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Associated Press April 16, 2005 U.N. tribunal to release Kosovo's former prime minister for brother's funeral THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Saturday it would temporarily release Kosovo's former prime minister to attend the funeral of his younger brother. Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj's 23-year-old brother, Enver, was fatally shot Friday by unknown gunmen who sprayed his car with bullets in western Kosovo and then escaped. Ramush Haradinaj, who surrendered to the U.N. court last month to face war crimes charges, will be allowed to attend his brother's funeral Sunday in Kosovo, but will not be permitted to talk to witnesses or the media while out of U.N. custody, according to tribunal rules. Ramush Haradinaj, 36, has pleaded not guilty to 37 counts of war crimes allegedly committed in 1998, several months before NATO's air campaign forced Serbian troops to withdraw from Kosovo and end a crackdown on ethnic Albanians. The former prime minister was a commander of the ethnic Albanian rebel group battling Serb troops for independence during the 1998-99 war. He allegedly led a criminal plan to persecute, murder, rape and abuse Serbs and Gypsies in the Albanian-dominated province of southern Serbia in 1998-99. He is accused of participating in beatings and torture, including the abuse of Albanian civilians believed to have collaborated with Serbs. Enver Haradinaj was also a rebel fighter in the war, during which two other brothers were killed. Another brother, Daut, is serving a five-year sentence for participating in the torture and killing of members of a rival ethnic Albanian rebel group. ------------------------------------------------------ http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/04/kosovo-president-declares-day-of.ht ml KosovA Report April 16, 2005 Kosovo president declares day of mourning for ex-PM's murdered brother Prishtina [Pristina] - Kosova [Kosovo] President Ibrahim Rugova has declared a day of national mourning for the day of the burial of Enver Haradinaj, former Kosovo Liberation Army [UCK] fighter and brother of former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj. "As a sign of respect for the life and deeds of the slain UCK fighter Enver Haradinaj, Kosova President Ibrahim Rugova has declared the day of the burial of this fighter a day of national mourning in all of Kosova," reads the Kosova president's order. Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
