PRISTINA, Sept 16 /ATA/ Former Kosovo president Vjosa Osmani reacted to today’s ruling of the Specialist Chambers against Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi, defending the Kosovo Liberation Army’s war and stressing that, in her view, the decision cannot alter the historical truth of the conflict in Kosovo.
According to her, even today there are families still waiting for justice for the crimes committed during the war.
“More than 13,000 people were killed by genocidal Serbian forces during the Kosovo war. Of these, around 10,000 were massacred civilians, while over 1,500 remain forcibly disappeared and buried in mass graves,” Osmani declared.
“Sexual violence, inhuman torture, the killing of children and other horrific crimes committed by Serbia remain unanswered by international justice; meanwhile, Serbia continues to deny the crimes and reward the perpetrators,” she wrote.
Osmani said the Kosovo Liberation Army rose in response to the violence and crimes committed against the population of Kosovo.
“The people of Kosovo rose precisely against these crimes and in defence of their homes. The KLA was the army of the people of Kosovo; it was the blood‑stained oath of the oppressed who sought the liberation of their homeland,” she stressed.
In the end, the former president declared that the liberation war and the state of Kosovo will, in her view, remain part of a shared responsibility.
“Therefore, today and forever, we will defend the justice of our liberation war. The independent and sovereign state of Kosovo is our shared legacy,” Osmani concluded.
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