8 hours agoDel Ponte: Albright told me that “Carla, careful with Haradinaj, can be rioting”
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The former Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, has made an interview with “Der Spiegel”, among other things, where she has mentioned [like] the obstacles made by American officials to the investigation of alleged KLA crimes. In question that she wrote in her book that she has been criticized for focusing [...]
In question that she has written in her book that she has been criticised for focusing her attention more on Serbian perpetrators, Del Ponte has replied: “Of course, because Serbs have committed more crimes than Croats or Kosovars. The truth is that the international community, NATO, there was evidence of crimes committed by Serbs, and they assured us of them, which made things move faster. But it is also true that the US did not want us to carefully investigate war crimes in Kosovo for political reasons. We had too many problems to investigate. The NLA, Kosovo guerrillas, because the United States slowed us down.
The question: Have American politicians clearly told you not to investigate Kosovars?
Del Ponte replied: “No, because then I could have complained publicly. But Madeleine Albright, who was the secretary of state at the time, told me on the phone: “Carla, slowly, slowly. Be careful with Haradinaj, otherwise there will be unrest in Kosovo”.
