Terrorism in Yugoslavia

Heroes of Koshare

Belgraders have chosen to name the boulevard connecting the Ada Bridge with the Tosin Bunar neighborhood after the heroes of the Battle of Kosare.

Mayor Sinisa Mali announced the results of the voting, and noted that he was "very glad that the memory of those great heroes will be preserved in that way."

The first indictment of the specialist court for the crimes committed by the former KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") will be that raised against Daut Haradinaj.

This is what Sputnik is reporting, noting that he is the brother of Ramush Haradinaj, who is currently a candidate for Kosovo prime minister.

The first indictment of the specialist court for the crimes committed by the former KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") will be that raised against

BELGRADE - Veljko Odalovic, secretary-general of the Serbian Foreign Ministry and head of the government commission on missing persons, hopes a new Hague-based special court set up to try war crimes committed by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army will provide at least some answers to questions about war crimes in Kosovo-Metohija and that the perpetrators will be punished.

THE HAGUE - The first indictments for Kosovo war crimes could be raised next week after the Specialist Chamber of the Kosovo Constitutional Court on Wednesday confirmed the constitutionality of the rules of procedure of a special court set up to try crimes by the "Kosovo Liberation Army", it has been announced in The Hague.

Kosovo's Constitutional Court on June 28 cleared the way for a war crimes tribunal to prosecute former senior ethnic Albanian commanders from the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK), RFE/RL reports.

Former senior Kosovo Liberation Army members Sylejman Selimi and Sami Lushtaku’s appeal against their conviction for war crimes against civilian prisoners began at the country’s Supreme Court.

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A memorial bust has been unveiled on Wednesday of Tibor Cerna, one of the 108 Yugoslav Army (VS) soldiers who died during the Battle of Kosare.

The memorial is located in Debeljaca, a village in Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina, and was unveiled by Cerna's mother Kata and President Aleksandar Vucic.

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The "love story" between the United States and the KLA has been strengthened by a common interest, Russia's Sputnik is reporting. For that reason, 18 years on, "it can be said that it has entered the mature phase."

Kosovo's Supreme Court has acquitted Fatmir Limaj, former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, of committing war crimes in the Klecka detention centre in 1999.