Ceremonies were held in Kosovo and Serbia to mark the anniversary of the 1999 Battle of Koshare/Kosare, a showdown that saw the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army seize important territory near the Albanian border from Yugoslav control.
The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre urged Serbia to start prosecuting surviving members of notorious criminal Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic’s Serbian Volunteer Guard for their role in wartime crimes in Bosnia and Croatia.