{"id":82883,"date":"2026-02-15T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=82883"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:58:56","slug":"45-years-in-prison-for-former-kla-leaders-rama-madness-a-bomb-thrown-at-the-people-and-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/45-years-in-prison-for-former-kla-leaders-rama-madness-a-bomb-thrown-at-the-people-and-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"45 Years in Prison for Former KLA Leaders, Rama: Madness, a Bomb Thrown at the People and Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama, during his remarks on the podcast \u201cFLASIM,\u201d spoke about the request of the Hague Prosecution to sentence four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to 45 years in prison each. Rama described the request as madness and as a bomb thrown at the people and Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hague Prosecution requested 45 years in prison for Hashim Tha\u00e7i and for each of the three other leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army \u2014 Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi, and Rexhep Selimi. I needed time, and I still honestly need time, to understand how something like this can be confronted \u2014 such madness, such shamelessness, such cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>The request for 45 years in prison for the four prominent figures of the Liberation War was a bomb thrown at the people and at the Republic of Kosovo. A prosecution entirely unworthy, which, in order to examine the bloody history of Kosovo\u2019s Liberation War, conducted six years of investigation and came out with the claim that during 1998\u201399, crimes against humanity and war crimes were allegedly committed against civilians.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no international law that allows convictions based on such claims and without any clear evidence that there existed a plan and an organized force to attack and take the lives of civilians simply because they were civilians,\u201d Rama stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama, during his remarks on the podcast \u201cFLASIM,\u201d spoke about the request of the Hague Prosecution to sentence four former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to 45 years in prison each. 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