Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) Chairman Ardian Gjini, speaking at today’s march, said that the former KLA leaders who are currently being held in pre-trial detention in The Hague fought against “the biggest killers Europe has seen in the past 80 years.”
Gjini then questioned how people who took up arms to protect civilians from these individuals could possibly be considered guilty.
“Do you know who the KLA fought against? Do you know who these four men, who are not free today but will be free because we are free, fought against? They fought against those who filled refrigerated trucks with the bodies of our fellow citizens, Albanians — young men and women, the elderly, women and men. They fought against those who raped thousands of women in Kosovo, but they also fought against those who, on December 14, 1998, killed their own children in order to accuse us. They fought against the same people who organized safaris to kill people in Sarajevo. The same people came here to kill Albanians. That is who they fought against, so how can they be guilty? How can an entire people be guilty? How can the people who took up arms for freedom be guilty for fighting against those who were the biggest killers in Europe in the past 80 years?”
“These people — anyone who took up a rifle — should be honored,” Gjini added, as he chanted: “KLA! Freedom!”
“We will welcome them home as free men. No one will succeed in tarnishing Kosovo’s story of freedom. Kosovo’s story of freedom is as pure as a tear. It is just. It is a struggle for survival.”
