Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has taken statements from the President and from the speaker of parliament for the trial of ten suspected members of the ‘People’s Eye’ organisation, accused of drawing up a list of national ‘traitors’.
Kosovo’s President, Hashim Thaci, and the speaker of parliament, Kadri Veseli, have been interviewed by the Special Prosecution in the case against ten suspected members of the “People’s Eye” organisation.
One of the ten is Murat Jashari, who wounded Azem Vllasi, the former head of the former ruling League of Communists in Kosovo, in a shooting incident in March 2017.
Jashari’s late brother, the former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Ismet Jashari, alias Commander Kumanova, was killed by Serbian forces in 1998.
The group is accused of drawing up a list of “traitors to the nation”, on which Thaci and Veseli were included, among other high officials.
Thaci told the Special Prosecution that he heard about the “People’s Eye” group from media reports, and said he certainly did not belong on any alleged “list of traitors”, stating that he always conducted all of his political activities “for the freedom and independence of this country”.
“Such labels are politically motivated for moral justification and [to justify] terrorist acts against me and other political personalities of the country,” Thaci said in the statement, given to the Special Prosecution, which BIRN has seen.
In his own interview, Veseli clarified that he knew of Murat Jashari only as the brother of Ismet Jashari, also adding that he had no personal problems or ties to any of those indicted.
The Special Prosecution says that on May 15, 2015, members of “People’s Eye” decided in March 2017 to start illegal actions to seriously destabilise or destroy the basic political, constitutional, economic or social structures of the Republic of Kosovo, with attacks and murders of the highest state personalities … considering them traitors to the country”.
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