Halil Matoshi’s editorial today analysis some of the paragraphs from the yesterday’s statement of the prosecutor, Clint Williamson. Speaking about the paragraph which stresses that there is no sufficient evidence to prove Dick Marty’s claims on organ trafficking but that this does not mean that it didn’t happen, Matoshi claims that the essential positive side of the report is that it amnesties ordinary soldiers and accuses the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army. He does not agree with the paragraph of the report which stresses that some domestic offences, including torture, cannot be prosecuted, because those crimes have prescribed due to the expiration of the 15-year statute of limitations, with no court in place at that time. “It was not a matter of not having courts at the time, Kosovo had its so-called judicial system (lead by UNMIK) and later the jurisdiction of the Hague Tribunal, however almost no-one in Kosovo society, not even intellectuals that pretend to be humanists, dared to deal with this issue, to become spokespeople of those who did not have a say. These offences will remain a burden to Kosovo’s judiciary, which sooner or later, will have to deal with them.
Debates on just and unjust wars are global and there is no final conclusion, even though liberation wars are considered as just while the occupation ones as unjust. Does this current debate prove that there are no just wars? If we consider the fact that during the armed conflict in Kosovo in 1998-1999 Serbia’s security forces killed over ten thousand Kosovo Albanian civilians, while KLA prosecuted and killed some hundreds of civilians, among them Serb, Roma and Albanians considered to be collaborators of the enemy or simply political opponents (LDK members,) it appears that the war in Kosovo was a war against civilian population and for personal power, abusing with the idea of “The sacred Serb land” (Serbian party) and “Liberation of Kosovo,” (KLA officials.)
Matoshi does not believe much on Williamson’s statement “for allegedly attacking individuals and not KLA organization.” Of course the judicial responsibility is individual, he says, but who were those individuals? Who were their commanders, what were their ideals or plans? The report gives an answer which does not suit much KLA as an organization respectively its political leadership and senior level commanders,” writes Matoshi, concluding that Kosovars should not forget that Williamson has drafted the indictment for Slobodan Milosevic.
