{"id":80279,"date":"2025-09-16T14:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=80279"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:08:41","slug":"hague-trial-rubin-no-evidence-that-the-kla-engaged-in-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/hague-trial-rubin-no-evidence-that-the-kla-engaged-in-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Hague Trial \/ Rubin: No evidence that the KLA engaged in drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. State Department official James Rubin stated before the Special Prosecution that there is no evidence or information supporting claims about the involvement of the KLA leadership in orders for killings or organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no information or evidence to support the allegations that KLA leaders gave orders for killings or were involved in organized crime. These are unproven accusations. The KLA operated under repression from Serbian forces and did not have a proper military structure,\u201d Rubin said during his testimony.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the goal of the international community had been to assist in the transformation of the KLA into a democratic organization\u2014a process which, according to him, is being carried out with the help of NATO and the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding allegations of drug trafficking, Rubin emphasized that \u201cthere is no independent information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. State Department official James Rubin stated before the Special Prosecution that there is no evidence or information supporting claims about the involvement of the KLA leadership in orders for killings or organized crime. \u201cThere is no information or evidence to support the allegations that KLA leaders gave orders for killings or were involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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