Lushtaku, who was the KLA commander of the Drenica operating zone, is accused of killing a man and ill-treating other prisoners at the KLA detention centre in Likovc/Likovac in 1998.
Pristina’s former ambassador to Albania and the ex-commander of the Kosovo Security Force, Sylejman Selimi, is also among the accused.
Another defendant, Sabit Geci, is accused of killing a Serb police officer, Ivan Bulatovic, alongside another former member of the ‘Drenica Group’, Sahit Jashari.
But Geci said he could not have killed the police officer because he was in hospital from February 1998 until September 1998, when the crimes was committed.