Kosovo Liberation Army

Hundreds of Albanians have protested against a court ruling to suspend the decision on the confiscation of land of the Visoki Decani monastery.

Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci voiced bitter disappointment on Kosovo being left out of the EU's free-travel regime at Thursday's government meeting.

The EU's refusal to include Kosovo in its visa liberalisation scheme formed part of the day's agenda.

Thaci stressed strong language in his address, calling the decision incompetent and provocative.

Murder, not intimidation was the goal of the recent attacks against Serbs in Gorazdevac and Srbobran in Kosovo, says Dalibor Jevtic.

Speaking for B92 late on Tuesday, this minister for returns and communities in the Kosovo government added:

Marko Djuric was in Gorazdevac on Monday when he said Kosovo Albanian politicians are personally responsible for the safety of Serbs in this enclave.

One of the founders of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Nazmi Ajeti has been killed in the village of Milesevo near Obilic, in Kosovo.

Gazeta Blic is reporting that the incident happened in the night between Sunday and Monday, and that prior to it Ajeti was "underground."

Critics said that Serbian officials’ celebration of former Yugoslav Army official Vladimir Lazarevic’s homecoming after he served his sentence for war crimes in Kosovo was shameful.

EU rule-of-law mission prosecutors have demanded a retrial for Kosovo Liberation Army commander turned politician Fatmir Limaj and nine other ex-fighters who were acquitted of war crimes.

Former Yugoslav Army official Vladimir Lazarevic, who was convicted of war crimes in Kosovo, will be given early release next month by the UN court in The Hague.

At the retrial of 12 former Yugoslav Army troops for war crimes during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, a Serbian ex-fighter recalled how scores of Albanian civilians were shot and died “like sheep”.

Serbia is investigating a potential mass grave site in the southern Raska region, near where the remains of dozens of Kosovo Albanians killed in the 1998-99 war were exhumed last year.