PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s rebel army commander during the 1998-1999 war with Serbia said Thursday he has been summoned by prosecutors of the international court looking into suspicions of war crimes. Agim Ceku, 59, a former prime minister, told the media he was summoned “as a suspect” by The Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, which he will attend on Sept. 28. The court, which has international staff working under Kosovo’s law, is mandated to look into allegations that members of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA, committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during and after the war. Following a military career in Croatia, including fighting in the early 1990s when it separated from Yugoslavia into an independent state, Ceku became KLA chief-of-staff during the war and led the postwar transformation of the KLA troops into regular army forces. Ceku was prime minister in 2006-2008.

Source: International New York Times September 03, 2020 14:03 UTC