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00:07:56you're watching. If the argument of the opposition
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00:08:04atmosphere, what is the argument for going out? Guest of the morning topic,
00:08:08bearer of the European Serbia list, Zdravko
00:08:10Ponaš.
00:08:14Does the legal verdict against Hashim Thaçi and his associates in
00:08:17The Hague also have a political and social aspect? Guest
00:08:21Daniele Vučenić behind the news, Professor of International Law at the University of
00:08:25Reading, Marko
00:08:26Milanović.
00:08:29The most important sports news we will hear from Ilija
00:08:31Kovačić.
00:08:35But before that, the most important news we will hear from Maja Đurić Avramov,
00:08:39she is with us, and Maja, because of the verdict in The Hague, last night
00:08:43protesters threw stones and pyrotechnics at the
00:08:46EULEX headquarters in Priština. Nataša, the police continue
00:08:49to secure government buildings in the center of Priština with stronger forces
00:08:53than usual, but before that, let's talk about the verdict itself.
00:08:56The Specialist Chambers of Kosovo in The Hague issued a first-instance verdict
00:09:00against the former KLA leader Hashim Thaçi and his closest
00:09:03associates Kadri Veseli, Redžep Seljivi, and
00:09:06Jakup Krasniqi. Thaçi and Krasniqi were each sentenced to
00:09:1025 years in prison, Veselj to 18, and Seljimi to 13
00:09:13years. Chief Prosecutor Kimberly West welcomed the
00:09:16verdict, stating that it is important for the rule of law in Kosovo
00:09:20to bring belated justice to victims. Hashim
00:09:24Thaçi's defense lawyer, Pierre Prosper, said that he was shocked by the verdict, stating
00:09:27that it was predetermined and that it only took into account the
00:09:31evidence presented by the prosecution. After the verdict was announced in The Hague, at
00:09:35the place where Kosovar Albanians had gathered, riots broke out.
00:09:39Several people climbed onto police vehicles and hit them,
00:09:42and the police also used water cannons to disperse
00:09:46the crowd. The greater part of the day in the afternoon hours was
00:09:49peaceful.
00:09:52Albanian protesters again threw stones at the EULEX headquarters on the outskirts of
00:09:55Pristina around midnight. In the main square of that
00:09:59city, the gathering of supporters of the former KLA continued. Supporters
00:10:02of the former KLA and citizens carried Albanian flags of
00:10:05that organization, activating smoke flares. As
00:10:09Koha Ditore reports, a small part of the roof of the building
00:10:13caught fire. Death to traitors, freedom to liberators,
00:10:16was heard several times among the protesters several times, as the
00:10:19protesters said. Protesters demand from the government and
00:10:23parliament to present their position and plan what they will do next
00:10:27after the verdict against the four leaders of the former KLA. They announced that
00:10:30they will continue protests and that citizens will not remain silent before the decision
00:10:34of the court in The Hague, which they consider unjust. The Kosovo police
00:10:38announced that two people were arrested after these
00:10:41incidents.
00:10:44Lawyer and victim representative Aleksandar Olenik believes that the prosecution
00:10:47will appeal, focusing on the length of
00:10:51the sentence, but also on the fact that Thaçi and others were acquitted of the part of the indictment
00:10:55that refers to crimes against
00:10:57humanity.
00:10:59In my opinion, that part must be the subject of a second-instance procedure, and
00:11:03I think that this panel, i.e. the council that will
00:11:06deliberate on the appeals, will have to specifically
00:11:10examine that part because the evidence was fixed and
00:11:13presented many years before the trial itself.
00:11:17I will give you an example, uh, the victims represented by my office, they were all
00:11:20in a camp for a long time and they were liberated
00:11:24by KFOR. On that occasion, they came, occupied,
00:11:27disarmed these KLA members, recorded everything, made evidence,
00:11:31took them to the hospital, to Bondsteel, where they treated them, they documented
00:11:34everything that happened in that camp,
00:11:38there is fixed evidence, that evidence was presented at this
00:11:42trial, one of them gave a statement before the court itself, others
00:11:46gave recorded statements that were recorded here, so everything was determined
00:11:49there.
00:11:52The United States respects the verdict of the specialized chambers and calls
00:11:56on all parties to accept the court's decision, Radio Free Europe reported.
00:11:59Washington also called for avoiding inflammatory
00:12:03rhetoric after the verdict. We call on all parties
00:12:06to respect the court's decision, avoid rhetoric that incites tensions
00:12:10and continue to work for a peaceful democratic future, the spokesman
00:12:14stated. France announced that it has taken note of
00:12:17the verdict issued by the specialized chambers of Kosovo in the case
00:12:21against Hashim Thaçi and others. The French Ministry
00:12:24for Europe and Foreign Affairs stated that they express support
00:12:28for that judicial institution and the fight against
00:12:31impunity.
00:12:34And right after the news and commercials, "Behind the News" begins with our
00:12:38Danica Vučenić. Danica, the verdict is the topic you're
00:12:41discussing, who are you talking to and from what angles? That's right,
00:12:45that's right, Majo, I'm talking to Professor Marko
00:12:48Milanović, Professor at the University of Reading,
00:12:51Professor of International Law. And in addition to
00:12:55the analysis of the verdict, we will also discuss
00:12:58why no verdict, regardless of which
00:13:02specific regional country it refers to, has
00:13:05had any significant impact on changing people's awareness of
00:13:09our common past.
00:13:12Thank you, Danica, Danica Vučenić, immediately after this
00:13:15news.
00:13:21News from the election bloc: representatives of the election list of the Party of
00:13:25Justice and Reconciliation, USAME Zukrolić, the movement for unification, submitted to the Republic
00:13:29Election Commission a list of 250 candidates for members of parliament
00:13:33with about 7,000 collected signatures of citizen support.
00:13:36Zukonić stated that the list of candidates of that party includes
00:13:40more than 50% women. He stated that he
00:13:42expects SPP to be the strongest Bosniak party that
00:13:46will bring results to all parts of Serbia where national
00:13:49communities live and all who support the Party of Justice
00:13:53and Reconciliation.
00:13:56The Republic Election Commission discussed the objections submitted regarding
00:14:00the announcement of the list of the Serbian Progressive Party. One of
00:14:04the objections was submitted by the director of Birodi, Zoran Gavrilović, in
00:14:07his capacity as a voter. As he stated, the SNS list bears
00:14:10a name that contains the name of the current president Aleksandar Vučić,
00:14:14the first on that list, who continues to hold a public office.
00:14:18Gavrilović therefore assessed that the RIC illegally declared that list
00:14:22valid. Identical objections were submitted by three more.
00:14:25All objections were rejected as
00:14:27unfounded.
00:14:31The Romanian Party announced that in the upcoming parliamentary elections
00:14:34on October 25, it will provide support for the student list,
00:14:38"Students Win." The presidency of that party stated that during
00:14:42the campaign, it will make its organizational capacities
00:14:45available to students and calls on members of the Romanian
00:14:48national minority to support their list, TV Nova
00:14:52portal reported. They added that the decision... that the decision
00:14:55represents a continuation of the agreement reached in
00:14:59Kovin in May with representatives of the student
00:15:02movement.
00:15:05Students in the University of Belgrade blockade announced that police
00:15:09officers from the economic crime sector came to their
00:15:12warehouse where promotional material for future actions is kept. They
00:15:15claim that the police officers did not have a warrant and that they entered
00:15:19private property. The timely reaction of lawyers, students, and
00:15:23citizens once again showed that...
00:15:25we will not give up, that they cannot scare us. Such cheap
00:15:29attempts at intimidation will not even scratch us, the
00:15:32students stated on the social network
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00:15:38The president of the new Democratic Party of Serbia and a member of the Nada coalition,
00:15:42Miloš Jovanović, assessed that this pre-election campaign will be worse than
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00:16:03as the only ones from the right side of the political, as the only ones from
00:16:07the right side of the political spectrum, Jovanović said for
00:16:10the weekly Nin. He added that the country's relationship with
00:16:13the European Union is decisive because everything else depends on it, and that
00:16:17regarding that question, as he stated, everyone must
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00:16:29The US House of Representatives passed the sanctions and tariffs bill,
00:16:33aimed at increasing economic pressure on Russia
00:16:36due to the invasion of Ukraine, thereby sending the act to President
00:16:40Donald Trump for signature, almost a year and a half
00:16:43after it was proposed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham,
00:16:47Reuters reports. The House of Representatives passed the bill with
00:16:50262 votes in favor and 159 against,
00:16:54after 58 Democrats broke from party
00:16:58leadership and joined Republicans in supporting
00:17:01the act. The proposal was passed in the Senate last month, and the law
00:17:05is aimed at Russia's energy and defense industries, as well as
00:17:09its fleet and shadow fleet of
00:17:12tankers, which circumvent existing sanctions, all with the
00:17:16aim of depriving Moscow of funds to finance the war in
00:17:19Ukraine. The proposal met with resistance because it authorizes Trump to
00:17:23impose high tariffs that can reach 100% on China,
00:17:26India, and other countries to reduce their dependence on
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00:20:02From September 20, Impression of the Week with Olja
00:20:05Bećković, exclusively on M1.
00:20:20This is "Behind the News", my name is Danica Vučenić. Will the verdict of
00:20:23a total of 81 years in prison for war
00:20:26crimes against four leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army
00:20:30result in what we saw yesterday as
00:20:33reactions, the belief of the majority of Kosovar society and political elite
00:20:37that they are unjust victims, just as any other verdict
00:20:41against any individual from the political or military
00:20:44leadership of our country, and especially against Ratko Mladić, influenced
00:20:48the establishment of the view that everyone is against Serbs, that everyone
00:20:51hates us? Why haven't the verdicts of international domestic courts
00:20:55concerning war crimes and for which thousands
00:20:59of documents remain, which are an incredible depiction of what human
00:21:02beings are capable of to harm other human
00:21:05beings, not at all changed the entrenched
00:21:08regional positions regarding their pasts? Among other things, I am discussing
00:21:12this with the Professor at the University of Reading, Professor of International
00:21:16Law, Marko Milanović. Good
00:21:19morning and good morning, and thank you for being here.
00:21:22I would like to start, let's start from that
00:21:26context, but in a narrower sense of the word, did this
00:21:29verdict essentially bring some
00:21:33black and white picture of relations or
00:21:37the perception of the citizens of Kosovo towards
00:21:40their past, that is, towards the role of the Kosovo Liberation Army, that is,
00:21:43individuals in it? Well, I'm afraid not. I mean, the court panel was
00:21:47completely right at the very beginning of delivering the verdict when
00:21:51it said that this verdict does not deal with the fairness
00:21:55of the KLA's fight against Serbia
00:21:58in some general sense, but that it
00:22:01deals only with specific crimes for which those accused were
00:22:05charged, namely
00:22:08unjust detention, abuse, and murder of hundreds
00:22:11of people. What the court established beyond a reasonable
00:22:14doubt will not disrupt the views that people in
00:22:18Kosovo have adopted on all these issues, where they view all of this in a very absolute
00:22:21way and reject any findings of fact that do not match
00:22:25their preconceptions. So, what would you say, let's ask this follow-up
00:22:29question: does this verdict, contextually
00:22:32speaking, have greater
00:22:35political, judicial, just, or social
00:22:39significance? Well, I don't think these things are in competition. So, the extent of the
00:22:42political or social significance of that verdict depends on
00:22:46what other social actors do with it. If you were to, for example, take a
00:22:50verdict, and have an educational program about schools, about the facts that were
00:22:54established in that verdict, then that verdict
00:22:57would have social significance. If all social elites, political,
00:23:01media, educational, unite against such a
00:23:04verdict, it will be completely marginalized. I mean, that's the complete
00:23:07experience of all international courts from Nuremberg until today, because
00:23:11those verdicts in any country in the region, including our
00:23:15country, in Bosnia, in Croatia, now we have
00:23:18examples in Kosovo, are actually viewed only through that political
00:23:21context, where the people who were convicted before
00:23:25international or domestic courts in this
00:23:28case are essentially even
00:23:31more popular than they were before that verdict. Thaçi
00:23:35has more support now than when he was president or prime minister. That's right,
00:23:38they have, so that glorification of a war
00:23:41criminal as actually another
00:23:44victim. So the fact that a war criminal is prosecuted
00:23:47actually makes him a victim.
00:23:50No one untangles, for example, what the judge read yesterday,
00:23:53uh, what essentially happened to each
00:23:56individual, what conditions they were in, where they
00:23:59relieved themselves, how they were beaten, what
00:24:03injuries they had. Exactly, the victim herself becomes completely
00:24:06irrelevant. So the only thing that matters is the nation or
00:24:10some general narrative about the justice of the struggle. So let's just
00:24:14talk about the verdict itself. So
00:24:17we have a joint criminal enterprise or
00:24:21a joint criminal enterprise, we don't have command
00:24:25responsibility. What does that mean, does it even matter,
00:24:28that is, a joint criminal enterprise is a form
00:24:32of responsibility where you can convict some highly
00:24:36ranked people for criminal acts directly
00:24:39committed by people far down the chain
00:24:42of command, that is, some ordinary guards in some
00:24:46camp. So you can convict highly
00:24:49ranked people based on the fact that they actually had
00:24:52a plan, a common intention to commit certain criminal
00:24:56acts. In this particular case, the court said, Thaçi,
00:24:59Krasniqi, and so on, they shared that common
00:25:02intention of abusing, arresting, and killing
00:25:06political enemies in KLA. Just to stop here and
00:25:10draw an analogy, is it similar, and it is also about
00:25:13Kosovo, as in the case of Nikola Šainović and Pavković
00:25:17where... the joint or common criminal enterprise was also
00:25:20established, General Lazarević, for example, was not ultimately included in
00:25:24that. That's right, it's the exact same form of responsibility. So in that particular
00:25:28case before the Hague Tribunal, Šajnović and others, which actually
00:25:31deals with the crimes of Serbian forces
00:25:35in Kosovo, uh, the Tribunal, the Hague Tribunal found
00:25:38that there was a coordinated criminal enterprise of ethnic cleansing
00:25:42of Kosovo from the Albanian population. So that was that joint
00:25:45criminal. In which three of the accused
00:25:49were direct participants, the other three were accomplices. Now, when we talk
00:25:52about the length of the sentence, so we have two times 25 years
00:25:56in prison for for...
00:26:00Hashim Thaçi and Jakup Krasniqi, we have
00:26:0218 and 13 years for Kadri
00:26:06Veseli and Redžep Selimi. Uh, the debate immediately
00:26:10opened up about whether that was too much or too little. For Kosovar society, it's
00:26:13too much, here the comments are that it's too little. Even
00:26:17a parallel was drawn with Banjska. I think Ms.
00:26:20Trajković was the first, not to undermine, I don't want to
00:26:24discredit her.
00:26:27I don't want to mislead
00:26:31uh her personal feelings. what's happening
00:26:34uh in the context of Kosovo
00:26:36and the victims, she says how is it possible that for there
00:26:40to be life imprisonment for four dead people, and
00:26:43here for so many dead people and and and
00:26:47unlawfully detained tortured, only
00:26:4925 only 25 for people of that
00:26:53age is actually equivalent to life imprisonment or
00:26:57something very similar to that. Well, uh,
00:27:00so we are here now dealing with... some symbolism, right? How much
00:27:04that punishment reflects the severity of the act, and not actually
00:27:07the essence, well, that comparison is very problematic. You can for
00:27:11a simple murder, so completely without any political
00:27:15connotations, get in some country life imprisonment or
00:27:1840 years for one murder, so here we are talking about
00:27:21war crimes that are massive in nature, now you would then be able to say every war
00:27:25criminal should get life imprisonment and end the story, but international
00:27:29criminal courts and tribunals do not act that way, they use
00:27:32various... ways of differentiating those punishments. In
00:27:35this particular case, these sentences that were handed down yesterday are
00:27:39more or less completely in line with the practice of international courts,
00:27:42specifically in the case of Šainović et al which also dealt with Kosovo,
00:27:46so crimes of Serbian forces in Kosovo, all the
00:27:50accused received lesser sentences than those handed down yesterday
00:27:53to Thaci and Krasniqi, so Šainović received 18 years, Pavković received
00:27:5722 years and Thaci and Krasniqi received 25. I mean,
00:28:01that's the relevant comparison. Not what happened in Banjska where
00:28:04the proceedings were conducted before some ordinary domestic court, not before such
00:28:08a hybrid internationalized court. Yes, there was also a debate about
00:28:12there being no uh uh that organ trafficking was not
00:28:16included in the indictment, the Yellow
00:28:18House and so on. Do you have a position on that? So
00:28:22we know from the statements
00:28:25uh of the investigators later
00:28:28the prosecutor that there is
00:28:31no evidence... uh enough to bring, that's what was
00:28:34said, to bring charges. Do you think that's the reason or something else? That's
00:28:37actually, I think, a very complicated question that needs to be explored
00:28:41more deeply. So, two things, two
00:28:44sets of crimes, let's put it that way, were not the subject
00:28:47of this case. The first thing is that whole story about organ
00:28:51trafficking, which actually, if you remember, was the driving force
00:28:55for the establishment of this special court. So
00:28:58that Dick Marty report which then provoked
00:29:02the European Union to, along with other allies, actually impose on
00:29:06Kosovo the establishment of this court, uh that
00:29:09story about human organ trafficking was not
00:29:12the subject of that case at all. Also, the subject of that case was not the ethnic
00:29:16cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo after the war ended,
00:29:20so after the armed conflict was over, and that was June 20,
00:29:231999, then actually most of the crimes that happened
00:29:27against Serbs were committed in that period when Serbian forces withdrew and
00:29:31went into self-defense. "And in those few months, so,
00:29:34about a thousand Serbs died, I mean, in Kosovo,
00:29:37most Serbs were, were now they left then, so,
00:29:41these acts were not the subject of this case at all,
00:29:45but is it, is it understandable or not understandable,
00:29:50look at it, one way which I'm afraid is dominant here
00:29:53uh in Serbia would be the following, that the reason why this case
00:29:57did not mention organ trafficking or the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo after the end
00:30:01of the war is some conspiracy. So the West and all those Western
00:30:05judges decided to cover up everything that happened to the Serbs, that
00:30:08is option one, that is the option I don't believe, but I am afraid that is the option that
00:30:12I tell you will in some case become valid, that which
00:30:15you are talking about now after the end of the war could
00:30:18eventually, if it is raised, I assume that this court
00:30:22will not close its doors now, but continue to work
00:30:28investigations, that would be a crime against humanity
00:30:31eventually. That's right, exactly and both
00:30:35issues, i.e. organ trafficking and the ethnic cleansing of Serbs after the end
00:30:38of the war, can be the subject of some future proceedings. We know that
00:30:42this court has not concluded all its proceedings, so a
00:30:45month ago the prosecutor filed a new
00:30:49indictment, the contents of which we do not know, it is still
00:30:52under uh uh confidential, so it is with
00:30:55the duty judge for those preliminary questions only.
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