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  • Former rebel commander charged with war crimes to join Kosovo's biggest opposition party

    11/09/2005 1:14:43 PM PST · by joan · 2 replies · 165+ views
    Calibre ^ | November 7, 2005
    Released : Nov 07, 2005 6:44 AM PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro-A former Kosovo rebel commander who is charged with war crimes committed against fellow ethnic Albanians will join the leading opposition party in the province, a party statement said Monday. Rrustem Mustafa, known as Commander Remi, will join the Democratic Party of Kosovo, which is headed by former rebel leader-turned-politician Hashim Thaci. Mustafa was sentenced in 2003 by the U.N.-run court in Kosovo to 17 years imprisonment for ordering the killings, illegal arrest and torture of fellow ethnic Albanians suspected of collaborating with the Serb regime. Kosovo's Supreme Court overruled that verdict...
  • Ethnic Albanian children recall massacre of families

    07/10/2003 6:18:03 AM PDT · by mark502inf · 24 replies · 414+ views
    ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ | Wednesday, July 9, 2003 4:35PM EDT | By KATARINA KRATOVAC
    BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Four ethnic Albanian children told a court Wednesday how Serb forces rounded up and gunned down their families with automatic weapons in one of the most brutal acts of the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Their testimony came during the trial of a Serb police officer accused of leading an assassination squad through their community during the war. The children, who were said to have positively identified the officer, Sasa Cvjetan, in his prison cell Tuesday, watched as Serb troops slaughtered 19 ethnic Albanian relatives, including their mothers, siblings and grandparents, on March 28, 1999, in the town...