Wednesday, October 14Global edition

Topic: Balkan War Crimes Trials

Kosovo's former president Thaci gets 25 years for war crimes

The international tribunal in The Hague found him guilty of murdering 96 political opponents, illegally detaining 385 people and torturing more than 300 during the 1998-1999 war for independence from Serbia. Thaci later became a central figure in Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence.

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