It's Albania's turn to answer for atrocities in Kosovo
The arrests of former Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) fighters under the sanctions of the Special Court for Kosovo prosecutor Jack Smith may extend to Albanian citizens.
A diplomatic source told Top Kanal about this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Since the Albanian state allowed the establishment of Kosovo Liberation Army prisons on its territory during the war, where war crimes were proven to have occurred, special prosecutors will likely extend the arrests of those responsible to Albanian citizens,” said the anonymous TV channel interlocutor.
The indictment by the prosecutor's office of the Special Court for Kosovo, published yesterday, names three prisons in Albania: in Kukes, Hasa and Kahana, near Tropoja, where war crimes were committed. Therefore, if the prosecutor requests the arrest of Albanian citizens who were members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Albania will face the obligation to accept the jurisdiction of this court on its territory.
There is unofficial evidence that the prosecutor's office of the Special Court included in the investigation materials the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Albanian government from 1998, which was signed by all UCK field commanders on providing the gang formation with an economic base in the north-east of Albania.
Top Kanal journalists believe that this is the most problematic part of the future trial of Kosovo militants for Albania, since the decision of the Albanian government allowed the Kosovo Liberation Army to operate freely on the territory of its country, in addition to supplying weapons and organizing training camps, it created three prisons in which, According to the prosecutor's office of the Special Court, at least several people were killed.
Albania's turn to answer for the atrocities in Kosovo has come.