Kosovo Liberation Army

A defence lawyer for one of the so-called Drenica Group ex-guerrillas, who were sentenced to a total of 65 years in jail for war crimes, said on Tuesday that they will appeal against the convictions, which he called a "legal massacre".

Democratic Party of Kosovo leader Hashim Thaci failed to convince MPs from his party who voted against establishing a new special court to try former KLA guerrillas to change their minds.

Senior British diplomat Baroness Joyce Anelay said Pristina must keep its promise and set up a new special court to try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters for alleged war crimes.

The Kosovo police announced late on Sunday they had found two bags containing weapons and uniforms near Lake Badovac.

The bags were found near the location where a week earlier several persons were detained on terrorism charges. They are currently being held in 30-day detention.

A witness in the trial of Oliver Ivanovic told a Mitrovica court he took part in the negotiations between the accused and NATO over transporting several Kosovo Albanian families from their homes during the unrest in Mitrovica in February 2000.

On her visit to Kosovo on Sunday, Nuland is expected to try to persuade MPs to back unpopular constitutional changes that will allow for the establishment of a special court to handle war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, in the 199os conflict.

Nuland will meet President Atifete Jahjaga, Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaçi.

Panels with photographs and names of more than 2,500 Serb civilian, military and police victims have been installed in front of the parliament building.

Kosovo Liberation Army veterans criticised a plan to name a street after Sinan Hasani, an ethnic Albanian who controversially served as Yugoslavia’s president in the 1980s.

Deputies from Hashim Thaci's party will not vote for the forming a war crimes court that should deal with the KLA, write Albanian language media in Pristina.

This is the case "although Thaci promised German Chancellor Angela Merkel" that members of his party, the PDK, would vote in favor.

Marko Djuric says Serbia wants the UN to set up "a special international court or tribunal to prosecute crimes of the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)."