Kosovo historian Jusuf Bojhovi has stated that the creation of the Specialist Chambers in The Hague was necessary to uncover war crimes in Kosovo.
In a direct link to the show “Off the Record” with journalist Andrea Danglli on A2 CNN, Boxhovi said that such courts were established in almost all the states of the former Yugoslavia, although, according to him, in some cases the trials may have been farces.
“The Hague Tribunal and the Specialist Chambers did not descend from the sky. It came to a conclusion that all parts of the former Yugoslavia should establish their own courts to investigate war crimes,” said Bozhov.
The historian brought to attention the fact that in the period from NATO’s entry into Kosovo until a year later, over 600 murders were committed, which have not yet been fully investigated.
“106 LDK activists, 116 KLA members, including several commanders, as well as around 400 members of minority communities have been killed. Many of them are unknown why and who killed them. Several years have passed and Kosovo has not conducted these investigations,” he stressed.
Bozhovi added that, unlike Kosovo, Serbia, Croatia and other countries in the region have conducted trials, although they have often been described as unfair or politically motivated.
According to him, the creation of the Specialist Chambers was a need that came about as a result of the lack of domestic investigations, but he admitted that in practice it is often perceived more as a “settling of scores between political forces.”