Special History From Dick Marty's Report to Resolation Efforts (Video)

Prime Minister Hashim Thaci had only 2 days of his second victory for parliamentary elections, when he was shaken by a writing of the main British newspaper “The Guardian”.

In December 2010, journalist Paul Lewis published parts of the Swiss Senator Dick Marty's report to the Council of Europe, titled “the prime minister of Kosovo is the leader of human and armed organ trafficking, says a report by the Council of Europe”, KTV.

The report described Thaci as leader of an Albanian mafia group that trafficked heroin, weapons and human organs.

It discussed the so - called Yellow House in Albania, where Marty claimed the organs of Serb prisoners had been released.

The report was met with big friends in Kosovo, and Thaci himself at an extraordinary press conference warned the indictment of the British newspaper, which never happened.

The new claims turned the focus of international media, and foreign presence in Kosovo immediately launched demands that the report's alarming findings be addressed.

To happen, it took years, but at one stage the demand was clear: Kosovo itself had to form a new court, which would have the headquarters outside it.

The main character of Marty's incriminating report, Hashim Thaci, became the biggest lobbyist for the establishment of this court.

The main argument he cited was that if the court is not voted by Kosovo institutions, the UN would do that, where the Russian Federation would have a significant role.

But to materialize this, it has taken years, and the decisive one has been 2015.

Resistance, Thaci, then foreign minister, encountered his party deputies, PDK.

Some of them, including Ganimette Musliu, Xhevahire Izmak of Nat Hasani, said they, with their own hands, would not vote on a court that would deal only with Albanians.

In this way, the constitutional change failed in the first effort on June 26, 2015.

75 MPs voted for, 7 opposed and 2 abstained, lacking 5 votes, down from 2/3 as necessary.

Beyond any parliamentary practice, the government of Isa Mustaf brought the change of constitution back to the polls, and on August 3rd, 82 MPs voted for, 5 were against and only one abstained. Some of the PDK deputies were forced to vote on it.

The crucial call to the session came again from Hashim Thaci. The then opposition, Vetevendosje, AAK and NISMA, emerged.

The deputies' vote established the legal basis for this Kosovo-owned court, but with foreign judges and prosecutors, to start working to investigate and then try, alleged KLA crimes.

The headquarters would be deployed in The Hague, where innocents in marathon processes had emerged earlier, among others Ramush Haradinaj and Fatmir Limaj.

It took this court years for internal procedures and organ creation and operating mechanisms, and there have been exchanges of leading prosecutors who have been Americans.

Possible suspects have always waited anxious for moves from The Hague, but a major movement took place on 22 December 2017 in the Kosovo Assembly.

With the initiative now President Hashim Thaci, 40 deputies of the government coalition P DK-AAK-NISMA called an extraordinary session to abolish constitutional changes and undo specials.

The movement alarmed the US and Great Britain, with Ambassador O'Connell calling the effort the most dangerous post-war night in Kosovo.

The opposition LDK-VVV did not support the idea, and it remained only an attempt by President Thaci that was seen as blackmailing the international factor to regulate his position, which meant his not calling from The Hague.

The portals came out constantly with titles after this or the new year, invitations from the Special would start, but everything was formalised on December 6th, when KTV reported that the first invitations have arrived and that interviews begin in January.

Rrustem Mustafa became the first, Sami Lushtaku the second, and other names of the lowest profile will travel to The Hague.

That's where the chief protagonist of Marty's report, Hashim Thaci, has smiled. /Time.net