00:01Riot police used tear gas and a water cannon on protesters outside Kosovo's parliament on Monday night after lawmakers ended
00:10their session without passing a bill to limit the powers of the country's war crimes court.
00:15During the hours-long standoff, demonstrators denounced the sentencing last month of former President Hashim Taci for war crimes committed
00:24during the 1990s War of Independence against Serbia.
00:28Taci and three other senior guerrilla figures received heavy sentences after being found criminally responsible for murders, illegal arrests, torture
00:37and cruel treatment carried out by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters.
00:41The verdict prompted outrage and rallies in the Balkan country where the four men are widely seen as heroes of
00:48the independence struggle.
00:49The bill would strip the Kosovo specialist chambers of the power to try war crimes and crimes against humanity committed
00:56during the war between ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Serb armed forces.
01:02Its jurisdiction would instead be limited to crimes committed inside Kosovo in the immediate aftermath of the war.
