The main world media wrote immediately after the decision of the Special Court for the former leaders of the KLA, Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selim, on Wednesday in The Hague. The headlines of the most prestigious media focused with special emphasis on the sentence of the former president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi. The American media "CNN" had the title "The Hague Court sentences the former president of Kosovo, Thaçi, for war crimes, with 25 years imprisonment". "One A European Union-backed court on Wednesday convicted former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi of four counts of war crimes committed during his country's war for independence from Serbia and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Thaçi, 58, who resigned from office nearly six years ago to face the charges, was convicted by a panel of judges in Kosovo's Specialized Chambers of murder, torture, cruel treatment and detention. arbitrary", writes CNN. While the headline of the "Reuters" agency was "The former president of Kosovo, Thaçi, is sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes". "Thaçi, 58 years old, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes committed as a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the violent separation of the territory from Serbia in the 1990s. The court said that he was guilty of the murder of 96 political opponents and suspected collaborators with the Serbian security forces by the forces of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the conflict", writes Reuters. Even the British agency "The Guardian" has reported on the decision with the title "Ex-president of Kosovo Thaçi is sentenced to 25 years in prison by the international court in The Hague". "The former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army and later The president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the international court in The Hague, as he is held criminally responsible for war crimes during the violent separation from Serbia in the 1990s", writes the Guardian. The prestigious American media The New York Times also highlighted former president Thaçi, with the headline "The former leader of Kosovo is sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes".

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