian officials, or who did not support KLA targets”.

According to her, it often included persons linked to the Democratic League of Kosovo, Roma and Serb persons.

“in order to achieve their goal, these accused persons have committed crimes against their perceived opponents to have control throughout Kosovo”.

The Democratic League of Kosovo is one of the oldest parties in Kosovo, founded in 1989 by Ibrahim Rugova. It has played a key role in the period of peaceful resistance and in building the country's democratic institutions.