Ramush - you can dress him up in a fine suit, but he stills looks like a thug
An underage girl beaten and raped by Haradinaj
Ramush Haradinaj, newly elected Kosovo Prime Minister ordered and personally committed killings, tortures and rapes of non-Albanian civilians in the territory of Djakovica during withdrawal of Serbian Army and Police from Kosovo and Metohija in 1999. Because of all these crimes, the War Crimes Council of the District Court in Belgrade ordered on August 20, 2004 investigation against Haradinaj and another six members of Kosovo Liberation Army /KLA/ for war crimes against civil population.
According to documents that 'Blic' got, former commander of KLA HQ for Metohija founded a prison in the cellars of Pastrik Hotel. There, non-Albanian civilians were tortured, raped and then taken to the bank of Ernik River and shot dead. That happened at the place called ' Gropa Coftinave'.
On June 12, 1999 at Haradinaj's order, Arben Skrupi, Anton Lekaj, Besim Bestrazimi, Saban Azemi and Hode Hekuran seized Gypsies that attended a wedding ceremony and took them to Pastrik. They objected the Gypsies for having addressed them in Serbian Language. A day later, Serb Rade Gagovic was also taken into prison.
Haradinaj who personally questioned the captives, also gave orders for their torture. On June 12 in a hotel room of Pastrik and underage girl G.T. was brutally beaten and raped by Haradinaj. After that, over two days, other KLA members were constantly raping the girl. Sofija Tafa was also permanently beaten and raped. At night between June 13 and 14 Arben Krupi and Anton Lekaj raped and beaten a man called Bedri Salja. The same night Skupi cut off the ear of Rade Gagovic and then put it in the mouth of Redi Salja forcing him to eat the ear up. There were many other cases of torture.
On June 15 Arben Skupi told Badri Salja, Redja Salja, Bajram Krasnici, Zvezdan Ljusaj and Rade Gagovic that at the order of Ramush Haradinaj they would be shot.
Lekaj, Bestrezimi, Azemi and Uksinaj took the victims by a car to a place called 'Gropa Coftinave' and there shot them dead. Only one, Bedri Salja, managed to escape.
On October 1, 2004 War Crimes Council of the District Court in Belgrade ruled one-month detention for that crime. Since, according to police report, they are not in the territory of Serbia and Montenegro, the Council issued a wanted list for these individuals the same day.
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UNMIK rejected request by Serbia Government
UNMIK yesterday rejected request by the officials in Belgrade to cancel election of Ramush Haradinja for Kosovo Prime Minister. The explanation was that UNMIK 'does not have competence for something like that'.
UNMIK's spokesman Geoff Belly said that 'election of Haradinaj is a legitimate will of deputies in Kosovo Parliament and that UNMIK is willing to respect democratic principles and request implementation of standards for Kosovo only'.
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Rejecting request by Serbia Government to cancel election of Ramush Haradinaj, UNMIK spit in the face of justice, UN /whose mandate UNMIK has/ and public opinion. In the first place he spit in the face of the underage girl for whose rape the newly elected Prime Minister of Serbia southern province is suspected and finally in the face of the families whose members were killed at the hand or order of Ramush Haradinaj.
Thus, thanks to hypocrisy of the international community, whose spokesman claims that Haradinaj 'was elected thanks to the will of deputies in legitimate Kosovo Parliament and in line with democratic procedure', a hand of a criminal is going to sign laws in Europe of the 21st century. Formally speaking the spokesman is right, but Mussolini, Hitler or Goebels were also elected in line with democratic procedures in force. The difference is that they committed the crimes after their elections, while Haradinaj has been on wanted list as a criminal for years.
This act abolishes crimes against civil population and promotes those who committed those crimes into pioneers of sick 'Kosovo democracy' not known in modern history. Is this the last humiliation that protectors in Kosovo and Metohija have thrown in Serbia's face indirectly saying that that state is only needed as the other party in the final act of 'democratic circus' called 'Talks about the future of Kosovo'? Will Serbia have to negotiate about its own territory with a man who tortured, raped, killed…?
There are as many questions as crimes that former commander of KLA HQ for Metohija is being charged with. And that list is not short.
Haradinaj himself seems to be mocking at us all from his throne of a Prime Minister. He does not say that he is not guilty. He says that the Hague Tribunal does not have any proofs against him.
Obviously Justice in Kosovo has not tied the eyes only, but the hands as well.