Srdjan Lazovic, a Kosovo Serb arrested in June, is accused of taking part in the mass detention and torture of hundreds of civilians at a village in the Malisheve/Malisevo area in 1999. Kosovo’s Special Prosecution on Tuesday said it has indicted a former reservist member of the Yugoslav Army for war crimes against civilians in…
Kosovo’s artists miss out on regional collaboration opportunities because of politics, lack of money, and sometimes unwillingness. In 2023, for the first time in approximately 50 years, a play from Kosovo performed in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica. “I believe there is a lack of genuine desire to understand one another,” Adrian Morina, an actor from…
Transcending time and space, it has since become an almost universal metaphor for the endless cycle of human violence – an echo that continues to resonate over the centuries. “In some way it was like a catharsis because nobody threw anything at me,” Mitic told BIRN a few minutes after she and her Albanian and…
In Kosovo, many storefronts display “Worker Wanted” signs across sectors like gastronomy, retail, and construction. Paradoxically, the country reports high unemployment rates, displaying a mismatch between the skills in demand and the training sought in educational institutions. Kosovo faces a paradox in its job market: while unemployment remains high, businesses in sectors such as gastronomy,…
A witness who was compelled to testify in the war crimes trial of former President Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants in The Hague said the four wartime Kosovo Liberation Army officials couldn’t have ordered the crimes. Shukri Buja, who was a commander with the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA in the guerrilla force’s Nerodime Operational Zone,…
Human rights groups have reacted in outrage after Kosovo’s version of the ‘Big Brother’ reality TV series arranged for a contestant to confront her ex-husband, who has been charged with domestic violence, on the set of the show. Activists are calling for legal action after ‘Big Brother VIP Kosovo’, a reality TV show aired by…
In a village around 30 kilometres from Kosovo’s capital, students and citizens flock daily to the country’s first observatory and planetarium. Until last year, a small plot in the heart of Rashince in the Shtime municipality that used to grow corn has transformed into a hub for astronomy enthusiasts, now home to the village’s first…
Following reports that a 14-year-old girl was allegedly drugged and raped by five individuals in Prishtina, the Kosovo Women’s Network, has called for immediate institutional action. The police and prosecutor’s office have initiated investigations into suspicions that on Sunday, a 14-year-old girl in Prishtina was drugged and sexually assaulted by five individuals in the capital….
A Kosovo lawyer has been sentenced to 150 days in prison for sending a message to journalist Vehbi Kajtazi, owner of news website Paparaci, threatening to douse him with gasoline. The Prishtina Basic Court on Monday sentenced lawyer Driton Dobruna to 150 days in prison after he admitted sending a death threat to a Kosovo…
Nuredin Ibishi told the Hague court that collaborators with Serbia’s regime had to be detained, as the information that flowed from them had ‘severe consequences’ for the KLA Nuredin Ibishi, a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, has told the war crimes and crimes against humanity trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci…