{"id":81300,"date":"2025-11-10T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=81300"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:49:36","slug":"hill-continues-testimony-in-the-hague-thaci-did-not-lead-the-kla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/hill-continues-testimony-in-the-hague-thaci-did-not-lead-the-kla\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill Continues Testimony in The Hague: Tha\u00e7i Did Not Lead the KLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Former U.S. diplomat <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Christopher Hill<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> has begun his testimony at the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Hague court<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> in the ongoing trial against former leaders of the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, including <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Hashim Tha\u00e7i<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Hill testified, among other things, about his first meeting with Tha\u00e7i in <\/span><span class=\"s1\">1998<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, describing him as someone who spoke <\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u201csoftly and thoughtfully.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI got the impression that he was more suited to an academic environment than a military one,\u201d Hill said about his first encounter with Tha\u00e7i.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">When asked whether he had the impression that Tha\u00e7i was the person in control of the KLA, Hill emphasized that there was no basis for such a conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cHe was among the three people who came and whom I met. But I did not get the impression that he was someone who had control over this large organization or that he was leading it. There was no basis for that,\u201d he testified.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. diplomat Christopher Hill has begun his testimony at the Hague court in the ongoing trial against former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), including Hashim Tha\u00e7i and others. Hill testified, among other things, about his first meeting with Tha\u00e7i in 1998, describing him as someone who spoke \u201csoftly and thoughtfully.\u201d \u201cI got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hill Continues Testimony in The Hague: Tha\u00e7i Did Not Lead the KLA - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/hill-continues-testimony-in-the-hague-thaci-did-not-lead-the-kla\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hill Continues Testimony in The Hague: Tha\u00e7i Did Not Lead the KLA - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former U.S. diplomat Christopher Hill has begun his testimony at the Hague court in the ongoing trial against former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), including Hashim Tha\u00e7i and others. 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