Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci faces verdict for alleged war crimes
Prosecutors have requested a 45-year jail sentence for Thaci and three wartime commanders accused of war crimes.
The Kosovo war crimes tribunal will on Wednesday deliver its verdicts in the case of former President Hashim Thaci and several wartime commanders accused of murder and torture during the self-declared republic’s break from Serbia.
Thaci, 58, is facing several counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and persecution, along with three former commanders from the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a separatist militia that fought Serbian troops.
Thaci and the other former high-ranking commanders, Jakup Krasniqi, Rexhep Selimi and Kadri Veseli, deny the charges.
According to prosecutors, the men targeted political opponents and civilians perceived as collaborators and traitors during their time in the KLA.