''The man who hopes to become the prime minister of Kosovo has a past,
documented under case file IT-04-84 at the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Forty-eight-year-old
Ramush Haradinaj, aka Smajl, was accused of crimes against humanity in
37 cases, including murder and torture.
The allegations are from the 1990s, when he was a field commander for
the Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK) in the war against the Serbs. The
court ultimately found Haradinaj not guilty, a product of witnesses
declining to testify at the last moment or, in some cases, dying
suddenly. The United Nations police force in Kosovo has accused the UÇK
veteran of dealing cocaine, while Germany's foreign intelligence
service, the BND, described him in a 2005 analysis as being the head of a
group involved in "the entire spectrum of criminal activities."
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