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Glossary

DJA                             Department of Judicial Administration (within the Kosovo provisional government)

DOJ                             Department of Justice (within UNMIK)

E.U.                             European Union

ICTY                            International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

KCS                             Kosovo Correctional Service

KFOR                          Kosovo Force, the NATO-led international peacekeeping force

KJC                              Kosovo Judicial Council

KJI                               Kosovo Judicial Institute

KPS                              Kosovo Police Service

LSMS                           Legal Systems Monitoring Section (within OSCE)

OLA                            Office of the Legal Adviser (within UNMIK)

“Operation Thor”          Special international police operation to investigate the March violence

OSCE                          Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Pillar I                           One of originally four “pillars” of UNMIK. After May 2001 Pillar I became responsible for Justice and Police.

PISG                            Provisional Institutions of Self-Government

Quint                            The governments of the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy

SRSG                           Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General

UNHCR                       United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNMIK                       United Nations Mission in Kosovo


A note on place names
For the sake of clarity and consistency, in this report Human Rights Watch provides both the Serbian and Albanian name at first mention of location. Subsequent references are in the Serbian language only, since this is the English language practice (for example, Pristina rather than Prishtine).


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