“We hope that the verdict will be in line with the history and glory of the Kosovo Liberation Army,” said Kosovo’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Glauk Konjufca, outside the Special Court in The Hague on Wednesday.

Speaking to journalists, he stressed that in the trial against the four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army there had been brutal violations of human rights. As he stated, the right of a person to be tried within a reasonable time had been denied, KosovaPress reports.

We have always had our criticism of this court, that it was a mono-ethnic court and that it unjustly focused on the KLA, and I am here to confirm once again that our war, the war of the people of Kosovo, was a just war, it was a clean war, it was a defensive war. The aim of this war was not to attack any other people; the only target of the KLA uniforms was the Serbian police and army, the uniformed occupying forces that committed genocide in Kosovo, that killed children, women and the elderly, and that murdered over 12,000 citizens of our Republic... No institution can change this truth, no one can alter it,” he said.