Back Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office German Tribunal Especial para Kosovo Spanish Kosovotribunaal Dutch Câmaras Especializadas do Kosovo Portuguese Специальные судебные палаты и специализированная прокуратура по Косову Russian Dhomat e Specializuara të Kosovës Albanian Косовска специјализована већа и Канцеларија специјалног тужилаштва Serbian

Kosovo Specialist Chambers

Kosovo Specialist Chambers
Dhomat e Specializuara të Kosovës (Albanian)
Специјализована већа Косова (Serbian)
Seat of the Specialist Chambers
Established2017
LocationThe Hague, Netherlands
Authorized byConstitution of Kosovo
Websitehttps://www.scp-ks.org/
President
CurrentlyEkaterina Trendafilova
Since12 January 2017
Prosecutor
CurrentlyKimberly West
Since18 October 2023

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) (Albanian: Dhomat e Specializuara të Kosovës; Serbian: Специјализована већа Косова) is a court of Kosovo, located in The Hague (Netherlands), hosting four Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor's Office, which may perform their activities either in the Netherlands or in Kosovo. The court is currently set up for delegating the trials of the crimes committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic-Albanian paramilitary organisation which sought the separation of Kosovo from Yugoslavia during the 1990s and the eventual creation of a Greater Albania.[1][2][3][4][5] The alleged crimes concern the period 1998–2000, during and at the end of the Kosovo war and directed afterwards against "ethnic minorities and political opponents".[6] The court was formally established in 2016.[7] It is separate from other Kosovar institutions, and independent. It is composed of a Specialist Prosecutor's Office and four Specialist Chambers, with themselves comprising Judges' Chambers and a Registry.

In December 2016 Ekaterina Trendafilova was elected first president.[8] Among the people charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity are Kosovo former president Hashim Thaçi and senior Kosovar politician Kadri Veseli.[9] On 15 September 2021 the court's first trial opened, the case against Salih Mustafa.[10]

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  3. ^ Dictionary of Genocide. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2008. p. 249. ISBN 9780313346415.
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  6. ^ "Kosovo court to be established in The Hague". Government of the Netherlands. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference letterNL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Kosovo Special Court Appoints First President". 14 December 2016.
  9. ^ Marusic, Sinisa Jakov (2 September 2020). "North Macedonia Albanian Leader Testifies to Kosovo War Prosecutors". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  10. ^ Bami, Xhorxhina (15 September 2021). "First Trial of Kosovo Ex-Guerrilla Opens at Hague War Crimes Court". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 15 September 2021.

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