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Fmr Hague Tribunal Prosecutor: Haradinaj unfairly Kosovo PM
Ramush Haradinaj shouldn’t be the Prime Minister, and it still “has to be seen what will happen in Kosovo which, to me, it's still an open issue,” Carla Del Ponte, a former Chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), told the Pristina-based Koha Ditore newspaper.
In an interview carried by the KoSSev website, Del Ponte said there was a lot of work to be done concerning >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << the punishment of war crimes in former Yugoslavia.
“Since the Balkan wars, the ICTY convicted 160 high-ranked military and political leaders, not those who committed crimes, but those who were sitting at the table, organising those crimes. The international system should deal with them (the persecutors),” Del Ponte said.
She questioned the existence of Kosovo as a state and said Haradinaj was unfairly holding the prime ministerial post.
“I think Haradinaj doesn’t deserve the post he holds today. The tribunal convicted him, but, unfortunately, the Appeal Chamber acquitted him. But, I was not a prosecutor at the time,” she said.
Del Ponte added Kosovo “has a privilege to be recognised as a state, what I think was premature.”
Mentioning the so-called “Yellow House”, a place where the Albanians allegedly performed the organ harvesting on some 300 kidnapped Serbs during the war, De Ponte said that “we were not allowed to conduct an investigation,” adding she explained it in her book “The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals.”
“There is a court in Kosovo now but I haven’t heard that anything has been done and I doubt this event will be resolved. Based on my experience, the longer it takes, it’s less likely the problem will be solved,” she said.
Del Ponte added that the international law existed, “exists and will exist. There will be justice for the victims if there is a political will in the countries, particularly in the UN.”
