Kosovo Liberation Army

The European Commission’s annual progress report on Kosovo said local prosecutors lack the willingness to investigate war crimes allegedly committed by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters.

Kosovo Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci has said that he regrets the fact Pristina's bid to join UNESCO fell three votes short.

Former local KLA commander Sabit Geci has said that the first war crimes indictment against him also contained the name of Hashim Thaci.

This has been reported by the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Bot Sot.

Around 1,000 people led by Kosovo Liberation Army veterans protested in the town of Prizren over the arrest of former senior guerrilla Xhemshit Krasniqi for alleged war crimes committed in Albania.

Kosovo court ordered a month's detention for former Kosovo Liberation Army leader Xhemshit Krasniqi, suspected of carrying out war crimes in Albania.

Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci said Pristina has nothing to hide from a new war crimes court which will try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, but refused to speculate about possible indictees.

Former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters said that the government’s pension offer was too low and insisted that they deserved more for serving during the war against Serbian forces.

Former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Sami Lushtaku, convicted of war crimes, was sent to a high-security prison after he allegedly tried to escape, according to media reports.

Srbica Mayor Sami Lushtaku, who has been convicted of war crimes committed against civilians in Kosovo, has been arrested after leaving a hospital.

Lushtaku is a former member of the now disbanded ethnic Albanian KLA and its "Drenica Group" and was in the hospital temporarily for treatment. He was previously sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Twelve former Yugoslav Army troops who are being retried for allegedly killing more than 118 Kosovo Albanians near the town of Pec/Peja in 1999 have pleaded not guilty.