The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal will deliver its verdicts on Thursday in the unprecedented retrial of Kosovo’s ex-prime minister and two of his former Kosovo Liberation Army comrades on charges including the murder and torture of Serbs.
The U.N. court’s first ever retrial was ordered following the 2008 acquittal of former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and KLA fighter Idriz Balaj and the conviction of a third KLA commander, Lahi Brahimaj.
Appeals judges branded their first trial a “miscarriage of justice” because of widespread intimidation of prosecution witnesses.
All three insist they are innocent and many in Serbia and Kosovo expect them to be acquitted.
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