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I knew Hashim Thaci personally as a KLA commander and later as PM. I remember the respect he commanded, including among NATO staff which should explain why General Wesley Clark, NATO’s former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, testified in his defence. Which is why today’s 25-year sentence is profoundly troubling to me. Kosova’s struggle cannot be understood without the campaign of killings, terror and mass expulsion inflicted on Kosovar Albanians by Serbian and Yugoslav forces; atrocities well documented by similar courts. That history must not disappear from the conversation because a specialist court is looking exclusively at Kosova. My respect for Thaci does not require me to deny anyone’s suffering. And a liberation struggle certainly does not excuse crimes against civilians whether, Albanian or Serb. But neither does respect for justice require unquestioning acceptance of a politically motivated court’s conclusions. I disagree profoundly with this verdict and want to see it challenged on appeal.