MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Monday no one was above the law, after Kosovo’s former leader Hashim Thaci pleaded not guilty to war crime charges in The Hague court.
Thaci resigned as president of Kosovo after a specialist tribunal in The Hague confirmed war crime indictments against him and his fellow members of the Kosovo Liberation Army who went on to take key posts in Kosovo institutions.
Monday’s hearing kicks off a potentially lengthy process that will look into suspected murders, abductions, torture and organ harvesting by Kosovo militants during the 1998-1999 war. It is based on a 2011 report by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty.
The ministry called Kosovo “a breeding ground for extremism and crime right next to the European Union” and urged the West to reconsider its approach to Kosovo’s statehood.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
