In The Hague, a tribunal has rendered judgment on Hashim Thaci — former guerrilla commander, architect of Kosovo's independence, and once its president — finding him guilty of war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 conflict and sentencing him to 25 years in prison. The court determined that beneath the banner of liberation, specific acts of murder, torture, and illegal detention were carried out against nearly 500 victims, including political opponents and civilians. His conviction does not settle the deeper question that haunts post-conflict societies everywhere: whether a just cause can c
Kosovo ex-president Thaci sentenced to 25 years for war crimes
Thaci convicted for crimes against 481 victims including murder of 96 political opponents, illegal detention of 385 people, and torture of over 300 during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war.