Rubin at The Hague: The fate of 1 million Kosovars, the worst situation in my life

In the courtroom, before the court, Rubin went on to show that then if Kosovo were to embrace the West, the West would be theirs, and, as he said, otherwise there would be massacres. This, according to him, created a tense situation.

“has been an environment with a lot of pressure, I've been in similar environments in my life in terms of many aspects. The hardest situation I remember was the fate of 1 million people, was if the Kosovo movement, if they were to embrace the West, west would be theirs, otherwise there would be massacres, we had predicted massacre, it created a tense situation. My impression back then was that he was a person who was assigned to communicate with us by the Kosovo leadership. We had not fully understood how the governing structure” worked.

He (Thaci) could not dictate anything, but reflected the decisions made by that once hidden Albanian leadership office that made decisions in the group, which were not always present, he was to receive permission from them. He was unable to dictate rules and conditions, when we wanted to do something important he was communicating with other people”, Ruby said, Klankosova reports.tv.

Rubin reaffirmed that Thaci did not make decisions at the time simply reflected decision making.

There were people I called extremists, and they put their people at risk. There were persons who were more practical, like Hashim Thaci. We told you you will have independence but first save the people. To Thaci's power, he could only reflect decision-making. He could then come and join the rest of the group. He was just a reflection of leadership, but not the person responsible in that movement”, he further said.