Hashim Thaçi is a politician from Kosovo who served as the Prime Minister from 2008 to 2014 and later as the President from 2016 until his resignation in 2020. He was a key figure during the Kosovo War in the late 1990s and was a leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia. In 2020, Thaçi faced legal charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity related to his actions during the conflict. He was arrested and taken to the Special Tribunal in The Hague, which was established to address allegations of war crimes committed during the war.