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The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor (OWCP) has not raised a single indictment for war crimes committed in Kosovo in nearly three years. During this period, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) has filed nine criminal complaints for the crimes committed in Peć, Mala Kruša, Savine vode, Vučitrn, Goden, Kraljani, Landovica, Poklek and Rezale. To date, no investigations have been initiated against those charged.
In reply to the HLC’s urgings with regard to the criminal complaints filed, the OWCP has responded that it is in practice prevented from conducting investigations. The EULEX mission, which was the facilitating entity in the past, has not had since May 2014 the mandate to begin new investigations, as that jurisdiction was transferred to local prosecutors. The OWCP has indicated that the position of the Kosovo Ministry of Justice is such that the Republic of Serbia does not have territorial jurisdiction to investigate crimes which are assumed to have been committed in the territory of Kosovo.
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Two weeks after the end of hostilities in Kosovo, three young Albanian-Americans who had joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were arrested by Yugoslav police, tortured and killed. Eighteen years later, the conflict has been largely forgotten, but the men’s youngest brother continues a lonely fight for justice.
Towards the end of June 1999, Ylli, Agron and Mehmet Bytyqi (pronounced Bootoochee) were escorting a Roma family out of Kosovo to the Serbian border. It was a act of kindness. The Bytyqi brothers – whose parents knew the family well – were guaranteeing their safety up to Kosovo’s border with Serbia, since many ethnic Albanians viewed Roma with suspicion.
