3 hours agoRubin: New York Times Journal Wants to Poll Kosovo People's Leaders, KLA
Periskopi(9 months ago)
(9 months ago)Witness James Rubin speaking of claims that KLA commanders had launched a campaign against political rivals and that she was led by Azem Syla, Hashim Thaci and Xhavit Haliti, said New York Times journalist Chris Hedges wanted to tarnish the leaders of the Kosovo people and the KLA. Initially, an article [...] was also presented to the witness.
Initially, the witnesses were also presented with an article claiming that KLA commanders have launched a campaign against their political rivals. It is said that this campaign was run by Azem Syla, Hashim Thaci and Xhavit Haliti, reports “Justice Trust“.
In this article of June 25th 1999, James Rubin had said they had no information to support claims that there was a programme directed by the KLA leadership for murder and executions.
Rubin, had said he did not rule out the possibility that rebel leaders are related to the killings, but department officials had examined a wide range of resources and could not verify those charges.
This has been a feature of this journalist Chris Hedges, who was ill-informed by Serbian sources. We, we have repeatedly ascertained that this journalist repeated rumors without evidence, but after working for the New York Times we had to do deep investigations about these because this media was a very important news organization”, Rubin said.
He said this journalist was fired because of repeated mistakes.
“Repeated repeatedly attempt to tarnish Kosovo people's leaders, including U n CK and I asked the community, intelligence to give me information so they could give me information. We've never received a confirmation of these slanderous comments from him. He was fired for repeated mistakes”, he said. /Periscope/
