29 minutes agoVeli Bytyqi, who was appointed adviser to President Thaci, was arrested by the KLA during the war
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Veli Bytyqi in 1998 has been on a visit to Drenica, along with an LDK delegation, when stopped by KLA members. Deputy Prime Minister George Deday has also been in this delegation. He had directly accused President Thaci of stopping him. Since the story has not been clarified [...]
As long as the story has never been clarified, Thaci and Bytyqi will work in an office 18 years after this story.
Thus, arrested by the Kosovo Liberation Army in September 1998, Veli Bytyqi, has joined the Kosovo president's team on Monday. Former LDK member has been appointed political adviser to Hashim Thaci.
Bytyqi has joined President Thaci's team after spending about three months in the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, the party of incumbent Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj.
I see the presidency as a non-party institution and I've been there as adviser. This has been the president's preference and I have been appointed by President Thaci's decision as his political adviser”, Bytyqi told Indexline yesterday.
Before the AAK, Veli Bytyqi had been a member of the Albanian Democratic Party of Kosovo and of the Democratic League of Kosovo. In 2001 until 2004 he had served as political adviser to the Pristina municipality, which was led by the LDK.
Bytyqi had repeatedly opposed Hashim Thaci's political activity, for which he had led serious criticism.
Even in September 1998 Veli Bytyqi, along with Liberal Party of Kosovo Chairman Gjergj Dedaj and other LDK members Isuf Telaku and Agim Krasniqi, had been arrested by the Kosovo Liberation Army in Sculered Heavens.
For this KLA action, Gjergj Dedaj, who claimed that “Hashim Thaci and his men” had arrested the group of people in which Veli Bytyqi, currently adviser to the president of Kosovo.
We have been stopped by Hashim Thaci with his people. He said: You're under arrest. I didn't believe the “
In his confession, Deday claimed that the group of people arrested by the KLA had been physically persecuted.
But, 18 years after this event, which had never been clarified, Bytyqi will work hand to Hashim Thaci, the man who was part of that stop.
Dedaj too has been granted over a decade the position of deputy minister in various ministries.
Of the many who have accused Hashim Thaci is seen as his attempt to adopt the same ones who may also be witnesses at the Special Court.
Only after Imer Imer had publicly accused Thaci of killing the LDK's activities, Haki Timerin, the country's first official had declared the former witness activist of the nation, convincing Imer Meera that he had no role in his murder. Since then, Imer no longer blames Thaci for killing his brother.
