Kosovo’s former president, Hashim Thaci, has pleaded not responsible to 10 fees of conflict crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity as his trial acquired underway Monday on the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
Thaci, who served as commander-in-chief of the ethnic Albanian insurgent Kosovo Liberation Military (KLA), is accused along with three others of crimes dedicated throughout the 1998 to 1999 armed battle in opposition to Serbian forces.
These embrace persecution, imprisonment, unlawful or arbitrary arrest and detention, different inhumane acts, merciless therapy, torture, homicide, and enforced disappearance of individuals.
Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi, and Jakup Krasniqi, all former KLA leaders, have additionally pleaded not responsible to the fees.
The insurgency finally introduced independence for Kosovo, which up till then had been a province of Serbia, and made Thaci a hero amongst his compatriots.
It’s estimated that some 13,000 folks died, most of them from Kosovo's 90 per cent ethnic Albanian majority, throughout the insurgency.
The conflict resulted in 1999 when NATO bombed the Serbian capital, Belgrade, to cease the killings and expulsions of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo by Serb forces.
Kosovo declared its independence in 2008, a transfer which Serbia has refused to recognise.
Following the conflict, Thaci and his three co-defendants took up distinguished positions within the authorities. He served as president from 2016, however resigned in 2020 following his indictment.
On Sunday, 1000's of individuals took to the streets in Kosovo in a present of solidarity for the 4 males.
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