PRISTINA, Kosovo—A special international court said that a former commander of the separatist fighters in Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war has been arrested as part of a war crimes and crimes against humanity investigation stemming from the conflict with Serbia.
Former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Salih Mustafa was arrested based on a “warrant, transfer order, and confirmed indictment issued by a pre-trial judge,” the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, based in The Hague, said on Sept. 24. The court’s statement didn’t identify the charges on which he was indicted.The court said Mustafa would be transferred to its detention facilities in The Hague and “appear before the pre-trial judge without undue delay.” He is the first ethnic Albanian to be arrested on war crimes charges arising from the 1990s conflict.
