The former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Agim Ceku, 59, was summoned “as a suspect” by The Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, which he will attend on Sept. 28.

Ceku will answer questions from Special prosecutors about the war and post-war period and the crimes that took place at the time.

Meanwhile, Ceku had said that the KLA had not committed any crime and that it would answer to international justice.

Ceku was also Kosovo’s Minister of Security Forces from February 2011 until December 2014, when he became deputy prime minister in the government led by Isa Mustafa, the chief of the current main governing party, the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK.

During the time that Ceku was a minister, he was appointed as the head of the commission tasked with verifying the status of Kosovo Liberation Army veterans in order to enable them to receive welfare payments.

Over 200 other former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters have also been interviewed by the Hague prosecutors, who are probing allegations including murder, torture and illegal detentions.

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office are part of Kosovo’s justice system but are located in the Netherlands and staffed by internationals.

They were set up under pressure from Kosovo’s Western allies, who feared that Kosovo’s justice system was not robust enough to try such sensitive cases.

The so-called ‘special court’ is widely resented by Kosovo Albanians who see it as an insult to the KLA’s war for liberation from Serbian rule.