00:00Hundreds of protesters gathered in the capital Pristina on Wednesday to express their dissatisfaction with the verdict against former president
00:07Hashim Tatsi by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
00:11The internationally backed Kosovo court's verdict found Tatsi and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders guilty of illegal arrests,
00:19torture, murder, and cruel treatment during the 1998 war for independence from Serbia and sentenced them to 25 years in
00:28prison.
00:28Among many Kosovo Albanians, Tatsi and his co-defendants are still widely hailed as heroes of the independence movement and
00:36their simmering anger threatened to escalate into full-fledged riots.
00:40In Pristina, a crowd of young men marched towards the headquarters of the European Union's rule of law mission in
00:46Kosovo, waving KLA flags and chanting the guerrilla group's name.
00:50Some scuffled with riot police and threw stones at the building, and a small group remained in front of the
00:56building until Wednesday night, blocking traffic and defying police orders to clear the road and disperse.
01:02They eventually left, with many of them making their way to the airport to welcome back the children of Tatsi
01:08and another co-defendant, Kadri Veseli, who were attending the verdict.
01:13In The Hague, angry demonstrators near the court briefly clashed with police, with some climbing onto a police van as
01:20officers held them back from the court building.
