FDH: Unacceptable name of Sylejman Selim as adviser to Government

Former Kosovo Liberation Army General Staff Commander Sylejman Selimi, convicted of war crimes in Kosovo as political adviser to Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, by international representatives and civil society, is considered an unacceptable political act.
Bekim Blakaj from the Fund for Humanitarian Law in Kosovo tells Radio Free Europe that Sylejman Selimi's appointment as political adviser to the prime minister is an unacceptable report as hosting Kosovo institutions with war victims.

Because Sylejman Selimi has been sentenced to an all-powerful war crimes act, it is totally unacceptable that such a position is offered to someone with an act of war crimes. There have been reactions when Serbian convicts before The Hague Tribunal were received by officials in Serbia, as is the case with Serbian General Vladimir Lazarevic, when he was offered the position of legalists at the Military Academy, we have had harsh reactions to that decision. Prime Minister Haradinaj does not make any distinction from top state officials in Serbia, who have also appointed war crimes-priced generals”, Blakaj says.

Retired Serbian General Vladimir Lazarevic, sentenced by The Hague Tributal to 14 years in prison for command responsibility for war crimes in Kosovo in 2017, was engaged as legalist at the Military Academy in Serbia.

Last week, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj also declared after the Kosovo government's meeting that “Sylejman Selimi does not owe justice anything to” According to Haradinaj, Selimi “is highly respected by all and there is no one fleeing from justice”.

But the appointment of former KLA commander Sylejman Selimi in the position of political adviser has been strongly opposed by the United States of America. The United States Ambassador to Kosovo, Philip Costnet, has said that war criminals do not belong in the Government of Kosovo. /Radio Free Europe