Special police units from the European Union rule-of-law mission, EULEX, arrest the leader of Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans Organisation, Hysni Gucati, during a raid on the organisation's offices in Pristina, Kosovo, September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Laura Hasani
PRISTINA (Reuters) - European Union police on Friday arrested the head of Kosovo's war veterans group and he was being flown to a war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands to face as yet unspecified charges, his lawyer said on Friday.
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, mandated to investigate and prosecute suspects in war crimes committed during Kosovo's 1998-99 guerrilla uprising against Serbian rule, declined to comment on the reported arrest.
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