Kosovo’s lawmakers slam EU-backed court’s war crimes verdicts of rebel leaders from war with Serbia
All 99 lawmakers present backed a declaration urging legal, institutional and diplomatic action to defend Kosovo’s wartime legacy.
- On Monday, all 99 lawmakers in the Kosovo Parliament unanimously condemned recent war crimes verdicts against four former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders, calling for a "joint state strategy" to protect the nation's wartime legacy.
- Earlier this month, a Netherlands-based court found former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three other commanders—Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi, and Jakup Krasniqi—guilty of war crimes, sentencing them to between 13 and 25 years in prison.
- Some opposition parties condition support for a new president on passing laws to limit the Specialist Chamber at The Hague, which tried Thaci, Veseli, Selimi, and Krasniqi for alleged crimes against Serbia.
- Prime Minister Albin Kurti faces a crucial Oct. 6 deadline to elect a new president, but his government remains deadlocked amid political crisis and thousands of protesters rallying against the verdicts.
- More than 13,000 people died during the 1998-1999 war, which ended after NATO bombing forced Serbia to withdraw; Kosovo declared independence in 2008, though Serbia does not recognize the state.
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Kosovo's lawmakers slam EU-backed court's war crimes verdicts of rebel leaders from war with Serbia
Kosovo’s lawmakers have unanimously condemned recent war crimes verdicts against four wartime rebel leaders, in a rare act of unity in the Balkan country that has been locked in a political crisis.
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n1info.rsToday, the Assembly of Kosovo unanimously adopted a declaration rejecting as "unacceptable" the conclusion about the existence of a "common criminal goal" in the first-instance verdict of the Specialized Chambers in The Hague against four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The declaration was originally proposed by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK), and the text of the document was agreed upon during consultations between par…
Alliance MP Daut Haradinaj has reacted to the 12th night of the protest in Pristina Square, which is being held in support of former KLA leaders. Through a post, Haradinaj said that citizens have stood for 12 days and nights in search of justice for, as he called them, "liberators". He also commented on the political developments of the day, referring to the meetings between Prime Minister Albin Kurti, PDK leader Bedri Hamza, and LDK leader Lumi…
1. I do not think that Kosovo's strategic interests are being sufficiently protected after the September 16 Judgment in the Thaçi et al. case, with reactions in the form of political statements, nightly demonstrations, a joint statement by members of the Kosovo Assembly and a draft law...
The Kosovo Parliament on Monday rejected the 25-year prison sentence for war crimes of former President Hashim Thaci and defended the former guerrilla army of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) against what it considers a distortion of its fight against Serbian repression, EFE reports, says Agerpres. The statement was approved [...]
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