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<p>109.162.241.154: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;By Stephanie van den Berg&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;THE HAGUE, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A former [http://de.bab.la/woerterbuch/englisch-deutsch/insurgent insurgent] commander, Salih Mustafa, has been arrested in Kosovo and transferred to the Kosovo war [http://search.usa.gov/search?affiliate=usagov&amp;query=crimes%20tribunal%27s crimes tribunal's] detention center in the Netherlands, the court said on Thursday.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Mustafa was a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander during the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The indictment charges Mustafa, 48, with four counts of war crimes including the beating and torture of at least six people and one murder.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;According to the indictment, which was made public after his arrest, Mustafa led a guerilla unit which ran a detention facility and interrogation site where inmates were beaten, tortured, given electric shocks and urinated on.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;According to prosecutors, Mustafa not only oversaw the violence but also personally participated in beatings and told one detainee he was a spy and was to be killed.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Following his arrest by the specialist prosecutor´s office on 24 September 2020, Salih Mustafa was transferred to the detention facilities of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on 24 September 2020,&quot; the Hague-based tribunal said in a statement.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Under international law, Mustafa is presumed innocent until proven guilty.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A date for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] his initial appearance in court has not been set, but he is expected to be brought before a judge in the next few days.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In June, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] the tribunal's prosecutor released an indictment against Kosovo President Hashim Thaci for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, including nearly 100 murders.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The indictment has yet to be confirmed by a judge.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thaci, who denies wrongdoing, traveled to The Hague in July to meet with prosecutors.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Specialist Chamber was set up in The Hague in 2015 to handle cases of alleged crimes by KLA guerrillas during the war that led to Kosovo´s independence from Serbia a decade later.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Local efforts to investigate alleged KLA war crimes have so far been foiled by widespread intimidation in the state where clan loyalties run deep and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] former rebels are lionised.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The special prosecutor's office is based in the Netherlands partly to help ensure protection of witnesses.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Specialist Chamber is governed by Kosovo law but is staffed by international judges and prosecutors.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Other suspects from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s have been tried at the now-defunct U.N.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yugoslav Tribunal. (Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg, Fatos Bytyci and Toby Sterling; Editing by Toby Chopra and Angus MacSwan)&lt;br&gt;</div>

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