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Kosovo: Time for EULEX to prioritize war crimes
kosovo.eu/docs/justice/judgments/criminal-proceedings/SupremeC/Idriz-Gashi-108-
2010/(2010.11.25)%20JUD%20Idriz%20GASHI%20(SC).ENG_redacted.pdf
53 P nr.425/11, 25 July 2011, http://www.hlc-kosovo.org/Indictment-Klecka-Case-25-07.2011.pdf
54 http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/limaj-still-suspected-of-war-crimes-6-cleared-in-klecka-case
55 See for example: Amnesty International, www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR70/007/2009; Human
Rights Committee, Eighty-seventh session, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under
Article 40 of the Covenant, Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee, Kosovo (Serbia),
CCPR/C/UNK/CO/1, 14 August 2006, paras.12-13, http://daccess-dds-
ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G06/436/91/PDF/G0643691.pdf?OpenElement; OSCE Mission in Kosovo,
Department of Human Rights and Communities, Kosovo’s War Crimes Trials: An Assessment Ten Years
On, 1999 – 2009, http://www.osce.org/kosovo/68569; Humanitarian Law Centre - Kosovo, Trials for
Ethnically and Politically Motivated Crimes and War Crimes in Kosovo in 2010, February 2011, page
116.
56 Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo,
S/2010/169, 6 April 2010, Annex I, Section 2, Police. www.unmikonline.org/SGReports/S-2010-
401.pdf
57 Article 5, The right of family members to be informed on the fate of missing persons. (1). Everyone
shall have the right to know about the fate of his or her missing family member(s), including the
whereabouts, or in case they deceased, the circumstances of their death and location of burial, if such
location is known, and they shall also have the right to recover the mortal remains.
58 http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-
CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/Kosovo%20S2007%20168.pdf ;http://www.gazetazyrtare.com/egov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143&Itemid=56&lang=en
59 Unless otherwise stated, references are from SPRK Activity Report, 9 December 2008 – 15 June
2009’; Statistical Booklet, as of 28 June 2011, http://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/docs/justice/SPRK-booklet-
28-06-2011.pdf.
Law no.03/L-052, Law On the Special Prosecution Office of the Republic of Kosovo, adopted 13 March
2008, http://www.gazetazyrtare.com/e
gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143&Itemid=56&lang=en
60 Articles 5.1-5.2, Law no.03/L-52.
61 OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Department of Human Rights and Communities, Kosovo’s War Crimes Trials:
An Assessment Ten Years On 1999-2009, May 2010, p.14, http://www.osce.org/kosovo/68569
62 EULEX Programme Report 2010, pp. 43-44, http://www.eulex-
kosovo.eu/docs/tracking/EULEX%20Programme%20Report%202010%20.pdf
63 Law No. 03/L-053, On the Jurisdiction, Case Selection and Case Allocation of EULEX Judges and
Prosecutors In Kosovo, see in particular Article 3, para. 1, http://www.assembly-
kosova.org/common/docs/ligjet/2008_03-L053_en.pdf
64 Law on Jurisdiction, Article 3, para. 7.
65 Annual Report On The Judicial Activities Of EULEX Judges, 2010, Number of judgments issued in
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