POLITICS● ELEVATED2h ago · Sep 16, 2026, 10:14 AM
Former Kosovo president Thaci gets 25 years in prison for war crimes
South China Morning Post · eastern europe
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci was found guilty of war crimes including murder, torture and illegal detention by the Kosovo war crimes tribunal on Wednesday. Thaci, 58, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes committed as top commander of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the territory’s violent break from Serbia in the 1990s. The tribunal said he was guilty of the murder of 96 political opponents and perceived collaborators with Serbian security forces by...
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