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Article: Kosovo's Prime Minister Quits After Being Indicted for War Crimes
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- The Washington Post
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- March 9, 2005
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Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj of Kosovo, an ethnic Albanian who
rose from nightclub bouncer to guerrilla commander before switching
to politics, resigned Tuesday after announcing he had been indicted
for war crimes. He said he would travel to The Hague to wage a
defense before an international court.
The indictment of Haradinaj by the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia had been expected for some time.
Nevertheless, it heightened political tensions in the province and
raised fears of unrest by Haradinaj's supporters.
In Kosovo, still formally a province of Serbia and Montenegro,
Haradinaj is seen by the ethnic Albanian majority as an independence
hero in the struggle ...