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Three quarters of Kosovo citizens in favour of abolishing the special war crimes court (poll)

Prishtina, 10 November 2026, dtt-net.com – An opinion survey says that 74.0% of Kosovo citizens support abolishing of the special war crimes court in The Hague, where in September European and American judges of the first instance panel found guilty on war crimes charges and sentenced four former leaders of the now disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to total 81 year of imprisonment. Of the figure from the survey conducted by the Kosovo Centre for Security Studies (KCSS) with 1,139 respondents across all 38 municipalities of Kosovo, 80% of Albanians and 2,3% of Serbs support abolishing the court. American Judge Charles Smith announced on September 16th that the panel of judges sentenced the former President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi, Jakup Krasniqi, Kadri Veseli, and Rexhep Selimi, for being responsible on charges of “arbitrary detention of 385 individuals (Albanian and Serbs); cruel treatment against 49 individuals; torture against 303 individuals and murder against 96 individuals” in Kosovo and northern Albania by members of the KLA they were leaders of.

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