Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office(Photo:Wikimedia/DennisHH)
The trial of a former Kosovo Liberation Army commander, Salih Mustafa, charged with crimes against Albanians in Kosovo in 1999, begins before the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers on Sept. 15, the Trial Panel decided on June 21.
The trial of Mustafa, aged 48, will be the first before the special court, established in 2015 by the Parliament of Kosovo under international pressure, following a report by the Council of Europe on KLA crimes in Kosovo and Albania.
According to the decision by the Trial Panel, published on the court's webpage, the prosecution opening is granted three hours, and the victims' counsel, Anni Pues, will give her opening statement next. The Court has approved applications by nine victims in the Mustafa trial to testify.
Mustafa was charged with arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture and murder of persons detained at the KLA's Zllash detention compound, in April 1999.
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