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[00:07:53] wealth. It's a new day, second hour, and here's what
[00:07:56] you're watching. If the argument of the opposition
[00:08:00] parties that withdrew from the
[00:08:04] atmosphere, what is the argument for going out? Guest of the morning topic,
[00:08:08] bearer of the European Serbia list, Zdravko
[00:08:10] Ponaš.
[00:08:14] Does the legal verdict against Hashim Thaçi and his associates in
[00:08:17] The Hague also have a political and social aspect? Guest
[00:08:21] Daniele Vučenić behind the news, Professor of International Law at the University of
[00:08:25] Reading, Marko
[00:08:26] Milanović.
[00:08:29] The most important sports news we will hear from Ilija
[00:08:31] Kovačić.
[00:08:35] But before that, the most important news we will hear from Maja Đurić Avramov,
[00:08:39] she is with us, and Maja, because of the verdict in The Hague, last night
[00:08:43] protesters threw stones and pyrotechnics at the
[00:08:46] EULEX headquarters in Priština. Nataša, the police continue
[00:08:49] to secure government buildings in the center of Priština with stronger forces
[00:08:53] than usual, but before that, let's talk about the verdict itself.
[00:08:56] The Specialist Chambers of Kosovo in The Hague issued a first-instance verdict
[00:09:00] against the former KLA leader Hashim Thaçi and his closest
[00:09:03] associates Kadri Veseli, Redžep Seljivi, and
[00:09:06] Jakup Krasniqi. Thaçi and Krasniqi were each sentenced to
[00:09:10] 25 years in prison, Veselj to 18, and Seljimi to 13
[00:09:13] years. Chief Prosecutor Kimberly West welcomed the
[00:09:16] verdict, stating that it is important for the rule of law in Kosovo
[00:09:20] to bring belated justice to victims. Hashim
[00:09:24] Thaçi's defense lawyer, Pierre Prosper, said that he was shocked by the verdict, stating
[00:09:27] that it was predetermined and that it only took into account the
[00:09:31] evidence presented by the prosecution. After the verdict was announced in The Hague, at
[00:09:35] the place where Kosovar Albanians had gathered, riots broke out.
[00:09:39] Several people climbed onto police vehicles and hit them,
[00:09:42] and the police also used water cannons to disperse
[00:09:46] the crowd. The greater part of the day in the afternoon hours was
[00:09:49] peaceful.
[00:09:52] Albanian protesters again threw stones at the EULEX headquarters on the outskirts of
[00:09:55] Pristina around midnight. In the main square of that
[00:09:59] city, the gathering of supporters of the former KLA continued. Supporters
[00:10:02] of the former KLA and citizens carried Albanian flags of
[00:10:05] that organization, activating smoke flares. As
[00:10:09] Koha Ditore reports, a small part of the roof of the building
[00:10:13] caught fire. Death to traitors, freedom to liberators,
[00:10:16] was heard several times among the protesters several times, as the
[00:10:19] protesters said. Protesters demand from the government and
[00:10:23] parliament to present their position and plan what they will do next
[00:10:27] after the verdict against the four leaders of the former KLA. They announced that
[00:10:30] they will continue protests and that citizens will not remain silent before the decision
[00:10:34] of the court in The Hague, which they consider unjust. The Kosovo police
[00:10:38] announced that two people were arrested after these
[00:10:41] incidents.
[00:10:44] Lawyer and victim representative Aleksandar Olenik believes that the prosecution
[00:10:47] will appeal, focusing on the length of
[00:10:51] the sentence, but also on the fact that Thaçi and others were acquitted of the part of the indictment
[00:10:55] that refers to crimes against
[00:10:57] humanity.
[00:10:59] In my opinion, that part must be the subject of a second-instance procedure, and
[00:11:03] I think that this panel, i.e. the council that will
[00:11:06] deliberate on the appeals, will have to specifically
[00:11:10] examine that part because the evidence was fixed and
[00:11:13] presented many years before the trial itself.
[00:11:17] I will give you an example, uh, the victims represented by my office, they were all
[00:11:20] in a camp for a long time and they were liberated
[00:11:24] by KFOR. On that occasion, they came, occupied,
[00:11:27] disarmed these KLA members, recorded everything, made evidence,
[00:11:31] took them to the hospital, to Bondsteel, where they treated them, they documented
[00:11:34] everything that happened in that camp,
[00:11:38] there is fixed evidence, that evidence was presented at this
[00:11:42] trial, one of them gave a statement before the court itself, others
[00:11:46] gave recorded statements that were recorded here, so everything was determined
[00:11:49] there.
[00:11:52] The United States respects the verdict of the specialized chambers and calls
[00:11:56] on all parties to accept the court's decision, Radio Free Europe reported.
[00:11:59] Washington also called for avoiding inflammatory
[00:12:03] rhetoric after the verdict. We call on all parties
[00:12:06] to respect the court's decision, avoid rhetoric that incites tensions
[00:12:10] and continue to work for a peaceful democratic future, the spokesman
[00:12:14] stated. France announced that it has taken note of
[00:12:17] the verdict issued by the specialized chambers of Kosovo in the case
[00:12:21] against Hashim Thaçi and others. The French Ministry
[00:12:24] for Europe and Foreign Affairs stated that they express support
[00:12:28] for that judicial institution and the fight against
[00:12:31] impunity.
[00:12:34] And right after the news and commercials, "Behind the News" begins with our
[00:12:38] Danica Vučenić. Danica, the verdict is the topic you're
[00:12:41] discussing, who are you talking to and from what angles? That's right,
[00:12:45] that's right, Majo, I'm talking to Professor Marko
[00:12:48] Milanović, Professor at the University of Reading,
[00:12:51] Professor of International Law. And in addition to
[00:12:55] the analysis of the verdict, we will also discuss
[00:12:58] why no verdict, regardless of which
[00:13:02] specific regional country it refers to, has
[00:13:05] had any significant impact on changing people's awareness of
[00:13:09] our common past.
[00:13:12] Thank you, Danica, Danica Vučenić, immediately after this
[00:13:15] news.
[00:13:21] News from the election bloc: representatives of the election list of the Party of
[00:13:25] Justice and Reconciliation, USAME Zukrolić, the movement for unification, submitted to the Republic
[00:13:29] Election Commission a list of 250 candidates for members of parliament
[00:13:33] with about 7,000 collected signatures of citizen support.
[00:13:36] Zukonić stated that the list of candidates of that party includes
[00:13:40] more than 50% women. He stated that he
[00:13:42] expects SPP to be the strongest Bosniak party that
[00:13:46] will bring results to all parts of Serbia where national
[00:13:49] communities live and all who support the Party of Justice
[00:13:53] and Reconciliation.
[00:13:56] The Republic Election Commission discussed the objections submitted regarding
[00:14:00] the announcement of the list of the Serbian Progressive Party. One of
[00:14:04] the objections was submitted by the director of Birodi, Zoran Gavrilović, in
[00:14:07] his capacity as a voter. As he stated, the SNS list bears
[00:14:10] a name that contains the name of the current president Aleksandar Vučić,
[00:14:14] the first on that list, who continues to hold a public office.
[00:14:18] Gavrilović therefore assessed that the RIC illegally declared that list
[00:14:22] valid. Identical objections were submitted by three more.
[00:14:25] All objections were rejected as
[00:14:27] unfounded.
[00:14:31] The Romanian Party announced that in the upcoming parliamentary elections
[00:14:34] on October 25, it will provide support for the student list,
[00:14:38] "Students Win." The presidency of that party stated that during
[00:14:42] the campaign, it will make its organizational capacities
[00:14:45] available to students and calls on members of the Romanian
[00:14:48] national minority to support their list, TV Nova
[00:14:52] portal reported. They added that the decision... that the decision
[00:14:55] represents a continuation of the agreement reached in
[00:14:59] Kovin in May with representatives of the student
[00:15:02] movement.
[00:15:05] Students in the University of Belgrade blockade announced that police
[00:15:09] officers from the economic crime sector came to their
[00:15:12] warehouse where promotional material for future actions is kept. They
[00:15:15] claim that the police officers did not have a warrant and that they entered
[00:15:19] private property. The timely reaction of lawyers, students, and
[00:15:23] citizens once again showed that...
[00:15:25] we will not give up, that they cannot scare us. Such cheap
[00:15:29] attempts at intimidation will not even scratch us, the
[00:15:32] students stated on the social network
[00:15:34] Instagram.
[00:15:38] The president of the new Democratic Party of Serbia and a member of the Nada coalition,
[00:15:42] Miloš Jovanović, assessed that this pre-election campaign will be worse than
[00:15:46] all previous ones regarding conditions and media
[00:15:49] pluralism. The opposition public itself, created by
[00:15:52] two television stations, uncritically accepted the students' demand
[00:15:56] for elections without changing the conditions, and they are before
[00:16:00] us. We go into them with a clear ideology and political vision
[00:16:03] as the only ones from the right side of the political, as the only ones from
[00:16:07] the right side of the political spectrum, Jovanović said for
[00:16:10] the weekly Nin. He added that the country's relationship with
[00:16:13] the European Union is decisive because everything else depends on it, and that
[00:16:17] regarding that question, as he stated, everyone must
[00:16:20] decide
[00:16:21] for themselves.
[00:16:29] The US House of Representatives passed the sanctions and tariffs bill,
[00:16:33] aimed at increasing economic pressure on Russia
[00:16:36] due to the invasion of Ukraine, thereby sending the act to President
[00:16:40] Donald Trump for signature, almost a year and a half
[00:16:43] after it was proposed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham,
[00:16:47] Reuters reports. The House of Representatives passed the bill with
[00:16:50] 262 votes in favor and 159 against,
[00:16:54] after 58 Democrats broke from party
[00:16:58] leadership and joined Republicans in supporting
[00:17:01] the act. The proposal was passed in the Senate last month, and the law
[00:17:05] is aimed at Russia's energy and defense industries, as well as
[00:17:09] its fleet and shadow fleet of
[00:17:12] tankers, which circumvent existing sanctions, all with the
[00:17:16] aim of depriving Moscow of funds to finance the war in
[00:17:19] Ukraine. The proposal met with resistance because it authorizes Trump to
[00:17:23] impose high tariffs that can reach 100% on China,
[00:17:26] India, and other countries to reduce their dependence on
[00:17:30] Russian oil and gas, as well as to extend sanctions against
[00:17:34] Iran.
[00:17:36] That's all for this news review, stay with
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[00:20:02] From September 20, Impression of the Week with Olja
[00:20:05] Bećković, exclusively on M1.
[00:20:20] This is "Behind the News", my name is Danica Vučenić. Will the verdict of
[00:20:23] a total of 81 years in prison for war
[00:20:26] crimes against four leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army
[00:20:30] result in what we saw yesterday as
[00:20:33] reactions, the belief of the majority of Kosovar society and political elite
[00:20:37] that they are unjust victims, just as any other verdict
[00:20:41] against any individual from the political or military
[00:20:44] leadership of our country, and especially against Ratko Mladić, influenced
[00:20:48] the establishment of the view that everyone is against Serbs, that everyone
[00:20:51] hates us? Why haven't the verdicts of international domestic courts
[00:20:55] concerning war crimes and for which thousands
[00:20:59] of documents remain, which are an incredible depiction of what human
[00:21:02] beings are capable of to harm other human
[00:21:05] beings, not at all changed the entrenched
[00:21:08] regional positions regarding their pasts? Among other things, I am discussing
[00:21:12] this with the Professor at the University of Reading, Professor of International
[00:21:16] Law, Marko Milanović. Good
[00:21:19] morning and good morning, and thank you for being here.
[00:21:22] I would like to start, let's start from that
[00:21:26] context, but in a narrower sense of the word, did this
[00:21:29] verdict essentially bring some
[00:21:33] black and white picture of relations or
[00:21:37] the perception of the citizens of Kosovo towards
[00:21:40] their past, that is, towards the role of the Kosovo Liberation Army, that is,
[00:21:43] individuals in it? Well, I'm afraid not. I mean, the court panel was
[00:21:47] completely right at the very beginning of delivering the verdict when
[00:21:51] it said that this verdict does not deal with the fairness
[00:21:55] of the KLA's fight against Serbia
[00:21:58] in some general sense, but that it
[00:22:01] deals only with specific crimes for which those accused were
[00:22:05] charged, namely
[00:22:08] unjust detention, abuse, and murder of hundreds
[00:22:11] of people. What the court established beyond a reasonable
[00:22:14] doubt will not disrupt the views that people in
[00:22:18] Kosovo have adopted on all these issues, where they view all of this in a very absolute
[00:22:21] way and reject any findings of fact that do not match
[00:22:25] their preconceptions. So, what would you say, let's ask this follow-up
[00:22:29] question: does this verdict, contextually
[00:22:32] speaking, have greater
[00:22:35] political, judicial, just, or social
[00:22:39] significance? Well, I don't think these things are in competition. So, the extent of the
[00:22:42] political or social significance of that verdict depends on
[00:22:46] what other social actors do with it. If you were to, for example, take a
[00:22:50] verdict, and have an educational program about schools, about the facts that were
[00:22:54] established in that verdict, then that verdict
[00:22:57] would have social significance. If all social elites, political,
[00:23:01] media, educational, unite against such a
[00:23:04] verdict, it will be completely marginalized. I mean, that's the complete
[00:23:07] experience of all international courts from Nuremberg until today, because
[00:23:11] those verdicts in any country in the region, including our
[00:23:15] country, in Bosnia, in Croatia, now we have
[00:23:18] examples in Kosovo, are actually viewed only through that political
[00:23:21] context, where the people who were convicted before
[00:23:25] international or domestic courts in this
[00:23:28] case are essentially even
[00:23:31] more popular than they were before that verdict. Thaçi
[00:23:35] has more support now than when he was president or prime minister. That's right,
[00:23:38] they have, so that glorification of a war
[00:23:41] criminal as actually another
[00:23:44] victim. So the fact that a war criminal is prosecuted
[00:23:47] actually makes him a victim.
[00:23:50] No one untangles, for example, what the judge read yesterday,
[00:23:53] uh, what essentially happened to each
[00:23:56] individual, what conditions they were in, where they
[00:23:59] relieved themselves, how they were beaten, what
[00:24:03] injuries they had. Exactly, the victim herself becomes completely
[00:24:06] irrelevant. So the only thing that matters is the nation or
[00:24:10] some general narrative about the justice of the struggle. So let's just
[00:24:14] talk about the verdict itself. So
[00:24:17] we have a joint criminal enterprise or
[00:24:21] a joint criminal enterprise, we don't have command
[00:24:25] responsibility. What does that mean, does it even matter,
[00:24:28] that is, a joint criminal enterprise is a form
[00:24:32] of responsibility where you can convict some highly
[00:24:36] ranked people for criminal acts directly
[00:24:39] committed by people far down the chain
[00:24:42] of command, that is, some ordinary guards in some
[00:24:46] camp. So you can convict highly
[00:24:49] ranked people based on the fact that they actually had
[00:24:52] a plan, a common intention to commit certain criminal
[00:24:56] acts. In this particular case, the court said, Thaçi,
[00:24:59] Krasniqi, and so on, they shared that common
[00:25:02] intention of abusing, arresting, and killing
[00:25:06] political enemies in KLA. Just to stop here and
[00:25:10] draw an analogy, is it similar, and it is also about
[00:25:13] Kosovo, as in the case of Nikola Šainović and Pavković
[00:25:17] where... the joint or common criminal enterprise was also
[00:25:20] established, General Lazarević, for example, was not ultimately included in
[00:25:24] that. That's right, it's the exact same form of responsibility. So in that particular
[00:25:28] case before the Hague Tribunal, Šajnović and others, which actually
[00:25:31] deals with the crimes of Serbian forces
[00:25:35] in Kosovo, uh, the Tribunal, the Hague Tribunal found
[00:25:38] that there was a coordinated criminal enterprise of ethnic cleansing
[00:25:42] of Kosovo from the Albanian population. So that was that joint
[00:25:45] criminal. In which three of the accused
[00:25:49] were direct participants, the other three were accomplices. Now, when we talk
[00:25:52] about the length of the sentence, so we have two times 25 years
[00:25:56] in prison for for...
[00:26:00] Hashim Thaçi and Jakup Krasniqi, we have
[00:26:02] 18 and 13 years for Kadri
[00:26:06] Veseli and Redžep Selimi. Uh, the debate immediately
[00:26:10] opened up about whether that was too much or too little. For Kosovar society, it's
[00:26:13] too much, here the comments are that it's too little. Even
[00:26:17] a parallel was drawn with Banjska. I think Ms.
[00:26:20] Trajković was the first, not to undermine, I don't want to
[00:26:24] discredit her.
[00:26:27] I don't want to mislead
[00:26:31] uh her personal feelings. what's happening
[00:26:34] uh in the context of Kosovo
[00:26:36] and the victims, she says how is it possible that for there
[00:26:40] to be life imprisonment for four dead people, and
[00:26:43] here for so many dead people and and and
[00:26:47] unlawfully detained tortured, only
[00:26:49] 25 only 25 for people of that
[00:26:53] age is actually equivalent to life imprisonment or
[00:26:57] something very similar to that. Well, uh,
[00:27:00] so we are here now dealing with... some symbolism, right? How much
[00:27:04] that punishment reflects the severity of the act, and not actually
[00:27:07] the essence, well, that comparison is very problematic. You can for
[00:27:11] a simple murder, so completely without any political
[00:27:15] connotations, get in some country life imprisonment or
[00:27:18] 40 years for one murder, so here we are talking about
[00:27:21] war crimes that are massive in nature, now you would then be able to say every war
[00:27:25] criminal should get life imprisonment and end the story, but international
[00:27:29] criminal courts and tribunals do not act that way, they use
[00:27:32] various... ways of differentiating those punishments. In
[00:27:35] this particular case, these sentences that were handed down yesterday are
[00:27:39] more or less completely in line with the practice of international courts,
[00:27:42] specifically in the case of Šainović et al which also dealt with Kosovo,
[00:27:46] so crimes of Serbian forces in Kosovo, all the
[00:27:50] accused received lesser sentences than those handed down yesterday
[00:27:53] to Thaci and Krasniqi, so Šainović received 18 years, Pavković received
[00:27:57] 22 years and Thaci and Krasniqi received 25. I mean,
[00:28:01] that's the relevant comparison. Not what happened in Banjska where
[00:28:04] the proceedings were conducted before some ordinary domestic court, not before such
[00:28:08] a hybrid internationalized court. Yes, there was also a debate about
[00:28:12] there being no uh uh that organ trafficking was not
[00:28:16] included in the indictment, the Yellow
[00:28:18] House and so on. Do you have a position on that? So
[00:28:22] we know from the statements
[00:28:25] uh of the investigators later
[00:28:28] the prosecutor that there is
[00:28:31] no evidence... uh enough to bring, that's what was
[00:28:34] said, to bring charges. Do you think that's the reason or something else? That's
[00:28:37] actually, I think, a very complicated question that needs to be explored
[00:28:41] more deeply. So, two things, two
[00:28:44] sets of crimes, let's put it that way, were not the subject
[00:28:47] of this case. The first thing is that whole story about organ
[00:28:51] trafficking, which actually, if you remember, was the driving force
[00:28:55] for the establishment of this special court. So
[00:28:58] that Dick Marty report which then provoked
[00:29:02] the European Union to, along with other allies, actually impose on
[00:29:06] Kosovo the establishment of this court, uh that
[00:29:09] story about human organ trafficking was not
[00:29:12] the subject of that case at all. Also, the subject of that case was not the ethnic
[00:29:16] cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo after the war ended,
[00:29:20] so after the armed conflict was over, and that was June 20,
[00:29:23] 1999, then actually most of the crimes that happened
[00:29:27] against Serbs were committed in that period when Serbian forces withdrew and
[00:29:31] went into self-defense. "And in those few months, so,
[00:29:34] about a thousand Serbs died, I mean, in Kosovo,
[00:29:37] most Serbs were, were now they left then, so,
[00:29:41] these acts were not the subject of this case at all,
[00:29:45] but is it, is it understandable or not understandable,
[00:29:50] look at it, one way which I'm afraid is dominant here
[00:29:53] uh in Serbia would be the following, that the reason why this case
[00:29:57] did not mention organ trafficking or the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo after the end
[00:30:01] of the war is some conspiracy. So the West and all those Western
[00:30:05] judges decided to cover up everything that happened to the Serbs, that
[00:30:08] is option one, that is the option I don't believe, but I am afraid that is the option that
[00:30:12] I tell you will in some case become valid, that which
[00:30:15] you are talking about now after the end of the war could
[00:30:18] eventually, if it is raised, I assume that this court
[00:30:22] will not close its doors now, but continue to work
[00:30:28] investigations, that would be a crime against humanity
[00:30:31] eventually. That's right, exactly and both
[00:30:35] issues, i.e. organ trafficking and the ethnic cleansing of Serbs after the end
[00:30:38] of the war, can be the subject of some future proceedings. We know that
[00:30:42] this court has not concluded all its proceedings, so a
[00:30:45] month ago the prosecutor filed a new
[00:30:49] indictment, the contents of which we do not know, it is still
[00:30:52] under uh uh confidential, so it is with
[00:30:55] the duty judge for those preliminary questions only.