The Special Court has begun allowing visits to the families of former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders who are still in detention. The first to meet his family was Jakup Krasniqi.
Gresa Krasniqi, the daughter of Jakup Krasniqi, through a post on the social network Instagram, wrote about the meeting she had after eight months with her father. She shared moments from the meeting, describing her father as a hero, while she shared all her emotions with her followers on social networks.
“For 8 months and 12 days we dreamed of your hug and your caresses. Today in your lap my soul calmed down dad. We forgot everything. We forgot the pain, the expectations, the suffering. Life is unfair to good people. How good you are dad, how much injustice you endured. I had dreamed of this moment sometimes in my sleep and sometimes with my eyes closed. In front of the mirror, every morning I repeated the words I would say, in front of you I became silent. How we had missed you! How hard it was to look there, but to see you stronger than other times, even though you faced other injustices to see you more smiling than other times, the white beard that counts the years full of suffering has made you even more handsome. You do not return dad, I had read many writings from ex-prisoners, telling your stories like a superhero. I obeyed dad, you do not break. You get stronger, and that made me happy. How we had missed you. I know, Kosovo and the KLA need you once again. But we need you too. Injustice dad, kills more than the bullet. I miss you, but this commodity hardly passes. We love you,”- she wrote on Instagram.
Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi, Rexhep Selimi, Nesim Haradinaj and Hysni Gucati are currently charged in The Hague. All of Kosovo’s top officials are charged with unlawful arrest, murder and torture, which are considered war crimes. The published indictment states that from March 1998 until September a year later, in Kukës and Cahan, crimes were committed against hundreds of civilians who were not part of the KLA war.
