The filing of indictments for the trial in absentia for the punishment of the perpetrators of crimes during the war in Kosovo is not expected to produce any legal effect for the accused, nor justice for the victims. This is what justice experts and human rights defenders say. Meanwhile, the Special Prosecutor's Office has already filed two indictments for trial in absentia for war crimes.

Bekim Blakaj from the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo considers that despite the difficulties for the Special Prosecutor's Office to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes, the trial in absentia will not bring justice to the victims...