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The Hague Special Prosecution requested a sentence of 180 years in prison in total, 45 years each, for the former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi for crimes against humanity.
Analyst Blerim Burjani, in a live broadcast on the central news edition of Vizion Plus, stated that this claim has provoked strong reactions in Kosovo, ranging from war veterans to public and political personalities.
Mr. Burjani argued that the prosecution's claims are "well orchestrated" and that an attempt is being made to prove the existence of a "criminal plan."
He considered this claim illogical, since according to him, the KLA was a volunteer army and did not have the ability to control the entire process and the war throughout Kosovo in a centralized manner.
Burjani made a strong comparison, saying that the 45-year prison sentence proposed by the prosecution is similar to what Belgrade itself had proposed.
Full interview:
How has this claim by The Hague been received in Kosovo?
Burjani: There are strong reactions from all sides, starting with war veterans and other public and political figures in Kosovo. Of course, this is something very serious and bad that could happen and I think that the prosecution has made a proposal which does not mean that it is final, but its claims are very deliberate and very well organized and well orchestrated, and it seems that it has planned this process quite well until the end. Therefore, it has tried and is trying all the time, which means that there was a criminal plan that really never was a criminal plan that could be controlled by the KLA throughout the entire process and the entire war in Kosovo, since this army was voluntary and, based on the fact that it was a volunteer army, it could not have control over the whole of Kosovo. So, this is illogical.
Mr. Burjani, what impact is this unexpected turn of events expected to have in Kosovo, on the political scene, in the public sphere, perhaps in the Hague process in terms of the sentence sought by the prosecutors?
Burjani: At the moment there is nothing that is hitting the country in a political sense, but in a real international sense it could hit Kosovo in many segments, especially in the purity of the war that the Kosovo army has waged, and it seems that the prosecution has this as its fundamental or main intention. So, this is very harmful for the state. As for the political aspect, Kosovo has a good political organization, it has its democratic institutions and it will function as it should, but the biggest concern remains who will trust such a one-sided justice that has been and that has been organized or orchestrated together, it seems, with various relevant international factors and with Serbia. It seems that many relevant factors are at play here, both political ones and those that seem to have to do with the regional order. Of course, this is against peace, because their punishment is against the peaceful situation that reigns in the Balkans and no one can assure the Balkans in the future that there can be some peace in this variant or in this way when innocent people are allegedly punished and receive draconian measures or severe and perhaps unprecedented punishments, and compared to Serbian courts, because it is strange that these 45 years that the prosecution has proposed, Belgrade had also proposed. In reality, there is no direct evidence, but there is some evidence that they call direct evidence, and indirectly they want to clarify or explain the whole process and leave the guilty or responsible who have been distinguished, where they say, namely the leaders of the KLA, so with indirect evidence, claiming that there is enough indirect evidence that proves the indications of serious criminal acts that they call criminal. This is extremely suspicious.
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