Suspect in Kukes War Crimes Case Arrested
Pristina | 06 May 2010 |
A Kosovo Albanian man was arrested today on war crimes charges, and Balkan Insight has learnt that the case is tied to torture camps the Kosovo Liberation Army maintained in Albania during the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia.
Balkan Insight discovered in an investigation published last year that the KLA had maintained detainment cells in a base in the northeastern Albanian town of Kukes.
Today in the Pejton district of central Pristina, EULEX's executive police department, under the supervision of the Special Prosecutor's Office, carried out a house search and arrested a man, understood to be Sabit Geci, in connection with war crimes.
EULEX said the investigation was in connection with crimes allegedly committed between April and June 1999, while sources confirmed to Balkan Insight that the arrest was linked to KLA detention facilities in Kukes.
The cells appeared to be part of a loose network of detention facilities in the country, where inmates, who were political adversaries, people suspected of being spies for Serbia and others engaged in feuds with some KLA authorities, were tortured and in some cases murdered.
EULEX confirmed last summer that it was looking into the allegations of the torture camps in Albania.
This is the first arrest for war crimes related to the former Yugoslavia which occurred in the territory of Albania.
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