“Haradinaj returning to politics”

A leading Kosovo Serb official says that Ramush Haradinaj’s recent statements suggest he is returning to politics.

Izvor: B92

Tuesday, 08.04.2008.

10:31

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A leading Kosovo Serb official says that Ramush Haradinaj’s recent statements suggest he is returning to politics. “I think that it is a shameful decision by the Hague Tribunal to allow a person who wrote a book about how he killed Serbs to go free and act as a politician who, in effect, will be sharing the fate of Serbs in Kosovo,” said leader of the Serb National Council for Northern Kosovo Marko Jaksic. “Haradinaj returning to politics” Jaksic, however, told B92 that there was not much difference between Haradinaj and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, other than the fact that they were political opponents. “They are all, how should I say, from the same brood, there is no difference between them. They will fight each other for power. As far as our survival is concerned, that does not depend on either of them, it depends more on Belgrade,” he stressed. Haradinaj, the former commander of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, returned to Kosovo on Friday, a day after the Hague Tribunal acquitted him of war crimes charges, a decision that evoked strong reactions and criticism from Belgrade. Yesterday, Haradinaj voiced his criticism of the first 100 days of the government in Pristina, led by his former KLA ally, Thaci. After a meeting of his party, the Alliance for Kosovo's Future (AZBK), he was quoted as saying he has "immediately undertaken work to help Kosovo", so that his party may "meet the level of responsibility and the role parties have in pluralism and democracy". According to Haradinaj, it is insulting to Thaci's voters that the government did not have its program because of the solving of Kosovo's status. Haradinaj, acquitted of charges of 1998 murder, torture and rape last week at the Hague Tribunal, said he favors local and parliamentary elections in Kosovo to be held "according to the Ahtisaari plan, nine months after the transition period following the declaration of Kosovo's independence". Ramush Haradinaj's return to Kosovo (FoNet)

“Haradinaj returning to politics”

Jakšić, however, told B92 that there was not much difference between Haradinaj and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, other than the fact that they were political opponents.

“They are all, how should I say, from the same brood, there is no difference between them. They will fight each other for power. As far as our survival is concerned, that does not depend on either of them, it depends more on Belgrade,” he stressed.

Haradinaj, the former commander of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, returned to Kosovo on Friday, a day after the Hague Tribunal acquitted him of war crimes charges, a decision that evoked strong reactions and criticism from Belgrade.

Yesterday, Haradinaj voiced his criticism of the first 100 days of the government in Priština, led by his former KLA ally, Thaci.

After a meeting of his party, the Alliance for Kosovo's Future (AZBK), he was quoted as saying he has "immediately undertaken work to help Kosovo", so that his party may "meet the level of responsibility and the role parties have in pluralism and democracy".

According to Haradinaj, it is insulting to Thaci's voters that the government did not have its program because of the solving of Kosovo's status.

Haradinaj, acquitted of charges of 1998 murder, torture and rape last week at the Hague Tribunal, said he favors local and parliamentary elections in Kosovo to be held "according to the Ahtisaari plan, nine months after the transition period following the declaration of Kosovo's independence".

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