The Council of Albanian Ambassadors expresses its deep concern regarding the recent developments in the judicial process taking place in The Hague against the leaders of the Kosova Liberation Army.
This process, in the form and narrative it is assuming, seriously risks distorting the historical and legal reality of the Kosova War. The liberation struggle of the people of Kosova was a lawful and necessary response to a systematic state-sponsored campaign of violence, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes carried out by the regime of Slobodan Milošević, a regime that has already been morally and legally condemned by the international community.
Any attempt to equate the state aggressor with the victim who fought for survival and freedom constitutes an affront not only to the people of Kosova, but also to the very Western international intervention, which was undertaken precisely to halt war crimes and genocide in the heart of Europe.
This distorted process poses an unacceptable risk of relativizing, and even amnestying, the historical and political responsibility of the Serbian state leadership for the crimes committed in Kosova. Such a development would represent a grave historical injustice and a dangerous precedent for international law.
The Council of Albanian Ambassadors reaffirms its support for impartial international justice, but emphasizes that justice cannot and must not be detached from historical truth and the full context of events.
The liberation of Kosova was the legitimate act of an oppressed people, and the Kosovo Liberation Army remains a liberation force, not an object of political or legal revisionism.
