The Albanian Ambassadors Council (AAC) has expressed deep concern regarding recent developments in the judicial proceedings taking place in The Hague against former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
In a statement, the AAC assessed that the process, “in the form and narrative it is taking,” seriously risks distorting the historical and legal reality of the Kosovo War. The Council emphasized that the liberation war of the people of Kosovo was a legitimate and necessary response to systematic violence, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes carried out by the regime of Slobodan Milošević.
According to the AAC, any attempt to equate the state aggressor with the victim who fought for survival and freedom constitutes an affront to the people of Kosovo and to the very international intervention of the West, which was undertaken to halt war crimes and genocide.
The Council warns that a “distorted process” could relativize or even effectively amnesty the historical and political responsibility of the Serbian state leadership for crimes committed in Kosovo, describing this as a “grave historical injustice” and a “dangerous precedent” for international law.
The AAC reaffirmed its support for impartial international justice, while stressing that justice cannot be detached from historical truth and the full context of events.
“The liberation of Kosovo was a legitimate act of an oppressed people, and the Kosovo Liberation Army remains a liberation force, not an object of political or legal revisionism,” the statement of the Albanian Ambassadors Council concludes.
