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Unlike other war crimes charges prosecuted by trial-chambers in the International Criminal Court (ICC), or special tribunals formed by the ICC included ICTY (Yugoslavia), and ICTR (Rwnda), the charges in the current case was filed by the EULEX mission.
EULEX is the European Union's efforts to ensure Serb minority rights in Kosovo, and the EULEX rule-of-law mission was mandate to execute pioneering role in the new field of post-conflict executive policing. EULEX works under the general framework of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and has a unified chain of command to Brussels.
Not unsimilar to alleged war-crimes committed in Sri Lanka including abductions and forced prostitutions in the refugee camps and other traditionally Tamil areas by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and its collaborating Tamil paramilitaries, the findings in a report by Swiss Prosecutor Dick Marty, said the Kosavar soldiers abducted more than 500 Serbs, Albanians and other ethnic groups, most of them later killed in Albanian secret camps.
An editorial in Saturday's Washington Post by Sudetic who worked with the ICTY, said that Marty's report included allegations that American and European leaders, and UN Officials in Kosovo overlooked the "heinous crimes" committed by Kosovo leaders to preserve "political stability."
Kosovo leaders, like the Sri Lanka's counterparts. have waged an ugly media campaign to discredit Marty and his findings, and have threatened to launch a witchhunt against the Albanians who aided the inquiry, the editorial in Washington Post said. "These names are known and they will be made public very quickly," Kosovo Prime Minister Thaci said in a weekend interview with Kosovo private TV station Klan.
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