ABSTRACT

In Kosovo, as in Bosnia-hercegovina (BiH) and Croatia, the ICTY is highly unpopular among Serbs. Without exception, Kosovo Serb interviewees insisted that the ICTY is a blatantly anti-Serb institution which lacks any impartiality. In contrast, Kosovo has been heavily neglected, and indeed this was highlighted during the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) legacy conference in The Hague in 2010. While Serb interviewees widely accused the Hague Tribunal of dispensing selective justice, Kosovo Albanian interviewees strongly emphasized the incompleteness of ICTY justice. The biggest problem in Kosovo is that ICTY justice chafes and collides with local communities' ethnically-shaped conceptions and expectations of justice. In Kosovo, however, there is minimal inter-ethnic contact, and there are some key reasons for this; the demographic structure of Kosovo. Serbs largely live in their own enclaves, which inevitably creates a separation between Serb and Albanian areas.