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Article: VOA NEWS: FORMER KOSOVO PRIME MINISTER ACQUITTED OF WAR CRIMES

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April 3, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Lauren Comiteau

Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has been acquitted of all charges by judges at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He and two former Commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army had been charged with murdering, raping, torturing and persecuting Serbs and their perceived collaborators in 1998. Lauren Comiteau reports from Amsterdam.

Clapping and cheers erupted from a packed public gallery as Judge Alphonse Orie read the verdict for Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj.

"The chamber finds you Mr. Haradinaj not guilty and therefore acquits you of all counts," he said. "Could I have quiet ...

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