Kosovo’s former president jailed for 25 years over war crimes
by Peter Beaumont Senior international correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#78E6A)
Hashim Thaci, 58, was convicted by The Hague for crimes committed while he was senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army
Hashim Thaci, the former president of Kosovo, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by a tribunal in The Hague for war crimes, including dozens of murders, committed during his time as a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the country's war for independence from Serbia in the late 1990s.
The European-backed Kosovo Specialist Chambers, convicted Thaci, 58, and three other former senior commanders of 96 murders, and counts of torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention directed at political opponents and civilians.
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