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Serbian police detain nine over alleged war crimes in Kosovo
Mar 13, 2010, 13:10 GMT
Belgrade - Serbian police detained nine people suspected of committing war crimes in Kosovo in 1999, authorities said Saturday.
The war crimes prosecutor has launched an investigation against the arrested men, former members of a paramilitary unit Sakali (Jackals), suspected of killing 41 civilians in the southern Kosovar village of Cuska in May 1999.
A total of 26 people are under investigation for the murder of 200 people in Cuska and surrounding villages.
Serbian security forces fought Albanian insurgents in Kosovo. In 1999 NATO bombed Serbia and forced its troops out of Kosovo. Kosovo Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
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