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Last update: 6 – November – 2020 15:54
Hashem Taqi
The Special Court for Kosovo in The Hague announced in a statement that the former political leader of the separatist “Kosovo Liberation Army”, the resigning President Hashem Taqi, was transferred with three other suspects “to the detention center” of the Dutch court. from The Hague.
Taqi resigned from his post on Thursday after an international court approved “an indictment against him for committing war crimes.”
The other defendants are former Kosovar militia spokesman Jacob Krasnigi, one of Taqi’s closest political allies, and Kadri Veseli, intelligence director for the former militia, as well as Ragab Selimi, one of his former outstanding figures.
The four men are suspected of being responsible for 100 murders, acts of torture and persecution between March 1998 and September 1999.
The court will later announce the date of the first appearance of the accused before it.
The four men had arrived in The Hague on a military plane that took off from Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
Taqi affirms his innocence and accuses international justice of “rewriting history”.
The Special Court for Kosovo was established in 2015 and is composed of international judges and a commissioner to investigate crimes allegedly committed by Kosovo Albanian separatist fighters belonging to the “Kosovo Liberation Army”, targeting in particular Serbian, Roma and Albanian opponents during the conflict that took place between 1989 and 1999 and after.
The Kosovo war between Albanian separatists and Serbian forces caused more than 13,000 deaths, most of them Kosovar Albanians.
It ended when a Western bombing campaign forced Serbian forces to retreat.
Subsequently, the international judiciary formally accused senior Serbian army and police officials of having committed war crimes during the conflict in which thousands of Albanian civilians were killed, tortured or deported.
