Kosovo police arrested a person on Saturday on the country’s northern border with Serbia, on suspicion of having committed war crimes against civilians during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.

In a joint communique, the Special Prosecutor’s Office and the Police said that the suspect with the initials J.S. was detained at the Bërnjak border point, as he is suspected of having committed the criminal offense of “war crimes against the civilian population”.

He is suspected of committing war crimes in the southwestern city of Kosovo, Gjakovë.

Last December, the Special Prosecutor’s Office of Kosovo said that it has filed a total of 33 charges, involving 89 people, for war crimes in Kosovo. During the last war in Kosovo in 1998-99, over 13,000 civilians were killed and thousands more disappeared. Over 1,600 people are still missing – most of them Albanians.