KLA veterans with initiative against Special Court

This is the case. Smajl Latifi's KLA. According to him, the latter should not be established at all, even demanding that the specialised chambers in The Hague be distributed. After the establishment of the indictment against former Liberation Army commanders Thaci and Wessel, Rahovec's leader says the crime address is in Serbia.

Smajl Latifi says shifting the crime address from Belgrade to Pristina is unfair, unacceptable and racist. For the former KLA fighter, the mayor of the Rahoveci municipality, the Special Court should not exist at all.

I'm interested in breaking up, it's an interest that the Special Court doesn't exist at all, and the special court if there is to be a Serbia official because there's an unabundanceable source of crime... the path of crime is not in the Republic of Kosovo, it can't be found in the soldiers of Kosovo, nor in Thaci neither in Veselin nor in a KLA member... These acts are deemed harmful by the hostile circles of Kosovo and aimed at setting up a weight liner between the liberation and protection war on the KLA, which has paid both the KLA and the people of Kosovo's price, to protect their values, their lives on their own lands... to raise charges against people who have returned to the storm and fought evil today, and today Thacikuza and other fighters Wessel, tomorrow who knows who, is moving the addresses of Belgrade from the right crime to Pristina, and he says, "It's right to us," he says.

Former fighter of The KLA, Isuf Gashi, who had been in intervention at The Hague 19 hours earlier, says it is shocked to establish the indictment against the first state, Hashim Thaci of PDK chairman Kadri Veseli. According to him, it is biased, until it adds that Serbia has made major massacres in Kosovo.

“It's very biased but they can't, Hashim Thaci is the director of the political directorate that has represented the entire Kosovo Liberation Army and in vain try to depreciate that it's impossible, but bad mouth, slanderers, that the bad things that have come to this country are coming from Serbia to the helm with Milos. ... This has surprised me and shocked me, that Baci is old I am 19 hours old at The Hague tribunal interview, and that's the truth not to believe the lies that this country's probably happened to Serbia's country is not entirely cheating by Europe, that the former war crimes tribunal has now happened in The Hague, and that there's been no cause for war.

The KLA's Veterans Organisation branch in Rahovec is not compatible with that. Vajdin Berisha says they are organising a petition to oppose the continuation of the Special Court's mandate.

The veterans' organisation has long commented on and rejected them even on the day the special court was voted into the Kosovo Parliament, we have been in protest before parliament. These are unfair The Hague tribunal is a racist, this opinion is of all veterans... we are preparing to make and make a petition not to continue the” mandate, he says.

Haki Berisha, who had been part of the liberation war, says the Special Court's claims on his co-wars are unfair and that Albanians are not to blame for them. He adds that the trial of war in specialised chambers in The Hague is instigation for Kosovo. “These charges are not fair either to Thaci or to Wessel, nor to all members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, this court does not deserve even a trial because Serbia knows both Europe and the world what crime. I too am witnesses from the first day, and I know what massacres have been made in our land. Ramush Haradinaj and Daut Haradinaj and Hashim Thaci and Kadri Veselini who are war leaders and who have committed crimes, not the KLA... This court didn't have to be founded for me, but it happened as it happened it was imposed on us, it had to be hit, but we're not guilty of what they're claiming and thinking”, he says.

Otherwise, in the indictment made public on June 24th, President Thaci, former Prime Minister Kadri Veselini and other suspects, are “legally responsible for approximately 100 illegal killings”, while these crimes according to the same source include hundreds of identified Albanian, Serbian, Roma-Serb victims and their political opponents.