Kosovo police have arrested a Serb in Graçanica who is suspected of war crimes in Kosovo. 

According to the announcement, the arrested person, identified by the initials D.M, is suspected of the criminal offense "war crimes against the civilian population. 

It is suspected that during the war in Kosovo, as a guard in the prison of Lipjan, he "systematically exercised torture, physical and psychological violence, ill-treatment and inhuman and life-threatening abuse of Albanian prisoners". 

The police said that during the search of the suspect's house, they seized as material evidence, such as a revolver, cartridges, a military knife, a metal rod, but also documents, decisions, notes and his personal phone. 

After this arrest, local Serbs gathered in front of the police station in Graçanica – a municipality inhabited by a majority of Serbs located near Pristina – and for a short time blocked the main Pristina-Gjilan road that passes through this municipality. They demanded the release of the arrested. 

Graçanica is one of the six municipalities with a Serbian majority located south of Ibri. The Serb List - the main party of the Serbs in Kosovo - and the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government reacted to this arrest. 

Serb List said that this arrest "is unfounded". This party said that the arrested person is Dragisha Millenkovic, adding that "Serbs are being hunted before the eyes of the international community". 

The Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government said that this arrest is the "revenge plan against the Serbs" of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, providing no evidence to support this claim. 

The 1998/99 war in Kosovo ended after the NATO bombing campaign against the Serbian army. 

Over 13,000 civilians are believed to have been killed in the war, with thousands more missing. More than 1,600 people are missing - most of them Albanians.