"Thaci and his band behind attempt to abolish KLA court"

This has been stated by the chairman of the Serbian National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Decun, who added that their plan was to send a message to the international community that they could destabilize the situation in Kosovo if they were indicted for the crimes committed by the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army").

"With this move Thaci threw down the gauntlet to Washington and Brussels, because these centers of power were precisely the ones influencing the adoption of the law that formed this specialized chamber," Drecun told RTS on Sunday, adding that this initiative showed Thaci's and other former KLA leaders' "real fear" that they could be indicted by the court.

Drecun recalled that the petition to abolish the law was signed by "16,000 (KLA) veterans" and emphasized that they represented "the power that the establishment of Kosovo was using to make threats, especially toward the western portion of the international community."

"'We will raise those 16,000 former terrorists who can do anything, if we find ourselves in the indictments' - that's their message," Drecun said.

According to him, it is up to Serbia to continue to exert diplomatic pressure for the special court to "continue to work" but also "to do everything to collect as much evidence as possible about the crimes that have been committed."

"The Serbian Assembly Committee has sent complete information about the crimes committed by the KLA," Drecun said, adding that "if there is no justice for the Serb victims, reconciliation cannot be expected."

A day earlier, on Saturday, Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said it was "his personal opinion" that if the attempt in Pristina to abolish the court succeeded, Belgrade...