Veterans for Sale: The OVL-UÇK Scandal

The OVL-UÇK disgraced Kosovo’s wartime legacy by appealing to Richard Grenell, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, pleading for intervention against international justice.

A Letter of Dishonour: How the OVL-UÇK’s Appeal to Richard Grenell Betrays Kosovo’s Struggle for Justice

In a grotesque twist of irony, the Organisation of Veterans of the Kosovo Liberation Army (OVL-UÇK)¹, once the custodians of a liberation struggle born out of resistance to tyranny, has now debased itself by penning a sycophantic letter to Richard Grenell², a man whose name has become synonymous in Kosovo with foreign manipulation, disinformation, and the cynical erosion of democratic institutions³.

Let us not mince words: by appealing to Grenell, a disgraced diplomat with a sordid record of meddling in Kosovo’s political affairs and ties to anti-democratic forces across Europe, the OVL-UÇK has not only insulted the memory of those who gave their lives for Kosovo’s freedom, but they have aligned themselves, wittingly or not, with the very structures of impunity, political violence, and foreign subjugation they once claimed to resist.

This is not just a political misstep. This is moral b…