The paper’s columnist, Enver Robelli, in an opinion piece today argues that if no one from the former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders committed war crimes or other crimes, then why all this resistance against the special court? According to him, the reason is clear: a part of the current political leaders fear that some of the witnesses who witnessed their not-so-patriotic actions might be still alive. “Kosovo society is hostage to these “saviors” who fear the past and worry about bags of money they have filled since June 1999,” Robelli writes.
“Not only the efforts of some leading figures of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) to block the vote on the special court are scandalous, but scandalous are also the attitudes of the Vetevendosje Movement and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) towards the special court. The behavior of these parties towards justice is selective and anti-Western, because they exclude the possibility that the Kosovo Albanians may have committed crimes during and after the war,” Robelli notes. Therefore, according to him, it is extremely unhelpful to talk about the theory that “special court is being established only for Kosovo and Belgrade is being forgiven for the crimes done in Kosovo”. “It would be fair to acknowledge publicly that Kosovo would not face the challenge of a special court if it did not have corrupt politicians,” concludes Robelli.
