Time has published the list of the 5 most wanted political fugitives: Haradinaj is on it

The US magazine Time has released its list of the five most wanted geopolitical fugitives in 2018, featuring Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj.

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The Times writes that Haradinaj became known at the end of the 1990s during the Kosovo conflict.

- As the KLA commander, he was charged with leading the torture and killing of Serbs, but he was released by the UN court in 2008 as well as 2012, given the lack of evidence - the US magazine writes.

As it was stated, that wasn't enough for Serbia which refused to recognize Kosovo and wants Haradinaj to be delivered so he could face justice on Serbian court.

Foto: Tanjug/AP

The American magazine, among other things, reminds that the Kosovo Prime Minister is not confronted with legal challenges only in Serbia.

- In 2015, the Kosovo Parliament decided to set up a special court based in the Netherlands but acting under the Kosovo laws, which is widely considered an instrument that will help stabilize the Balkan geopolitics.

Only now, when the charges should be announced, Haradinaj and other members of the Kosovo political elite are seeking ways to hinder the investigation, the newspaper said on its portal.

- The US and the EU, which led the NATO bombing of Slobodan Milosevic and Serbia in 1999, are angry because Kosovo defies Western norms and values. Perhaps Haradinaj and his allies in Kosovo think that Kosovo is too small for geopolitical forces to care about them, but the reality is that if they want to preserve peace, they can not afford such behavior - Time writes.

In addition to Haradinaj, the top-ranked geopolitical fugitives found on the top of the list are Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange, imam Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the US and whose extradition is sought by Turkey, as well as former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who acts in Ukraine.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)