Former presidents complete their visit to The Hague, Pacolli: KLA leaders being unjustly detained in detention

Former presidents complete their visit to The Hague, Pacolli: KLA leaders being unjustly detained in detention

Former Albanian presidents met with Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Jakup Krasniqi's Rexhepi's detention centre in The Hague today. They said the purpose of their visit is to show support for the fair fight with the Kosovo Liberation Army while adding that former KLA leaders are being held unjustly in custody. After the meeting, Alfred Moses, [...]

After the meeting, Alfred Moisiu, Rexhep Meidani and Bamir Topi, as well as former Albanian Prime Minister Pandeli Majko, said former KLA leaders are staying morally strong and proud of the KLA's fair fight.

According to Moses, the prosecution is looking for something that does not exist since UCK had nothing to do with terrorism.

We came to meet, to encourage our friends and friends who are serving an unfair prison for me and my friends, but that's how it was written. Of course, with the main goal of showing that we support the KLA war, the Kosovo Albanians' struggle has been a struggle for freedom, independence, justice, to separate from centuries-old Serbian slavery and certainly has not been at all a terrorist prayer as they are trying to return it, to argue that its goal has been terrorism that is not true. We think that in the end justice will win, justice will come out, taxis of these KLA leaders will suffer, they have been there for two years and it's not known how long they're going to continue, because they've been two years and they haven't formulated the charge so they're looking, in search of a thing that doesn't exist because they haven't had anything with terrorism”, Moisiu said.

Former President Rexhep Meidani said history cannot change prosecutors and judges until he cited former Serbian occupation in Kosovo and the KLA's struggle for liberation.

The “is a support, not only for the leading leaders of Kosovo's state and independence, but also a support of the Albanian people's struggle for freedom and independence against Serb slavery, was a war supported by the entire international community and leading world leaders in the fight not only for democracy, but also against ethnic cleansing and genocide exercised by Serbian police, military and paramilitary troops, Meidani said.

Their visit is only for support, not interference in justice, former President Bamir Topi said.

“Today they're here unfortunately yet without a formulation of the prosecution. Their psychological state was sound, so man has passed through difficult situations in the war, is morally proud of what he has been through, and, of course, they are waiting very cold. Of course, we do not intervene in matters of justice, but we are convinced that justice will go to the country, because it seems like a story that has been history of the past century, but the story of what has happened in Kosovo is a modern history, not forgetting that mass evacuation, that genocide developed by the architect of war in the Balkans like Milosevic”, Topi said.

While former Prime Minister Pandeli Majko said this is the last war for KLA leaders who, according to him, should do it for those who are alive and those who no longer live.

We think this is not a personal drama of those who are in the cells of this prison, we think this is a national drama, and as such it has our presence here. We were informed that the file begins with the events in 1981 with renowned Yusuf Gervall, in fact, should begin with the murder of the Russian consul in Mitrovica 1903, and I think that what is happening to us has brought us extraordinary reflection, is the last war UCK leaders have to be, for those who are alive and for those who are not” Majko said.

The former presidents' visit took place at the initiative of the leader of the New Kosovo Alliance and former president Behgjet Pacolli.

While his appeal has not been answered by former Kosovo state leaders Fatmir Sejdiu and Atifete Jahjaga.

We saw once again, once again I became convinced that this is the price they are paying for what we exist as an independent state and our independence. There are no personal charges against anyone, these are absurd charges, as if a criminal organisation, and that criminal organisation has made Kosovo's independence possible and the freedom we enjoy. If this is the main charge that has to be paid, then these guys are paying it. I saw they're encouraged, they're not tired, they're better than ever, and they know they're not in this prison for a crime that's really called a crime, but they're paying the price for what Kosovo possesses, freedom and independence”, Pacolli said.

Former KLA leaders are in custody from November 2020 after confirming the indictment with war crimes claims and against humanity, but the trial against them has not yet begun.

In their first appearances in court, Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi have been declared innocent

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