War-crime charges sink US effort to mend Balkan conflict

Bloomberg

Plans to revive negotiations between two longtime Balkan foes hurtled off the rails before the next round of talks could even start.
Faint hopes for a breakthrough between Serbia and Kosovo — and the chances of a diplomatic win for the US — evaporated when the Kosovo’s leader was accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity as he was preparing to meet his counterpart at the White House.
The event was rescheduled, US envoy for the Balkans Richard Grenell said on Thursday on Twitter.
The Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague filed a 10-count indictment charging Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and other separatist fighters with offenses during the war with Serbia more than two decades ago that include “murder, enforced disappearance of persons, persecution and torture.”

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