So reported the newspaper “The Guardian” on Thaci and the post-war killings.

The British newspaper “The Guardian”, in June 1999, when Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci wrote that Kosovo is falling into anarchy and that cases of Albanian involvement in beatings, murder and kidnapping have been recorded.

Murders by Serbs and Albanians had left on Friday, June 1999. The Guardian” wrote that 14 people had been killed in Pristina that day, and that was confirmed by NATO officials, who could not yet establish full peace a few weeks after entering Kosovo.

Leader UCK '%s', Hashim Thaci, mentioned that he has interviewed at the last moment to stop a possible confrontation, as Albanians were planning to enter a Serb area in Mitrovica.

This British newspaper reported that Hashim Thaci, Xhavit Haliti and Azem Syla were charged with implementing a policy of murder, arrests and sweep during the war.

Although the number of Serb murders has always been much smaller compared to the systematic killings and ethnic cleansing that Serb forces were performing, it was said in the Guardian script.

In this writing, you cited the international human rights research organisation “Human Rights Whatch”, which showed that some Albanians were using violence against Serbs, and in some cases, even against Albanians and Roma.

Their reports, released from research in Rahovec, Prizren and Pec, detailed the involvement of Albanian soldiers in five murders, four kidnappings, a violation and 14 deposits, 12 of which included physical abuse.

The Guardian quoted a report published by New York Time as saying that UCK) commanders have arrested, killed potential rivals within their ranks.

For a “field-clearing”, in which more than half of the KLA commanders were killed, Thaci is charged with his two associates, Halit and Syla. Thaci, at the time, had denied that he was involved.

When the war began, everyone wanted to become chief”, said Rifat Hadziaj, a former Yugoslav Army fighter who left behind KLAHAH was living in Germany in September 1998.

For leaders, the war has never been just against Serbia. It has also been a struggle for power”.

While Thaci's representative in Switzerland had said about NYT was false to charges being made against commanders.

These reports are incorrect. Neither Thaci nor anyone else from the KLA was involved in these activities. Our goal has been to free Kosovo and nothing else”.

The charges of murder were made in interviews with dozens of KLA se officials, two of whom had said they witnessed the murder of Thaci's two rivals.

A senior official of the US State Department and a diplomat from Western states in the Balkans, citing reports and links they had with the KLA KLA, has said they are aware of the execution of KLAC members on charges that they had co-operated with Serbia, but that they had no evidence that these killings involved Hashim Thaci anymore.

However, the foreign diplomat had said Thaci in the Balkans is known for the ruthless tactics.

“Thaci has been involved in intimidating officials of a rival party”, he said about NYT a diplomat but denied they were killed.

“There have been evacuations and victims have shown that they were beaten but we cannot testify to them”

Thaci was accused by a group of deportations and accused of personally threatening them.

Thaci has the reputation of welcoming”, the diplomat had said.

Horal and Syla are known for their temperament. This is a harsh environment and fears and murders occur”.

Past officials and the subject are accused of murders committed in close co-operation with the Albanian government, which had usually put secret service agents at the disposal of commanders.

The newspaper links a June 1997 incident to the KLA when most of the military movement was seen as threatening. An Albanian rapporteur from Kosovo, who was linked to UCKA, was found killed in his apartment in Tirana. His face had been stabbed several times and hit with a broken bottle.

Ali Uka was a supporter of UCKA, but independent enough to criticize him. During his death he had shared with Thaci.

Thaci felt fear and respect at his place in Drenica, where he organised UCKCE units against Serbian police.

In the early days of the rebellion, in March of 1998, Thaci moved from his house to Bella, with a small car and some bodyguard, dressed in a camouflaged uniform.

The paper reports on the ongoing charges against him ever since that he had carried out executions of Kosovo Albanians, who he labeled Serbia's traitors or accomplices, but no witnesses were found.

Thaci was involved, along with Halit, in smuggling weapons from Switzerland, a few years before the 1998 uprising, the former commanders of the KLA said.

When the uprising began, money and volunteer aid sent to Albania by the 700 thousand Kosovars living in Europe, Thaci and Haliti were charged with tithes.

Weapons smuggling was carried out through an operation as large as the loaded trucks were seen, which were valuable by Albanian officials headed for the border-bound UCKA camps.

At the end of the war, former UCK commanders claimed that UCK had paid Albania's state officials 50 million for weapons and ammunition.

In April 1998 the commander UCKA carrying weapons, Ilir Konushevci, was killed at the end of Tropoja.

A few days earlier, at a meeting with the top UCK chief, Xhavit Halit was accused of misusing funds. This was said by the commanders who had been present at the meeting.

The killings of other commanders and Thaci's political rivals are attributed to a war to eliminate potential challengers.

The “Corps had never been an obstacle to Thaci's” career, Bujar Bukoshi, prime minister in Execution of Ibrahim Rugova, said.

Intelligence reports were also cited for an attempted assassination that had resulted in Bujar Bukoshi's success in May. The Thaci has only one goal, to promote himself, to be the number one-x1>, Bukoshi said.

Peter Beaumont The Guardian