A previous president of Kosovo has actually pleaded innocent to charges of murder, abuse and required disappearance at the start of his trial for war criminal activities and criminal activities versus humankind in the Hague, where a district attorney advised him that “nobody is above the law”.
Hashim Thaci, an erstwhile ally of Nato and one-time preferred Balkan leader to a generation of western leaders, worked as the head of the Kosovo Liberation Army’s political directorate throughout the guerrilla organisation’s 1998-1999 battle for self-reliance from Serbia, a dispute which culminated in Nato’s 78-day campaign of airstrikes versus Serb forces.
“I am fully not guilty,” he informed judges at the Kosovo professional chambers as the case versus him opened.
Thousands of Kosovars protested in the capital Pristina against Thaci’s prosecution on Sunday
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Thaci is thought about a hero by numerous in Kosovo
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The trial is set to end up being a base test for