Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci led a bloody campaign against opponents that resulted in more than 100 murders during the 1990s independence w...
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci listened to the start of his trial through headphonesFormer Kosovo president Hashim Thaci led a bloody campaign against opponents that resulted in more than 100 murders during the 1990s independence war against Serbia, the start of his war crimes trial heard Monday.
"These four men were without any doubt the principal leaders of the KLA and they have been celebrated and honoured for it," prosecutor Alex Whiting told the court.Thaci, wearing a blue tie and charcoal grey suit and listening through headphones, confirmed the plea he entered when he first appeared before the court in 2020.His fellow defendants, former KLA spokesman Jakup Krasniqi, Thaci's closest political ally Kadri Veseli and key KLA figure Rexhep Selimi, also denied the charges.
Victims were often targeted simply because of an association with Serbia, as Thaci's rebel KLA battled Serb forces for the independence of the southern province in a bitter conflict that claimed more than 13,000 lives. "We intend to prove hundreds of detentions across Kosovo, usually under terrible conditions of abuse, and over 100 murders.""The message was repeated again and again, a drumbeat that said political opponents posed an existential threat to the KLA and to Kosovo."
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