Ramush Haradinaj arrested in France

Ramus Haradinaj - Photo: RTS

BELGRADE - French police on Wednesday arrested former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, a KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army / UCK) commander during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, on a Serbian warrant, French police sources and Kosovo's Foreign Ministry said.

The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA / Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës—UÇK) was an ethnic-Albanian paramilitary organisation that sought the separation of Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the 1990s and the eventual creation of a Greater Albania. Its campaign against Yugoslav security forces, police, government officers and ethnic Serb villages precipitated a major crackdown by the Yugoslav military and Serb paramilitaries within Kosovo known as the Kosovo War of 1998-99.

The Kosovo war ultimately featured a military campaign by NATO against FRY armed forces during...