[JURIST] Swedish Police on Wednesday arrested a Kosovo war crimes suspect. The suspect is accused of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war in the small village of Cuska in May 1999. A Swedish police spokesperson did not release the man’s full name because of Swedish privacy laws but did state that the suspect is a Serbian man in his 30s. The Swedish Prosecution Authority will request on Friday that the suspect remain in custody until trial. It is not clear where the suspect will face charges.
In March, a spokesperson for Serbia’s Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor announced the arrest of nine individuals suspected of committing war crimes during the Kosovo war. In June, Amnesty International (AI) marked the 10-year anniversary of the conflict’s end by reporting that many human rights abuses that occurred during the war in Kosovo have gone uninvestigated and unpunished. Prosecutors have nonetheless secured several convictions. A week after AI’s report, a Serbian court convicted four former paramilitary officers of killing 14 Albanians in northern Kosovo. In April 2009, four Serbian ex-policemen were convicted of killing of 48 Albanian civilians in Suva Reka.