More than 13,000 people, the majority members of Kosovo’s 90% ethnic Albanian majority, are thought to have died during the 1998-99 insurgency
Supporters of former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci protest on the first day of his war crimes trial, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 3 2023. Picture: REUTERS/PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW
Thaci and three co-defendants, all principle leaders of the KLA guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army and later in peacetime politics, all pleaded not guilty shortly after hearings got under way.More than 13,000 people, the majority of them members of Kosovo's 90% ethnic Albanian majority, are believed to have died during the insurgency, when it was still a province of Serbia under then-strongman president Slobodan Milosevic.
Thaci resigned as president shortly after his indictment in 2020 and was transferred to detention in The Hague. The trial began two weeks after the world's permanent war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court , also based in The Hague, issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, for the alleged crime of deporting Ukrainian children.
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