The Special Prosecution in The Hague requested 180 years in prison for Thaçi and 3 former leaders/ Kurti: The KLA fought a just war

Kosovo's acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, has reacted after the news that the Special Prosecution has requested a total of 180 years in prison for former KLA leaders who are being tried in The Hague for crimes against humanity.

Kurti writes that  “the Republic of Kosovo remains steadfast in its belief that the KLA waged a just war and anti-colonialist uprising”  and that  “Kosovo’s institutions will continue to defend the factual and historical truth, the value and dignity of the struggle for freedom, as well as the fundamental principles of justice, opposing any attempt to distort them . ”

Albin Kurti's full reaction:

The moral and historical essence of our liberation war consists in the survival and dignity of the people.

The KLA was the bearer of a just, protective and defensive war. It took place in the context of brutal occupation when the violence of apartheid was turning into state genocide.

Any attempt to detach individual actions from this historical and political context risks distorting the truth and meaning of that war.

We have never had a plan to exterminate any other people or civilians. Today's request by the Prosecution in The Hague for a sentence of 45 years in prison for each of the accused KLA leaders is not based on any accepted international sentencing standard. It completely ignores the context of the war in Kosovo and attempts to place this issue in a legal vacuum, detaching the actions from the reality of a liberation war.

The Republic of Kosovo remains steadfast in its belief that the KLA waged a just war and anti-colonial uprising. The institutions of Kosovo will continue to defend the factual and historical truth, the value and dignity of the struggle for freedom, and the fundamental principles of justice, opposing any attempt to distort them.

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