Kosovo Premier Resigns, Agrees to Trial
Kosovo’s prime minister resigned Tuesday and planned to surrender to a United Nations court he said had charged him with war crimes. He insisted he was innocent.
Ramush Haradinaj, who was in office for three months, said he would leave today for The Hague, where the tribunal is based.
Haradinaj said his actions as an ethnic Albanian rebel commander during the 1998-99 war against Serbian forces were consistent with international law.
Serbian officials allege he had command responsibility in the killings of several Serb civilians by the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1998. They also mention rapes or killings of several Gypsies.
The U.N. and NATO have run Kosovo, a province of Serbia and Montenegro, since 1999.
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