Una protesta a Prishtina a sostegno dell’ex presidente del Kosovo Hashim Thaci e di altri ex membri della KLA, che sono sotto processo per crimini di guerra all’Aia
Una protesta a Prishtina a sostegno dell’ex presidente del Kosovo Hashim Thaci e di altri ex membri della KLA, che sono sotto processo per crimini di guerra all’Aia
Okay, well crap, there were still a lot more people than I hoped to see. I’m disappointed now.
Edit. On a closer look, maybe it’s just the war veterans and their families and relatives. Not to talk bad about war veterans, their motive for protesting is kind of justified (they insist that their war was fair and just). The problem is they have no idea what KLA leaders were really doing, and still insist that they are innocent. Which is stupid, the whole protesting in their defense when you don’t really know what happened or what their leaders did, is stupid.
If they’re innocent, the court will declare them innocent. So just sit back and take it easy.
EnvironmentalEar8040 on
never thought I’d see the day when Prishtina’s making headlines.
Automatic_Education3 on
What a wild title
fiendishrabbit on
To some extent the love the former Yugoslavian states* have for their war criminals (sentenced or not) has always been baffling to me.
On some intellectual level I can understand why Kosovo Albanians have some level of reverence for Thaci, He was instrumental in unifying a very splintered KLA and set reasonable goals for peace negotiations… But he was also an exceptionally brutal “ends-justify-the-means” kind of guy who had no compunctions about murdering his rivals within KLA, making civilians “disappear” or financing his army through drug sales and even more heinous crimes (a bunch of fairly well backed charges on organ and human trafficking).
*All of them. Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Kosovo-Albanians…
lapraksi on
I respect this protest. The Hague is keeping Thaci locked with minimal proof, sure he was corrupt but you can’t lock a man up for war crimes he never committed.
_segamega_ on
“The epochal victories would have been impossible without the courage, struggle, and selflessness of the best boys and girls of the Kosovo Liberation Army of this country,”
epochal victories sprinkled with (war) crimes here and there cannot become pure mythical victories. that is why they protest.
dat_9600gt_user on
Are war criminals really that liked in former Yugoslavia?
Sea-Bend-5914 on
And then they criticize the Kosovo-Serbs that they don’t respect the kosovar flag.
blokader01 on
Fuck them. Thaci did horrible stuff to Serbs and robbed Albanians. Support for such a man is beyond me, there have to be better people to support.
Optimal_Area_7152 on
Kosovo is Serbian, I will never back away from this.
MakiENDzou on
Normal Balkan activities of supporting war criminals
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more info: https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/a-protest-in-support-of-former-kosovo-president-hashim-thaci-and-other-former-kla-members-who-are-on-trial-for-war-crimes-at-a-court-in-the-netherlands-in-pristina/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjU6bmV3c21sX1JDMkcyR0FDV0xTRA
I deleted the previous post because it had an outdated photo, my mistake.
This isnt the first protest of its kind in Kosovo. https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo-protesters-come-out-support-thaci-war-crimes/32346153.html
Okay, well crap, there were still a lot more people than I hoped to see. I’m disappointed now.
Edit. On a closer look, maybe it’s just the war veterans and their families and relatives. Not to talk bad about war veterans, their motive for protesting is kind of justified (they insist that their war was fair and just). The problem is they have no idea what KLA leaders were really doing, and still insist that they are innocent. Which is stupid, the whole protesting in their defense when you don’t really know what happened or what their leaders did, is stupid.
If they’re innocent, the court will declare them innocent. So just sit back and take it easy.
never thought I’d see the day when Prishtina’s making headlines.
What a wild title
To some extent the love the former Yugoslavian states* have for their war criminals (sentenced or not) has always been baffling to me.
On some intellectual level I can understand why Kosovo Albanians have some level of reverence for Thaci, He was instrumental in unifying a very splintered KLA and set reasonable goals for peace negotiations… But he was also an exceptionally brutal “ends-justify-the-means” kind of guy who had no compunctions about murdering his rivals within KLA, making civilians “disappear” or financing his army through drug sales and even more heinous crimes (a bunch of fairly well backed charges on organ and human trafficking).
*All of them. Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Kosovo-Albanians…
I respect this protest. The Hague is keeping Thaci locked with minimal proof, sure he was corrupt but you can’t lock a man up for war crimes he never committed.
“The epochal victories would have been impossible without the courage, struggle, and selflessness of the best boys and girls of the Kosovo Liberation Army of this country,”
epochal victories sprinkled with (war) crimes here and there cannot become pure mythical victories. that is why they protest.
Are war criminals really that liked in former Yugoslavia?
And then they criticize the Kosovo-Serbs that they don’t respect the kosovar flag.
Fuck them. Thaci did horrible stuff to Serbs and robbed Albanians. Support for such a man is beyond me, there have to be better people to support.
Kosovo is Serbian, I will never back away from this.
Normal Balkan activities of supporting war criminals
Thaci the organ trafficker ? That Thaci ?