Former Kosovo Liberation Army commander convicted of war crimes

Salih Mustafa, a former Kosovo rebel, was convicted of war crimes (Peter Dejong/AP)

A former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has been found guilty of murder and arbitrarily detaining and torturing prisoners perceived as supporters of Serbia during Kosovo’s conflict to break away from the larger nation.

It is a “milestone” first war crimes conviction by a special court based in the Netherlands.