In The Hague on Wednesday, a tribunal delivered a verdict that forced a nation to hold two truths at once: that a people suffered grievously under Serbian forces, and that some who led their liberation also committed crimes against the innocent. Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army were convicted of war crimes against civilians and political opponents during the 1998-99 war, receiving sentences ranging from 13 to 25 years. The judgment, rare in its willingness to scrutinize a Western-backed liberation movement, has cracked open the space betwe
Kosovo reels as Hague convicts former President Thaci of war crimes
The 1998-99 Kosovo War resulted in approximately 13,000 civilian deaths, mostly Kosovo Albanians, and displaced over 1 million people.