Pristina, Sept 18, 2026 (AFP) - Thousands protest Kosovo ex-president's war crimes conviction

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2026-09-18

Former guerrilla fighters led a protest of thousands in Kosovo's capital on Friday to express anger over the jailing of the country's ex-president Hashim Thaci for war crimes earlier this week. It was one of the largest rallies since Thaci was sentenced to 25 years for crimes committed during the struggle for independence from Serbia in the 1990s. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers, based in the Netherlands, ruled that the ex-president and three othe......

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