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A key witness in a war crimes case against a senior Kosovo figure has been found dead in Germany, the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo (EULEX) said Wednesday. "EULEX confirms that Agim Zogaj, known as witness X in the Klecka case, was found dead in a park in Germany," the mission's statement said. It added that the "German authorities are conducting the necessary investigation to determine the circumstances of his death." According to local media reports, Zogaj had agreed to testify in the case of Fatmir Limaj, one of the most prominent commanders of the ethnic Albanian guerrillas...

Released : Aug 29, 2005 11:31 AM THE HAGUE, Netherlands-U.N. prosecutors told a war crimes trial Monday that an ethnic Albanian rebel leader was in charge of a wartime camp in Kosovo where Serbian prisoners were tortured and killed in the late 1990s. Fatmir Limaj and two other former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Haradin Bala and Isak Musliu, face charges of imprisonment, torture and murder of civilians at the Lapusnik camp during the 1998-99 war with Serbia. "The evidence has shown beyond reasonable doubt that Limaj was the overall commander at Lapusnik, and not just a 'team leader,'...