Kosovo ex-president Thaci faces war crimes trial in The Hague.
TL;DR
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants, all former close associates in the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), stand trial at a special court in The Hague for alleged war crimes during the 1998-99 insurgency that eventually brought independence from Serbia. Thaci was indicted in 2020 by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers on 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including persecution, murder, torture and forced disappearance of people, including after fighting ended. The trial is likely to be lengthy as prosecutors said in procedural conferences that they would need two years to present all its evidence.
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