By AMELIA NIERENBERG Hashim Thaci, the former leader of Kosovo who led its bloody independence fight against Serbia in the 1990s, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for war crimes, including arbitrary detention, torture and murder. Thaci’s sentence concluded a trial that has deepened divisions in his Balkan homeland over whether he should be feted as a war hero or condemned as a leader of violent rebels. Thaci, 58, who has long denied wrongdoing, was sentenced along with three…
