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Article: Kosovo chief quits after war crimes indictment

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March 9, 2005
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Marlise Simons
International Herald Tribune
03-09-2005
Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj of Kosovo unexpectedly resigned Tuesday and agreed to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, which has indicted him for actions as a guerrilla commander fighting Serbian forces in the 1998-99 war. His decision to step down and answer war crimes charges came as a shock in Kosovo, a Serbian province of close to two million people where he became prime minister in December and where he remains a popular war hero. In a statement, Haradinaj said he was ''innocent of any crime'' and felt ''insulted by this process.'' ''I feel they are taking me from my job at a time when I am giving the maximum ...

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