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The Kosovo Special Prosecution Office submitted an indictment in absentia to the Basic Court in Pristina on Friday against 21 suspects for the forcible expulsion of over 800,000 Albanian civilians from Kosovo during the 1998-99 war.
At a press conference in Pristina, the prosecutor who investigated the case, Atdhe Dema, said that the indictment was prepared after five years of intensive investigations.
During the war in Kosovo, from 1998 to 1999, over 13,000 civilians were killed, while thousands more disappeared. Over 1,600 people are still missing, most of them Albanians.
In recent years, the number of indictments filed in Kosovo for committing the criminal offense of "war crimes against the civilian population" has increased significantly.
Hundreds of murdered Kosovo Albanians have been found in mass graves in Serbia. Their bodies were moved by Serbian forces in an attempt to cover up the crimes.
Serbia's political and military leaders have been arrested, tried and convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague for crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
Among them was Slobodan Milosevic, who died in prison without being convicted for his responsibility in ordering war crimes in Kosovo./ REL
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