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At Request Of Serbia, Kosovo's Former PM Detained At French Airport

January 05 2017

France

Authorities in France have arrested the former prime minister of Kosovo for alleged war crimes, reports the BBC.

Ramush Haradinaj was picked up Wednesday at Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg airport in eastern France on a Serbian warrant.

Haradinaj was a commander in the paramilitary Kosovo Liberation Army during the conflict in the 1990s. Kosovo was a province of Serbia before gaining independence.

Serbia has accused Haradinaj of overseeing a campaign of torture and murder...

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