Сriminal Roots of Kosovo Further Exposed by Thaçi’s Indictment in The Hague
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was due to meet Kosovo leader Hashim Thaçi
on Saturday at the White House. This was at the behest of US envoy for
Kosovo-Serbia negotiations, Richard Grenell, after his much-publicized
success in organizing the meeting. However, his success was short lived
after Thaçi became indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity
on June 24 by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s
Office.
The US meeting has been put on hold until further notice, but as
Vučić revealed, the EU will take over discussions between Belgrade and
Pristina at a later date. It appears that France and Germany
specifically will spearhead these meeting with the French Embassy in
Kosovo
saying on Thursday
that “France and Germany expect Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia to
resume soon. Together with Chancellor Merkel, President Macron remains
ready to host a Summit in Paris.” German Ambassador to Kosovo
Christian Heldt tweeted:
“Our governments stand ready to be helpful with [a] proposed meeting in July.”
Due to prosecutors in The Hague indicting Thaçi’s alleged war crimes
during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, Kosovo’s new prime minister,
Avdullah Hoti, said he could not travel to Washington to conduct talks with Serbia.
“Thank you, Prime Minister Hoti. We understand your decision and we look forward to rescheduling the meeting soon,” Grenell wrote on Twitter.
US
President Donald Trump was hoping for a foreign policy victory just before the upcoming elections, but rather, the Kosovo experiment created by
Bill Clinton
in the 1990’s is beginning to crack. Thaçi in 1993 became a prominent
member of the “Kosovo Liberation Army” (KLA) and became responsible for
the finances and armaments of the terrorist organization. The KLA
financed its activities by turning Kosovo into a drug smuggling hub to
distribute heroin and cocaine throughout Europe.
A 2008 report by German intelligence service BND accuses Thaçi of having deep involvement in organized crime, saying that
“The key players (including Thaçi) are intimately
involved in inter-linkages between politics, business, and organised
crime structures in Kosovo,” and that Thaçi is leading a “criminal
network operating throughout Kosovo.”
The charges laid against him by the prosecutor’s office in The Hague
include murder, enforced disappearance of persons, persecution, and
torture. He has also been accused of organ harvesting and drug
trafficking by other reports and institutions. Although he has not been
found guilty, it is well established that the KLA engaged in such
activities, putting a mockery to the Albanian and Serbian Caucuses of US
Congress suggestion in 2014 that Thaçi be nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize, the Geneva School of Diplomacy giving him a Doctor Honoris Causa
degree as a Doctor of International Relations, and the Montenegrin town
of Ulcinj giving him the title of Honorary Citizen of Ulcinj.
Before the scheduled meeting, Vučić said that Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
informed him about worrying information concerning various Western
plans and ideas regarding the solution to the Kosovo crisis. Vučić
pointed out that he exchanged opinions with Lavrov on a number of issues
but that the key topic was the relationship between the two countries
and Russia’s support for the integrity of Serbia and the situation in
Kosovo.
“We received certain assessments from the Russian
Federation […] which worried me. They concern various plans and ideas
regarding the solution to the Kosovo crisis. I do not want to deceive
anyone and hide from the public: obviously we are facing a difficult
period, in which we will face great pressure to realize some plans that
we did not officially or unofficially get, but based on the assessments
of our Russian friends, it seems that we will have to be very careful in
following every idea that is presented to us,” Vučić said at the press
conference after their meeting.
Thanking Russia for supporting Serbia in the United Nations and in
all international forums, Vučić said that it had been agreed that Serbia
would consult with Russia on an almost daily basis, emphasizing that
one thing was clear:
“If at any time and in any place a solution is reached,
any solution requires the consent of Russia. We do not want everyone
else to be consulted without anyone asking Russia anything.”
He added that Russia supported the dialogue under the auspices of the
EU, while Serbia is ready to listen to all other political actors and
their ideas. He emphasized that Serbia will be able to protect its vital
national interests, regardless of the price it will have to pay.
It begs the question whether the Trump administration now has the
willingness to come up with a solution for Kosovo, especially as it is
evident that the Albanians are connected with the Democrats in the U.S.
and the criminal roots of Kosovo’s independence are being further
exposed. The indictment against Thaçi is a major embarrassment for
Washington as they have been the main backers of the illegal separation
of Kosovo from Serbia. If Thaçi’s allegations are proven true by The
Hague, it would mean Washington would have always known about the
criminal activities of the KLA and the ongoing criminality in Kosovo’s
government, but chose to ignore them to carve out a pro-US state from a
pro-Russia Serbia.
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