Under Western pressure, Kosovo to put war crimes court to new vote


  • World
  • Friday, 31 Jul 2015

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's government asked parliament on Friday to reconsider its rejection of an ad hoc court to try ethnic Albanian former guerrillas for alleged war crimes including organ harvesting, responding to intense Western pressure.

The young Balkan state's parliament last month voted against creating the court, which many Kosovo Albanians see as an attempt to tarnish their 1998-99 guerrilla war against Serbia's repressive rule.

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