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Visiting Thaci in Hague Jail, Albania PM Slates ’Shameful’ War Court

Balkan Insight 19 Dec 2025
Albania’s Edi Rama lashed out at the Hague-based Specialist Chambers war crimes court following a visit to Kosovo’s ex-President Hashim Thaci in detention, calling it a ‘theatre of shame’ ....
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Kosovo’s 2025 Ends as it Began, at the Ballot Box

Balkan Insight 16 Dec 2025
Something for the curiosity books. voters in Kosovo have been called to parliamentary polls twice within the calendar year after politicians failed to form a government after the first, in February, forcing a second, in December ....
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Kosovo’s Opposition PDK Chooses New Leader as Elections Loom

Balkan Insight 19 Nov 2025
Bedri Hamza replaced Memli Krasniqi as leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK – but most experts see the new chief only as a caretaker ahead of likely snap elections ....
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Kosovo Liberation Army ‘Didn’t Commit Ethnic Cleansing’: NATO Ex-Commander

Balkan Insight 19 Nov 2025
Retired US general Wesley Clark told the Hague court that the KLA was a response to decades of oppression against ethnic Albanians – and was not responsible for post-war acts of revenge against Serbs ....
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NATO Ex-Commander Wesley Clark Testifies in Defence of Kosovo’s Thaci

Balkan Insight 17 Nov 2025
General Wesley Clark told the court in The Hague that the Kosovo Liberation Army 'wasn't an organised military' – and that Hashim Thaci himself 'clearly wasn't in charge' of the KLA's fighters on the ground ....
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Kosovo’s Thaci Lacked Authority to Stop ‘Revenge’ Violence, Court Told

Balkan Insight 14 Nov 2025
Michael Durkee, former adviser to NATO commander Wesley Clark, tells court that Hashim Thaci did not have the authority within the Kosovo Liberation Army to rein in post-war acts of revenge by some KLA members ....
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US Heavyweights Rally Around Kosovo’s Thaci in The Hague

Balkan Insight 14 Nov 2025
The former Kosovo president’s defence team hopes that supportive statements from high-profile US figures like James Rubin and Wesley Clark will carry serious weight as his war crimes verdict approaches ....
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Kosovo’s Thaci Didn’t Make Decisions in KLA, Hague Court Hears

Balkan Insight 13 Nov 2025
Former US diplomat Christopher Hill tells court that Hashim Thaci only had a political position within the KLA – and did not seem to have any decision-making powers ....
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“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage and Chaos

Dissident Voice 11 Nov 2025
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie. that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy ... interventions are an ominous warning of what could follow. As a U.S ... The main U.S ... In 2006, the U.S ... .
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Protesters in Albania Demand ‘Justice’ in Kosovo Wartime Leaders’ Trial

Balkan Insight 18 Oct 2025
Protesters in the Albanian capital expressed anger at the ongoing trial of wartime Kosovo Liberation Army officers at the Specialist Chambers in The Hague, saying the defendants were freedom fighters, not criminals ....
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War Veterans’ Protest Sparks Tension Between Kosovo and Albania PMs

Balkan Insight 17 Oct 2025
A protest planned for Friday in Tirana – against the Hague war crimes court's trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci – has reignited feuding between Albania's premier Edi Rama and the biggest party in Kosovo ....
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Turkey’s Drone Sales to Kosovo Test its Friendship with Serbia

Balkan Insight 10 Oct 2025
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Kosovo’s Thaci Was a Politician, Not a Fighter, Hague Court Told

Balkan Insight 03 Oct 2025
Jock Covey, former deputy UN representative to Kosovo, told the Kosovo Specialist Chambers that Hashim Thaci – on trial for war crimes – was 'not a fighter' and probably never 'fired a bullet in anger' ....
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KLA Had no Hierarchical Structure, Third Thaci Witness Tells Trial

Balkan Insight 24 Sep 2025
John Stewart Duncan told the court the KLA was 'not a hierarchical organisation where people do what they are told' – and real power lay with the operational zone commanders ....
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Ex-Senior US Official Adds Weight to Thaci Defence

Balkan Insight 23 Sep 2025
Outcome of trial may depend on whether James Rubin’s testimony - that Thaci was just a ‘front man’ for the KLA - is deemed credible ....

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