A tribunal said Thaci was guilty of the murder of 96 political opponents during the 1990s conflict with Serbia
1-MIN READ1-MIN ListenReutersPublished: 6:14pm, 16 Sep 2026Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci was found guilty of war crimes including murder, torture and illegal detention by the Kosovo war crimes tribunal on Wednesday.
Thaci, 58, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes committed as top commander of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the territory’s violent break from Serbia in the 1990s.
The tribunal said he was guilty of the murder of 96 political opponents and perceived collaborators with Serbian security forces by Kosovo Liberation Army forces during the conflict.
He was also convicted for the arbitrary illegal detention of 385 people, torture of 303 people and cruel treatment of around 50.
