Hague Prosecutors Call Female Kosovo MP for Questioning

Time Kadrijaj, an MP from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK party, said on Thursday that she has been invited for an interview by the Specialist Prosecutor's Office, which is probing wartime and post-war crimes in Kosovo.

"I am not sad at all about the legal consequences, because the war was clear as a teardrop and this will be proved again, but I am worried about the continual invitations [for interviews] by this court, which are based on the political claims of Serbia and will have political consequences for Kosovo, which has finally started to speak with its own voice," Kadrijaj wrote on Facebook.

She said she will be interviewed by the Hague-based prosecutors in September.

Kadrijaj served as a doctor at Kosovo Liberation Army military hospitals in the Dukagjini area during the war, Koha Ditore newspaper reported on Thursday.

Since last year, the Specialist Prosecutor's Office has interviewed more than 35 former KLA fighters, including several who are now high-profile politicians.

Last month, Ramush Haradinaj resigned as Kosovo's prime minister after being asked to give an interview as a suspect.

Haradinaj is the leader of the AAK party, to which Kadrijaj belongs, and was a KLA commander in the Dukagjini area during the war.

The Specialist Prosecutor's Office is tasked with probing crimes including killings, abductions, illegal detentions and sexual violence allegedly committed by KLA members from the beginning of 1998 to the end of 1999.

The Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers are expected to try those indicted by the prosecutors. No indictments have been made public yet, however.