A former Albanian Army officer, Adem Shehu who joined Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war against Serbian forces, has been summoned for questioning by prosecutors of The Hague- based Specialist Prosecutor’s Office.
Shehu is the first Albanian citizen known so far to have been invited by The Hague.
He served as commander of 153 Brigade of the Kosovo Liberation Army, in the Llapi Operative Zone.
Albanian based Top Channel TV reported that Shehu will be questioned on January 28.
SPO is investigating war crimes allegedly committed by KLA members during the war time, 1998- 2000.
KLA senior officials have been indicted so far. Among others, former President Hashim Thaci, former parliament speakers Jakup Krasniqi and Kadri Veseli and former Vetevendoje MP Rexhep Selimi are facing war crimes charges while being held in detention facilities in The Hague.
The Kosovo war crimes court, composed of the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, was established by the Kosovo parliament at the insistence of the international community in August 2015.
It followed a 2011 Council of Europe report in which Swiss Senator Dick Marty addresses the alleged crimes of “members of the Kosovo Liberation Army against ethnic minorities and political rivals” from January 1998 until December 2000.
The confirmed indictment against Thaci and others states that the crimes took place in several locations in Kosovo, and in Kukes and Cahan in Northern Albania.
