Politician indicted of war crimes related to Kosovo war
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Kosovo prosecutors have accused a senior politician of crimes in connection with two murders during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
The special prosecutor's office said Friday said that Fatmir Limaj, a former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army that fought a separatist war against Serbia, failed to prevent the murder of two Albanians in 1998, discover its authors or take the case to the proper institutions to be probed.
In 2005 a U.N. tribunal acquitted Limaj on the war crime charges and in 2012 a Pristina court with international judges cleared him of allegations of torturing and killing Serb detainees during the war.
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Limaj, 45, is the leader of the opposition Nisma per Kosoven (Initiative for Kosovo) political party.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, which Serbia has never recognized.