Below is an article published by Jurist:

Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj pleaded not guilty Thursday [1 March 2007] before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to 37 counts of war crimes, including murder, persecution, and rape. Haradinaj, whose trial is scheduled to begin Monday [5 March 2007], was a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the ethnic Albanian guerrilla force that opposed Slobodan Milosevic during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war. Also appearing before the ICTY Thursday [1 March 2007] were Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, two other former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters. According to prosecutors, all three conspired to expel Serbian forces from Dukagjin, in Western Kosovo, during the war. A conviction on a single charge could carry a sentence of life in prison.

Haradinaj, who was indicted by United Nations prosecutors in 2005, originally appeared with Balaj and Brahimaj before the ICTY last year, where they pleaded not guilty to 37 charges entered against them. Prosecutors amended the indictments, requiring new pleas to be entered in front of the tribunal Thursday [1 March 2007]. Last March, an appeals panel of the ICTY ruled that Haradinaj could return to politics in Kosovo during his provisional release pending trial, but only on condition that any requests by him to engage in public political activities be cleared by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).