Rrustem Mustafa (Remi), former commander of the UÇK’s Llap Operational Zone, has strongly criticized the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, calling the tribunal “a great injustice” allegedly commissioned against the very liberation of Kosovo.
In a post on his Facebook page, Mustafa asserted that the Special Court did not deliver justice but rather represented a deliberate attack on Kosovo’s wartime legacy. He urged compatriots to bring the matter to a close and to collectively demonstrate that the country can recover from the moral and political decline he attributes to years of smear campaigns and fabricated scenarios.
“The time has come to end this great injustice. The Special Court was not justice; it was a commissioned injustice against Kosovo’s liberation. Let us finish this and together show we can climb out of the abyss we slipped into — not because of our fault, but because of slanders, intrigues and scenarios fed for years by others,” Mustafa wrote.
He added that those who promoted such narratives have themselves fallen into moral and political disrepute, while Kosovars were left to bear the consequences. Mustafa called for speaking “with dignity, awareness and courage” to defend Kosovo’s truth and reject what he described as selective justice.
Mustafa’s comments reflect continuing tensions in Kosovo over accountability, wartime memory and the role of international justice. The Specialist Chambers, established to investigate and try crimes allegedly committed during and after the 1998–99 conflict, remain a divisive institution: for some a necessary mechanism for rule of law; for others, a politically motivated instrument that undermines national narratives of liberation.
