Special Prosecutor Wants Appeals to Reject Former KLA Chiefs Crying

For all complaints exercised by the defence teams of former KLA officials, SPS has demanded that the Court of Appeals reject them completely.

Former political and military leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army were declared innocent in their first appearance before the Special Court.

The act towards Thaci, Veselin, Selimi and Krasniqi has been confirmed on 26 October last year. The incident holds them responsible for a series of crimes allegedly committed between March 1998 and September 1999.

According to the indictment, Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Rexhep Selimi, Jakup Krasniqi and other members of the joint criminal establishment “had the common goal of securing and exercising control over all of Kosovo through methods involving intimidation, mistreatment, violence exercise and illegal elimination of those considered opponents. The Act places burdens on them as they are accused of being or should be aware of other crimes.

“Set up these opponents included persons who were, or who were considered to have been: (a) collaborators or forces, officials or state institutions of RFJ, or who (b) otherwise did not support the purposes or methods of the KLA and later QPK, among whom persons linked to the LDK and Serbs, Roma and persons of other nationalities (joinly, non-combatorsors). This common goal included crimes of persecution, imprisonment, arrest and arbitrary or illegal arrest, other inhumane acts, cruel treatment, torture, murder, and forced disappearance of persons”, it is said among other things in the indictment.