Edi Rama’s Cynical War on Truth and Justice

Rama, architect of Kosovo’s war crimes court, now torches it to shield allies and rewrite history, betraying justice, Kosovo’s sovereignty, and the victims his politics trample.

On the evening of August 7, as the shadows of war-time legacy spilled into the streets of Kosovo's capital, Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania, the man who once flew into Pristina by helicopter¹ to strongarm the Kosovo Assembly into creating the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, emerged as an unlikely patron of those now indicted by the very institution he midwifed into existence. His latest call², for the Albanian and Kosovan parliaments to jointly condemn the court he once championed, is not merely hypocrisy; it is a grotesque inversion of truth, a calculated betrayal of justice, and a cynical, self-serving manoeuvre by a man whose politics have long traded in impunity masked as patriotism.

In 2015, Rama was not just present; he was instrumental. Footage circulating online shows him arriving in Pristina by helicopter, a gesture as performative as it was coercive. His mission, cloaked in the language of cooperation, was blunt in purpose: secure the vote for a court that would sati…