A protest planned for Friday in Tirana – against the Hague war crimes court's trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci – has reignited feuding between Albania's premier Edi Rama and the biggest party in Kosovo.
Kosovo Parliament Speaker, Dimal Basha, declared parliament inaugurated after the election of a Serb deputy speaker, despite objections by the biggest Serbian party.
Activists from the Balkans including a Kosovo Albanian who fled war as a child were detained as Israeli forces raided the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - the second such interception of a flotilla of pro-Palestinian aid vessels in a week.
Jock Covey, former deputy UN representative to Kosovo, told the Kosovo Specialist Chambers that Hashim Thaci – on trial for war crimes – was 'not a fighter' and probably never 'fired a bullet in anger'.
John Stewart Duncan told the court the KLA was 'not a hierarchical organisation where people do what they are told' – and real power lay with the operational zone commanders.
