Kosovo war crime tribunal jails ex-president Thaci for 25 years
Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes by a court in The Hague Thaci, 58, was sentenced by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers for crimes committed as commander of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army during the region's violent insurgency to break from Serbia in the 1990s. The tribunal found him responsible for the murder by KLA forces of…
Hashim Thaci, the former president of Kosovo, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a court in The Hague for war crimes. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers found him guilty of crimes committed during the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army's insurgency against Serbia in the 1990s. Thaci was convicted of ordering the murders of 96 political opponents and those seen as collaborators with Serbian security forces, as well as the arbitrary detention of 385 individuals, the torture of 303 people, and cruel treatment of around 50 others.
The court stated that Thaci "actively participated in and encouraged crimes." Thaci, who remained silent throughout the proceedings, had denied all charges. Prior to the verdict, supporters of Thaci gathered outside the court, waving flags and chanting in support, while in Pristina, thousands watched the verdict on a large screen, booing and chanting his name, some shedding tears of emotion.
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