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Kosovo is sitting today with the hands of a frustrated and complex group of internationals in the same chair where Milosevic once sat...
Those who want to hide behind their fingers, regarding the several-year-old process that is being held in The Hague against the former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, are free to do so tomorrow when a nationwide protest will be held in Tirana against this tragicomedy that is being played out by the Kosovo Special Chambers. After all, it is just an extension of a dirty political war that has kept Kosovo in a stalemate even before this process. Only in this case, over the years, this is already a political conflict with a heavy bill not for the accused, but for the entire people of Kosovo. Even for the very project of Kosovo as an independent, democratic and multiethnic state.
Hashim Thaçi and three other former senior state and KLA officials, representatives of a heroic era for Kosovo, are today facing a fabricated trial that has been plaguing the entire country for years. It presents its painful past as a human trafficking affair, distorts its war on the side of the West, presenting it as a dirty history of civil war with backstabbing within the same species and abuses that, both unintentionally, accidentally and spontaneously, bring us Albanians closer to the worst breed of war criminals of the former Yugoslavia, who have gone through the punitive ordeal of The Hague.
Kosovo is sitting today with the hands of a frustrated and complex group of internationals in the same chair where Milosevic once sat. Nothing less. It is also sitting there with the hands and evil minds of a number of Albanians, who place political and personal hatred above any other, much more sublime and long-term calculation related to the image, prestige and consciousness of the new post-war Kosovo. It has joined in an inter-Albanian mudslinging with anti-Albanian interests and minds.
After the 1999 war, a long process began in the West, which is still ongoing, to undo history and roll back and re-dimension the largest humanitarian campaign of the post-World War II era – that of striking at the criminal Serbian regime that exterminated, displaced and raped hundreds of thousands of Albanians. For a long time now, the current Serbia, which is led in the highest institutional positions by former extensions of Slobodan Milosevic, is forgiven everything, given opportunity after opportunity, insistently offered a place at the table of the Western club, despite the fact that it openly and repeatedly flirts with all those whom the West considers to be its main enemies. Ally of Russia and China, but also the darling of Europe and America. An alchemy that can only be tolerated by Belgrade.
There is an indulgent and lax treatment towards Serbia, as increasingly insistent voices see NATO's campaign against Serbia as a "war against a Christian people." The latest to make this racist comment was President Trump's son, Don Junior, during a visit to Belgrade.
In the same direction, a part of Albanians who hate the KLA, PDK and all the other acronyms that in one way or another connect the collective memory with the 1999 war are pushing today. In another context, this would be a low political war that would be resolved by the next vote. But what is happening with the Hague Tribunal will not be resolved by the next elections. This is a stigma that is being formalized, it will forever register the Kosovar leadership on the black list of the Mladic and Karadzic, according to the principle "Albanians have also committed crimes, not only Serbs, Bosnians and Croats"!
A few days ago, a representative of Vetëvendosje was arguing with all the guests in a debate studio in Tirana, defending the idea that the Hague does not host Kosovo, but the individuals Thaçi, Selimi, Krasniqi and Veseli. There is no more naive, malicious and short-sighted approach. They are the same ones who today leave Kosovo without a government, just because they put political arrogance above the country's interest.
Kosovo is in The Hague, not Thaçi and the others. If their guilt is sanctioned for crimes that include the ugliness of Dick Marty's reports about the yellow house or for accusations that aim to transform the KLA war into a civil gang conflict, not only the past is damaged, but also the future of Kosovo, as we know it today. Those who have put the leaders of the Kosovo war on trial seek to include this part of the Balkans in the gray list of crimes and abuses of the extermination war in the former Yugoslavia. This is a punitive project for an entire people, not for four men who are the symbol of that moment when Kosovo shaped its independence. Whoever thinks they can escape this simple truth is lying to themselves. And those who follow them.
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