Walker for the KLA four: Innocents keep away families, terrible injustice

Former US diplomat William Walker has criticised the judicial process against former KLA leaders in The Hague, calling it protracted and problematic from the point of view of justice.

He said the trial has lasted over 10 years and has been accompanied by numerous rotations of lawyers, prosecutors and international judges.

According to him, comfortable living conditions in The Hague, high wages and additional benefits may have influenced procrastination of the process, adding that some officials have had no interest in the trial closing quickly.

The trial at The Hague is under way for 10 years. The number of lawyers, judges, international prosecutors are involved and have left The Hague after a period of time they have been there. Many of them have been there for years and live in The Hague is a very comfortable place to live. All of the modern - day life stories are there. Very good hotels, very good restaurants, the salaries they get are good. There are also additions to the pay that not everyone gets, but I think some of them won't want. They have not wanted this trial to end because almost a decade of their careers work at The Hague, participate in investigations and then prosecute these accused persons. They have lived a very comfortable life and I am very angry when I think about it, but given the conditions at The Hague, given the accommodation, good wages and additions and being a prosecutor, or a judge at the International Court in The Hague. I believe this has also affected the length of this process”, He said A2. CNN, broadcast the Klankosova.tv.

Pointing to Nuremberg trials, which, according to him, ended within two to three years after World War II, despite much greater crime rates, Walker said he would like the same standard followed in this case.

I've been an interested person, I've had a lot of interest in the history and international relations of the late 1940s when the trial was held when the Nuremberg trials were held. And these trials were thus to condemn World War II crimes, and when the Germans and others committed terrible war crimes on an unimaginable scale, millions of people killed as a result of war crimes, and the Nuremberg trial lasted from 1945 to the end of the 1948 war so two to three years, compared to 10 years in this case, it was a fair process. Many of the defendants were found innocent I wish these standards of conduct by the court had been followed and in this case”, he said about Off the Record with Andrea Danglin on A2 CNN.

Walker stressed that keeping the accused in custody without a final decision conflicts with the basic principle of justice.

According to him, it is unfair that the accused have lost years of life away from their families without a firm decision.

Keeping the accused in custody for four years without access to the outside world, Mr. Thaci has been granted only one day from custody to go to his father's death and funeral ceremony, one day for four years. In my opinion, the independent expression until proven guilty is the basic principle of justice, the system of justice. These people are so far innocent, until they prove their guilt, and yet they have lost four years of their lives, four years away from their family, and that I think is a terrible injustice”. /A2 CNN/ Periscopi/