The former president and three others charged led a pro-Kosovo guerilla faction during the break-up of Yugoslavia.
The four defendants, all principal leaders of the former guerilla Kosovo Liberation Army and later in peacetime politics of the small Balkan country, all pleaded not guilty shortly after hearings got underway.More than 13,000 people, the majority of them Kosovo Albanians, are believed to have died during the insurgency, when Kosovo was still a province of Serbia under then-strongman president Slobodan Milosevic.
Mr Thaci resigned as president shortly after his indictment in November 2020 and was transferred to detention in The Hague.During his time as a KLA leader and prominent politician, Mr Thaci worked closely with many Western leaders. The trial is likely to be lengthy as prosecutors said they would need two years to present their evidence.
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