For those who rejoice, why Kosovo accepted the Special Court

I am a supporter of the Special Court for Kosovo and I enter those who have fought in public opinion for Kosovo to accept. The goal she set up, following Dick Marty's accusations, was to clean up Kosovo's history by a story that looked like an artistic film with Serbian directors and Albanian actors.

But the biggest problem the Special Court has in Kosovo in The Hague is that there is no indictment to date. In her fourth year, the Court, which claimed there is a lot of evidence, has yet to establish any charges, but there are only charges made with press reports by the prosecutor, as was the last case.

If the tribunal, which was established with great momentum, had an act of charge today and then a trial, the political consequences for Kosovo would be positive. Those who today rejoice over charges against Thaci, Haradinaj, or Veselini mask them with the radical version of not accepting the Court, or worse with Western plots against Albanians, through “justice”, have other concerns, not the court's problems. The problem is not the establishment of the Court, but its failure yet.

First, if the Court were to function, we would switch from a “national discrimination” as Kosovo is undergoing today, to a personal responsibility of the people for whom there would be an indictment.

That would neither harm Kosovo nor its history. This simply established justice.

The effort to block the functioning of justice at the Special Court and the political use of the pending decisions has already seen the Court as an institution that persecutes Kosovo, not individuals.

And here we definitely have to do with politics against Kosovo.

Second, if we had concrete charges and their judgments, we would be even more honest in relation to individuals who would be tried. People who go to war crimes tribunals, after a story like that of Kosovo, are not judged equally by the tribunal and history. For someone they're criminals, for someone's hero.

This would make society more just and dignified. The fact that they're just accused and failing to judge them is the greatest humiliation they're trying to make, because they treat them as criminals available to daily politics.

That's why the announcement of the indictment against Hashim Thaci caused “mermet”. It caused “meters”, that it blew up a historic event for Kosovo, the meeting in Washington and not that it put Hashim Thaci's life or future at risk. It empowered him more.

Akt-akuza sabotaged the Albanian-Serbian meeting in Washington, expected to be a historic start. There is at least any harm to Hashim Thaci. Kosovo is being blown up here on behalf of allegedly investigating war crimes not being investigated.

And finally the only ones that shouldn't be envious right now are the ones who say happy “we didn't want the Special Court”, the “you who wanted to hold it, be a god to”.

Those who did not want the Special Court for political reasons are, in fact, those who have wanted to remain undarkened by Dick Marty's Serb charges that penetrated the European Union into official documents. They have wanted Kosovo all life accused and never protected.

If they're stupid, we may feel sorry for any fool, but if they're clear what they say, they have to admit they're a step ahead of Serbs at this party. Kosovo is not protected by going to the mountain for the second time out of fear of the Court, but by demonising this farce.

Kosovo is in its worst days, not that Special Court has been established, but that the Special Court is not functioning, but as special war, such as the propagandistic press office that issues charges and does not file charges. If it had worked as a court, it would already have cleaned up many stories and could not misuse the delicate positions of a state like Kosovo for narrow political interests.

This is the moment that compromises the special court's absence and not its functioning.

No Albanian leaves missing from the Special Court. They either become the heroes of Albanians, or they witness the Serbian lie about Albanians.

The only harm that the Special Court could do to Albanians is what it is doing, delaying justice, and filling the gap with political propaganda, on accusations without outright accusations and judgments. This, instead of judging individuals, is used to convict Kosovo without trial.