“Not all crimes seem to be treated equally by the courts” said Jeta Xharra, the director of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Kosovo, who told Al Jazeera that the day marked more injustice for the Albanian majority of Kosovo.
“Serbian forces were involved in the killing of over 10,000 civilians, many of them women and children, yet majority members of the Serbian forces have not been held accountable for these crimes. And today, we see very lengthy sentences handed down to four members of the KLA,” she said.
Xharra said that people in Kosovo could not forget the terror they had experienced before the war, when they were treated as second-class citizens simply because they belonged to a different ethnic group.
“This court was seen as a court trying one ethnicity only, Kosovo Albanians. While that is not how the war was in Kosovo, majority of the crimes were committed by Serbian forces. Of course, all victims must get justice but this particular court is making sure that one side only is being tried”, she told Al Jazeera.
