Top Kosovar court orders war crimes retrial
Kosovo's Supreme Court has ordered a war crimes retrial for
Fatmir Limaj, a former Kosovar government minister and prominent
politician, Radio Liberty reported.
Limaj, a former commander of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation
Army that fought Serbian rule in 1998-99, was tried on charges of
torturing prisoners but acquitted in May.
The European Union's law-enforcing mission in Kosovo, EULEX, said
that a Supreme Court panel of EULEX and local judges had annulled
that verdict and ordered a retrial after an appeal from
prosecutors.
Limaj has also been tried by the UN war crimes tribunal in The
Hague but was acquitted in 2005.
Limaj is a close ally of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.
Last week, EULEX prosecutors charged Limaj and six others with
corruption, accusing them of embezzling 2 million euros ($2.55
million).
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