On Wednesday September 16, Hashim Thaçi, president of Kosovo between 2016 and 2020, was sentenced by the Special Tribunal for Kosovo in The Hague to 25 years in prison for war crimes committed by Kosovar guerrillas in the 1990s against Serbian forces. At that time, Hashim Thaçi was the commander-in-chief of the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Thus, many personalities of Kosovar or Albanian origin showed their support for him after his conviction. Among them, the singer Dua Lipa and Granit Xhaka. In his Instagram story, the captain of the Swiss football team expressed his solidarity with the former president of Kosovo, who had benefited from political asylum in Switzerland in the late 1990s.
The Xhaka’s father is in the same political party as Thaçi
Granit Xhaka shared a photo showing Hashim Thaçi, who continued to proclaim his innocence in court, and the three other people convicted. The image was accompanied by the KLA logo and the following patriotic message: “They fought on their land, for the freedom of the homeland. Freedom has a name.”
His brother Taulant Xhaka, who represented Albania on the international stage, also wanted to support Hashim Thaçi with the message “Freedom to the liberators”. The former president remains considered a hero by part of the Kosovar population.
Also note that Ragip Xhaka, the father of the
