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66 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 Amnesty International April 2012 Index: EUR 70/004/2012
Kosovo: Time for EULEX to prioritize war crimes 67 criminal cases at the municipal, district and Supreme Court level according to the criminal offence, p.23, http://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/docs/justice/annual- report2010/Judges%20Annual%20Report%202010.pdf 66 “Number of judgments issued in criminal cases at the municipal, district and Supreme Court level according to the criminal offence”, Annual Report on the Judicial Activities of EULEX Judges, 2010, Table, p.23. 67 See http://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/en/judgments/CM-Supreme-Court.php, for LLapi case , (Ap.-Kz. No. 89/2010, Latif Gashi, Rrustem Mustafa and Nazif Mehmeti); and Krasniqi (Ap. Kz – 353/2009; P.No. 445/2010, Novobrdo case; P.no. 371/10, Fahredin Gashi, both at http://www.eulexkosovo.eu/en/judgments/CM-District-Court-of-Pristina.php 68 “EULEX judges Struggle to Adapt to Kosovo Justice”, Justice in Kosovo Court Monitoring Project, Newsletter 6, April 2011, www.jetanekosove.com 69 See for example, Justice in Kosovo, Court Monitoring Project, Newsletter 2, October 2010, ibid. 70 http://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/en/pressreleases/0248.php 71 Gregory L. Naarden and Jeffrey B. Locke, “Note And Comment: Peacekeeping And Prosecutorial Policy: Lessons From Kosovo”, American Journal of International Law , October 2004, https://litigation- essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=98+A.J.I .L.+727&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=8f921fb8edbfc6a329a5932239612d91 72 No.03/L –187, 29 April 2010, http://www.assembly-kosova.org/common/docs/ligjet/2010-187-eng.pdf 73 “Dozens of new sites to be searched for the missing”, EULEX Press Release, 1 December 2011, http://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/en/pressreleases/0209.php 74 Law No. 03/L-137, 25 June 2009, gazetazyrtare.rks-gov.net/Documents/GZRK_70_eng.pdf 75 EULEX/DFM Annual Activities Report 2011- Missing Persons Operation, p.14, http://www.eulexkosovo.eu/docs/justice/ompf/ANNUAL%20REPORT%20DFM%202011.pdf. 76 DFM Annual Report, pp.9-11. 77 Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo*1, Report, Rapporteur: Mr Dick Marty, Switzerland, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, (hereafter, Marty Report). http://www.assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2010/ajdoc462010prov.pdfhttps://wcd.coe.int/wcd/ViewDoc .jsp?id=1736769&Site=DC 78 DFM Annual Report, p.1; http://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/en/pressreleases/0209.php 79 EULEX Programme Report 2010, p.49; EULEX 2011 Stocktaking Report, pp. 47-50. 80 http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/disappearance-convention.htm; 81 Law on Missing Persons, http://www.ic-mp.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/law-on-missing-persons- republic-of-kosovo.pdf 82 The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) strongly recommended in 2010 “the creation of a central records archive on missing persons at the domestic level that would systematically Index: EUR 70/004/2012 Amnesty International April 2012
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