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UCK at trial: How a specialist chamber is wrongfully gnawing at the legitimacy of the Kosovo state

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A saying is circulating among observers of the saga of the Kosovo war tribunal, or as formally named the Specialist Chambers: there are now more former UCK commanders called as defendants or witnesses than there were Nazis condemned in Nuremberg. In fact, says former Justice Minister of Kosovo, Abelard Tahiri, much more. Iconic Serbian human rights activist, Natasa Kandic also claims that out of all the people under investigation for the war crimes committed in Kosovo, the ratio is 62 percent Albanians and 38 percent Serbian. Indeed figures such as Ali Ahmeti, which recently won elections in North Macedonia alongside…

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