In an opinion piece, Imer Mushkolaj writes that it should be up to the special court’s indictees to secure financial means for their defense and that the people of Kosovo should not be the ones to pay for it. Mushkolaj says there are many reasons why the people of Kosovo should not bear the financial costs of the possible special court indictees, the main being that alleged crimes are thought to have been committed by individuals and therefore not related to the people of Kosovo or the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Furthermore, Kosovo taxpayers’ money was not used in the past to cover expenses of the former KLA leaders accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague so this time should make no exception, adds further Mushkolaj. At the same time, he claims that the people rumoured to be indicted by the special court are financially well-off with many of them obtaining endless wealth by using their fame as KLA commanders.  “Citizens of Kosovo have no responsibility for the suspicious past and the doings of certain individuals who may have used the situation to do bad things,” Mushkolaj continues.