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FIGHTS OF POWER IN PRIŠTINA WHAT WAS BEHIND THE ARREST AND POLITICAL EXTERMINATION OF RAMUSH HARADINAJ IN FRANCE? THE STRUGGLE FOR THE TRIAL WITH FORMER KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY LEADERS BRING ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES AGAINST KOSOVO SERBS AND ALBANIANS CONTINUES.

In the early January, at the Basel Mulhouse Freiburg airport in France, on his trip to USA, one of the leaders of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the president of the Aliance for the Future of Kosovo (AKK), Ramus Haradinaj was arrested. He was taken to custody based on Serbian warrant charging him for murders and serious crimes committed in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. ough this was not the  rst ties in Pristina came under  re for it is unacceptable for Haradinaj time Mr. Haradinaj was detained the lacking of their swi interven- to be arrested in any country just abroad, he clearly seemed sur- tion towards his liberation. It is because of the Serbian warrant. prised and upset because of such possible that the absence of reac- Also, Haradinaj´s arrest resulted reaction of French authorities, tion from Pristina was caused for in voting of Resolution in Kosovo especially because he stayed in the same reason that caused peo- Parliament on a deadlock of a France for several times in recent ple from Tachi´s Cabinet to make dialogue with Belgrade, which past, last time being the football phone call and forward to French was already in crisis. is scenario (soccer) match between France intelligence the information on was actually planned by Tachi and and Albania, that took place in exact time of arriving of Mr. Hara- his closest associate Kadri Veseli, Lyon. dinaj at Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, both known for their contacts from where he should depart for with French security circles. Thaçi´ s Poker USA in order to be present at Haradinaj´s longer detention in inauguration of Donald Trump. France was used to put pressure Colleagues from his Alliance for President Tachi announced in the on him to temper conditions he the Future of Kosovo (AAK) were evening, a er huge public con- put on forming the future Kosovo the  rst to react and the authori- demnation, and emphasized that government.

16 I DIMENZIE APRIL - MAY 2017 Kouchner´s Heritage at any cost, Kadri Veseli and the agreement on future joint political main obstacle for this was the activity in any way. Obviously, Regarding Tachi´s French links, explicit demand of Haradinaj to Haradinaj is in possession of one just has to remind of the be the Prime minister himself. very good information about the time when Bernard Kouchner is move has, at the same time, plans of his former co- ghters was the head of UN Mission in slightly improved the political from KLA and future political Kosovo from 1999 up to 2001. rating of AAK, but only to partners. erefore, it will be very During his mandate more than level which is enough to make interesting to watch the future 200 000 Serbs were robbed and predicted election results possible. development of the political expelled from Kosovo while in situation in Pristina in the eve the  rst several months a er the of early election with results and war Albanian extremists were Chances for a Trial coalitions are agreed upon before. allowed to brutually deal with the e predicament in which small number of Serbian civilians Ramush Haradinaj was during that has not yet le their homes. the extradition process was used Has Haradinaj won? At the same time, international by the members of special court e political partners administration led by Mr. for KLA crimes. According started cooperation with Kouchner and illegal security to well-informed sources, misunderstandings and i tis service SHIK (the intelligence Mr. Haradinaj agreed to be impossible to predict how it will service of Kosovo Albanians) led interviewed by investigators and result. Maybe this was the reason FIGHTS by Kadri Veseli, were engaged provided them information about why there was no meeting of Tachi in destroying of the evidence on links of Tachi´s close cooperates, and Haradinaj, days a er the later Albanian atrocities against Serbs who are the leading people returned from France, and political and so called loyal Albanians, within PDK, with war crimes messages were communicated including the evidence on illegal an atrocities commi ed against through mediators. OF POWER IN PRIŠTINA human organ trade. e sources Serbs and Albanians during e unexpected coalition from Pristina underline that the war in Kosovo. Allegedly, between LDK and Behgjet Tachi deliberately brought down there are around thirty persons Pacoli´s party (a former President the government of the ,,moderate and some of them are at high of the Republic of Kosovo and communist apparatchik” Isa political positions. According to political party the New Kosovo Mustafa, although his party investigators information that Alliance) caused the formalizing Democratic League of Kosovo Haradinaj provided “can be used of the pre-election coalition (LDK) is a part of it, in order to in judicial process“. between Tachi and Haradinaj, r e s h u  e i t . Furthermoore, it was learned literally in ,,the last minute“. And Tachi´s goal is to exclude Isa that Mr. Haradinaj intended was the opportunity Haradinaj Mustafa´s party LDK from the to discredit Tachi´s family in could not miss. Tachi was government and to form a new media during election campaign, presented a fait accompli and had one with, political weaker, AAK primarly his brother Gani, by to accept Haradinaj´s condition to of Ramush Haradinaj. e issuing certain documents be the coalition´s candidate for the prime minister and evidence about Gani´s Prime minister. You never know. should cooperation with that time Maybe, at the end of the day, the be, Serbian State Security Service serious role goes to extremist in 1996. is would be done and radical Vetevendosje (Self- even more if Mr. Tachi tries Determination) movement to break the of Kosovo Albanians. D

H. Thachi and R. Haradinaj.

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