Today in history, 29 September: The establishment of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers

The recorded event closest to today's date in the archive calendar.

Date of the event: 3 August 2015
Place: Assembly of Kosovo building
Evidence status: Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.

Brick building covered in ivy with orange awnings over the windows. — The former Europol headquarters in The Hague, the building designated as seat of the relocated specialist judicial institution for Kosovo. Photograph taken in 2010.Photo: DennisHH · 2010-08-14 · Domen publik (Public domain)

On 3 August 2015 the Assembly of Kosovo adopted a constitutional amendment and Law No. 05/L-053 on the Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor's Office, Kosovo judicial institutions with international staff seated in The Hague.

Their temporal jurisdiction covers crimes committed from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2000 relating to the Council of Europe report of 7 January 2011 and the investigations of the EU Special Investigative Task Force. The Chambers became judicially operational in July 2017 [1] [2] [3].

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Historical context

The postwar period and legacy

The end of the war did not end the violence, the grief or the search for truth. This period is treated separately from the armed conflict of 1998–1999.

Read the chapter “After the war: justice, the missing and memory”

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