at the Latest on 24. October is Public knowledge, whether of Hashim Thaçi, the President of Kosovo will be held accountable on the basis of a against him in this indictment for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The examining judge of the Kosovo special Tribunal in The Hague, in six months time for the decision, whether the indictment should be adopted in their current Form or not. Was submitted to the prosecution, as it is only since Wednesday publicly known already at 24. April. The most recent development has shaken the Balkans as long as no message more. Many Albanian politicians have linearized the public with Thaçi solid.
Michael Martens
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One of them is Albania’s government chief Edi Rama. He accused the with the important support of the European Union created a special Tribunal, it will throw “mud” to the Thaçi and former irregulars troop “liberation army of Kosovo” (UÇK). Thaçi was in the nineties, the political spokesman of the KLA, and remained until its dissolution after the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. The charges against him, so railed Rama, directed against “Kosovo and the Albanertum” as a whole. The notice of the court read, as the Albanians are “a Nation of aggressors,” where you had been actually the victim of an Aggression.
trust in Thaçis innocence
Also in Kosovo, the indictment itself was met with rivals Thaçis rejection. The former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who was indicted for war crimes, but was acquitted, claimed that the KLA had fought a “clean war”. He trust in the innocence Thaçis and all other “comrades”. Such Statements confirmed that many of the Albanians ‘ struggle similar to many of the Croats with a banal insight: Even in a defensive war against an Aggressor, the attacked party can be a war crime to commit.