Hashim Tasi, former coordinator of Kosovo, who faces war crimes, was temporarily released from a court in the Netherlands on Friday to visit his father’s grave, who died last weekend.
The 56-year-old was not allowed to attend Tuesday’s funeral, which was attended by local leaders and politicians from neighboring Albania. Kosovo Minister of Justice Al-Bina Hakshiu complained to Kosovo’s specialist in The Hague, which was prevented from leaving.
“I was the last person to come, father,” Tasi wrote on Friday in the village of Burji, 70 kilometers west of the capital. The police officers accompanied him on the rule of law on the rule of law, based in Kosovo, known as Elex.
Then Tasi took them to his house, where only relatives could meet him. It was not clear when he would return to supervise the courts of the Kosovo specialist in The Hague.
His father, Haxi Tasi, died on March 16 at the age of
Three days before his father’s death, Hashim Tasi was allowed to visit his father for about three hours at a public hospital in Pristina, accompanied by members close to his family.
Tasi and other senior leaders of the Kosovo Free Army, or KLA, who fought the Kosovo war in 1998-99 for independence in Serbia, had been detained in The Hague since November 2020.
The courts and prosecutors were established after a 2011 report by the Council of Europe, a human rights agency, which contained allegations that KLA fighters traded in human organs that were taken from prisoners, Serbs and national Albanian citizens were killed. The charges of harvesting body parts were not revealed in the charges issued by the court.
About 11,400 people who died in the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo were Albanians. A 78-day NATO operation against Serbian troops has ended the fighting, but tensions between Kosovo and Serbia remain tense.
Kosovo declared independence in Serbia in 2008, with Belgrade and Russia and China’s main allies.
A debate established by the European Union on the normalization of relations that began in