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🇷🇸🇽🇰 Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi has been found guilty of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
The verdict concerns crimes committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo war, including persecution, imprisonment, torture, murder and enforced disappearance. Thaçi, once presented as one of the KLA’s political leaders and later as Kosovo’s president, now faces a lengthy prison sentence for his role in the crimes established by the court.
The verdict concerns crimes committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo war, including persecution, imprisonment, torture, murder and enforced disappearance. Thaçi, once presented as one of the KLA’s political leaders and later as Kosovo’s president, now faces a lengthy prison sentence for his role in the crimes established by the court.
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‼️🇽🇰 Kadri Veseli has been found guilty of multiple criminal offenses and sentenced to 18 years in prison. A senior KLA figure during the Kosovo War, Veseli later served as Speaker of the Kosovo Assembly and led the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).
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‼️🇽🇰 Jakup Krasniqi has also been found guilty and sentenced to 25 years. A prominent KLA political figure, he later served as Speaker of the Assembly and Acting President of Kosovo.
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—‼️🇽🇰 Rexhep Selimi, Kosovo Albanian, former senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UÇK) and later a Kosovo politician, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
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—❗️🇽🇰 ❌ 🇺🇳 BREAKING: Kosovo PM Albin Kurti called the convictions of Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi an “unacceptable injustice” and a “heavy and harmful punishment,” arguing that the court’s formula “in the name of the people of Kosovo” should not be confused with the will of Kosovo’s people.
➡️ He said the judgment should be changed on appeal “as soon as possible.”
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—❗️🇽🇰 /🇳🇱 WATCH: Supporters of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi clashed with Dutch police in The Hague following his 25-year prison sentence for war crimes.
➡️ Police used water to disperse protesters near the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, and several arrests were reported.
➡️ Thaçi was convicted of murder, torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention committed during the 1998–99 Kosovo war.
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—🇺🇸 /🇦🇱 /🇽🇰 'Albanians for America' denounces Hague verdict against former KLA leaders
➡️ Albanians for America said it received the Kosovo Specialist Chambers’ judgment against former KLA leaders with “deep concern and dismay,” calling it unjust and insisting that the KLA’s struggle for Kosovo’s freedom should not be equated with crimes committed by Serbian forces during the 1998–99 war.
➡️ The group stressed that the ruling is a first-instance judgment and can be appealed.
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—❗️🇽🇰 WATCH: Pierre-Richard Prosper, a lawyer for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi, sharply criticised the Kosovo Specialist Chambers after today’s judgment, questioning whether any country would willingly accept a comparable international judicial process in the future.
➡️ The defence has indicated it will appeal.
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—❗️🇽🇰 WATCH: Protesters clashed with Kosovo police outside EULEX facilities in Pristina following the Kosovo Specialist Chambers’ verdict against former KLA leaders.
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—🇧🇦 ❌ 🇺🇳 NEW: Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik sharply criticised the Kosovo Specialist Chambers’ verdict against former KLA leaders, calling it a “caricature of justice.”
➡️ He argued that killings of Serbs were not classified as crimes against humanity and accused the court of downplaying crimes committed against Serbian victims.
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—🇭🇷 ❌ 🇺🇳 NEW: Croatia’s Foreign Ministry said it takes note of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers’ first-instance judgment and stressed that the ruling is not final, adding that it does not want to prejudge the outcome of the appeals process.
➡️ Zagreb also said the verdict does not change the historical context of the Kosovo war, arguing that Kosovo and its population were victims of repression and serious crimes committed by Slobodan Milošević’s regime, and that individual criminal responsibility should not be used to question Kosovo’s freedom or independence.
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—❗️🇽🇰 BREAKING: The building of the Kosovo government in Pristina is being stoned by protesters.
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—🇦🇱 /🇽🇰 /🇺🇳 Tirana Report: "Albanian PM Edi Rama was a main champion of creating the Special Court, which today sentenced 4 former KLA leaders to prison. Another failure for Rama in pan-national and foreign policy, filled only with hollow meetings, empty summits & playing the court jester for foreign peers."
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—🇦🇱 /🇽🇰 /🇺🇳 NEW: Albanian PM Edi Rama reacted to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers’ verdict against former KLA leaders by posting an image of the EU accompanied by a single word: “Shame.”
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—🇪🇺 /🇽🇰 /🇺🇳 NEW: The EU urged restraint, saying the Specialist Chambers must operate independently and without interference, while noting the defendants’ right to appeal.—Kosovo Update
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