France 24: Former Kosovo president Thaci pleads not guilty as war crimes trial begins
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci led a bloody campaign against opponents that resulted in more than 100 murders during the 1990s independence war against Serbia, the start of his war crimes trial heard Monday.
Thaci and three other top members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) rebel group all denied 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity as they appeared at a special tribunal in The Hague.
While Thaci and the others went on to be seen as guerrilla heroes, prosecutors said the ethnic Albanian KLA openly enforced a brutal reign of imprisonment, torture and killings to tighten their grip on power during and after the 1998-1999 war.
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Trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thac gets underway in The Hague -- Euronews
Ex-Kosovo president Hashim Thaci pleads not guilty to war crimes -- Al Jazeera
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