Prishtina, 22 September 2026, dtt-net.com – Serbian authorities led by Russia-friendly authoritarian President Aleksandar Vucic continue refusing to implement an Interpol international arrest warrant on a former top member of its army charged by EU prosecutors in 2015 of Kosovo court in Gjakova municipality for atrocities on ethnic Albanian civilians during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war of independence from Serbia.
376 Albanian civilians in Meja village of Gjakova have been massacred in 27 April 1999 by Serbia’s army and police forces lead by Momir Stojanovic.
At the same time, Vucic and his associates refuse launching a trial in Belgrade courts over the same charges.
11 years ago, a local court in the municipality of Gjakové, southern Kosovo, indicted the Serb general Momir Stojanovic and nearly 20 others on war crimes in Meja village.
The EU rule of law mission (EULEX) and Kosovan prosecution suspects a total of 20 Serbs along Stojanovic for war crimes.
But 11 years later, Serbian government controlled by Vucic is still refusing to send him and sixteen other indictees to Kosovo for trial, despite an Interpol arrest warrant being issued by the UN mission (UNMIK) on behalf of Kosovo.
In the meantime, Interpol, has removed Stojanovic’s name from website, without clarifying if he is still in the international wanted list.
Stojanovic was later lawmaker from Vucic’s ruling Progressive Party (SNS) but has retired.
According to Stojanovic, the case against him “had already been examined by Serbian prosecutors following a request from Kosovo’s judiciary and that no evidence linking him to the alleged crimes had been found,” Kosovan news website reported last month.
When asked today by dtt-net.com, whether the EU institutions in Brussels have ever asked Vucic to hand over him to Kosovo court, or launch trial in Belgrade, as Serbia has had trials on few of its army and police members over war crimes on Kosovo Albanians, an European Commission (EC) spokesperson had no answer.
Nearly 13,000 Albanian civilians were massacred by Serbia forces, 20,000 girls and women raped, 120,000 houses destroyed during the war and more than 800 000 deported forcibly to Albania and North Macedonia during the two-year war.
Around 1500 civilians are still missing, of which around 500 Serbs believed to be killed by KLA members in revenge.
Last week, the EU-sponsored special court in the Hague, with European and American prosecutors and judges, found guilty and sentenced former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi and three other former leaders of Kosovo guerilla (KLA) to total 81 years on war crimes, of which Thaçi 25 years.
Formation of the EU-sponsored and USA-backed special court was triggered by a report of the late Swiss politician, Dick Marty, adopted in 2011 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Marty said in his report that Thaçi, the former speaker of Parliament Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi, also a former Speaker of Parliament, and former member of the Parliament Rexhep Selimi, engaged in human organ harvesting of Serb and Albanian civilians during and after the 1998-1999 war, which they have denied.
The indictments by the prosecution have not included human harvesting allegations by Marty.
The four have the right to appeal the verdict of the court, which many in Kosovo treat as “mono-ethnic” and of “selective justice” imposed by the EU and former USA government.
The office of the prosecution has ignored war crimes committed by Serbia army, police and paramilitaries on ethnic Albanian civilians during the 1998-1999 war, despite that the fact EU-27 governments have said seven years ago that existing legal framework enables investigation and prosecution of “all alleged war crimes”.
The EU Council of Ministers in June 2019 said that the law of August 2015 of Kosovo parliament, with which the court was formed after pushed to change the Constitution to pave the way for the law, enables the court to tackle all crimes, including those committed by the regime of the then President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic.
“The existing legal framework enables proper investigation and prosecution of all alleged war crimes,” reads the text of conclusions of the EU Council of 18 June 2019.
But no charges are filed by EU/USA-paid special prosecutors on any members of Serbia forces, despite.