Kosovo tribunal convicts Hashim Thaci of war crimes and sentences him to 25 years
The Kosovo war crimes tribunal has convicted former President Hashim Thaci of four counts of war crimes and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. The ruling was delivered in court on Wednesday and concerns crimes linked to the Kosovo war for independence from Serbia in the 1990s. Thaci, 58, stood in silence as Presiding Judge Charles Smith read out the sentence.The tribunal said the crimes included murder, torture and illegal detention committed while Thaci was the top commander of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army. It said KLA forces were responsible for the murder of 96 political opponents and... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 16 Sep 2026 11:29 LONDON
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