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Thatchi had announced that he would resign to ensure that he would not be tried while he was president.
Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi is being held in The Hague, hours after he resigned to face a war crimes indictment.
The international court said he was transferred with two other suspects to the Dutch city of The Hague on Thursday.
Earlier this year, the Special Prosecutor charged Taqi and others with “criminal responsibility” for committing 100 murders during Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war of independence against Serbia.
Thachi denied any wrongdoing.
Thatchi, a prominent former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, had gone into politics since then, along with several of his former army colleagues.
The Koha Detour website reported that two former KLA officials were on board, namely Kadri Veseli, leader of the Kosovo Democratic Party, and Rajab Selimi, a deputy of Parliament. Vesili said he was traveling voluntarily to face “unfair accusations.”
On Thursday evening, police operating in the European Union Mission in Kosovo arrested Jacob Krasnicki, 69, a former spokesman for the Kosovo Liberation Army, who later became president of Kosovo, and was transferred to The Hague before, while facing charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity. .
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Thatchi had announced that he would resign to ensure that he would not be tried while in office. He said that his resignation “will defend the integrity of the state” and called on citizens to remain calm.
The indictment had been expected since the special prosecutor filed charges in June that the Kosovar leader was “criminally responsible for some 100 murders, torture and enforced disappearances.”
Special courts were established in Kosovo in 2015 to investigate alleged crimes committed against ethnic minorities and political opponents by the Kosovo Liberation Army during the war in which Kosovo separated from Serbia. The court is governed by Kosovo law, but international judges and prosecutors operate outside of it.
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Thatchi said his resignation “will defend the integrity of the state” and called on citizens to remain calm.
A 2011 Council of Europe report named Thatchi the leader of a criminal branch of the Kosovo Liberation Army. At the time, Thatchi condemned the allegations, calling them unfounded, and spent several days with prosecutors in The Hague last July, and it was announced at the time. You will resign if you face trial.
Serbia has already brought several former soldiers, paramilitaries and police to trial for killing several Albanians during the conflict in the late 1990s.
“Send hope to thousands of victims”
Human rights groups have welcomed the news of the indictment, and Yelena Cisar, a Balkan researcher at Amnesty International, said this “gives hope to thousands of victims of the Kosovo war who have waited for more than two decades for the horrible crimes committed against them and the rights of their loved ones. “
Thatchi had assumed power in Kosovo since the end of the War of Independence, which resulted in the deaths of more than 10,000 people and did not relent until after the launch of the NATO “NATO” air campaign.
Kosovo declared its independence in 2008 and is recognized by the United States and the main countries of the European Union.
Kosovo Albanians see as heroes the Kosovo Liberation Army, which rebelled against Belgrade when Kosovo was a province of Serbia.
Reconciliation between the Albanian population and the Serbian minority remains elusive.
Fossa Usmani, the two parliament spokesmen, will take over as president until a new president is elected.
