Kosovo President Hashim Thaci’s planned visit to the US has been called off, at least for now, as a prosecutor in The Hague has accused him and several other officials of war crimes, which include “nearly 100 murders” as well as torture and disappearances, on top of efforts to obstruct the Special Prosecutor’s Office.
Accusations of misdeeds by Thaci are well documented going back years, and he was accused of having deep ties to organized crime by German intelligence. The US needed a justification for the war against Serbia at the time, however, and Thaci was the political director of the KLA at the time. His facilitation of the US-led attack earned him the first Kosovar Premiership, the presidency, and a shield of immunity that long seemed impenetrable.
The Hague’s Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) says that Thaci is at this point the subject of indictments for both war crimes and crimes against humanity, and faults him for trying to undermine the world of the courts. The KSC was established in 2011 to examine allegations of Thaci’s involvement in drug, gun, and human organ trafficking.
Thaci has denied all wrongdoing, and has threatened to sue a Swiss member of the Council of Europe for the report which started the investigations in the first place. During his visit to the US he was meant to prepare for more talks with Serbia, which still does not recognize the NATO-imposed independence of Kosovo.
Political director? Before being reinvented as political director, he was a leader of a crime gang, nicknamed “Snake”.
The crimes have been well known — not just by him — but by many others now in politics, but still making money in criminal enterprise.
But there is nothing that I expect coming out of it. Just for show, to make it look like something serious is being done — after all these years.
So, Serbia’s President is coming to meet Grenell, on June 27. I expect something to happen on June 28. This is the day of Vid, the day “we shall all see”, rather ominous day in Serbian history. Just to mention one — June 28, 1914, Sarajevo assassination. Why bother to arrange the date? Want another WWI?
Nothing is there to indicate any movement to resolve issue — Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together again. But population deserves better. There is nothing in Trump approach that leads me to believe in his leadership skills. What is in it for Trump? No idea, other then possibly demanding US troops on Serbian soil. To “send message”.
I knew this 25 years ago . Should have been in Milosevic’s trail . The only thing more criminal than the snake is the Hague court it self .Milosevic made complete fools out of the prosecution and his lying witnesses almost every day .
Then you probably remember how witnesses themselves broke down, admitted that they lied and who made them . The Court would just shrug it off — and say, next!
The circumstances of his death were never clear. Autopsy found a large quantity of a powerful antibiotic — usually prescribed for leprosy. Such antibiotic negates the medication for high blood pressure. He was complaining about blood pressure and suspected food. Asked for an independent medical exam. All denied. As anything else today — such obscure information is irrelevant as media decides what will be repeated thousands of times — and what information will be buried as if it never existed,
Now time for Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Trump….yes, and countless others too like Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Biden, Pence, Hillary, and so, so, so many more (add in more presidents to be tried post-mortem too).
The organ trade would have benefited a lot of people who would have died otherwise.
http://www.swans.com/library/subjects/yugoslav.html