Thaci's defence: If the KLA were to act on a criminal plan, there would be international support

There was no KLA joint criminal plan. The international community would never have supported”, it says in this file.

The defence says the SPS case is based on a partial and selective misinterpretation of events in question.

Independent Kosovo is no longer the result of a war, supported by international allies, for freedom from the Presidential and brutal Serbian regime. Instead, according to the SPS, Kosovo's citizenship is the result of a complex and broad criminal plan to gain and exercise control over all of Kosovo through the commission of crimes against humanity and war crimes, under the watchful eye of these same international allies”, the defence said.

According to them, journalists, scholars, diplomats, historians, and jurists have examined these events closely, both at the same time and over the past two decades.

“TPNJ has judged cases involving the same events and claims. Kosovo's population has lived them. No one has reached the strange conclusion issued by the SPS: that the establishment of an independent Kosovo was the result of a criminal plot, with Hashim Thaci and his indictees in the centre, who managed to maintain the international support needed to defeat a stronger European Army, all in pursuit of a criminal plan to target all those considered opponents. In reality, Thaci's relations with international partners were transparent and public. They were not part of a” criminal plan, defence says.

According to the defence, it is important that the indictment and preliminary file present a case that has not yet been filed and tested in court, let alone prove beyond reasonable suspicion, until a court date has yet to be determined.

The SPS witness list continues to change, with regular changes, and the SPS will start giving witness presentation order in November 2022 alone. Defence preparations are still hampered by the heavily edited indictment, and 96 SPS witnesses remain anonymous. The ZPS discovery remains incomplete and 46,000 pages of new materials, less edited or unread, will be discovered only 30 days before the trial”, they say.

On the other hand, it is said that what is now evident, however, is the great care that should be shown in considering the basic SPS trial documents against Thaci and the materials on which they rely.

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According to the defence, it is now clear that many of the documents the SPS is based on came from Serbian government bodies, the same organs that have a particular interest in the outcome of these procedures, and tried to kill Dick Marty in order to blame his death. about the Kosovo Albanians.

The Joint Criminal Company (NPK) is reportedly not provided with the Law for TSF. According to them, neither the NKP enjoyed the status of international customary law at the time of alleged crimes, especially not in its expanded form of NKP 3 / 1

“There was no common criminal intention to gain and exercise control over all of Kosovo through the conduct of murders, torture, persecution and other crimes against humanity or war crimes against opponents. The connection between alleged crimes in the indictment and Mr. Thaci cannot be proven through the incriminating of the case about a plan that did not exist, and the adoption of the smoothest form of responsibility in criminal justice to bring it closer to”, defence says.

According to them, there was no KLA policy to target opponents, or committing crimes charged against them.

“Like all military and security structures, even newborns like the KLA, preserving internal security from threatening those within Serbian secret services, or working with Serbian authorities, was a concern for the entire KLA. As in all armed conflicts historically, there was an effort to prevent the infiltrate of those who were aiming to harm the KLA and its members, but there was no policy to subject them to war crimes or crimes against humanity through a wide and systematic attack”, defence says.

The file reportedly in the decision to compile the charges in a comprehensive manner, the SPS included “members of the KLA” and “other KLA members” as members of the NKP and that the challenges of protection against the uncertainty of this formation of KP members have been rejected.

“Consistent with this broad formulation is demonstrated by SPS's own testimony to “KLA membership”, which often means nothing more than signing, or self-explaring loyalty. The SPS case depends on these thousands of people who voluntarily joined the KLA, being at the same time part of the same common criminal goal. He completely ignores the chaotic and furious reality on the ground: tens of thousands of Kosovo citizens who rise against a campaign of Serbian brutality and depression, at a pace that exceeded any efforts to organise, regulate or even act in co-ordination with known KLA groups”, is said by the defence.

It is also said to be completely missing in the SPS ERG, the previously discussed phenomenon -- 8633,000 Kosovo Albanian refugees from abroad -- and 550,000 internally displaced persons returning to find their destroyed homes and lives and seeking punishment for the horrors caused during weeks, months and years. from Serb oppressors.

“This reality is covered by the philosophy of “Kanunit”, the unwritten customary right regulating certain parts of Albanian society and [ In promoting social values as honor and shame, the Kanun has served as ideological justification for violence, especially for individual acts of violence, especially the murders for revenge and the hiding of common crimes... cannot be assumed that people who have a common goal are necessarily members of an NPK. It's the interaction or cooperation between persons that makes these people a group. This joint action must also be decided beyond reasonable doubt. The SPS's efforts to overlap a framework of the common goal on a full reality of chaos and instability, in order to connect Mr. Thaci, with sporadic incidents of violence, is insufficient. a case theory, unbacked by evidence detected and cannot be reconciled to the reality of events in question”, defence says.

According to them, Thaci, other members of the KLA and the Kosovo Interim Government had no incentive to commit crimes against opponents, and in fact had a major incentive not to do so.

“They fully understood that their commitment to the international community, completely essential to their survival, depended on the fact that the KLA was not a criminal enterprise, but a movement worthy of this commitment and support. If the KLA had acted on a criminal plan for the murder, torture and abuse of civilians, it would never have had US, Great Britain, NATO, the OSCE, Contact Group or the wider international community. Of course he did. There was no joint criminal plan of the KLA. The international community would never have backed”, said by defence. /Betimy for Justice