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2025-11-24 17:24:52, Kosova & Bota CNA

The Kosovo Special Prosecution Office has filed an indictment against a person suspected of committing war crimes against the civilian population in the municipality of Gjilan.

DN, according to the Prosecution, during the period March-April 1999, as commander of the substation in Zhegër, Gjilan, "did not take any action to prevent the looting, expulsion and murder of 29 Albanian civilians."

According to the indictment, the defendant was aware that on March 30, 1999, Serbian police and military forces, under his command, had surrounded the village of Zhegër, while on March 27, 1999, the village of Llashticë had been attacked.

"The defendant DN, together with the commander of the Gjilan Police Station, had ordered the removal of the crime scene in order to eliminate traces of the crime. DN, although he had been notified by letter from the injured parties, had not taken any action to prevent, stop or submit the cases for investigation, but had left the scene," the Special Prosecution said.

DN was arrested on September 15 of this year at the Dheu i Bardhë border crossing, which connects Kosovo with Serbia, and has been in custody since then.

Recently, the Special Prosecution Office has filed several charges for crimes committed during the 1998-99 war.

In August, it filed an indictment in absentia against 21 suspects in the forcible expulsion of more than 800,000 Albanian civilians from Kosovo during the war.

Since the end of the war, dozens of people have been convicted of war crimes before local and international institutions.

From 2000 to 2008, war crimes in Kosovo were investigated by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and since 2008, by the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX).

In 2018, EULEX handed over the cases to the Kosovo Prosecutor's Office and local courts.

During the last war in Kosovo in 1998-1999, more than 13,000 civilians were killed and thousands more disappeared.

Nearly 1,600 people are still missing – most of them Albanians./REL