00:00Hundreds of protesters gathered in the capital Pristina on Wednesday to express their dissatisfaction
00:05with the verdict against former president Hashim Tachi by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers
00:10in The Hague.
00:11The internationally-backed Kosovo court's verdict found Tachi and three other former
00:16Kosovo Liberation Army leaders guilty of illegal arrests, torture, murder, and cruel treatment
00:22during the 1998 war for independence from Serbia and sentenced them to 25 years in prison.
00:28Among many Kosovo Albanians, Tachi and his co-defendants are still widely hailed as heroes
00:34of the independence movement, and their simmering anger threatened to escalate into full-fledged
00:39riots.
00:39In Pristina, a crowd of young men marched towards the headquarters of the European Union's rule
00:45of law mission in Kosovo, waving KLA flags and chanting the guerrilla group's name.
00:51Some scuffled with riot police and threw stones at the building, and a small group remained
00:55in front of the building until Wednesday night, blocking traffic and defying police orders
01:00to clear the road and disperse.
01:02They eventually left, with many of them making their way to the airport to welcome back the
01:07children of Tachi and 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
01:18on to a police van as officers held them back from the court building.
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