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In a last minute save, Kosovo MPs avoided another snap parliamentary election by voting for a former minister from Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, for President.
After violent clashes on Monday night, protesters started to reassemble in Prishtina to demand legal changes to curb the powers of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers war crimes court following convictions of guerrilla leaders.
The daily protests by Kosovo citizens and other supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army against the conviction of four former KLA leaders for war crimes, by Kosovo’s Hague-based court, bring back the issue of war- related trauma.
Activists in Kosovo are installing countdown timers counting off the days until the September 16 verdict in the crimes against humanity trial of former president Hashim Thaci at The Hague.
Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci says he expects to be acquitted of all charges in the war crimes case against him and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders when the verdict is announced on September 16.