Thaqi's deputy and former head of KLA arrested for alleged political killings
The Kosovo police arrested Azem Sulja, a member of the Presidium of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaqi and chief of staff of the former Albanian Kosovo Liberation Armuy,, because of allegations that he ordered political killings in Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, December 02, 2009
In his confession about political murders in Kosovo. Nazim Blaca, a former member of the secret intelligence service in Kosovo (SHIK), which was controlled by Thaqi's party, named Sulja as a person from whom the group of executors of this service received orders for the killings.
On Tuesday, EULEX arrested Blaca.
He claimed to have worked from 1999 to 2003 for Intelligence Service of Kosovo, SHIK, which served the KLA until the end of the conflict in Kosovo, and which is seen as being most closely associated with Thaqi's party. SHIK claimed in June 2008 that it officially disbanded.
During his time as agent Seiko, Blaca alleges he was involved in 17 murders, attempted murders, beatings and other criminal acts. He said that SHIK had told him the targets were members of the Serbian intelligence service, UDB, but that he later realised they were just members of the Democratic League of Kosovo, which is currently in the government coalition with PDK.
He listed a string of senior SHIK figures with whom he interacted and who are members of the government or high-ranking PDK officials.
