Albanian Population: Persons and Wartime Crimes

albanian population: Muiznieks said Kosovo, with a predominantly ethnic Albanian population and an ethnic Serb minority, needs to change course and build a just and cohesive society by prosecuting wartime crimes, promoting inter-ethnic tolerance, caring about displaced persons and clarifying 13 murders and disappearances of journalists in the years after the war, according to Metro News. Major conditions for achieving this are to prosecute and effectively sanction all persons involved in wartime crimes, clarify the fate of all missing persons, provide war victims with adequate reparation and facilitate the voluntary return of displaced persons, Muiznieks said.A special court, Kosovo Specialist Chambers, has been created in The Hague, Netherlands, with international judges from European Union member countries, the United States and Canada to prosecute ethnic Albanian rebels for crimes during and immediately after Kosovo's war for independence. Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks issued a memorandum Monday following his Kosovo visit in February. He urged Kosovo to ensure an effective protection and support to witnesses in the context of wartime criminal proceedings. All schools' textbooks and teaching material containing elements of nationalism and prejudice should be revised, he said. The Commissioner called for more efforts to foster reconciliation, especially in establishing new teaching methods in the education system which promote inter-ethnic tolerance and respect. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.