NYT: Special Court Does Not Touch Alone KLA, but US and EU

Given that the establishment of the Special Court has supported the United States and Europe, however, the US warns that this judicial institution could pose a threat to them, as the court will investigate crimes reportedly linked directly to their projects in Kosovo.

An article published in the New York Times writes that among these projects, for example, the US and the EU have failed to protect not only Serbia's population but also Albanian political opponents of the KLA. They have also failed to disarm the KLA after the war ended.

The “Ide that the court will review the old post-war issues in Kosovo has provoked panic among the KLA commanders, chairman (Hashim Thaci), Prime Minister (Ramush Haradinaj) and Parliament Speaker (Carri Veseli), who tried to ban the law in December of the Special Court,” wrote <x2Times”

The paper, however, recalls that the US and the EU reacted sharply to this effort and that US Ambassador to Pristina Greg Delawie even said the procedure was “thic on the back of”.

It has been commemorated that former US Vice President Joseph Biden, for example, described Thaci as “George Washington”, while, on the other hand, Dick Marty's report to the Council of Europe was named as the most dangerous crime leader among KLA commanders”.

The paper also recalls that Thaci was named “Gjarpri” at the time he was political director of the KLA. Thaci described Marty's report as a “false warning” funded by Russia.

If the Special Court will be able to find out exactly what happened some 20 years ago it will depend greatly on the fact that the witnesses will agree to testify and, if they agree, will they and their families survive, says the American newspaper “b92”, broadcast Periscopi.

NYT says former commander of KLA-based Agim Zogaj was found hanging in Germany on the eve of appearing in court and following his admission as a protected witness. Ten years after Kosovo's declaration of independence, it is said that the hope for solving the “tama taboo” will be resolved why Albanians are suffering from hunger and, in some cases, deadly as one of those Fetah Rudi cases, who was injured after the war and has since been motionless.

Rudi has reportedly been disappointed for years that the United Nations and later the European Union tried to establish rule of law in Kosovo after 1999, but failed to bring justice to everything that followed the tide of violence following the withdrawal of Serbian forces.

He says the Special Court is the last chance for justice. The Hague-based special court will not judge the crimes of Serbs, but only crimes committed during and after the 1998-1999 conflict by members of the KLA, the Albanian guerrillas, whose commanders are now governing “state”.

Almost two decades after Serbia's “secession”, Kosovo was administered by the United Nations as its protectorate, and since February 2008 has been governed by the unilaterally declared state institutions of Kosovo, the paper recalls./Periscopi/