Sainovic: Thaci was bragging about his role in the KLA until yesterday, and now in The Hague, he is shifting the blame to his collaborators

​​​​​​​Hashim Thaci is a man who, until yesterday, boasted not only that he was the leader of the KLA but also the president of so-called Kosovo, and now in court, they shift the blame to his associates and regional commanders, because he cannot claim that there was no crime, and that speaks volumes about his character, the former Prime Minister of the FRY and member of the delegation in Rambouillet, Nikola Sainovic says.

On the allegations of the defense lawyer in The Hague that the former KLA commander had only been a student and that he practically had not had any authority and because of that he should be acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Sainovic says that could not be further from the truth.

"Thacii became famous by attacking a traffic patrol, when two traffic officers were killed, that's how much of a student and intellectual he was. That was the beginning of his image and what earned him to be hired by the intelligence service of Albania, which is also the creator of the KLA," Sainovic says for Kosovo online.

Sainovic believes that, from the beginning, the KLA used force to achieve political goals.

"I want to draw attention to a moment that we should not lose sight of, and that is the fact that in July 1998 America left Rugova and went over to the side of the KLA with that meeting in Junik between Holbrook, Hill, and that member of the KLA. From that moment, the US stopped supporting Rugova, who was also for independent Kosovo, but not for Kalashnikov. And now you can see who Washington supported militarily, on whose behalf they bombed Yugoslavia, and with whom they sat for 20 years. They made great politicians out of them, they took pictures together 1,000 times, so I suggest that they go to The Hague now and take pictures with them again," Sainovic says.

Our interlocutor states that the trial in The Hague shows how justified Serbia's resistance to terrorism was.

"Thaci was accused of 44 illegal camps or if you want prisons during 1998, that is, before the war started. The KLA killed more Albanians than Serbs during that period, mostly those who were with Rugova in order to take over power from him, and then they also attacked the state structures of Serbia. This trial is now talking about it, and we should not miss the opportunity to talk about it. We will see how the Hague court will end, but the most important thing is that the truth comes out," Sainovic says.

In 2009, the Hague Tribunal sentenced Sainovic (in The Hague since 2003) to 22 years in prison, based on the indictment charging him with war crimes in Kosovo, and he completed his sentence on August 26, 2015.