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17 10 2007 Pristina _ A former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, was arrested on Tuesday in the village of Hallac, near Pristina, on suspicion of involvement in war crimes committed in 1999.
Kosovo Police Service, KPS, spokesperson, Veton Elshani, has named the detained suspect as Mazllum Bytyqi.
Bytyqi was arrested by a special unit of the UN police on suspicion that he was involved in the killing of 14 Serb civilians in a village near Pristina shortly after the end of the war.
The 14 bodies were found at the time by British peacekeepers after they heard automatic gunshots in the village of Gracka, near the capital, Pristina.
Bytyqi’s house was previously searched by KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo.
Kosovo has been administered by the UN since 1999, when NATO intervention put an end to the conflict between Serb forces and the ethnic Albanian guerrilla force, the KLA.
Since the conflict a number of Serbs and Albanians have been prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Serbia's wartime president, Milan Milutinovic, and Kosovo's post-war prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, a one-time KLA commander, are among those currently in the dock on separate trials in The Hague.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
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