A senior Kosovo politician and former rebel leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has been placed under house arrest by an EU judge. Fatmir Limaj has been accused of committing war crimes in the Kosovo War between the KLA and the former Yugoslavia.
He is thought to have ordered the killings of Serb police men in 1999, in his capacity as a commander of the KLA. Limaj is the former Transport Minister and a close confidante of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.
All three parties to the conflict, Yugoslavia, the KLA and NATO, have been accused of committing war crimes.
Several Serb politicians have been charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with war crimes and prosecuted, including former Yugoslav President Milosevic, who died before a sentence was passed.
However, there have been no successful prosecutions of members of the KLA yet.
Several KLA members, including Fatmir Limaj, were charged by the ICTY in 2003, but charges were either dropped or the defendants acquitted.
Despite strong evidence that NATO forces committed war crimes during their intervention in the conflict, not a single indictment has yet been raised by the ICTY.
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