Shock in Kosovo as Hague Convicts Former President Thaci
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Kosovo Albanians are reacting with disappointment, disbelief, and anger to the 25-year prison sentence for former President Hashim Thaci. The Kosovo Tribunal in The Hague convicted him and three other former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) this morning for war crimes, including the deprivation of liberty, ill-treatment, and torture of hundreds of people, and the deaths of 96 of them. These were Serbs and other opponents of the Kosov…
The condemnation of the former President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, and three other former members of the leadership of the Kosovo-Albanian Liberation Army (KLA) for war crimes led to angry protests both in front of the Kosovo Special Tribunal in the Dutch city of The Hague and in the Kosovar capital Pristina. Followers of Thaci went to the streets against the "devastationous verdict".
Shock in Kosovo as Hague convicts former President Thaci
The conviction in The Hague of former President Hashim Thaci and three former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders has caused consternation in Kosovo — both among political leaders and on the streets. DW reports from Pristina.
Four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army were sentenced on Wednesday to heavy prison sentences by the specialized chambers that judged them in The Hague. In Pristina, the verdict fell like a thunderbolt, questioning the story of the national liberation struggle.
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VijestiThe situation in front of the Kosovo Government is becoming tense, because a group of demonstrators threw stones at the Government building and broke several windows.
Supporters of Hashim Thaci, the former Prime Minister and President of Kosovo, and three other former high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) cried when they were sentenced to long prison terms in The Hague for war crimes in the late 1990s, and then organized a protest walk through the streets of Pristina. Despite strong police forces, KLA supporters threw stones at the Kosovo Government building and broke several windows. Some …
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