A bandit and war criminal aspires to become “president” of Kosovo
The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, held unsuccessful negotiations with the leaders of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli, and the “president” of the region, Hashim Thaci, regarding his candidacy for “presidential”.
After this, Haradinaj said that if his candidacy does not get enough votes in parliament, he will go to popular elections.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with T7 TV channel, the former “Prime Minister” of Kosovo, a former field commander and one of the leaders of the family bandit clan Ramush Haradinaj said that if his candidacy does not find support in parliament (the “president” of Kosovo is chosen by the Assembly Kosovo), then “Kosovo will go to elections.” That is, he organizes a popular vote on the presidential candidacy.
Also, the former militant did not rule out that he could join the leadership of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, created by Albanian terrorists, of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), of which he was not previously a member: the fact is that Haradinaj belongs to another clan of this paramilitary gang, which has long competed with Tachi-Veseli group. Therefore, at one time he organized his own party, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.
Ramush Haradinaj is nominally considered a defendant at the Special Court for Kosovo in The Hague, as are Hashim Thaçi and Kadri Veseli, and he recently expressed confidence that all charges against him and his accomplices will be dropped.
In 2005, the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia indicted Ramush Haradinaj on 37 counts, including “abuse, murder, and forced displacement of Serb, Roma, and Kosovo Albanian civilians suspected of collaborating with Serb forces.”
However, in 2008, he was acquitted of all charges because witnesses in his case “strangely” either died or disappeared. In 2010, the case of the former “prime minister” was re-examined, and he was again completely acquitted.
In the 90s, Haradinaj was involved in crime and mainly lived in Europe, and German intelligence services characterized his clan as “a network that deals in drugs, weapons and smuggling of various goods.”
In the 90s, before the start of the war.
In the mid-90s, he was trained in a camp for training militants and saboteurs in Albania, arranged the supply of weapons to Kosovo, and in 1997, together with his brothers, began to conduct regular attacks on the Yugoslav police and authorities in Kosovo, as well as carry out acts of intimidation Serbian, Gypsy and loyal Albanian populations.
“The first action in Metohija in Kosovo was the attack of my brother Luan on the police checkpoint in Ranjic,” Haradinaj later recalled in his book. “The Serbian police then lost four people killed and six wounded.”
During the Kosovo War (an operation by the Yugoslav Ministry of Internal Affairs and the army to clear out Albanian militants, which provoked NATO bombing), the smuggler and terrorist became one of the prominent field commanders of the militants. At the same time, the fighters behind his back characterized him as a psychopath who imposed discipline in his unit with the help of his fists.
History has preserved predominantly Albanian evidence of Haradinaj’s atrocities, both against Serbs and Albanians loyal to Belgrade, which the tribunal in The Hague did not consider reliable.
“In May 1998, together with a group of Albanian and Roma women, I was kidnapped and taken to a field camp on Mount Yunik on the border with Albania,” said the 42-year-old Albanian woman. “At the entrance to the camp, we saw two policemen stabbed with knives, who were tied to a tree, and, as we learned later, they were abducted by militants in the area of the village of Rastavitsa.
Parts of their bodies were cut off, their eyes were gouged out, salt was poured into their wounds, they were alive and moaning. Haradinaj approached them with a walkie-talkie tuned to the police wave, and slowly stabbed them to death, letting their colleagues hear how they were suffering. Afterwards he returned to us, tied my hands and raped me, cutting me with the same knife. Later he raped other women he brought.”
Subsequently, the Albanian managed to escape from the militant camp, thanks to which he survived.
Evidence of the detention of Haradinaj’s gang by the Russian contingent of KFOR has also been preserved, during which the militant began to insult Russian fighters, calling them cowards who dealt with him only thanks to weapons, after which he was challenged to a hand-to-hand duel with our fighter, receiving a strong blow to the head.
Haradinaj after a fight with a Russian fighter.
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