MPs have given up Special Deformation

Nat Hasani, deputy of the Kosovo Parliament from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, subject this within the ruling coalition in the country, tells Radio Free Europe that the request to abolish the Special Court Law has been made for changing the ethnic character of the court and not only be tried by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, but all those who have committed alleged crimes, including potential individuals from other ethnic communities in Kosovo.

We object. I have rejected and I will challenge such a court because it is not a court that condemns crime but seeks to condemn the Kosovo Liberation Army for its release. My personal and 43 signed request has been, and will remain as my request to the Parliament for the review and implementation of the law -- from a Special Court now with Special Chambers -- to establish a court in Kosovo, which will deal with cases suspected of crimes and other communities, such as Serb crimes in Kosovo”, Hasani says.

On the other hand, in an interview with Radio Free Europe, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has said that “nism of MPs for the Special Court is not a requirement to challenge the tribunal, but it is alternative, as do other former Yugoslav countries: Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia”.

The 2015 Special Court ruling remains in force, according to him, but, in terms of the initiative of 43 MPs, although in two attempts it has failed to be sent to Kosovo Assembly deputies, he has said, the issue has not been closed.

On the other hand, opposition parties remain divided in positions regarding the 43 deputies' proposal to abolish the Special Court. The Democratic League of Kosovo has stated it opposes this initiative.

Kosovo and Kosovo's institutions must take courage, not to propose the break-up of the Special Court through the abolition of the Law, but to take responsibility for the treatment of crimes, murder and torture that took place in our country”, the chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, had written days earlier on the social Facebook network.

But, Rexhep Selimi from the Vetevendosje Movement, currently the biggest opposition subject, which in 2015 had rejected and voted against the establishment of the Special Court, tells Radio Free Europe, that the position of this subject has not changed the 2015 one. According to him, despite the proposal coming from the ruling parties, the Vetevendosje Movement continues to consider it an unfair court for Kosovo.

It's not the first time we haven't seen the initiatives where they came from, but what they are. If we had seen where the initiative has come from, which has only remained initiative, for constitutional changes for the Armed Forces, we would have voted against it, but we have been declared for the sake of Kosovo. So we'll still have the same approach. We will oppose this court and manifest it with our vote in session, whenever it comes. I'm saying, whenever it comes, if it ever comes, for reasons we have the basic suspicion that this could just be a manipulation of (Hashim) Thaci, in this case and it seems that it might be more likely to remain at the borders of a threat than of an initiative”, Selimi says.

The proposal for the abolition of the Special Court has sparked sharp reactions from the ambassadors of Quinti countries. The ambassador of the United States of America to Kosovo, Greg Delawi, has described this action as <x0.> The insistence on America's back on”. Meanwhile, the ambassador of Great Britain, Ruairi O'Connell, has named the evening of December 22nd, as Kosovo's most dangerous “andent since the end of the” war.

President Thaci has said that Kosovo will not waver from Euro-Atlantic orientation, meanwhile that the MP initiative should be understood as an alternative and not as a challenge of justice and not as ignoring or fleeing from justice. / REL