Jack Smith Hands Over 600 Faces to The Hague Against Former KLA Leaders

In this material, the chief prosecutor writes that former KLA leaders ran a separate offensive against The LDK, President Ibrahim Rugova and then incumbent government prime minister Bujar Bukoshi.

“In this context, particular offensive addressed LDK under President RUGOVA and government prime minister in Execill Bujar BUCHOSHAH, whose members defended a policy of nonviolent resistance to the Serbian state. Communications 040, for example, assumes responsibility for a further attack on a co-bortionist and says: failed pacifist movement must understand that Kosovo and other Albanian lands cannot be released from offices and by telephone, but by seriously engaging in support of the armed struggle. [...] We call on the Government of Kosovo and Prime Minister BUKOSHI in particular to give up empty and confused phrases and hand over funds that have been raised for Kosovo's release to KLA representatives. Regarding talks on the status of Kosovo and the Albanian people, The KLA will not recognise any agreement without its representatives participating in such talks [...]”, writes Smith.

He has also given importance to a statement by former KLA spokeswoman Jakup Krasniqi against Ibrahim Rugova, where he described, he threatened to murder those he considered Serbia's collaborators.

June 1998, official spokesman KLA Jakup KRIASNIECI confirmed that freedom fighters are also capable of making political decisions. Those who defend the country with their blood are allowed to decide his fate: He added that the KLA does not want and should not fall under Ibrahim's command RUGOVA, indicating that Rugova-led LDK policy has produced only failures in the past ten years. For now, it is not Rugova who decides for Kosovo, but the KLA, CRASNIECI said, confirming that in the event of the withdrawal of the Serbian police and military from Kosovo, it would be the KLA that would immediately take over the state. In the same interview, CRASNIECI confirmed that collaborators are warned that we will kill them if they continue on the wrong path”, says the special chief prosecutor's material.

The material continues with the KLA's first presentation and Rexhep Selim's statement in it.

“likewise, participating in the first public appearance of the KLA during a November television broadcast I997, SELimi claimed that other political representatives tried to denigrate our holy war with their uncifiste) positions, and warned, “enough, because one day history would curse you”. Communications 045 requires that the Kosovo Albanian government and political groupings be positioned rapidly on the side of the KLA's armed war, and says that anyone who harms our war effort -- whether from a military, political, financial or other perspective -- will hold responsibility in line with war laws”, it is said on this material.

According to the chief prosecutor, the KLA communiques testified to punitive measures taken against those who did not share the view of this political and military formation. He writes that KLA members indicated they condemned and condemned the actions they considered to endanger the interests of Albanians.

“comunicata #48 confirms that punitive measures against some irreformable corporate elements have continued, and says the General Staff The KLA: Once again calls on all sound political forces to be serviced to our homeland and our liberation war and finally to distance themselves from the internationalist, divisive and anarchist policies in the name of Islamic institutions that try to eliminate the true national institutions and the KLA. It can lead to nothing but the benefit of the enemy and the brother-in-law. Any action that endangers the interests of the homeland and the purposes of the liberation war will be condemned and punished”, writes Smith, referring to one of the communiques issued by the KLA.

In the continuation of the offensive that Smith mentions, says another KLA communique speaks of the next threat to those who did not think war was the right way to resolve conflict with Serbia.

“comunicata [54] refers to cocolaorgationists and political activists who sow dysfatism, spread propaganda against The NLA and urged people to give up their weapons to the enemy and threaten that the KLA that wage special warfare, whoever they are, will be treated in accordance with laws under wartime circumstances, writes Smith.

He also writes on a meeting of Hashim Thaci and Rexhep Selimi with then prime minister of government in Exal, Bujar Bukoshi in the summer of 1998, where, according to Smith, they personally expressed to him what they wrote in the communiqué.

In the summer of 1998, Hashim T HACI and Rexhep SELimi met BUUUOSHIN CHAUCH to say directly what he and his men should do, respectively, and in line with the General Staff Communications, to support the KLA, including the war scene BUKOSHI managed. On June 24, 1998, Hashim T HACI and Kadri V ESEL, organised a meeting in Breschance with Uke BYYTYCIN to film a statement on the scene in which BYYCH would announce his withdrawal from LDK”, writes Smith.

He also writes about several meetings of municipalities in areas that were developed with a delegation of the KLA General Staff, including Thaci, Krasniqi and Selimi. At these meetings, he held orders for banning what was considered co-operative “ ”, and establishing detentions for their detention.

The “has similarly described a series of meetings between the General Staff and the commanders of the areas in which Jakup KRASNICI, Rexhep SELMI, and sometimes, Hashim THACHl were present during which orders were issued to ban collaborators and detention facilities that would be established for that purpose. These instructions were actively implemented by the commanders of the” area, writes Smith.

The Office of the Prosecutor specialised in The Hague has said it has been backed up by 153 witnesses to root out the indictment and that it intends to again rely on most of them during the trial.

The prosecution claims that her property is available with nearly 100,000 evidence. Similarly, the ZPS says the support material for the indictment submitted for confirmation has had over 400,000 pages of material.