The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, reacted following his visit to The Hague, where he met with former President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, describing the trial against him as a “theater of shame of international justice.”
According to Rama, Thaçi was “kidnapped without trial or charges” from the office of the President of the Republic of Kosovo, considering the entire process a farce that, in his view, originated from allegations of organ trafficking raised years ago in international courts.
In a Facebook post, Rama wrote:
“I have just left the building where the theater of shame of international justice is played with Hashim Thaçi, who was kidnapped without trial or charges from the office of the President of the Republic, where the people of Kosovo had brought him, and with the Kosovo Liberation War, which cannot be defiled by a farce initiated over organ trafficking by Putin’s Russian puppet in the Strasbourg Duma, and continued with all kinds of absurdities and grotesque witnesses of the international prosecution in The Hague.”
He emphasized that during the meeting, he found Thaçi calm and in good spirits, despite, as he described, the “absurd” restrictions recently imposed on his minimal rights. Rama noted that he discussed family, mutual friends, Kosovo, Albania, and books he had gifted during previous visits.
In April 2023, the trial against former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) began in The Hague. The KLA quartet has been in custody since November 2020. The Office of the Specialist Prosecutor, which charges the former KLA leaders with alleged war crimes, has brought approximately 125 witnesses to court and relied on over 100 written testimonies.
During the year, five protests were organized in Pristina, The Hague, Tirana, Strasbourg, and Skopje in defense of the former KLA leaders.
