The trial in this form happens for the first time in Kosovo and can be proceeded only after five invitations have been sent to the respective state and they have been announced as wanted for investigation in criminal proceedings for at least six months in the official gazette.
However, monitors of this process declare that not enough has been done to punish the perpetrators of war crimes. The same request from the institutions to increase the resources within the department that investigates war crimes.
The director of the Kosova Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT), Feride Rushiti, considers the past year to be just.
In 2023, the deadline for the application of victims of sexual violence to the Government Commission on Recognition and Verification of the Status of Sexual Violence Victims has been postponed. However, Rushiti considers that the deadline is unfair.
There were no other punishments, but Amer Alija from the Humanitarian Law Fund considers that there was a more intensive investigation of war crimes.
While talking about the number of prosecutors dealing with war crimes, Alija says that not enough has been done to investigate war crimes.
According to him, the Specialist Prosecutor's Office should be supported with sufficient resources for the investigation of these crimes.
The Minister of Justice, Albulena Haxhiu, vows that the investigation of war crimes is a priority for the government.
The Specialist Prosecutor's Office has so far filed 33 indictments with about 90 defendants. At the Hague Tribunal, six Serbian superiors, who had high command hierarchies during the war, were convicted, five of them also had criminal offenses of sexual violence.