1. HAJDIN (Isuf) ABAZI, alias
"Lum Haxiu"
Born on April 30th, 1959, in the village of Gadiš, Municipality of
Gnjilane. Over the years of his emigration in Switzerland and Sweden, he
was one of the most influential KLA members in Western Europe. Together
with Elmi Reqica, he was the main link between the said organization in
K&M and Albanian emigration and the KLA headquarters abroad. In this
capacity, he was in charge of collection of financial resources through
"The Homeland Calls" fund intended for KLA. In August 1998, the Swiss Government
blocked the account of the above-mentioned fund due to a suspicion of its
being used to finance terrorist activities in K&M. Out of the country,
he was particularly engaged in the recruitment and illegal transfer of
trained terrorist KLA groups via FYROM and Albanian territories to K&M.
In 1998, he was directly engaged in the establishment of KLA crisis headquarters
in the region of Uroševac. Together with Emrush Xhemajli, he established
and commanded KLA forces in the region, as well as the detachments operating
in Kacanik, under direct command of Zaim Gabrica and Ismet Sadiku, former
Yugoslav National Army (YNA) officers. Together with his family members,
he participated in criminal activities in the region of Uroševac. Several
Albanians who attempted to resist their banditry, robbery and repression
were killed upon his order. Additionally, he was an organizer and participant
in a number of political assassinations of Albanians, primarily members
of DSK. From the position of the president of the Municipality of Uroševac,
he attempted to win over former KLA members for his criminal activities.
Due to conflicts with his associates in DPK, in March 2003, he left K&M
and is currently living in Sweden, in the city of Malmö.
2. EKREM (Bajram) AVDIJA, alias "Abus Akej"
Born on July 18th, 1971, in Kosovska Mitrovica After completion of
the Madrasa (Moslem religious school) in Priština, Avdija entered the School
of Theology in Medina, his scholarship paid by Saudi Arabia. He participated
in the armed conflicts in B&H. He completed military training in the
"Abu Bekir Sidak" recruitment teaching center of the mujahedins, in Jablanica
near Tešanj (B&H), as well as the training in the "Host" campus in
Afghanistan where he was learned to handle light infantry arms and the
military tactics skills. In the course of his stay in B&H, Ekrem Avdiu
was strongly influenced by Abdulah Duhajman, the manager of the "Islamic
Balkan Center" in Zenica, and by Adnan Pezo, the president of the organization
known as "Active Islamic Youth" (AIY) and, on the basis of the instructions
received, he established "Islamic Bureau of Kosovo" in January 1998, with
its head office in Kosovska Mitrovica. The above-mentioned Bureau was used
as a cover for the transfer of the financial assets intended for ideological
education and recruitment of Moslems for the armed forces. Citizens of
other Islamic countries, i.e., Mujahedins who gained their war experience
in B&H and Afghanistan, were systematically transferred to K&M,
mostly through Albania. In May 1998, Avdia established a Mujahedin unit
"Abu Bekir Sidik". He appointed Shpendu Kopriva from Kosovska Mitrovica
his deputy. He cooperated with KLA leaders, Sami Lushtaku, Sulejman Selimi
and Adem Jashari, who supplied the "Abu Bekir Sidik" unit with arms and
ammunition and provided instructions for specific terrorist activities.
He was arrested together with Nexhmedin Llausha and Shpendu Kopriva in
August 1998 by the police officers of the Republic of Serbia, when he attempted
to cross illegally to the territory of Albania. A large quantity of weapons,
hand grenades, bazookas and other military equipment was found with them,
as well as a number of audio and video tapes with propaganda messages,
mostly calls to Jihad – the holy war waged against non-Muslim population.
Due to their terrorist actions, they were sentenced to long-term imprisonment.
However, the whole group was granted amnesty in 2001 under the pressure
of international community. After his release from prison, Ekrem Avdija
continued to lead the "Islamic Bureau of Kosovo" which, in time, extended
the scope of its activities through the establishment of numerous branches
in all major towns in Kosovo and Metohija. He reactivated the "Abu Bekir
Sidik" unit, with the seat in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica,
which was joined by Shpendu Kopriva and Nexhmedin Llausha, as well as by
Arif Krasniqi, from the village of Sibovce, Municipality of Obilic.
3. ALUSH (Sokol) AGUSHI, alias "Madjup", "Krhac",
"Maljo" and "Dugme"
Born on June 20th, 1959, in the village of Drenovac, Municipality of
Klina. As a member of the top KLA leadership in the Dukadjin zone of operations,
he participated in the forced mobilization of Albanian population, the
reception of weapons and the training of diversionary terrorist groups
in the region of Klina. He participated in the attacks on the members of
the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and YA (the Army of Yugoslavia)
forces (Jošanica, Bica, Grabac, Kijevo and Drenovac) with the help of a
large number of his family members. On August 11th, 1998, Radovan Simovic,
from the village of Drenovac, was killed in his yard, while Vlado Stašic,
from the village of Dugonjiva, was severely injured. In the same year,
he organized attacks resulting in the killing of Oliver Zajic from the
region of Klina, Grujica Šmigic, from the village of Drsnik, Dragan Stepic
and Dragiša Kizic, as well as a number of members of the police force,
while Desa Barovic was injured in the region of the village of Jošanica.
Together with the top members of KLA (Ramush Haradinaj, Lahi Ibrahimi and
Idriz Balaj, alias "Toger"), Agushi was one of the key executors of genocide
and the terror over Serbs and Albanians imprisoned in the village of Jablanica,
Municipality of Klina. There is evidence and witnesses of their direct
engagement in the kidnapping, torturing and liquidation of the prisoners
kept in the above-mentioned prisons, whose bodies were subsequently dumped
in the canal used for the filling of the Radonjic lake, as well as in a
deserted well on the road from Jablanica to Žabelj, Municipality of Djakovica.
Agushi was a commander of all other prisoner’s camps in the region of Klina.
Brothers Radomir and Drago Voštic, from the village of Jelovac, Municipality
of Klina, as well as Ivan Bulatovic, member of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs, were killed in the village of Likovac, which was also
under Agushi’s command. After the mass departure of Serbs from Metohija,
Agushi carried out a systematic and organized destruction of their property
and led the activities directed toward the expulsion of the remaining Serbian
population from the region. At the same time, he organized the destruction
of the Orthodox monuments and churches in the region of the Municipality
of Klina, in the villages of Dolac, Drsnik, Petrac and Grebenik, as well
as the desecration of the graveyards in the villages of Drsnik, Drenovac,
Dugonjive, Petrc, Zajmovo, Dolovo, Grebnik, Klina, Vidanje, Jagoda and
Dolac. After the retreat of the Serbian forces from K&M, he ordered
and executed the kidnapping and murder of Milorad Dobric, Milic Bogicevic,
Božana and Vojislav Jovanovic, from the village of Drenica, Municipality
of Klina. He is one of the leading participants in the criminal activities
in the region of Klina. Agushi extorts money from Albanian criminal groups
which, one way or other, usually by force, acquire Serbian real estate
and property, forcing them to pay him the commission. He also murdered
a number of Albanians who refused to give him the money. He was appointed
chief inspector in the Kosovo Protective Corps (KPC) and he remained in
contact with Sulejman Selimi, aka "Sultan", and the top leaders of KPC
(Redxhep Selimi, Jetulah Gecaj, Gani Krasniqi – aka "Lumi" and Fatmir Limaj,
indicted by the Hague Tribunal.
4. RASIM (Hamid) AGUSHI
Born on July 17th, 1962, in Drenovac, Municipality of Klina. He was
a member of the General staff of Dukadjin operational zone, i.e., the commander
of the KLA 3rd operational zone. He operated within the 131st Brigade "Mirta
Zineli”. At the moment, he the KPC commander in Pec. As a member of a terrorist
group, Agushi is responsible for more than 87 murders, 29 abductions, for
the organization of the prisons located in the villages of Glodjani, Belanica,
Likovac and Jablanica, in the Municipality of Pec, as well as for the rape
and sexual harassment of a number of persons, and for the destruction of
property. Additionally, he also participated in approximately 180 terrorist
actions, including armed attacks on the villages of Ljodja and Babaloc
in the middle of 1998. He actively participated in the forced expulsion
of non-Albanian population from the region of Djakovica, Pec and Dechani,
and is responsible for setting fire to the church in the village of Gornji
Rasic. He was a direct participant in the terrorist action against the
village of Drenovac, as well as in the armed attacks on the house of Jagoš
Djurichic. Moreover, he was an accomplice in the murder of Dragomir Stepic
from Drenovac, and of Milic Bogicevic, Milorad Dobric, Vojislav Jovanovic
and his wife, and four Roms, committed in the village of Draganovac, Municipality
of Klina in 1999. He is accused of participation in the terrorist attacks
on the members of Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Klina, Municipality
of Pec, as well as of the attack on the police station in Klina.
5. NAZMI (Adem) AJETI
Born on April 22nd, 1972, in Podujevo. After the arrest of the members
of NPRK in K&M in 1993, Ajeti escaped from the country and fled to
Switzerland where he established contacts with NPOK members. In 1994 he
was sentenced, in absence, to 7 years of imprisonment. In 1998, after his
arrival from Switzerland, he joined KLA forces. He was engaged, by Rustem
Mustafa, in illegal supply of weapons and ammunition from Albania, inside
the Lab zone of operations. After the removal of the Serbian forces from
K&M, he formed a diversionary terrorist group, called "Red Hand", for
the purpose of ethnic cleansing of the Serbian and Montenegrin population
from the region of Podujevo. Together with his above-mentioned brother,
he joined the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (LAPMB)
and, in March 2001, he participated in the terrorist actions against the
members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and on YA forces. He is a drug
addict.
6. HISNI (Izet) AHMETI, alias "His"
Born on July 27th, 1972, in the village of Šupkovac, Municipality of
Kosovska Mitrovica. During the war in B&H, he was a member of the Muslim
armed forces. He is one of the key persons engaged in the organization
of KLA and its branches in the region of Kosovska Mitrovica, i.e., in the
establishment of the operational zone Shalja covering the regions of the
municipalities of Kosovska Mitrovica, Vuchitrn, Obilic, Zubin Potok and
Leposavic, with several thousands of well armed terrorists. Early in January
1999, he was appointed commander of the 141st KLA brigade and participated
in almost every attack on the members of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior
and on YA forces in the region. He was engaged in fundraising, procurement
of arms and in the military and diversionary training. On June 24th, 1998,
Ahmeti‘s terrorist group carried out an attack on the Serbs in the village
of Pantina and kidnapped the married couple Cedomirka and Ratomir Miljkovic,
whose fate is still unknown. On January 22nd, 1999, the same group kidnapped
Miša Bigovic, from the village of Nevoljane, from his workplace in "Elektrodistribucija”
(Power supply company) in Vuchitrn, as well as four members of Mialickovic
family, from Nevoljane, the same Municipality. The kidnapped persons were
transported to KLA general staff in the village of Likovac, Municipality
of Srbica, to be released after several days after intervention of the
OSCE observers. In May 1999, members of the third platoon of the special
unit within the operational zone of Shalja, killed 12 members of the Army
of Yugoslavia, as well as Miroslav Špiric, from Vuchitrn, on the Kosovska
Mitrovica–Vuchitrn road. The same group kidnapped Ljubomir Kneževic, a
correspondent of the daily "Politika”, on the bridge over the Sitnica river,
and killed him after torturing him for days. In January 1999, together
with Rahman Rama, Hisni Ahmeti organized and carried out an attack on YA
forces in the region of Shalja, when 8 members of the military police were
kidnapped. In the course of negotiations with the OSCE representatives,
carried out in the region of Shalja, Rahman Rama refused to set the kidnapped
soldiers free. In June of the same year, he took illegally the control
over the distribution of oil derivatives in the region of Vucitrn and Kosovska
Mitrovica, over the gasoline stations owned by "Beopetrol” and "Jugopetrol”.
Since February 2000, these facilities have been under UNMIK control. Following
the establishment of the KPC, Rama was appointed commander of the 4th Regional
territorial group (RTG), with its seat in Kosovska Mitrovica, with Hisni
Ahmeti as his deputy.
7. ABDULAH (Muharem) BABALIJA
Born on May 22nd, 1967, in Djakovica. As a commander of the 137th KLA
brigade, Babalija was the organizer of the attacks on the members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Municipalities of Djakovica
and Dechani, where several members of the police and military forces were
ambushed and killed. Among others, his group was in charge of intimidating,
kidnapping and killing the remaining Serbs, as well as in charge of the
destruction of their property in this region. Upon his order, a number
of Serbs were abducted and taken over into the terrorist base in the village
of Glodjani, where they were murdered after extended torture and maltreatment.
Five members of the Šutakovic family from Djakovica were among them. A
group of terrorists led by him carried out a number of attacks in the residential
area of Cabrat, in Djakovica, in 1999, when several civilians and three
police and YA members were killed, while ten persons were more or less
seriously injured. Moreover, he is responsible for the mining and demolition
of the Orthodox church in the central part of the town of Djakovica. In
order to achieve a total control over the town, he organized "private"
traffic police and a guard in Djakovica, as well as bodyguards in public
institutions and companies (through the firms "Besa Security" and "K.P.S.
Jaguara Security"). Together with some members of the KPC, he was engaged
in the smuggling of weapons and in extortion. In 2002, Ramush Haradinaj
appointed him commander of the 332nd KPC brigade in Djakovica. Soon after,
he was transferred to Pec. There are some indications of his personal conflict
with Daut Haradinaj.
8. MASAR (Ferhat) BAKIJA
Born on February 18th, 1953, in Djakovica Joined the illegal paramilitary
organization of "National Front" in 1991. As a reserve officer and an employee
of the Territorial Defence in Djakovica, he was in charge of the preparation
of the plans, drafts, organizational and military establishments, etc.
After joining KLA, he soon became high ranking officer in the command hierarchy
and thus kept regular contacts with the terrorist group of Hekuran Hoda,
which carried out terrorist actions in the region of Djakovica, following
his instructions. Moreover, he was the leader of the terrorist group named
"Black caps", which operated in the region of Djakovica. After the withdrawal
of the Serbian military and police forces and the formation of KPC, he
was appointed "chief of operations”, with headquarters in Dechani, with
the rank of a major. From the position, he kept under control all KPC bases
in the region of Metohija. As a high ranking KPC officer in the region
of Djakovica, he established contacts with the representatives of Islamic
organizations from Saudi Arabia, as well as with the group composed of
about 40 mujahedins who participated in the armed conflicts in K&M
against the Serbian security forces.
9. IDRIZ (Halil) BALAJ, alias "Toger"
Born on August 8th, 1952, in the village of Iglarevo, Municipality
of Klina. He was a commander of the special KLA unit known as "Black eagles",
formed by him upon the order of Ramush Haradinaj and operating within the
131st brigade of the Dukadjin operational zone, and later on as the deputy
commander of the guard of the RTG KPC, with the rank of a major. He was
arrested by UNMIK police on August 11th, 2002. Together with Ramush Haradinaj,
he was involved in the murder of about 40 persons, whose bodies were dumped
into the canal of the Bistrica river. Additionally, he is responsible for
the crimes committed in the region of the above-mentioned operational zone.
Together with Daut and Bujar Hardinai and Arben Ahmetaj, he led a terrorist
group which carried out armed attacks on the members of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs near the village of Jablanica, Municipality of Djakovica,
and on the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the
YA forces in the villages of Glodjane and Donji Ratiš, Municipality of
Dechani, on October 17th, 1998, and November 16th, 1999, near the village
of Došinovica, Municipality of Dechani. In June 1999, he kidnapped Milorad
Jovanovic, a pensioner, Djordje Kuzmanovic, a worker employed at the Public
Enterprise PTT of Serbia, and Vladimir Vulevic, from Pec, who have been
lost ever since. He is the organizer of the forced deportation of the population
from the region of Djakovica, Pec and Dechani, and the perpetrator of the
burning down of the church in the village of Gornji Ratiš. He was particularly
known for his cruelty in torturing and murdering his victims, dismembering
them with a tractor. He damped the remains of the corpses in the canal
of the Radonjic lake. He was also known among the Albanian population as
a perpetrator of the crimes against his fellowmen. In late 1998, he killed
Agim Ibrahimi, a taxidriver from Djakovica. He is also responsible for
the killings of Cvetko Novovic, from the village of Nabrdje, Municipality
of Pec, and of his wife, and for the imprisonment of Osman Berisha and
Ujkan Avduli, also from Pec, and of Vukašin Šchekic, who were kept imprisoned
and physically tortured for an extended period of time. In the late 1999,
he kidnapped Vesel Murishi and four other ethnic Albanians. He kept them
detained in the "Dukadjin” building in Pec for some time, killed four of
them while Murishi managed to escape. A number of the kidnapped persons
were tortured and murdered in the village of Ruhot. Their bodies were dumped
in the Beli Drim river. Xhafer Gjuka, a political functionary from Pec,
was among the victims. Additionally, Balaj was publicly accused of the
disappearance and murder of a number of Albanians from the region of Metohija.
He is a suspected accomplice in the murder of Ismajl Hajdari, a DSK member
on January 17th, 2002, in Pec. Idriz Balaj belongs to the criminal organization
known as "Dukadjini", led by Ramush Haradinaj. He is one of the important
organizers of the smuggling of arms from Albania to Macedonia and Serbia
and Montenegro, along the Pec-Kula-Rožaje route. He did all this in cooperation
with Ramush and Daut Haradinaj and Xhavit Haliti. He is close with the
Elshani family since he cooperates with its members in illegal oil trade.
On January 20th, 2001, unknown persons tried to assassinate Balaj by planting
an explosive device at the his house entrance, when Idriz Balaj, his wife
Teuta and a son, Sulejman, were seriously injured.
10. AFRIM (Hamdi) BASHA
Born in 1971 in the village of Vranic, Municipality of Suva Reka. He
lived for some time in Switzerland and was one of the participants in the
war in Croatia and an instructor in the training of terrorists from K&M
organized in the Republic of Albania. As a member of a terrorist group
in the village of Vranic, he participated in numerous KLA attacks on the
police forces (in Lapušnik – Municipality of Glogovac, in Ovcharevo - Municipality
of Srbica, in Crnoljevo – Municipality of Štimlje, in Banja – Municipality
of Mališevo and in Ladrovac). For a time, he was the leader of the group
in charge of liquidation of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and of ethnic Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia from the
region of Suva Reka and Prizren. To this end, he was in charge of selecting
the targets and made a list of persons for liquidation. Among others, the
list included Miško Nišovic, a state security member from Prizren, Agim
Shahiti, a members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs from the
village of Sopina, Selim Selmani, former police officer, Sahit Zogaj, former
security member from Miliševo, Bekim Sahiti, from the village of Trnje,
who was brutally murdered by Basha and the members of his group. Early
in September 1998, he kidnapped a member of the police forces from Orahovac,
transported him to a prisoner’s camp located in the village of Timicina,
Municipality of Suva Reka, where he was ruthlessly tortured. A number of
Serbs and Albanians from the said region were detained in this camp.
11. SOKOL (Mujo) BASHOTA
Born on March 7th, 1966, in the village of Cerovik, Municipality of
Klina. As a political representative of KLA, he participated in the negotiations
in Rambouier. Bashota is one of the KLA organizers in the regions of Drenica,
Klina and Orahovac. He participated in the organization of a number of
terrorist attacks on the members of Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
and the YA forces, as well as on the Serb civilians in the villages of
Jošanica, Bica, Dobra Voda, Shabic, Kijevo, Iglarevo, etc., together with
Rexhep Selimi, Jetulah Gecaj, Sulejman Selimi and Alush Agushi. Together
with Rexhep Selimi and Mujo Krasniqi, from the village of Shabic, he organized
the assassination of Mehmet Gashi, from the same village, and Isuf Haliti,
from the village of Zabrdje. He is an organizer and direct participant
in the kidnapping and liquidation of Desimir Jevtic from Zvechan, and in
the terrorist attack on the police department in Kijevo, Municipality of
Klina, and the attack on the family of Djordje Belic, in which Belic was
killed, and the attack on the Serbs in the village of Djurdjevik. In these
attacks, he was accompanied by Shaban Mangjolli, Alija Berisha, Naim Raci,
Bashkim and Flamur Berisha, all of them from the village of Veliki Djurdjevik,
Municipality of Klina. He organized and directly participated in the terrorist
attack on the family of Ramadan Balaj, from the village of Iglarevo, as
well as in the kidnapping and liquidation of Hetem Dobruna, from the village
of Lozica, Municipality of Klina, and of Ramadan Buzhola. Together with
Habib and Zeqir Morina and Agim Pantin, he participated in the kidnapping
and liquidation of Sali Berisha, alias "Zali", and of his brother, Bajram,
and of Binak Berisha, Brahim Zogaj and their sons, Fadil and Ramadan, from
Iglarevo, whose bodies were found in the region of Orahovac on the Orlate
– Mališevo road. Together with Fehmil, Bilall and Shefqet Kryeziu, he organized
the liquidation of Ajet Gashi, retired member of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs Security Service. Following the demilitarization of KLA,
he joined Hashim Thaqi’s DPK and, over a period of time, kept the post
of the Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the Interim Government
formed by Thaqi after the withdrawal of the Serbian police and military
forces from K&M. In addition to his political connections with Hashim
Thaqi, he also participated in the criminal activities of his group from
Drenica.
12. BAJRAM (Maliqi) BEGA
Born on April 8th, 1966, in the village of Jezerce, Municipality of
Uroševac. He was the commander of a special unit of KLA military police
in the barracks in the village of Jezerce. He is responsible for the crimes
made on the territory of the Nerodimlje KLA zone of operations: for more
than 29 terrorist attacks, 22 murders, 27 kidnappings, 15 illegal imprisonments,
as well as for the damage of the orthodox "Sveti Uroš" church, near Gornje
Nerodimlje in 1998. He participated in armed attacks on the village of
Nerodimlje in 1998 and 1999, and on the village of Grebno in April 1999,
as well as in forced deportation of the local population from the territory
of Uroševac. He is responsible for the establishment of eight prisons in
the region. He operated on the territory of the Municipality of Uroševac
in a group together with Nazmi Lumni and Ekrem Ballillaj, Guta Hisni and
Misret Kalenica. He participated in the armed attacks of carried out by
this group on the civilians in the settlement of Sastav reka, near the
village of Nerodimlje, when the villagers Siniša Lukic and Veselin Lazic
were abducted. Since 1998, he has participated in numerous armed attacks
on the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and on YA forces
and is responsible for the assassination of the reserve police officer,
Dragan Milic, from the village of Donje Nerodimlje, committed during one
of the above-mentioned attacks.
13. GJEMAJL (Isuf) BEJTA
Born on February 17th, 1945, in the village of Srednja Klina, Municipality
of Srbica. BEJTA is former YA officer. Based on the decision of the KLA
general staff for the Municipality of Srbica, he was one of the commanders
in charge of the military training of KLA members. In 1998, he led diversionary
terrorist training of KLA members in the region of Drenica, to be subsequently
elected member of the KLA general staff for the Drenica operational zone
located in the village of Likovac, Municipality of Srbica. He was actively
engaged in the animation of ethnic Albanians serving the former Yugoslav
Army, instigating them to join KLA forces. Along with Zaim Berisha, Milaim
Berisha and Ejup Dragu, he had a prominent role in the organization of
the parallel Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kosovo. After the formation
of KPC, he was appointed chief of the personnel department.
14. AVNI (Musa) BERISHA, alias "Tarkan"
Born on August 13th, 1974, in the village of Konjuševac, Municipality
of Podujevo. He was a KLA member in the region of the Lab operational zone,
where he carried out a number of terrorist actions together with Avni Feta
from the village of Penduh, Municipality of Podujevo and Rustem Mustafa,
aka "Remi", to become finally, after June 1999, a participant in the ethnic
cleansing of the territory of the municipalities of Podujevo and Priština.
Upon the order of Latif Gashi, chief of the military police in the above-
mentioned zone at the time, and his deputy, Nazif Mehmeti, he executed
four ethnic Albanians from the region of the Municipality of Podujevo (Aglush
Kastrati from Krpimej, Mirveta, Agim and Isak Musliu from Glavnik). He
led the group of the KLA secret police members responsible for the murder
of Predrag Jovanovic, from the village of Sušica, Municipality of Priština.
In December 1998, he liquidated Milic Jovic, former member of the provincial
Ministry of Internal Affairs. He is one of the participants in the attack
on Stanimir Dimovic, a police officer from Podujevo, who was severely injured
on the occasion. After the dismissal of KLA, in September 1999, Berisha
joined KPC in Priština.
15. RUSTEM (Shaban) BERISHA
Born on July 18th, 1955, in the village of Kruševac, Municipality of
Pec. He was one of the leaders of the staff of the 2nd KPC RTG in Paštrik,
with its headquarters in Prizren. At the moment, he is a director of the
"Hamz Jashari" KPC Academy in Priština. Together with Baslim Zyrapi, he
is responsible for 26 murders, 77 abductions and organizing of 6 improvised
prisons located on the territory of Orahovac and Prizren. In addition to
all this, he also participated in the armed attack on the YA border outpost
in the village of Košare, Municipality of Djakovica in 1999, when he, in
person, killed several soldiers. Together with a group of terrorists, on
June 11th, 1999, he broke into a house of a certain Hatidza in the village
of Erec, and committed a criminal act of rape of the said Albanian woman
and her two daughters. The same group tortured some Roma people and raped
large number of girls of this national group. Berisha is also responsible
for the kidnapping of Sadri Camaj on February 9th, 1999, in the vicinity
of Djakovica, as well as for inflicting severe injuries to, and the murder
of, Shkelzen Kamberi, from the village of Ponoševac, who was kept detained
in an improvised prison located in the region of Djakovica.
16. SHEFIK (Hazir) BEQIRI, alias commander "Dardani"
Born on August 13th, 1960, in the village of Koprivnica, Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica. In 1998, he was appointed commander of the 172nd
KLA brigade and KLA general staff member for the region of Kosovska Kamenica.
He ordered deportation of the citizens of Roma nationality from the village
of Ogošt, Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, as well as plundering and
burning down of their houses. Moreover, he was the leader of a group composed
of 15 individuals who drove away the Serb population from the Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica and who also ordered the torture of a number of Serbs
and ethnic Albanians. He ordered the murder of Trajan Trajkovic, a member
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs from the village of Kololec,
Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, as well as ethnic cleansing of the village
Charakovica in the same Municipality. He organized the delivery of a large
quantity of arms from Gnjilane in the Koprivnica village for the needs
of the units operating within ANA, when KFOR members accomplished to seize
certain quantity of the said arms. Previously, he was in charge of procurement
of arms intended for LAPMB. He also maintains contacts with the criminal
groups through which he had organized illegal arms and drug sales. Currently
he keeps the post of a senior KPC officer in Vitina.
17. LAHI (Shaban) IBRAHIMI, alias "Madjun"
Born on January 21st, 1970, in the village of Jablanica, Municipality
of Djakovica. In September 1998, criminal charges were pressed against
Ibrahimi for his terrorist activities. He has been the initiator and the
major perpetrator of the extremists‘ actions in the region of Jablanica
since 1995. In late 1996, he established illegal terrorist group named
"Avengers". He was in charge of the receiving end of the arms delivery
which he stored at his home in Jablanica. He organized the training in
the handling of infantry weapons and explosive devices for the members
of various terrorist organizations. Together with the members of his group,
Faik Mehmeti and Naser Ibrahimi, he carried out a number of terrorist attacks
on the police units in the regions of Duškaje, Baranska Ljuga and Ponoševica.
Early in 1998, he participated in the reception and hiding of Ramush Haradinaj
and other terrorists who participated in the murder of Miodrag Otovic,
a police officer from the Dechani police department. In March of the same
year, he was appointed commander of the KLA general staff for the region
of Duškaj and thus cooperated with Idriz Balaj, aka "Toger" and Fadil Nimonaj,
aka "Tiger", the commander of KLA military police in this region. At the
same time, he established a strong terrorist base and erected the barracks
in the village of Jablanica which he used for the training of new KLA members
and for storing arms and military equipment received from Albania and which
was then shipped toward Drenica. He himself planned and executed the kidnapping
of Serbs and of a certain number of Albanians who were kept in the prison
in Jablanica. In the cellar of a house he built a pool and used it to torture
the kidnapped individuals. In it, he was helped by the late Naser Ibrahimi,
and Faik Mehmetaj, Nazmi Ibrahimi and Xhevdet Kasumi, all from the village
of Jablanica. The group is responsible for the execution of at least 10
kidnapped individuals, whose bodies were dumped into the Radonjic lake,
near the village of Ratiš, Municipality of Dechani, while some of the bodies
were buried in the woods near the lake. Together with other members of
his group, Ibrahimi killed three persons, including one police officer
and an ethnic Albanian from the village of Labljani, Municipality of Pec,
who refused to offer financial support to KLA. Their bodies were dumped
in the Sušica river. Owing to his family relations with Ramush Haradinaj,
Albanians also suspect him of murdering Tahir Zemaj, one of the former
KLA commanders. Because of his engagement in the armed activities of ANA
in Macedonia and of LAPMB in the south of Serbia, he was dismissed from
the position of the staff member of the 3rd KPC RTG, with the headquarters
in Pec, while on June 18th, 2002, he was arrested by UNMIK police, together
with Sadik Çeku, Idriz Balaj and Bekim Zekaj, under suspicion of
perpetrating crimes against Albanians and members of other national communities
in this region of K&M during 1999. After several hours of detention,
Lahi Ibrahimi and Sadik Çeku were released.
18. RAM (Gani) BUJA
Born on December 5th, 1958, in the village of Bujance, Municipality
of Lipljan. He participated in the negotiations held in Rambouier, as a
close collaborator of Hashim Thaqi, Jakup Krasniqi and Shukri Buja. He
is a member of the DPK Central Committee. He is one of the organizers of
Albanian referendum in 1992, when he became a delegate in the illegal Assembly
of the Republic of Kosovo. Through the contacts with Ibush Visi, from the
village of Dubrava, Municipality of Kachanik, he monitored terrorist KLA
activities in the region of Štimlje, Dechani and Pec, and subsequently
became a member of the top KLA staff in the region of Lipljan and Mališevo.
From the base in Mališevo, he coordinated, together with Jakup Krasniqi
and Azem Syla, terrorist attacks on the Serb civilians and on YA members
and the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and was the
instigator of the kidnapping of the members of the security forces in K&M
for the purpose of exchanging them for the captured terrorists from the
KLA units. He is a direct participant in a number of terrorist actions
carried out in Srbica, in the regions of Lapašnik, Mališevo, Lipljan and
Suva Reka. After the withdrawal of the Yugoslav and Serbian security forces
from K&M, he organized terrorist actions of KLA members in Mališevo,
encouraging exile, intimidation and kidnapping of Serbs from the region
of Lipljan.
19. SHUKRI (Sali) BUJA, alias "Gazetar" and "Sokol"
Born on August 27th, 1966, in the village of Bujance, Municipality
of Lipljan. He was the commander of the prisoner’s camp in the village
of Lanište near Uroševac. Till September 1999, he was the commander of
the KLA headquarters in the village Jezerce, Municipality of Uroševac,
when he was appointed commander of the 6th KPC RTG. In 2000, he left KPC
and became a participant in criminal, terrorist activities in the region
of the municipalities of Uroševac, Kachanik and Vitina. He operates together
with Genc Sefaj from Albania, a former officer of the Albanian army forces,
living in Uroševac now, who participated in the conflicts in K&M, and
with Xhabir Zharku, from Kachanik, the chief of the Kachanik gang engaged
in the smuggling of arms and in drug trafficking. Together with Genc Sefaj
he usurped numerous business premises whose owners were Serbs, using them
as catering facilities or consumer goods storage facilities. Part of the
money earned by organized crime, i.e., the smuggling of arms, was used
for financing terrorist activities of ANA and the terrorist groups operating
on the territory of FYROM and southern Serbia. He maintains close relations
with the Suma criminal gang led by brothers Rufki, Emrush and Shkelzan
Suma. In addition to blackmailing money extortion, the gang is also engaged
in the trafficking of drugs, tobacco and arms smuggled to the FYRepublic
of Macedonia. The Suma family has also usurped cement works in General
Jankovic, exploiting them as if they were his own property.
20. JAH (Salli) BUSHATI
Born on February 25th, 1972, in the village of Grgoc, Municipality
of Djakovica. He was a member of the so-called Jablanica group, led by
Lahi Ibrahimi. From the beginning of 1998, he participated in all the attacks
on the members of the Serb and Albanian population, as well as on the Roma
in the region. Together with Safedin Alia, also from the village of Grgoc,
on June 2nd, 1998, he attacked the house of the Thaqi family from the village
of Kosuric, Municipality of Pec, when Uk Thaqi, who had refused to join
KLA, was killed. In June of the same year, Bushati and Agim Zejnelli, aka
"Cergash", from Jablanica, kidnapped Dejan Randjelovic, from the village
of Bec, as well as one member of the Roma community, who were released
after days of maltreatment and torture. At the time, the above mentioned
group was engaged in the plunder of temporarily abandoned Serb and Montenegrin
houses in the village of Bec, since the population was afraid of the activities
of Albanian terrorists. Bushati organized repeated attacks on a Montenegrin
house in the village of Crmljane, owned by Babovic family. In late August
of the same year, Bushati and Zejnelli carried out a terrorist attack on
the clinic in the village of Drenovac. On September 29th, 1998, Bushati
kidnapped a taxi-driver on the road to the village Krljane, near Djakovica,
who was kept imprisoned for several days in the village of Krljane and
then murdered. After the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from
K&M, together with Arif Shala, a former KLA member, Bushati was actively
engaged in the kidnapping and exile of the Serbs and the Roma from the
region of Duškaje, particularly from the village of Crmljane. On June 16th,
1999, they kidnapped Halid Beqa, a Roma from the same village, as well
as Halid’s father, Mihtar, on the following day. Halid disappeared without
a trace, while Mihtar was released after several days of maltreatment whereupon,
with his family, he left K&M.
21. JUSUF VELIA, alias "Zali"
Born on July 26th, 1957, in Priština. As one of the rather active members
of the former KLA within the Lab operational zone, he kept the post of
the military police commander.
He participated in the terrorist arrack on the "Niš-express bus" on
February 16th, 2001, near the village of Livadice, Municipality of Podujevo,
when 11 passengers were killed. For this reason, he was arrested by UNMIK
police and KFOR members.
22. AZEM (Rexha) VESELI
Born on March 8th, 1964, in the village of Labljane, Municipality of
Pec. He joined KLA forces in 1997 and, as the commander of the unit in
the village of Labljane and member of the general staff for the Dukadjin
operational zone, he participated in a number of terrorist actions against
the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and in the exile
of the Serbs from the region of Metohija, as well as in the organization
of arms and military equipment supply from Albania to K&M. He is responsible
for the numerous crimes committed on the territory of the Dukadjin operational
zone. In late 1998, he participated in the kidnapping, torture and execution
of a number of people from Pec, including Vladimir Vulevic and Xafer Gjuka,
whose bodies were dumped in the Beli Drim river. Additionally, on July
11th, 1998, Veseli kidnapped and subsequently murdered, together with several
numbers of his diversionary, terrorist group, Skender Kuqi, from the same
village. Since early 1999, he has been the commander of the illegal terrorist
organization "KLA Wing", which operates in the region of the Drim district
and is responsible, among other things, for the numerous kidnappings, extortions
and robberies of the Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia. He led
the 133rd KLA brigade, which, entered Istok on June 18th, 1999, and committed
numerous murders, detained the remaining civilians, devastated and robbed
movable property and real estates and demolished numerous religious and
cultural monuments. Together with a group of KLA secret police members,
established by Naser Shatri, intended to liquidate the Serb population,
in June 1999, Veseli murdered Stanoje Ljušic in his home, as well as Mihailo
and Djurdje Vujuc, Radoje Vulic and his wife, and their son, Miško, and
Petar Djuric and several other persons from Istok. Moreover, he ordered
the execution of Radovan Radnic, which was carried out by Zenun Gashi,
aka "Hoxha”, on June 20th, 1999, in Istok. In 1999, he was the commander
of the prison located in a private house in the village of Kalicani, Municipality
of Istok, where some 150 civilians were detained. He was closely connected
with the criminal organization known as "Dukadjini" led by Ramush Haradinaj,
and directly participated in the arms, drugs, humanitarian aid and white
slaves trafficking, as well as in the intimidation of competitive criminal
groups. Late in 2002, he was suspended from the function of the KPC commander
in Istok. However, in 2003, he was reinstated.
23. KADRI (Fazli) Veseli, alias "Luli"
Born on May 31st, 1967, in Kosovska Mitrovica. In the late 80s and
early 90s, he was actively included in the activities of the illegal NMRK
organization, engaged in the organization of armed groups and terrorist
actions. In 1991, he completed a diversionary, terrorist training in the
military camp in Albania. He participated in the terrorist attack on the
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, on the railroad crossing
near Glogovac, when four police officers were killed and three injured.
Thereafter he escaped to Switzerland, and was granted political asylum.
After the deployment of the international forces in K&M, Hashim Thaqi
appointed him chief of ECGS, whose individual members are directly subordinated
to DPK party leadership and responsible, among other things, for the murders
committed in order to maintain Thaqi’s political position. He belongs to
the organized criminal gang led by Thaqi who gained control over the trafficking
in arms, drugs, oil, oil derivatives and other excise goods. Thanks to
his current political position and influence on the most extreme part of
the separatist’s movement. As a member of this organized criminal group,
Veseli controls a number of firms dealing with sales of excise goods, including
"Kosovo-petrol", the most important one. His closest collaborators are
Muhamet Kosova, Feti Bakali, Demir Bitiqi, Xhavit Haliti, etc.
24. REXHEP (Maksut) VESELI, alias "Shpetimi" and
"Fisnik"
Born on August 6th, 1970, in Gnjilane. At the time of the armed conflicts
in K&M, he was a KLA member in the Karadak operational zone, where
he participated, together with Ramadan Ramadani and Mustafa Sallih, in
the smuggling of arms, food and other military equipment from the Republic
of Albania to the region of K&M. For a certain period of time he was
a bodyguard of Imri Iljazi, the commander of the 6th KPC RTG in Gnjilane.
After the establishment of the terrorist organization known as ANA, he
was in charge of organization of a terrorist group in the Municipality
of Gnjilane. He is one of the wealthiest men in K&M. He owns "Perparimi"
Holding Company, the furniture factories "NTP Kosova Mobilia" and "Thumbi"
in Gnjilane, six department stores in the same town which are, among other
things, used for the storage of the smuggled goods. Through his business
connections in Turkey, he procured arms and uniforms for LAPMB, established
close relations with Rustem Mustafa and Ellami Bajrami, cooperating with
them in the "Cobra Security Co." and is included in the mafia network of
Fadil Gumnishte.
25. SALI (Shaban) VESELI
Born on July 23rd, 1953, in the village of Smonica, Municipality of
Djakovica. As a former YNA officer, he participated in the organization
of the military training of terrorists in Albania during the 1990–1993
period. He was an operational deputy of the chief of the general staff
of KLA. In the period January – October 2000, he kept the post of the commander
of the 2nd KPC RTG Paštrik, to be subsequently (in May 2001) appointed
commander of the 4th KPC RTG of Lab. He is responsible for more than 16
murders, for kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of approximately 14 persons,
for large-scale destruction of property, forced deportation of population
from the territory of Podujevo, as well as for more than twenty terrorist
attacks, including an armed attack on the village of Obranlja, Municipality
of Podujevo. He directly participated in the execution of Ekrem Rexha,
alias "Commander Drini", most probably upon the order of Hashim Thaqi and,
in the words of the witnesses, other accomplices in this murder, Veseli
gave each one DM 15,000.
26. SKENDER (Maksut) VESELI, alias "Bili"
Born on April 16th, 1971, in Gnjilane. Due to a well grounded suspicion
of having participated in the commitment of terrorist acts, the District
Public Prosecutor in Gnjilane pressed criminal charges against him in June
1999. He was the commander of the guard and of the military police in the
KLA general staff in the Karadak operational zone, charged with the protection
of the general staff members and with discipline of KLA members who had
failed to comply with the orders of the commanders-in-chief, Ahmet Isufi
and Shemsi Syla. For this purpose, he organized an improvised prisons in
the cellars of privately owned houses where disobedient Albanians and kidnapped
Serbs were tortured. He participated in the terrorist actions in the Municipality
of Gnjilane, as well as in the village of Marevce, Municipality of Priština
while, together with Elisah Imeri and his brother Rexhep Veselji, alias,
"Fisnik", he was engaged in the popularization of KLA. After his service
in the KPC guard unit in Priština, he participated in the torture of the
Serbs in the villages of Dobrcane and Bukovik, Municipality of Gnjilane
(Svetozar Antic, Srdjan Tepavchevic, Dragan Dimitrijevic and Nebojsa Antonijevic,
who succumbed to his injuries – all from Gnjilane). Occasionally, as an
instructor for the members of the terrorist organization, he stayed in
the village of Dobrosin, Municipality of Bujanovac, where the general staff
of the LAPMB was located. He also stayed on the territory of FYROM, where
he was engaged in terrorist activities and in the training of NLA members.
27. BESIM (Shaban) VOKSHI
Born on April 23rd, 1955, in Djakovica. Early in 1998 he became a member
of KLA and operated in the region of Djakovica in a group together with
Hekuran Hoda, Anton Lekaj and Arben Shkupi, alias "Zifa", responsible for
the kidnapping and maltreatment of non-Albanian population detained in
the "Paštrik" Hotel cellar, where Vokshi had established an improvised
prison and was its commander. He is directly responsible for kidnapping
of a number of Serbs, Montenegrins and Roma from Djakovica, including Besim
Ramoci, a Roma from Djakovica, as well as five Serbs from Orahovac (Negovan
Dedic, Budimir Baljoševic, Staniša Milenkovic, Zvezdan Mojsic and Goran
Stolic) who had tried to escape to Montenegro via Djakovica. Afijete and
G¸zim Zeqiri, Hasan Tafa and Shaban Bala were tortured in the same
premises, to be subsequently released, while Bajram Krasniqi, Zvezdan Lushaj
and Rade Gagovic were killed. After the demilitarization of KLA, Vokshi
established and currently manages the agency known as "Besa security" in
Djakovica, which is presumably engaged in the protection of the catering
facilities and other premises. Since its work was prohibited by UNMIK police
on several occasions, due to criminal activities, the seat of the agency
was repeatedly moved all over Djakovica. In December 2001, UNMIK members
searched the premises of the agency and found documentation indicating
that its members were engaged in the extortions from the wealthy citizens
and in illegal oil trade. The said agency is connected with the suicide
of Tafiz Lila, a merchant from Djakovica, whose private company "Tafa Komerc"
was taken over by "Besa Security" members, former KLA members, who robbed
him of a large amount of money. They also threatened his son, Shukria,
who later escaped to Tirana. The said agency was connected to a criminal
gang named "Hawks", operating in the region of Djakovica. Namely, the members
of the gang were responsible for the robbery, kidnapping and maltreatment
of the inhabitants of Djakovica who, in turn, asked the "Besa Security"
agency for protection. The members of the said agency were also connected
to the robberies and murder of "unfit" and wealthy citizens, such as Edward
Shalja, from Djakovica, whose goldsmith’s shop was robbed after his murder.
28. LATIF (Rizah) GASHI, alias "Lata" and "Fati"
Born on September 12th, 1961, in the village of Dobri Do, Municipality
of Podujevo. Gashi is the former commander of the KLA military police unit
and of the intelligence service within the Lab operational zone and the
former chief of the ECGS operational service. In 1998, as the commander
of the KLA military police, he was in charge of ordering the kidnapping
and liquidation of the Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia, as well
as of a large number of Serbs. After the withdrawal of the forces of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and of YA from K&M, he became
the chief of the KLA secret police, with its headquarters in Priština,
responsible for the detention and torture of civilians. Moreover, he was
responsible for the operations of ECGS, as its head, while in September
1999, he was elected deputy commander of the 5th KPC RTG, led by Rustem
Mustafa. He is an organizer of abductions in the region of Lab, when he
in person carried out interrogation of the kidnapped persons. He was immediately
responsible for torturing of Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia,
as well as followers of Ibrahim Rugova upon the order of Hashim Thaqi.
Together with Dritton Zhjeqi and Robert Bertetsky, Gashi organized the
placing of an explosive device in the building of the former Yugoslav Committee
for Cooperation with UNMIK and KFOR in Priština when Goran Jeftic was killed.
In 1999, upon his order to do so, three Serbs – Jovica Stamenkovic, Miodrag
Mladenovic and professor Milenko Lekovic – were killed in the premises
of the School of Economy. Based on the testimonies of a number of witnesses,
Gashi, as a deputy commander of the 5th KLA operational zone, ordered the
liquidation of a member of the former State Security Center, Milic Jovic,
on December 1st, 1998. in Podujevo, as well as the imprisonment of Alush
Kastrati, from Krpimej, Hetem Jashari, from Podujevo, Agim Musliu, alias
"Agim Tocku", Idriz Svarça, from Bijelo Polje, Drite Bunjaku-Voci,
from Lužane, Nazmi Rustemi, brothers Muja, Adem, Halil and Fitim Rakovice,
from the village of Dumosa, Hakif Hoti, from the village of Bradaša, Fehmi
Poter, from the village of Lapaštica, Bexhet Nazifi, from Bajchina, Milan
Stankovic and his wife from Peran, as well as Drago Tijanic, also from
Peran. In addition to that, members of Gashi’s terrorist group kidnapped
Osman Sinani, from the village of Murgule, Municipality of Podujevo, who
was subsequently murdered, as well as Milovan Stankovic, a worker employed
in the "Javor” company in Podujevo, from the village of Bechic, Municipality
of Merošine, Ratko Vichentijevic, from the village of Donja Dumnica, Visar
Voca, Sabri Berisha, Mirveta Konjushevci, Goran Zbiljic, Chedomir Blagojevic,
Živorad Biserchic and Ljubiša Nedeljkovic. The kidnapped persons were detained
in the prisons located in the villages of Gornja Lapaštica, Bajgora, Majance
and Potok, in the Municipality of Podujevo. He is one of the participants
in the terrorist attack carried out on August 28th, 1996, in the village
of Donje Ljupche, Municipality of Podujevo, when Ejup Bajgora, a member
of the State Security Center in Priština, was killed. In addition to Gashi,
Zahir Pajaziti from the village of Turchice, Nazif Mehmeti, Naim Kadriu
and Shaip Haziri from the village Kacikol, Municipality of Priština, participated
in this attack. On June 12th, 1999, in the village of Polic, Gashi liquidated
Krunislav Jošanovic, from the village of Orlane, Municipality of Podujevo
who had been kidnapped. After the international community had established
the Belgrade department for investigating the crimes committed in K&M,
a mass grave with more than 37 bodies of the Serb civilians was discovered
in the village of Kachidol, Municipality of Podujevo, with Gashi’s terrorist
group responsible for the executions. He was arrested on January 29th,
2002, by KFOR and UNMIK, and sentenced by the International Court in Priština
on July 16th, 2003, to 10 years of imprisonment for the war crimes committed
in the regions of Priština and Podujevo. Other members of the Lab group
were sentenced as well – Mustafa Rustem to 17 years of imprisonment, Nazif
Mehmeti to 13 years and Naim Kadriu to 5 years of imprisonment.
29. FAHRUDIN (Haredin) GASHI
Born on December 8th, 1969, in Štimlje. In May 1998, he joined the
KLA forces and their staff located in the village of Krajmirovce, Municipality
of Lipljan, to be soon appointed chief of the military police in charge
of a part of the territory of the Municipality of Štimlje. In addition
to his engagement in the surveillance of the movements on the local roads,
he participated in the attacks on the police and YA members, in the maltreatment
and kidnapping of the Serbs, as well as the Albanians loyal to the Republic
of Serbia (Agim Ademi, Ahmeti Veseli and Shuqer Zymberi). After the signing
of the UN Security Council resolution 1244 and the withdrawal of the members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces from K&M,
Gashi focused his activities within the KLA secret police on the expulsion
of non-Albanian population from the region of Štimlje, organizing night
attacks on the members of the Serb and Roma ethnic groups accompanied with
blackmail and intimidation. At the same time, he participated in the kidnapping
of the prominent members of the Albanian families in Štimlje, in order
to gain material advantages. Also, he is responsible for the kidnapping
of the 12 year old son of Hasan Rexhepi, the owner of the "Migros" Company,
who was ordered to pay the ransom of DM 60,000. Together with Isak Musliu,
he is responsible for the murder of Qerim Isamili, Agim Ademi, Ahmet Veseli
and Fatmir Zymberi, from the village of Gornje Godance, and Imri Bajrami,
from Štimlje. Because of the said activities, he was arrested by KFOR and
subsequently released upon the intervention of his superiors. He is one
of the leaders of the terrorist organization known as ANA in the region
covering the villages of Gornje Godance, Zborce, Petrašica, Duka, in the
Municipality of Štimlje, and the villages of Sedlare and Krajmirovce, Municipality
of Lipljan. In addition to all this, he participated in the organized smuggling
and processing of drugs, as well as in white slave trafficking in the whole
region of K&M. He is the leader of the criminal group composed of Bajrush
and Bedri Rexhaj, from the village of Petrovo, Agim Isamili, from the village
of Crnoljevo, Mehmet Miftari, Heset Bleta and Bexhet (Xhevat) Fazlliu,
from Štimlje. The abovementioned group was engaged in the illegal procurement
and re-sale of different arms, in the thefts and robberies of the wealthy
individuals and private companies, in blackmailing and, particularly, in
drug trafficking. Gashi hired Shefki Osmani, from Štimlje, and Samit Sefejdini,
from Uroševac, for the smuggling of drugs from foreign countries to K&M.
Drugs were procured through Muharem Beqaj, alias "Balem", born in Štimlje
and residing in Turkey. The main destinations of the abovementioned drugs
was the Czech Republic, and Beqaj established a channel for the transportation
of drugs on the Turkey – K&M – Italy route. "Union Bank" and its director
Ahmet Qiriqi, from Štimlje, were used to launder the money gained through
the trafficking of drugs, arms, etc. Hizer Gashi, from the village of Petraštica,
Municipality of Štimlje, was included in the abovementioned activities,
as the deputy director of the said bank.
30. JETULAH (Sinan) GECAJ
Born on February 17th, 1954, in Lauša, Municipality of Srbica. A KLA
member from 1992 and one of the commanders in the region of the village
of Lauša, Municipality of Srbica. From the first days of KLA, he was a
member of Adem Jashari’s group engaged in the popularization of the organization.
Before and during the war, he had committed crimes against the Serb civilians,
together with his brother Sabit, alias "Batali", in the municipalities
of Srbica, Glogovac, Klina and Istok. He was an executor of Desimir Petkovic,
from the village of Korilja, Municipality of Zvechane, and of Zen Durmishi,
from the village of Reketnica, Municipality of Srbica. He also participated
in the terrorist actions against the police and YA forces and was known
for his cruelty among the KLA members. After the deployment of the UN forces
in K&M, he was appointed commander of the 112th brigade in the operational
zone of Drenica by Thaqi’s Interim Government. In 2001, he organized minor
terrorist groups which harassed, attacked and tortured their fellow men
who were not the supporters of Hashim Thaqi’s political platform. He tried
to eliminate physically his political opponents, including Fadhil Gecaj,
a DSK activist from the village of Lauša, Municipality of Srbica. In the
middle of March 2001, members of the abovementioned groups attempted the
liquidation of Fadil Gecaj. The members of the Gecaj Family were engaged
in the smuggling of arms, as well as in the extortion of money from the
owners of the restaurants in Prizren, Pec, Djakovica and Kosovska Mitrovica.
They are engaged in the drug sale and in the organization of prostitution
in the regions of Priština, Lipljan and Štimlje. In 2000, Jetulah Gecaj
was arrested by UNMIK police and subsequently sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment
for his criminal activities. He is currently serving his sentence.
31. SABIT (Sheremet) GECAJ, alias "Batali"
Born on August 20th, 1958, in the village of Lauša, Municipality of
Srbica. He joined KLA in 1993 and was in charge of the procurement of arms
and the training of KLA members in the region of Drenica. He actively participated
in the planning and carrying out of terrorist attacks against the police
and army members, in the kidnapping of civilians and in ethnic cleansing
of the Serbs and other non-Albanians in the Municipality of Srbica. He
was one of the commanders of the improvised prison in the village of Likovac,
Municipality of Srbica, where several dozens of kidnapped individuals were
tortured and, most of them, upon his orders, executed. After the deployment
of the international forces in K&M, Sabit Gecai joined the Kosovo secret
service and, at the same time, he established close relations with the
criminal groups and participated in the illegal procurement and distribution
of drugs and arms, cigarettes, oil, in white slave trafficking, money extortion,
etc. He established contacts with a criminal group from Drenica through
Sylejman Selimi, alias "Sultan", led by Hashim Thaqi, as well as with the
criminal group of the Suma family. Due to the abovementioned activities,
in November 2000, he was arrested by the international forces in K&M.
His trial before the District Court in Priština started early in 2001.
He was, among other things, indicted for the mining of the "Show” restaurant,
together with his group, when 13 persons, mostly Albanians, were injured,
and for the attack on Borisav Vukichevic, the then president of the Yugoslav
Committee for K&M. The trial was completed in April 2001, and Gecaj
was sentenced to six years of imprisonment. Thus, he is currently serving
his sentence in the District Jail in Kosovska Mitrovica.
32. GANI (Adem) GECI
Born on January 20th, 1968, in the village of Lauša, Municipality of
Srbica. In 1986, he was sentenced by the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica
to three years and six months of imprisonment for an attempted murder.
He participated in numerous terrorist operations and liquidations of the
police members in the municipalities of Srbica, Glogovac, Klina and Kosovska
Mitrovica. In one of his interviews, he confessed his participation in
the injury and the liquidation of the policemen Dejan Galjak and Bislimovic.
In 1993, he carried out actions aimed at an intimidation of the Albanians
loyal to the Republic of Serbia, including Muharem Qun, from the village
of Glogovac, who was liquidated by Geci’s collaborator, Ilaz Kadriu. In
his public appearances, he frequently criticized the activities of Hashim
Thaqi, being, at the same time, one of the financiers of DSK. On October
19th, Hashim Thaqi’s followers attacked a vehicle with the reporter, Bekim
Kastrati, and Gani Geci, when Kastrati was killed and Geci injured. The
attack was carried out because of the article published by Kastrati on
Hashim Thaqi and Sylejman Selimi, alias "Sultan", in which he suggested
that he was going to publish the names of Albanian women raped by these
Albanian politicians.
33. ADEM (Azem) GRABOVCI, alias "Celi"
Born on April 9th, 1960, in the village of Starodvorane, Municipality
of Istok. Due to his extremist activities and participation in the demonstrations
from 1981, he was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment. He left the country
illegally in 1990 and went to Switzerland where he joined the illegal NPK
organization and was elected one of its senior leaders. Together with Xhavit
Haliti, Emrush Xhemaili and Ibrahim and Muhamed Kelmendi, he participated
in the propaganda activities of the Albanians in that and other Western
European countries. After the establishment of KLA, he became a member
of its general staff in Switzerland, in charge of the procurement and transport
of arms for the diversionary terrorist groups in K&M. In this capacity,
he visited K&M illegally several times during 1999. After the signing
of the Kumanovo Agreement, he was appointed the Minister of Finance in
the self-proclaimed Interim Government of Kosovo. As a close collaborator
of Hashim Thaqi, he was elected a member of the DPK Presidium in charge
of controlling the financial assets of the party. At the same time, he
participated in all criminal actions carried out under the control of Hashim
Thaqi.
34. JAHIR (Haxhi) DEMAKU, alias "Madjup"
Born on June 6th, 1971, in the village of Donje Obrinje, Municipality
of Srbica. He was one of the most active KLA members in the region of Drenica,
keeping the post of the commander of the special unit of the military formation
"Guri", with its headquarters in the village of Banjica. He was in direct
contact with the Jashari brothers, as well as with Sami Lushtaku, Fadhil
Kodra and others. In 1998, together with Skender Halili and Isa Demaku,
he kidnapped and subsequently killed Ivan Bulatovic, a member of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs. Also in August, he participated in the kidnapping
and wounding of Velli Vellaku, from the village of Banjica. He is also
responsible for the establishment of the improvised prison in the village
of Gornje Obirnje and for the torture of the prisoners. In addition to
his terrorist activities, he was engaged in organized crime and was closely
connected to the leaders of the "Drenica" criminal group, mostly composed
of former KLA members from the Municipality. After the demilitarization
of KLA, he became a member of the general staff of KPC.
35. MILAZIM (Bajram) DERGUTI
Born on October 8th, 1969, in the village of Trn, Municipality of Uroševac.
In 1998, he was engaged in monitoring of the activities of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Municipality of Uroševac. As a member
of the KLA unit in the village Jezerce, Municipality of Uroševac, he actively
participated in the terrorist activities committed by the unit in the Municipality
of Štimlje. He was involved in the kidnapping of Albanians in the villages
of Trn and Košin, Municipality of Uroševac, as well as in that of Mile
Vuksanovic, an employee in the Health Center in Priština. Derguti organized
and took an active part in the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs from the region
of the municipalities of Uroševac and Štimlje, together with Isak Musliu,
from the village of Rachak, Municipality of Štimlje. He was a member of
KPC, but was suspended because of his participation in the kidnapping and
torturing of civilians. Currently, he keeps the post of the deputy chief
of the ANA general staff for the municipalities of Uroševac, Kachanik,
Štimlje and Štrpce.
36. JETULAH (Sylejman) DIBRANI
Born on December 21st, 1953, in the village of Vaganica, Kosovska Mitrovica.
During the 80s and the 90s, he was sentenced several times for aggravated
robberies and other criminal acts. In April 1998, he founded a terrorist
group, together with Ismet Haxha, Shaqir Prekazi, aka "Shoco", Avni Haradinaj,
aka "Koshutovo", and Naser Lushtaku, which operated in the villages of
Vaganica, Sipolja, Piroce, Vrbinica and in the other villages in the region
of Kosovska Mitrovica. In addition to attacks on the police force, the
group intercepted civilians and took them to KLA prison in the village
of Likovac, Municipality of Srbica. Between 1998 and 1999, the group, led
by Dibrani and Ismet Haxha, detained, tortured and probably executed Skender
Ademi, Helmet Zymberi, Sherafedin Ajeti and Teuta and Vjolca Peci, from
Kosovska Mitrovica. After the zonal reorganization of KLA, he was appointed
commander of a special unit with its headquarters in the village of Vrbnica.
After the withdrawal of the Serbian and FRY security forces from K/M, he
was actively engaged in the demolition, arson and robbery of the Serb real
estate and property in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, as well
as in the Albanian demonstrations in this part of the town organized for
the purpose of forced entrance into the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
After the establishment of KPC, Dibrani was appointed commander of the
KPC group in charge of the region of Vagance and Sipolja. However, discontented
with his status, he retired soon thereafter. In addition of Ismet Haxha,
Dibrani was very close with Avni Haradinaj, who was killed in February
2000, in Kosovska Mitrovica, during the conflict with the French KFOR members.
37. SOKOL (Qazim) DOBRUNA
Born on March 22nd, 1940, in Djakovica. He was engaged in the recruitment
and transfer of Albanian to the KLA units in the villages of Smonica and
Jablanica, Municipality of Djakovica, and to the villages of Junik and
Glodjane, Municipality of Dexhani, as well as in the collection and distribution
of the material support for the terrorist KLA groups in the so-called region
Reka Kec. Together with Afrim Deda, Hekuran Hoda and Agron Krueziu, he
established guerilla groups in the downtown Djakovica, responsible for
a number of attacks on the police and YA forces in May 1999, when a considerable
number of members of the security forces were killed. During that time,
Dobruna, as the president of the KLA court martial for the region of K&M,
issued, together with his deputy, Ilaz Kadoli, from Suva Reka, both written
and oral orders for the liquidation of both the Serbs and ethnic Albanians
considered to be their political opponents. Otherwise, orders for the liquidation
of the Serbs and the destruction of their property, came to the members
of the KLA brigade in Djakovica from the commander of the Paštrik operational
zone, Ekrem Rexha, aka "Drini". After the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement,
Dobruna participated in the kidnapping and the murder of Milivoje Vukovic,
in the village of Petrušan, Jovanka Stolic and Draga Biberchic, in the
village of Ljug, Bunar and the sisters Milka and Milica Slavkovic, from
the village of Brekovac, as well as two former members of the Djakovica
police department, Pasha Cerimu, from the village of Janoš, and Ibrahim
Mahmuti, from the village of Batuša. Together with his brother Muslim,
he was engaged in illegal trafficking of oil derivatives, cigarettes and
other goods.
38. SHABAN (Kajtaz) DRAGAJ
Born on April 16th, 1958, in the village of Kladernica, Municipality
of Srbica. As an active member of the former YNA, he operated within the
illegal Albanian organization OMLK, with the seat in Ljubljana, which is
why he was tried by the military authorities in 1983 and dismissed from
active military service. He participated in the war conflicts in Croatia
as a member of the Croatian paramilitary formations. In May 1998, as the
leader of diversionary terrorist groups, he came illegally from Albania
to the territory of K&M and joined similar formations operating on
the territory of the village of Junik, Municipality of Srbica, where he
made contacts with Ramush Haradinaj and Lahi Ibrahimi. Later on, he went
to the region of Drenica and operated in cooperation with Sylejman Salimi,
aka "Sultan", Ilaz Kodra and Sami Lushtaku. In late 1998, he was appointed
deputy commander of the 121st KLA brigade "Ramiz Qeriqi”, in the Paštrik
operational zone. He led a terrorist group which kidnapped "Tanjug" reporters
Nebojša Radoševic and Vladimir Dobrichic on October 18th, 1998, in the
vicinity of the village of Magura. Early in November 1998, he organized
the kidnapping and execution of police officers Ilija Vujoševic and Dejan
Djatlov, on the road between the villages of Mališevo and Orlate. After
the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from K&M, he became a
member of the KPC command structure.
39. FLORIM (Mursel) EJUPI, alias "Mazul" and "Luli"
Born on June 15th, 1978, in the village of Sekiraca, Municipality of
Podujevo. He is a former member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As a KLA member in the region of the Lab operational zone, he participated
in the terrorist attack on the "Niš-ekspres" bus on February 16th, 2001.
Because of the said criminal act he was detained by KFOR and spent some
time in detention in the American base "Bondsteel". However, he managed
to escape and fled to Albania. He occasionally comes to K&M where he
leads an illegal group engaged in the organization of terrorist attacks
on the remaining Serbs and ethnic Albanians with different political orientations.
He was an accomplice in the attempted murder of Tahir Zemaj in Pec in 2002,
as well as in his murder, committed in January 2003. Moreover, he is also
engaged in the activities related to organized crime and in the smuggling
of cigarettes, together with Nuredin Ibishi and Arben Viti, as his collaborators.
40. AGIM (Ali) ELSHANI
Born on March 21st, 1963, in the village of Ozrim, Municipality of
Pec. During and after the armed conflicts on the territory of K&M,
he led a terrorist group responsible for a number of murders of Serbs and
Albanians on the territories of Istok and Pec. Bogic Buchkovic, from the
village of Vitomirica, was killed upon his command. In the middle of June
1999, he organized and participated, in person, in the attack on a group
of Serbian refugees near Orahovac. As members of the terrorist group led
by Daut Haradinaj, brothers Agim, Qerim, Avni, Adem and Ahmet Elshani killed
several members of the families Musaj and Berisha. The said brothers also
murdered Rahman Morina, from Malo Dubovo, Shaban Ramqaj, from Studenica,
Djuza Abazovic, from the village of Orno Brdo, Municipality of Istok. In
2002, the Elshani brothers liquidated, upon the order of Ramush Haradinaj,
his former bodyguard, Avni Elazi, who was to be a witness of the conflict,
in 2000, between Haradinaj and the Musaj family and Tahir Zemaj. Moreover,
they also liquidated Ismajl Haradinaj, the delegate from Pec, and attempted
to murder Ramiz and Sadik Muriqi from the same town, former members of
FARK. On January 4th, 2003, together with Salli Laiqi, they murdered Tahir
Zemaj and Ilaz Sellimi. Agim Elashi was a member of the KLA secret police,
directly subordinated to Naser Shatri, with whom he still maintains in
close relations. Currently, he keeps the post of the director of the "Pec
brewery”, owned by Ekrem Lluka. Together with Shatri and Lluka, the Elshani
brothers hold the monopoly over the sales of oil derivatives, tobacco,
drugs and arms in the region of Pec.
41. XHABIR (Riza) ZHARKU, alias "Cari" or "Cori"
Born in 1962 in Kachanik. Between 1998 and 1999 he was the commander
of the 162nd KLA brigade "Agim Bajrami" in the Nerodimlje operational zone.
At the time, he, in person, massacred a number of Serbs in the Municipality
of Klina. He was thereafter promoted by Agim Çeku, the commander-in-chief
of the KLA general staff, to the rank of a colonel and appointed deputy
commander of the operational zone. After the withdrawal of the members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces from the
region of Kachanik, Zharku was ordered by the general staff, i.e., by Hashim
Thaqi, to exile the non-Albanian population from the region of his responsibility
as well as to destroy their property. He commenced the activities as early
as June 11th, 1999, as the leader of the group engaged in the kidnapping
and subsequent massacre of Slobodan Stojkovic, a retired police officer
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the same day, in his headquarters
located in the former "Saniteks" factory, he participated in the torture
and subsequent murder of an ethnic Albanian, Shaip Reka, suspected of collaboration
with the Serbs. The same group is responsible for the robbery of the Orthodox
church in Kachanik. In the period between February and March 2000, he ordered,
as the commander of the 162nd KLA brigade, the prisoner’s camp for the
kidnapped Serbs located in the "Sankos” company in Kachanik to be moved
to the village of Reka, the district of Maljsi. As a member of EGS, he
participated in the interrogation and intimidation of the Albanians suspected
of collaboration with the Serbian and Montenegrin authorities. In 2000,
he gathered a group of criminals to be engaged in the trafficking of drugs
smuggled from Albania and then transported from FYROM, via Tetovo, to the
region of Kachanik. The money earned was used to finance the terrorist
organization of ANA. Zharku and Adem Abdulahu organized procurement of
arms intended for ANA, from Albania, through Abdulah’s connections, which
was illegally transported from Albania to Macedonia and then to K&M
thereafter. A certain quantity of the arms was stored in the ANA bases
in the region of Kosovska Kamenica. Early in 2001, Zarku and Berat Luzha
recruited, organized, armed and transferred to Tetovo a group of 100 volunteers
who had joined ANA. Avdul Jakupi, alias "Çakala", the ANA commander
for the region of Tetovo, was his accomplice in the above-mentioned activities.
As he owns a chain of gas stations in K&M, Zharku is also engaged in
the smuggling of oil derivatives, procured in Bulgaria through a certain
company from FYROM. In order to maintain his position, the criminal group
led by him intimidates the competitors, using, in addition to verbal, physical
attacks and explosive devices.
42. DRITTON (Shemsi) ZHJEQI
Born on January 1st, 1965, in Podujevo. He temporarily stays in Stuttgart.
Sentenced to over 4 years of imprisonment. Within the Lab operational zone,
he was in charge of the supply of arms and equipment from Albania needed
for KLA. After the establishment of LAPMB, Zhjeqi was entrusted by Rustem
Mustafa, aka "Remi", the commander of the 6th KPC RTG at the time, to distribute
arms and recruit Albanians from the region of Podujevo for PMBLA. He was
also engaged in the procurement of arms and ammunition for the needs of
ANA in Macedonia. He is the organizer of a number of terrorist actions
and one of the closest collaborates of Robert Bertetsky, aka "Shaban",
who was sentenced on April 18th, 2001, by the International Court in Priština
for the murder of Aleksandar Popovic, a member of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs. He also participated in the placing of an explosive
device in the building of the Yugoslav Committee for Cooperation with UNMIK
in Priština in 2000 and was a member of the group which carried out the
terrorist attack on the "Niš-ekspres" bus on February 16th, 2001, by placing
an explosive device on the bus route.
43. TAHIR (REXHEP) ZEMAJ, alias "Toni"
Born on December 28th, 1951, in the village of Gornji Streoc, Municipality
of Dechani. A former YNA captain who was granted asylum in Germany. He
was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to 6.5 years of imprisonment for his
participation in the drug trafficking. Several years later he escaped from
the prison and fled to Germany. As an officer, he organized the training
for approximately 500 FARK members, accommodated in the building of the
elementary schools in the villages of Barane and Paprachane. Early in September
1998, after the action of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs which routed the KLA general staff for the region of Metohija,
Zemaj fled to Albania to be promoted to the rank of a colonel by Ahmet
Krasniqi, the Minister of Defense in the self-proclaimed Government of
the Republic of Kosovo. He continued with the training of the FARK members
in the Albanian towns of Tropoji and Bajram Curiju, while in 1999, he actively
participated in the armed conflicts which took place on the Yugoslav-Albanian
border. Because of the strained relations with Ramush Haradinaj, he never
came back to the territory of K&M after the withdrawal of the members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces. He was one
of the key witnesses in trial of Daut Haradinaj, Ramush Haradinaj’s brother,
which is why Ramush Haradinaj and his group attempted to assassinate him
on several occasions during 2001 and 2002. He was killed on April 4th,
on the road Priština – Pec, together with his son, Enis, and the nephew,
Hysen Zemaj, upon the direct order of Ramush Haradinaj.
44. GENC (son to Lumitrija) ZOGAJ
Born on September 10th, 1979, in Novo Selo, Municipality of Mališevo.
He was a member of the KLA secret police. Zogaj’s father was killed in
a terrorist actions in Drenica, while his brother Adriatik Zogaj, a KPC
member, was killed in Gnjilane. In 2002, Genc Zogai was accused of the
murder of Mejdi Sadriju, a former member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs in Gnjilane, as well as of the murder of Danush Januzi and Feta
Arifi, all from the Municipality of Vitina. For that reason, he was detained
and still is in the District Jail in Gnjilane.
45. BISLIM (Sadri) ZYRAPI
Born on July 9th, 1962, in the village of Studenchane, Municipality
of Suva Reka. A former YNA member. As a division commander, he participated
on the side of the Muslims in the war conflicts in the region of central
Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a perpetrator of numerous crimes in the Paštrik
operational zone, including more than 26 murders, 77 abductions, organization
of 6 prisons located on the territory of Orahovac and Prizren, of a group
raping and of torture. Additionally, he is responsible for more than twenty
terrorist actions, including attacks on the villages of Bratotin, Opteruša,
Retimlje and Zochište, carried out in July and November 1998. He is a close
collaborator of Agim Çeku. He was the chief of the KLA general staff
in K&M and the chief of staff of the 2nd KPC RTG, as well as an official
of the Ministry of Defense in the Interim Government of Hashim Thaqi.
46. Nuredin (Hamdija) IBISHI, alias "commander Leka"
Born on December 4th, 1956, in the village of Kaljatica, Municipality
of Podujevo. A graduate of the Military Academy and a former commander
of the special unit with the Provincial Secretariat of Internal Affairs.
After leaving the police, he joined the independent union of former Ministry
of Internal Affairs workers, i.e., of the parallel (Albanian) Ministry
of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo. In June 1998, he was appointed,
by Nuredin Ibishi, commander of the general staff for the Lab operational
zone, commander of the Special KLA forces engaged in the diversionary terrorist
actions, whose members had committed a large number of terrorist attacks
on the Serb population. In August 1999, he formed, together with his closest
collaborates, Rustem Mustafa, aka "Remi", and Kadri Kastrati, the terrorist
group "Kashtjela" ("The Fortress"), whose members were engaged in the ethnic
cleansing of the Serb population in the region of Podujevo. He participated
in the establishment of KPC and the selection and training of its leaders,
but left it not long ago. He is engaged as a lecturer at the Police Academy
in Vuchitrn and, at the same time, he takes part in the training of ANA
members, carried out in the region of the Batlava lake, near Priština.
Ibishi is highly experienced for this kind of tasks, since he had completed
special training for LAPMB volunteers. He is involved in the organized
crime activities. Together with Florim Maloku and Arben Viti, he ranks
among the most powerful smugglers of cigarettes and other goods in K&M.
The above-mentioned activities were carried out under the patronage of
Hashim Thaqi. He established the agency for personal protection, named
"Cobra", and actually engaged in the organized crime activities. In 2002,
he was one of the owners of the "Siguria" Insurance Company in Priština,
as well as the owner of a certain "tourist” facility in Podujevo, actually
used for organized prostitution. He also usurped the apartment of his neighbor,
Dragiša Aleksic, in Podujevo. He owns an exclusive restaurant on the Batlava
Lake, the meeting-place of the organized crime members from the region,
as well as the numerous members of the Albanian terrorist groups. Since
June 2003, he has been employed in the "Mabatex" company, owned by Bexhet
Pacoli, a highly influential financier of the Albanian terrorism, as one
of the closest Pecoli’s collaborators.
47. IMRI (Imer) ILAZI, alias "Feri"
Born on January 26th, 1963, in the village of Kamena Glava, Municipality
of Uroševac. Criminal charges were pressed against him on July 20th 1998,
in his absence. As a member of the illegal NPK organization, he founded
diversionary terrorist groups responsible for three terrorist actions on
the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1998. He also
participated in the formation of the KLA staff for the Municipality of
Uroševac in June 1998 and was subsequently appointed deputy commander of
the KLA staff in the village of Jezerce. After the withdrawal of the members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces from K&M,
he organized ethnic cleansing of the Serbs in the municipalities of Uroševac,
Štimlje and Kachanik, when the total Serb population was exiled, their
property plundered and 80% of the houses set on fire. After the formation
of KPC, Ilazi was appointed deputy commander, and subsequently commander
of the 6th KPC RTG. He is still there.
48. GANI (Shahin) IMERI
Born on October 12th, 1967, in the village of Gornja Dubica, Municipality
of Vuchitrn. After a long stay abroad (in Germany, Switzerland, Croatia
and Austria) he returned in the middle of 1997 to K&M and joined KLA
within Shalja operational zone. Early in 1998, he formed the KLA general
staff in the village of Cecilija, Municipality of Vuchitrn, and became
its commander. For the purpose of popularization of KLA in the region of
Vuchitrn, he carried out a forced mobilization of a large number of individuals,
threatening them with liquidation, and organized their training, and the
actions related to fortification (digging of trenches and bunkers), and
the terrorist actions against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and the YA forces, against the Serb and Albanian population refusing
to cooperate with KLA. Together with a group of 20 KLA members, he participated
in the terrorist attacks on the mine of Stari Trg and the police officers
there in 1998. In June 1999, he was the commander of the so-called KLA
Secret Police for the region of Vuchitrn, and was subsequently appointed
commander of the 4th battalion of the 141st KPC brigade, with the headquarters
in Vuchitrn. He was the commander of the prisoner’s camp for the detained
Serbs and Albanians located in a department store cellar in Vuchitrn. In
the same region he killed more than 10 members of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs and of YA and led terrorist groups engaged in the expulsion
of the Serb population from the villages of Grace, Samodreža, Nedakovac,
Donji and Gornji Svrachak, and the destruction of their property. In June
1999, Imeri organized the kidnapping of Dušan Brakus, Svetozar Stambolic
and Cirilo Janackovic, subsequently killed in the region of Šalja. In the
village of Gojbulja, he organized the kidnapping of Nenad Mihajlovic, his
sons Branimir, Vladimir and Aleksandar, as well as Vladan Mladenovic. He
himself led the group of terrorists responsible for the arson and robbery
in the villages of Grace, Novoselo and Samodreža, where they demolished
the Orthodox church. Imeri was engaged in the extortion of money from the
Albanians in the region of Vuchitrn and, for that reason, he was attacked
by his opponents who had planted an explosive device in his car (when he
sustained light mildly injuries). When armed conflicts began in FYROM,
he organized the transfer of a large quantity of arms and ammunition intended
for the Albanian extremists there. Because of the said activities, in March
2001, he was arrested by KFOR members in the village of Pantina, to be
released soon thereafter due to the lack of evidence. Since he took for
himself a considerable part of the financial assets intended for the procurement
of military equipment for the Albanian terrorists, he became the owner
of a number of business premises and lots in the central part of Vuchitrn.
Additionally, he initiated the construction of a large business-residential
building in the same town, together with Pajazit Plana, the president of
the above-mentioned Municipality.
49. ELISAH (Xhemajl) IMERI, nicknamed "Uli"
Born on July 10th, 1971, in the village of Vladovo, Municipality of
Gnjilane. Suspected of having committed a criminal act of association for
the purpose of carrying out hostile activities, in connection with the
criminal act of terrorism, criminal charges were brought against him on
June 14, 1999. As a member of the terrorist KLA in the area of Karadac,
he was engaged in the organization of logistic aid to the local headquarters
in the village of Zlaš, Municipality of Priština, intended to secure and
deliver arms, military equipment, food and transporting to the KLA members,
via secret channels from Albania and FYROM to the aforementioned region.
Beside him, the terrorist group which was engaged in these activities,
was made up of: Rexhep Veseli, aka "Fisnik", Skender Veseli, aka "Bili",
both from Gnjilane, RamadanRamadani, aka "Hoxha", from the village of Bukovnik,
Municipality of Gnjilane, Salih Mustafa, aka "Salko", and Fadhil Ramadani,
both from the village of Maleševo, Municipality of Gnjilane, followed by
Besim Imeri, Elisah’s cousin, as well as other relatives from the Preševo
area, Shaqir Shaqiri, aka "Qeli", and Bajram Selimi. After the security
forces withdrew from Kosovo and Metohija, the members of this group were
especially active on the territory of the villages of Dobrcane, Bukovnik,
Ugljare and Podgradje, in the Gnjilane Municipality, where their headquarters
were situated and where they tortured the kidnapped individuals of non-Albanian
ethnic origin. In connection with that, a mass grave containing fourteen
murdered Serbs was found in the village of Ugljare. The members of this
terrorist group were also active in the provision of logistic aid to the
LAPMB headquarters in the village of Dobrosin, Municipality of Bujanovac.
50. BEXHET (Isman) IMISHTI, alias "Kachak”
Born on August 6th, 1958, in the village of Dubrava, Municipality of
Kachanik. Due to the terrorist activities which he conducted as a member
of the KLA headquarters on the territory of Kachanik, he was sentenced
to imprisonment, in absentia, in 1998. Up to the moment when KPC was formed,
he kept the post of deputy commander of the 162nd KLA brigade, and at the
beginning of 2000, he was appointed leader of the "Black Hand" terrorist
group which was formed by Kosovo’s secret service. Imishti was an organizer
of the illegal arms smuggling channels for the Albanian terrorists in FYROM
which, after the Ohrid Agreement was signed and the situation became less
tense, he employed for the smuggling of excise goods from Kosovo and Metohija
to the FYRepublic of Macedonia. He is currently active in the ANA terrorist
organization on the territory of FYROM, which is why members of UNMIK police
are searching for him.
51. AHMET (Limon) ISUFI, nicknamed "Rexha"
Born on October 1, 1961, in the village of Djuriševci, Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica. As a member of the "Albanikos" illegal group, he
was sentenced to 9 years in prison in 1983. He was the commander of the
KLA general staff in the Karadak zone, with the headquarters in the Zlaš
village, Municipality of Priština. After the withdrawal of the members
of Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces from Kosovo and
Metohija, he organized the assas sination of the Serbs from the territory
of the municipalities of Gnjilane, Kosovska Kamenica, Kosovska Vitina and
Novo Brdo, which were committed by the members of the so-called secret
police, Gjumshit Osmani and Nazmi Bekteshi, both from Gnjilane, together
with individuals from the criminal groups who had arrived from other regions
or from the territory of Albania. Only in Gnjilane itself, over 100 ethnic
Serbs were murdered, and Isufi personally signed the order for planting
an explosive device in the mosque in downtown Gnjilane. He was also engaged
in providing aid to the LAPMB members, recruitment and transfer of the
former KLA members to southern Serbia. He is, also, engaged in the procurement
and illegal arms delivery to the territory of the villages Dobrosin, Muhovac
and Breznica, Municipality of Bujanovac. He was a member of the DSK presidium,
Gnjilane branch, and now, in the capacity of an ABK member, headed by Ramush
Haradinaj, he keeps the post of the minister of labor and social issues
in the Government of Kosovo.
52. LIRIM (Sadrija) JAKUPI, nicknamed "Nazi" and
"Commander of Bujanovac"
Born on August 1st, 1979, in Vranje. As a political asylum seeker in
Germany, he established contacts with the members of the Albanian emigration.
In mid-1998, he answered the call of the illegal Government of Kosovo,
headed by Bujar Bukoshi, and, via the secret channels, as a KLA volunteer,
arrived in Kosovo and Methohija, where he joined the armed conflict with
the Yugoslav and Serbian security forces on the territory of the Djakovica
Municipality. After the Kumanovo Agreement was signed, he was engaged in
the expulsion of the Serb population from the territory of Gnjilane and
Kosovska Kamenica. In the middle of February of 2000, together with Shefqet
Musliu, he became a member of the assassination group, formed by the former
KLA members, which was to be the future LAPMB. Within LAPMB, he took part
in the preparations and realization of terrorist acts on the territory
of Bujanovac, forming and training new groups, purchasing and delivering
arms and other military equipment. On a number of occasions, together with
Besim Tahiri, in the border villages of the Bujanovac region, he stopped
Albanians he estimated to be loyal to the Serbian authorities and demanded
money from them. One of them was Ramadan Zymeri, who was harassed and physically
abused by Jakupi. Allegedly for the needs of ANA, he confiscated 5,000
euros from the said individual and a vehicle of the Lada-Niva make. Other
than that, all Albanians who did not support ANA activities in southern
Serbia were obliged, under threats of murder, to hand over to Jakupi between
2,000 to 5,000 euros. Following LAPMB demilitarization, which he strongly
opposed, he moved to Gnjilane, where he was arrested by KFOR. After he
was released from prison, late in 2002, he traveled to Switzerland by illegal
channels. There, he was appointed one of the officials of this organization
for southern Serbia by ANA top officials. Toward the end of January 2003,
he returned to Kosovo and Metohija, with the task of establishing terrorist
groups intended to carry out armed attacks on the area of the Municipality
of Bujanovac.
53. JANUZ (Rama) JANUZAJ
Born on January 1st, 1958, in the village of Ljubožda, Municipality
of Istok. Because of his terrorist activities, he was sentenced to 10 years
in prison. After serving out his sentence, together with Adem Demaqi and
Rexhep Kasumi, he formed a branch of NPK in Istok. He is one of the founders
of KLA in this area and a participant in a number of clashes with Yugoslav
security forces, when he was wounded. Beside Azem Veseli, Naser Shatri
and Naim Gjuraj, he was a member of the headquarters of the 133rd KLA brigade
which, on June 18, 1999, entered Istok and, beside looting Serb property,
setting fire to, and demolishing, the houses, also murdered the remaining
Serb population. Because of his role in the planning and carrying out of
ethnic cleansing on the territory of Istok, he was appointed president
of the so-called Interim Administrative Council of that Municipality. Together
with Naser Shatri who, at the same time, was appointed commander of the
local police, he committed a series of murders (of Momchilo Pumpalovic,
the principal of the highschool in Istok and his wife Sretena, of Radonja
Stojkovic, from the village of Žac, of Ranko and Vlasta Nedeljkovic, from
Istok, of Raka Milovanovic, from the hamlet of Opraška, the village of
Koš). On that occasion, they exiled a number of individuals who had previously
been mistreated and set fire to their houses (Danilo and Danica Radichevic
from the village of Ljubožde, Stojan Simic, Bora Ristic, Risto Ristic and
Vukic Ristic, all from Ljubožde, as well as Milan Ljušic, from Istok).
Under their command, the Orthodox graveyards in Istok and the neighboring
villages were desecrated and damaged, while the Orthodox churches were
mined (Osojani, the priests residences in Istok and Djurakovac, while the
church in Pecka Banja was partly damaged). Januzi is currently the president
of Ramush Haradinaj’s ABK for that area. He takes part in the operations
of the municipal and regional work groups for the return of the refugees
and the displaced persons which were established by UNMIK administration.
54. BASHKIM (Rifat) JASHARI
Born on November 15th, 1977, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality
of Srbica. Adem Jashari’s nephew. At one time, as the deputy commander
of the operational zone of Drenica, he personally took part in a number
of terrorist acts aimed against the members of the army and the police,
carried out on the territory of Srbica. Following KLA demilitarization,
he moved to KPC, where he was placed in the first RTG. His criminal role
in Kosovo and Metohija is significant, in view of the fact that he is a
member of Thaqi’s Drenica group. He is involved in drugs and arms trafficking,
as well as in extortion and racketeering, where he cooperates with Sami
Lushtaku and Rahman Rama.
55. MUSA (Halit) JASHARI
Born on June 4th, 1970, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality
of Srbica. Within KLA, he was a member of Adem Jashari’s terrorist group.
At the beginning of the 90s, he underwent diversionary terrorist training
in Albania, and from February 1998 to June 1999, he trained a group of
Albanian women who, as volunteers, joined the KLA forces in the village
of Likovac, Municipality of Srbica. Following KLA demilitarization, he
was appointed member of the KPC general staff. He is directly connected
to the Drenica criminal group, headed by Hashim Thaqi.
56. RIFAT (Shaban) JASHARI
Born on December 1st, 1946, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality
of Srbica. Brother of the terrorist leader Adem Jashari, living in Germany.
Following the demonstrations of the Albanian separatist in Kosovo and Metohija
in the eighties, Rifat Jashari moved to Germany, where he joined the top
officials of NMRK. He was an organizer of, and a participant in, all significant
events intended to affirm the ideas of Albanian separatism in the international
community and the support for KLA. He was especially engaged in the operation
of the so-called crisis headquarters for Kosovo, which was formed following
an initiative of the Government of Kosovo, headed by Bujar Bukoshi. Together
with Fehmi Lladrovci and Rexha Iberdemaj, he was in charge of collecting
funds, in the Bavarian area, for KLA needs. At the same time, he transferred
the money, and sent KLA members from Germany to Albania, for training.
He was put in charge of the retreat of the terrorists abroad, after their
participation in a terrorist act in K&M. In connection with this, he
provided faked documents and assisted a number of Albanian terrorists,
among them Sami Lushtaku, Osman Ferizi, Lulzim Jashari and Jakup Nura,
and made it possible for them to receive political asylum in Germany. Rifat
Jashari’s significant activities were focused on the arming of Albanian
terrorists. He was engaged in the smuggling modern arms for the armed forces
in K&M. On a number of occasions, he personally delivered these arms
from Germany to the territory of Albania, whence, via illegal channels,
they were transferred to the territory of K&M. He financially supports
Hashim Thaqi’s party, from the day of its foundation. In recent times,
he occasionally visits Kosmet.
57. SAHIT (Hamit) JASHARI
Born on February 9th, 1965, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality
of Srbica. Between 1983 and 1996, he was sentenced to a year of imprisonment,
for the statutory rape of a minor. Five additional criminal charges were
brought against him. He was a member of KLA from the day of its foundation,
in 1992. He is suspected of having participated in a number of terrorist
attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
on the territory of Srbica and beyond. In 1996, the District Court in Priština
sentenced him, in absentia, to 20 years in prison for the criminal acts
of terrorism. Following the assassination of Adem Jashari, from the village
of Donje Prekaze, with a diversionary terrorist group, he illegally arrived
in K&M from Albania, where the group had been gathered for military
training, and commenced the terrorist acts against the members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs on the territory of Drenica. In May of the
same year, he was appointed warden of the illegal jail in the village of
Likovac where Serbs and Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia were
held. In this jail, Domo Smigic, from the village of Leocin, was killed,
while Dostana Šmigic, allegedly, was transferred from Likovci to the jail
in the village of Vocnjak, where all traces of her were lost. Together
with Sylejman Selimi, aka "Sultan", he especially excelled in the torture
and abuse of the prisoners, some of which he himself killed. Towards the
end of June 1998, together with Selimi, Valdat Rama and Rasim Kiqina, he
took Ivan Bulatovic and Žarko Spasic from the prison in Likovac, led them
into the forest in the vicinity of the village of Bajnice and shot them
death. The next assassination committed by the said group occurred in the
village of Ovcharevo, when 10 kidnapped persons were killed, mostly workers
of the Power Company of Kosovo. Among the murdered persons were Mirko Buha,
Miroslav Trifunovic, Zoran Adžachic, Filip Gojkovic and a Roma, Brahini,
from Srbica, whose hand was cut off by Sahit Jashari prior to the assassination.
In these assassinations, beside Jashari, the following men took part: Sami
Lushtaku, Xhavit Nuraku, Sylejman Selimi, Rasim Kiqina, Emin Gjinovci,
Afrim Shureci and Valdat Rama. In March 1999, this group kidnapped Miljan
Mitrovic, from the village of Mijalic, and killed his father Radivoje and
uncle Ljubiša Mitrovic, from the same village. On June 12, 1999 Jashari’s
group kidnapped Zvonko Stepic from Kosovo Polje. Two weeks later, after
his parents had paid the ransom, he was released following Hashim
Thaqi’s order, between February 1998 and June 1999, Jashari was the commander
of the special forces in charge of the jail in the village of Likovac,
Municipality of Srbica, where the kidnapped ethnic Serbs, as well as Albanians
loyal to the Republic of Serbia, were held. Following the arrival of the
international forces in K&M, he was appointed chief of police of the
first operative zone of Drenica, with the headquarters in Srbica, and in
July 2002, he was promoted to the rank of a KPC colonel. In this period,
he continued to organize forced expulsion of non-Albanian population from
K&M. One of the priority tasks which he imposed upon his subordinates
in KPC was the making of lists with the data on the current addresses of
individuals who fought against KLA, with a standing order of killing them
the moment they were available. He maintains contact with Sami Lushtaku,
from the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality of Srbica, who is in charge
of sending terrorist groups from the territory of Drenica to southern Serbia
and FYROM, where Jashari was engaged in the training of the volunteers
who were to be transferred to the terrorist units in those areas.
58. NAIM (Halit) KADRIU, alias "Lumi"
Born on June 6, 1974, in the village of Turuchica, Municipality of
Podujevo. He was the head of the secret service on the territory of Podujevo
and Priština and, in June 1999, he was appointed police commander in Podujevo.
Together with Latif Gashi and Nazif Mehmeti, he participated in the assassination
of an operative of the security service of Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs, Milic Jovic, in Podujevo. He is also responsible for the arrest
of a number of ethnic Serbs and Albanians (Alush Kastrati, Hatem Jashari,
Agim Musliu, Idriz Svarça, Drita Bunjaku-Voci, Nazmi Rustemi, the
Rakovica brothers, Hakim Hoti, Fehmi Potera, Bexhet Nazifi, Milan Stankovic,
Drago Tijanic, Osman Sinani, who was subsequently murdered, Milovan Stankovic,
Ratko Vicentijevic, Visar Voca, Sabri Berisha, Mirveta Konjushevci, Goran
Zbiljic, Cedomir Blagojevic, Živorad Bisercic). He is one of the perpetrators
of the terrorist attacks carried out on August 28, 1996, in the village
of Donje Ljupce, Municipality of Podujevo, where a member of the central
state security forces of Priština, Ejup Bajgora, was assassinated. He is
a secretary of a branch of Hashim Thaqi’s party in Podujevo. In July 2003,
by a verdict of the International Court, he was sentenced to 5 years in
prison, for the war crimes committed on the territory of Priština and Podujevo.
59. GINER (Qamil) KAMBERI
Born on January 3, 1975 in the village of Djelekapa, Municipality of
Vitina. From the end of 1998, he was an active KLA member on the territory
of Drenica, and after the YA forces and the members of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs were withdrawn from the territory of K&M, he was
engaged as a security officer in the KLA 173rd brigade. Following KPC formation
in Vitina, where he held the rank of a major, he formed a special secret
police department. At the same time, as a member of the "Black Eagle" terrorist
organization, he participated in the organization and execution of assassinations,
harassment and forced expulsion of ethnic Serbs from the territory of the
Vitina Municipality. During the armed conflict in southern Serbia, he was
one of the commanders of LAPMB in the village of Sefer, Municipality of
Preševo. Toward the end of 2002, he was expelled from KPC, and at this
moment, as an active ANA member, he heads a group of some 20 terrorists
in the village of Djelekare, Municipality of Vitina. Kamberi is included
in the organized arms and drugs trafficking and invested huge amounts of
money, acquired in this manner, into the purchase of Serb property on the
territory of Vitina.
60. AJVAZ (Behram) KARPUZI
Born on May 21st, 1956, in the village of Sedlare, Municipality of
Lipljan. He stayed in Albania until 1991 and, after completing his military
training, he left for Western Europe, where he joined Albanian emigration
and became, from 1998 onward, one of the most extreme members of KLA. He
was a member of the headquarters of KLA 121st brigade, as well as an officer
of the "military police", engaged in the planning and direct conduct of
terrorist acts aimed against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and the YA forces on the territory of the villages of Crnoljevo,
Lapušnik, Klecka and Magura. In September 1998, the members of the aforementioned
unit, carried out a terrorist act against Milosav Stanišic, from the village
of Slovinja, a reserve police officer of the police station in Lipljan,
who suffered a leg wound. In October of the same year, he took part in
the terrorist attack against Fatmir Qerinaj’s family, from the village
of Petrovic, Municipality of Štimlje, a policeman from the station in Lipljan,
in the arrest of two of Tanjug’s journalists and the assassination of several
Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia. After June 1999, he organized
ethnic cleansing on the territory of Lipljan and the neighboring villages.
He is one of the organizers of, and the participants in, the terrorist
act carried out on July 23, 1999, in the village of Staro Gracko, Municipality
of Lipljan, in which 14 individuals were killed (Novica Janicijevic, Stanimir
Djekic, Božidar Djekic, Miodrag Tepšic, Andrija Oldalovac, Mile Jancijevic,
Momchilo Jancijevic, Slobodan Janicijevic, Milovan Jovanovic, Jovica Živic,
Radovan Živic, Saša Cvejic, Ljubiša Cvejic and Nikola Stojanovic).
61. AJET KASTRATI
Originally from Kišna Reka, Municipality of Glogovac. A former YA officer,
serving at the Glogovac army district. As one of the commanders of the
121st KLA brigade in Glogovac, he was a member of the "Plumbi" ("Pigeon")
group, headed by Jakup Krasniqi, which encompassed KLA members from the
villages of Lapušnik, Vukovci, Negrovce, Vuk and Orlat. He organized and
handled the training of a number of terrorist groups in Drenica. He is
currently in command of the KPC main logistics headquarters, with the rank
of colonel.
62. KADRI (Ferat) KASTRATI, nicknamed "Daja"
Born on March 15th, 1960, in the village of Velika Reka, Municipality
of Podujevo. A former non-commissioned officer of the Yugoslav National
Army. In May 1998, he illegally crossed the border from Albania to K&M
where, by the decision of the KLA general stuff, he was appointed commander
in the Lab operative zone. Following his and Rustem Mustafa’s and Nuredin
Ibisi’s order, the terrorist group "Kastjela" ("Fortress") was formed,
headed by Haki Statovci, aka "Lumi", whose members were active in the ethnic
cleansing of the territory of Priština, as well as in the assassination
of the Albanians who had any connections with the security service of the
Republic of Serbia. Following the withdrawal of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs and YA forces from K&M, Kastrati was appointed head
of the logistics department of KPC general staff and, at the beginning
of May 2001, he was appointed commander of the 4th RTG KPC, by the KPC
commander, Agim Çeku, with the headquarters in Kosovska Mitrovica.
63. MENSUR (Ferit) KASUMI
Born on June 25th, 1966, in the village of Skocna, Municipality of
Vuchitrn. He organized a terrorist group in 1998 in the village of Žilivode,
Municipality of Vuchitrn, and subsequently formed KLA general staff for
this and 20 other villages in the municipalities of Vuchitrn and Obilic.
As the commander of the general stuff, he was engaged in the promotion
of KLA, taking part, at the same time, in terrorist acts, among which the
attack on the strip mining site of the Belacevac mine, as well as on the
villages of Sibovac and Prilužje, along with a number of actions against
the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces.
Because of his engagement within KLA, in 1999 Hashim Thaqi appointed him
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs in the interim Government of Kosovo.
64. NASER (Meto) KELMENDI
Born on February 15th, 1957, in Pec. In early 90s, he acquired great
wealth from cigarette smuggling, which is why a number of criminal charges
were brought against him. As one of the richest Albanians, he was one of
the major financiers of KLA activities. Together with Ekrem Lluka, from
Pec, Agim Elshani, from Ozrim, Municipality of Pec, Naser Shatri, from
Istok, and others, Kelmendi belongs to an organized crime clan headed by
Ramush Haradinaj. This group holds a monopoly on drug, arms, human and
cigarette trafficking on the territory of Pec. Two gas stations and a few
boutiques Kelmendi owns on the territory of this Municipality, only serve
as a front for his drugs, oil and oil derivates trafficking activities.
He is the main financier and organizer of the drug sale, especially cocaine
and heroin, which arrive to Pec by bus from Istanbul and, to a lesser degree,
from Albania. The, via Pec and Rožaje, they are transferred to Novi Pazar
and then, finally, to the end users in the countries of Western Europe.
In the first half of 2001, UNMIK police confiscated Kelmendi‘s and Ekrem
Lluka‘s contraband cigarettes in the "Dukadjini" zone of operations, in
the village of Zahac, Municipality of Pec in the amount estimated at thousands
of German marks. Lluka and Kelmendi, in cooperation with Haradinaj and
Ethem Çeku, directly financed the activities of the Albanian terrorist
groups which, from the territory of Pec, were transferred into southern
Serbia and western FYROM. Kelmendi owns a freight forwarding company in
Sarajevo and has twenty trucks at his disposal for the transport of goods
most of which is located on the territory of Pec. He has a dual citizenship,
of Serbia and Montenego and of B&H. In Sarajevo, he hired a number
of mujahedins as bodyguards. For a couple of months, at the beginning of
2002, he remained in Sarajevo, worried about his security in K&M because,
at the end of 2001, he had organized an armed attack on the office of UNMIK’s
police located in the Cultural Center in Pec, with the intention of destroying
evidence of his criminal activities.
65. HISNI (Bajram) KILAJ
Born on December 19th, 1993, in the village of Ljubižda, Municipality
of Orahovac. As the fund manager of the so-called Committee for Financing
the Republic of Kosovo, he made contacts with members of the NPK illegal
organization "Bali Kombetar", PNDS and others. At the beginning of 1998,
together with Fatmir Limaj, Gani Krasniqi and Skender Krasniqi, he founded
a KLA unit for the region of Mališevo and, as one of the commanders of
the 122nd KLA brigade, took part in the attacks on the members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces, as well as on the Serb
and Albanian civilians. He committed terrorist acts in coordination with
Jakup Krasniqi, Rame Buja, Sokol Bashota and Sylejman Selimi. Together
with Limaj, he organized the assassination of a few dozen ethnic Serbs
and Montenegrins at the infamous execution site in the village of Klecka,
Municipality of Lipljan. After the Kumanovo Agreement was signed, following
orders of DPK top officials, he was engaged in taking over the local authorities
and was the head administrator in Mališevo. He is the president of that
party’s branch in Mališevo.
66. ANTON (Ton) KITAJ
Born on April 20th, 1978, in the village of Budisavci, Municipality
of Klina. In 1998 he joined the terrorist group which, together with Pal
Merditaj, was led by his brother Gjon, aka Vilson (born on April 2nd, 1976).
They carried out their tasks as members of the 112th brigade, commanded
by Gani Thaqi. The Kitaj brothers, even prior to the establishment of KLA,
were well known as individuals prone to criminal activities, i. e., they
were involved in blackmail, arms smuggling, theft, robbery and the like.
On May 19, 1998, the group they belonged to killed Dalibor Lazarevic, a
minor from the village of Veliko Kruševo and, in August 1998, they kidnapped
Barllec Colij and his son Niko, from the village of Zlokuchane. They continued
their criminal activities after the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK to K&M,
cleansing the non-Albanian population, looting and burning the houses and
destroying the graveyards in the villages of Naglavke and Budisavci. On
June 19, 1999, the Kitaj brothers, Anton and Gjon, killed the brothers
Radosav and Dušan Dašic, from the village of Rudice, Municipality of Klina.
With their group, on July 19th 1999, they kidnapped the monk, Stefan (Gradimir
Puljic), from the monastery of Budisavci and Vujadin Vujovic, a teacher
from the village of Stup, Municipality of Klina, whose bodies, together
with the bodies of 20 other Serbs, were later found in a well in Istok.
Gjon Kitaj also killed Zorka Šiljkovic, from the village of Rudica. In
June 1999, the same group kidnapped a number of persons whose destiny remains
unknown. They are: Mihajlo Dašic, his sons Milutin and Dragan, and Jovanka
Dašic, all from the village of Rudica, Municipality of Klina, and Milena
Doncic and her son Ilija, Cveta Djordjevic, from the village of Bic, as
well as Radivoje, Jovana and Radojica Vidic, from the village of Klinavac,
Municipality of Klina. Anton Kitaj, together with his cousin Frok Kitaj,
following orders by Naser Shatri, in July of 2000, kidnapped and later
killed Shaban Manaj. The Kitaj family, headed by Anton and Gjon, is one
of the leading criminal groups that controlls the area between Klina and
Istok. Armed members of this family, posing as members of ANA, control
all persons moving through the area, ask for their ID cards. They are also
involved in the trafficking of arms and stolen vehicles.
67. FADHIL (Shaqir) KODRA
Born on November 19th, 1965, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality
of Srbica. Due to his participation in a number of terrorist acts against
the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and YA forces,
he was sentenced, in absentia, to 20 years in prison in 1997. Towards the
end of 1998, together with Sami Lushtaku, he performed the function of
a Deputy Commander of the 112th "Fehmi Lladrovci" brigade, in charge of
leading the military, special and local police forces. After that, he became
commander of the special units for the operations zone of Drenica. Towards
the end of August 2002, the members of the international forces in K&M
searched his house in the Kodra district, the village of Donje Prekaze
and discovered firearms and ammunition. He is connected with the members
of the Drenica criminal group, headed by Hashim Thaqi. He is currently
at the post of the Commander of the Information Division G-2, within the
4th RTG of KPC.
68. ARIF (Qamil) KRASNIQI, aka "Mujo"
Born on April 9th, 1971, in the village of Sibovac, Municipality of
Obilic. In Germany he joined an extremist emigrant organization and made
contacts with the members of the illegal organization PMKL. He arrived
in K&M in 1998 and became one of the top KLA officials. In the region
of Cicavica he formed a terrorist group called "Hakaret". He took active
part in the kidnapping of Dragan Vukmirovic, Zoran, Dušan and Petar Adžandžic,
Filip Gojkovic, Marko Buha, Miroslav Trifunovic, Srboljub Savic and Božidar
Alimpic, an employee of the Belacevac mine on June 22, 1998, as well as
of Žarko Spasic, who was kidnapped on May 14, 1998.
69. GANI (Selman) KRASNIQI
Born on November 23rd, 1950, in the village of Crni Lug, Municipality
of Klina. He is one of the founders of the illegal organization PNDS for
the area of Mališevo, Municipality of Orahovac. As the commander of the
122nd KLA brigade, within the operative zone of Paštrik, with the headquarters
in the village of Mališevo, he organized groups that committed terrorist
acts. In July 1998, he took part in the kidnapping of some 50 persons from
the territory of Orahovac, who are believed to have been killed and thrown
into the limekiln in the village of Klecka, Municipality of Lipljan. The
unit Krasniqi commanded performed its tasks in coordination with Fatmir
Limaj’s unit, and Krasniqi’s closest collaborators at that time were Hisni
Kilaj, from the village of Ljubižda, Municipality of Orahovac, Sokol Bashota,
from Cerovik, Municipality of Klina, Alush Agushi, from the village of
Drenovac, Municipality of Klina, Fadil Gashi, from Cupevo, Hallit Krasniqi,
from Iglarevo, Gjemal Gashi, aka "Cerman”, from Grebnika, and others. After
the withdrawal of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and YA forces
from the territory of K&M, Krasniqi, leading his group, continued terrorist
activities, intercepting vehicles, kidnapping and murdering ethnic Serbs.
At the same time, as a member of Hashim Thaqi’s DPK party, he was elected
president of the Municipality Mališevo at the first elections.
70. GJIMSHIT (Riza) KRASNIQI
Born on December 12th, 1963, in the village of Leskovac, Municipality
of Prizren. He was the main perpetrator of the terrorist acts in the region
of Prizren from 1994, as a member of the terrorist organization PMKL. Following
orders from PMKL, he formed a terrorist group in 1996 and, at the time
of the attempt to arrest him, in March 1998, he managed to escape to Albania.
Together with Xhevat Berisha and Hajrim Çengaj, he formed KLA headquarters
in the village of Jeskovo, Prizren, and became one of the top officials
of the headquarters. He was engaged in organizing the training and illegal
transfer of arms. In the clash with a patrol of the YA forces and of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, in July of 1998, his group killed
the YA officer, Bojan Denic, and seriously wounded the policeman Rustem
Agushi. During the armed conflict, Krasniqi carried out oral and written
commands of KLA so-called Court Martial responsible for the assassination
of ethnic Serbs and for the destruction of their property on the territory
of Prizren. The aforementioned court martial was headed by Sokol Dobruna,
from Djakovica, and Ilaz Kadolli, from Suva Reka. Beside Krasniqi, the
group for the assassination of the Serbs also included Elbasan Shoshaj,
from the village of Leskovac, and an individual who goes by the nickname
of "Uli". Krasniqi, among other things, is responsible for the assassination
of Sezair Skenderi’s family of four, from Prizren. Following the establishment
of KPC, he was promoted to one of the top positions for the territory of
Prizren and, at the same time, he was in charge of the so-called Secret
Service of Kosovo on the same territory, responsible for ethnic cleansing
and assassination of the members of the local Serb and other non-Albanian
population. The top KPC officials placed him in charge of illegal transfer
of arms and other military equipment from Albania for the needs of ANA
in FYROM and in southern Serbia. At the beginning of 2002, he was arrested
by KFOR and spent some two weeks in detention.
71. EMIN (Hazir) KRASNIQI
Born on July 15th, 1957, in the village of Dajkovac, Municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica. He is a DPK representative in Kosovo’s Parliament. In
1981 he formed, on the territory of the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica,
the illegal "Albanikos" group, which earned him a prison sentence of 14
years in prison, of which he served nine. As a KLA member, he completed
his military training in Albania and, after his return to K&M, he participated
in the conflicts with the members of the YA and the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs in the Karadak zone of operations. Following the withdrawal
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and of YA forces from K&M,
as KLA’s commander for the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, he was the
one who issued orders for the forced expulsion of the non-Albanian population
from this Municipality. Later, he became one of the top officials of the
6th RTG of KPC, with the headquarters in Gnjilane. During the time of LAPMB’s
activities on the territory of southern Serbia, Krasniqi organized young
Albanians and sent them to this organization. Ridvan Qazimi, aka "Commander
Leshi", stayed in his house in the village of Dajkovac, for a long time
and made daily trips to the "security zone". Because of the authority he
has over Hashim Thaqi, Krasniqi controls certain criminal activities (arms
smuggling and racketeering), coordinating, at the same time, the appearance
of ANA members on the territory of Kosovska Kamenica Municipality.
72. JAKUP (Januz) KRASNIQI
Born on January 1st, 1951 in the village of Nergovac, Municipality
of Glogovac. Sentenced in 1982 for his activities within NPK. He is one
of the ideologists and founders of KLA on the territory of Drenica and
of the unit called "Plumbi" ("Dove"), which he commanded. In the KLA general
staff for K&M he was a spokesman and a member of KLA’s political directorate
for K&M so that he was acquainted with the activities of the KLA members
in the field of kidnapping, assassinations, physical abuse of Serb population
and with other activities. He took part in organizing and kidnapping of
ethnic Serbs from Orahovac during the month of July 1998, in their maltreatment,
rape and massacre in the village of Klecka, where the charred remains of
their bodies were found. Beside this, he directly participated in the attack
on the village of Iglarevo, Municipality of Klina. He is now secretary
general of Hashim Thaqi’s DPK and the minister of public services in the
Government of Kosovo.
73. SKENDER (Nezir) KRASNIQI
Born on January 29th, 1959, in Orahovac. As a volunteer from Germany,
he joined the KLA units in K&M in 1998 and became the Commander of
the 122nd KLA brigade for a few villages in the Paštrik zone of operations.
His family estate, in the village of Vojnik, was used as the headquarters
of that brigade and as one of the secure places for sheltering volunteers
and arms. The aforementioned brigade was enlarged when a terrorist group
from the village of Drenovac, which was later named "Gani Paqarizi", joined
them in August 1998. As a member of the 122nd brigade, commanded by Gjelal
Gashi, aka "Djerman", while its police was headed by Fatmir Limaj, Krasniqi
committed a number of crimes on the territory of Orahovac and Mališevo
against the Serbs and the Albanians who refused to join KLA. on May 17,
he took part in the attack on the police and army forces in the vicinity
of Orahovac 1998 and in the kidnapping of 50 Serbs and Montenegrins from
that territory. They were subsequently tortured and murdered on a hill
over the village of Zatric, Municipality of Orahovac. He is also responsible
for the murder of Hasan Morina, from the village of Senovac, Muram Rustemi,
from the village of Drenovac, Hidaj Popaj, from the village of Bela Crkva
and Hisen Krasniqi, from the village of Danjane, as well as for the attack
on the village of Bela Crkva and the murder of Sveta Tomic, the director
of Jugobanka from Djakovica (the direct perpetrators of this crime were
Isuf Gashi, Bedri Zuberaj and the members of Gani Paqarizi family). Together
with Enver Hoti, from the village of Crni Lug, Municipality of Klina, he
was accused of kidnapping and murdering of Branko Staletic and his son
Ranko, from the village of Mlecani. He is currently one of KPC commanders
for the territory of Mališevo.
74. BAJRAM (Nevzad) KRYEZIU
Born on January 30, 1955, in the village of Rogacica, Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica. As a member of the KLA general staff for the Karadac
zone, and the KLA commander for the village of Rogacica, he was one of
those who issued orders for the assassination and kidnapping of the Serbs
on the territory of the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica. He organized
the murder of Stojan Tasic, from the village of Carakovac and of the policeman
Trajan Trajkovic, from the village of Kololac, Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica, while the actual perpetrators of the crime were members of his
terrorist group acting on the territory of this Municipality. Beside that,
he organized and executed terrorist attacks on police checkpoints in the
village of Konculj, Municipality of Bujanovac, and planned a series of
terrorist attacks on the police stations in Bujanovac and Preševo. Following
the withdrawal of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
and the YA forces from the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica in July 1999,
he organized a parade of the KLA members in the villages inhabited by the
Albanian population, aiming to demonstrate the power of this organization.
After KPC was formed, he became the spokesman for the 6th RTG in Gnjilane
and was also in charge with the coordination of cooperation with the members
of the international community on the territory of the Municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica. As a lieutenant colonel of KPC, together with the members
of ANA, he carefully watched the terrain in the Municipality of Bujanovac
and followed the activities of the police force, with the intention of
carrying out new terrorist attacks in that region.
75. MAZLOM (Alija) KUMNOVA
Born on March 17th, 1946, in Djakovica. In October 1993, he was sentenced
to five years imprisonment by the District Court in Pec. On August 25,
1998, criminal charges were brought against Kumnova and 97 members of the
terrorist group from Djakovica by the district public prosecutor’s office.
At the beginning of the 90s, together with Bajram Mehmeti, Nasim Zeka,
Nur Murtezi and Lulzim Shasivari, he was engaged in the organization of
Albanian paramilitary units thus forming an illegal national defense headquarters
where he performed the duties of a deputy commander of the headquarters,
in charge of the rear lines and finances. In the terrorist base in the
village of Jablanica, he was engaged in the formation of a city guerilla
and, together with Sokol Dobruna, he organized the illegal transfer of
a large number of arms and other military equipment from Albania. In April
and May 1999, on the territory of Djakovica, in the Cabrat settlement,
following his direct instructions, Hekuran Hoda and Abdulah Babalija committed
a number of criminal acts in which three member of the police and army
forces were killed and a dozen suffered slight wounds. After the arrival
of KFOR, Kumnova proclaimed himself to be the "first mayor of liberated
Djakovica". He is currently the president of ABK branch in the same city.
76. MIRSAD (Jusuf)
KURTESHI, alias "Dubula"
Born on July 1st, 1975, in Priština. He was one of the most active
KLA members in this city. As a member of the terrorist group headed by
Abedin Sogojeva, one of the top officials of the KLA secret police for
the Obilic region he took part in the massacre of seven ethnic Serbs in
the village of Mazgit, Municipality of Obilic in June 1999 and in the destruction
of a dozen or so Serb houses in Obilic in November of that same year. Between
1999 and 2000, he was involved in the terrorist activities of the group
headed by Arif Krasniqi, aka "Muja". He took part in the murder of the
Rapajic family from Obilic, on December 28, 2000, together with Kadri Sulejmani,
aka "Mouse”, a member of the KLA secret police, with Sabit Lladrovci, a
former KLA member, now engaged in the 1st RTG of KPC, with Muhamet Çerkezi,
aka "Çerkez", a member of LAPMB, and Ahmet Çerkezi and already
mentioned Sogojeva. Together with the above listed individuals he planted
explosives in the Kastelo restaurant in Obilic, where the Serb population
congregates. He is connected with the murder of Miladija Stanojevic, the
harassment of ethnic Serbs, KPS members (for example Tanja Mihajlovic from
Priština), with the destruction and plunder of Serb property in that region,
as well as with physical abuse (Stojka Stojanovic, Muhamed Limaj, Tomica
Antic, Novica Ilic, Milenko Mihailovic and others). Because of the said
activities, he was arrested by KFOR and UNMIK police on a number of occasions.
77. AGIM (Latif) KUQI
Born on October 7th, 1963, in Suva Reka. In June 1998, together with
Blerim Kuqi, Naim Berisha, Osmani Elshani, aka "Shlafi", and a certain
Nusret from Samodreža, he formed a terrorist group on the territory of
the Reštane village, in the Suva Reka Municipality. Agim and Blerim Kuqi
managed the main KLA headquarters for the villages of Opteruša and Zociste,
situated in the village of Dobrodeljane, in the Suva Reka Municipality.
Following their orders, they illegally purchased arms and ammunition. Kuqi’s
group, on the Suva Reka – Orahovac route, better known as the Restansi
road, wounded the policeman Milorad Neškovic and murdered Sadriu Kryeziu
from Suva Reka. In the middle of July 1998, under his command, 16 Serbs
were kidnapped from Opteruša and Zociste and were subsequently taken to
the Drenovac village while their houses, along with the houses of other
Serbs in those villages, were burned to the ground. Following the action
of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces
in the region of Suva Reka, Agim, Blerim and Ruzhdi Kuqi and Osmani Elshani,
aka "Shlafi", fled to Albania and joined FARK.
78. RAMIZ (Muhamet) LLADROVCI
Born on January 3rd, 1966, in the village of Gladno Selo, Municipality
of Glogovac. In the middle of 1993, he spent some time in Albania where
he was engaged in organizing of military training for individuals who,
having completed the training, were sent to K&M, with the purpose to
carry out diversionary terrorist activities. At the end of the same year,
he went to Germany where he joined and was active in the work of NMRK,
primarily in the field of arms, ammunition and military equipment acquisition,
which he transferred to K&M and sent to his brother Fehmi, one of the
most influental KLA commanders in the Drenica region (killed in 1998).
For KLA needs, he recruited young Albanians who were employed in Germany
and other Western Europe countries. After the Serbian security forces withdrew,
he came to K&M, where he was immediately accepted into KPC and appointed
deputy commander of the National Guard within this formation. Throughout
2001, he was engaged in providing logistic support to LAPMB members, as
well as to Albanian terrorists active on the territory of the Republic
of Macedonia. He used his high position in KPC to acquire financial benefits.
His associates accuse him of embezzling huge amounts of money from the
funds collected by the Albanian emigrants as aid to KLA and later KPC formations.
Because of his connection with the terrorist organizations, he was placed
on the American "black list" of organizations that have restricted access
to financial aid, i.e., of the individuals who are forbidden to enter the
US. Also, he is also banned from all activities of KPC for a year.
79. FATMIR (Kadri)
LIMAJ, alias "Steel"
Born on February 4th, 1971, in the village of Banja, Municipality of
Suva Reka. From 1992 to 1994, he was engaged in the illegal organization
PMKL. Toward the end of 1995 he joined KLA where, under the command of
Rexhep Selimi, he was in charge of identifying individuals who were collaborating
with the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and of carrying out all preparations
for the terrorist acts against the Serb security forces in Mališevo and
Orahovac. In 1996, together with Selimi, he planned and attempted to murder
Shukri Krasniqi, from the village of Banja, and Vesel Pintolij, from the
village of Temecin, Municipality of Suva Reka. During 1998, he was the
commander of the camp in the village of Lapušnica, Glogovac Municipality,
where, in the period between June 22 and July 25 of the same year, 22 individuals
were held and, physically abused and murdered. Among the victims were Milovan
and Miodrag Krstic, Boban Mitrovic, Živorad Krstic, Stamen Genov, Djordje
Djuk and Siniša Blagojevic. He was the initiator and direct participant
in the capture and abuse of ethnic Albanians and Serbs and he demonstrated
special brutality in his direct participation in the genocide against the
civilians, since, following his orders, in the limekiln in the village
of Klecka, Municipality of Lipljan, over 50 individuals were burned. He
was the organizer and perpetrator of the attack on Orahovac on July 17,
1998, when over 50 people were kidnapped, of whom 40 are still listed as
missing. At the beginning of October 1999, the group headed by Fatmir Limaj
kidnapped, in front of a number of citizens, Ramiz Hoxha, in the Belanica
village, because he had allegedly negotiated with the members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs the return of Albanian refugees from the village
of Banja to their homes. Ramiz Hoxha was later murdered. Together with
Rexhep Selimi, he founded the "Falcon’s Eye" group which, beside terrorist
activities (primarily murder), was involved in the arms and drug trafficking,
racketeering, organized prostitution and the like. These activities were
carried out in collaboration with the members of the crime clans composed
of the Elshani and Kolaku families, from Suva Reka region. For a certain
time period, Limaj was in the position of Kosovo’s deputy defense minister
only to be arrested by Slovenian police on February 17, 2003, and taken
to the Scheveningen jail, having been indicted by the Hague Tribunal for
crimes against humanity and the violation of the laws and customs of war
(for killing civilians in the jail located in the Lapušnik village). From
the top echelons of DPK, an initiative was launched to form a special fund
for the defense of Fatmir Limaj, one of the most trusted associates of
that party’s president, Hashim Thaqi. The initiative was delivered to the
Government of Kosovo. The initiative suggests that, from the budget of
the Government of Kosovo, two million euros be taken for the said purpose.
At the same time, pressure was exerted on the owners of companies and shops
to contribute between a hundred and a thousand euros for the same purpose.
80. EKREM (Kurtesh)
LLUKA, aka "Vuka"
Born on October 11th, 1959, in Pec. In 1992, as the owner of the Dukadjini
printing house in Pec, he helped make a seal for the elementary and secondary
schools in the Albanian language with the inscription reading "Kosovo Republic”.
Lluka diversified his business activities in the second half of the 90s,
thanks to his association with, and the financial support to, Sellim Shabani
and Salli Nimani. He is currently one of the financially most powerful
people in the province and the owner of a number of companies on the territory
of K&M and abroad. Among other things, he owns a cigarette factory,
a brewery, a radio and television station. Also, a chain of restaurants
and hotels and a basketball team. He is one of the main financiers of Albanian
terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija and, towards the end of the 90s, he provided
close to two million euros for their needs. Recently he was allegedly forced
to pay the racket amounting to around 100,000 euros a month. He is involved
in trafficking of cigarettes, in oil and oil derivates, and motor vehicles,
and is included in drugs and arms trafficking (via the network in Turkey,
Bulgaria, Greece, FYROM, Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Italy and Germany).
At the same time, he controls the Serbian–Albanian mafia and trade along
the Priština-Belgrade-Priština route. His closest associates in these operations
are Isa Balaj and Alli Haskaj. Considerable profits are gained by trafficking
in women from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, who are later
forced into prostitution. He is involved in "money laundering" activities,
for which he uses his companies "Albatroniks" and "Dukadjini". Via the
"Albatroniks" company, a certain amount of money has been transferred and
paid into the accounts of certain Islamic non-governmental organizations,
which are suspected of being connected with the Islamic fundamentalists
in Syria. Ekrem’s brother, Agim Lluka, is a co-owner of the "Albatroniks"
company which carries out the largest part of the smuggled cigarettes trade.
Beside that, Ekrem Lluka uses EMK Petrol for transporting weapons and military
equipment through Albania to FYROM. He is very close with the members of
the Haradinaj family and he conducts his activities in collaboration with
and following the authorization of Hashim Thaqi and Ramush Haradinaj, and
is closely connected with Agim Çeku and Arben Xhaferi, the leaders
of the terrorist groups in FYROM. Ekrem Lluka’s connections with the Elshani
family are especially indicative. It is a family which, among other criminal
activities, is involved in serious threats to, and elimination of, Ramush
Haradinaj’s political rivals. Towards the end of October 2002, the members
of the Italian police, while trying to cut the main cigarette smuggling
routes in K&M, searched Lluka’s business premises (cigarette plant
in Zahac) and, on that occasion, seized around 280 tons of cigarettes,
while Ekrem Lluka and Naser Kelmendi were taken into custody and later
released to await trial.
81. ISA (Bajram) LATIFI
Born on August 25th, 1964, in the village of Štedim, Municipality of
Podujevo. Carrying out the orders of top KLA commanders on the territory
of the operative zone of Lab to murder certain ethnic Serbs in Podujevo,
on June 23, 1999, he killed Slobodan Mirovic and, three days later, Sreten
Živkovic. Two months later, together with Fehmi Jakupi and Samet Arifi,
he killed Srbislav Djukic, from the village of Glavnik, and Radovan Djindjic,
from Podujevo.
82. MUHAMET (Braim) LATIFI
Born on May 26th, 1955, in the village of Polatna, Municipality of
Podujevo. He was one of the organizers of KLA for the Podujevo region and
the whole Lab zone. During 1998 and 1999, he carried out duties of the
commander of the so-called territorial defense of Kosovo and, after KPC
was formed, he was appointed military police commander of the 5th RTG.
In the second half of 1999, he headed so-called 2nd group of KLA’s police
in the region of Priština, with 46 members situated in a building belonging
to the Catholic church. This group was in charge of the camp where Serb
prisoners were held, located in the village of Gornja Lapaštica, in the
hamlet of Žergovo. There, Latifi and with three members of his group murdered
Miroslav Milacic from Podujevo, Branko Markovic and Branko Djukic from
Priština, and Jovica Kordic, from Vuchitrn. Following Daut Rexhepi’s orders,
from the Corps for the Defense of Kosovo, in mid-1999, Latifi planted explosives
in the market place in the village of Bresje, Municipality of Kosovo Polje,
on which occasion two Serbs were killed and some 40 persons were wounded.
Moreover, in the second half of 1999, he was in charge of overseeing the
area between Merdare and Podujevo, where he headed a terrorist group, the
socalled Assassination Guard, which was formed in order to carry out attacks
on the local non-Albanian population. Organizing some kind of illegal customs
authority on the territory under his control, he banned the import of goods
produced in Serbia and demolished each shop that sold them. This "customs
authority" imposed tax on the illegal felling of state and privately owned
forests (whose owners were Serbs), in the amount of 5 DM per cubic meter.
83. LULZIM (Azir) LECI,
alias "Gjagji"
Born on February 23rd, 1974, in the village of Gminac, Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica. He was an assistant commander of KLA’s Karadak zone
and a member of KLA headquarters for the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica.
In 1999, these headquarters were located in his house, in the village of
Gminac, where a large amount of weapons was also stored. He managed a group
of 15 KLA members which carried out a few murders and set a large number
of houses on fire in the villages of Oraovica, Firiceji and in Kosovska
Kamenica itself. Also, he organized an attack on the Bogdanovic couple
(Milutin and Taska), in the village of Kriljevo, Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica, in August 2000. While LAPMB was active in southern Serbia, he
organized the transfer of terrorists from K&M into LAPMB and, on a
number of occasions, he stayed in the security zone. He is currently in
the position of an adviser in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies
in the Government of Kosovo.
84. AFRIM (Hallit)
LULAJ, alias "Abu Musem"
Born on September 12th, 1974, in the city of Osek Hilja, Municipality
of Djakovica. He was a member of the infamous "Abu Bekir Sidik" unit composed
of foreign mercenaries – mujahedins and the most extreme Albanian terrorists
from K&M. Within this unit, Lulaj headed the branch in the village
of Smonica. He took part in the organization and implementation of terrorist
attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
and the YA forces, on the Cabrat hill, over Djakovica, on the Djakovica-Dechani
route.
85. NUREDIN (Jetulah) LUSHTAKU
Born on February 27th, 1967, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality
of Srbica. Because of his terrorist activities, he was sentenced, in absentia,
to 20 years in prison in 1997. From 1991, he was a member of Adem Jashari’s
terrorist group and took part in a large number of terrorist acts on the
territory of Drenica and other parts of K&M. Beside other activities,
he took part in the attack on a police convoy in the Ludovic village, Municipality
of Srbica, in 1997, and together with a group of terrorists from the village
of Lauša, Municipality of Srbica, he was a perpetrator of the assassination
of Sefer Zani, from the village of Poljance. After Adem Jashari’s murder
in 1998, Lushtaku was appointed commander of KLA headquarters in the village
of Donje Prekaze and a member of KLA general staff for the operative zone
of Drenica. He maintained close connections with Sami Lushtaku, Sahit and
Musa Jashari, Fadhil Kodra, Jetulah and Sabit Gecaj and others. During
his stay in the village of Likovac, he took part in the harassment and
abuse of the Serb prisoners. In the period between 1998 and June 1999,
he supervised terrorist activities on the territory of the aforementioned
operative zone, carrying out the orders of Sami Lushtaku, Hashim Thaqi
and Sylejman Selimi, aka "Sultan", the then acting KLA commander for the
Drenica region. After the establishment of KPC, Thaqi appointed him commander
of the 114th brigade of the 1st RTG in Drenica. After Sami Lushtaku was
removed from KPC, Thaqi maintained his influence over the said organization
by appointing Nuredin Lushtaku commander of the guard, with the headquarters
in Prizren. He is a member of the illegal terrorist group called the "Falcon’s
Eye" and, together with a group of terrorists from the Drenica region,
he took part in a large number of attacks against the members of the police
and the YA forces on the territory of Bujanovac and Preševo. He occasionally
stays on the territory of FYROM, providing assistance to the local terrorists.
At the previous elections in K&M, following Sami Lushtaku’s and Thaqi’s
orders, he intimidated Albanians in the Drenica region who opposed Thaqi’s
policies.
86. SAMI (Malazim) LUSHTAKU
Born on February 20, 1961, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality
of Srbica. By a verdict of the District Court in Priština, he was sentenced,
in absentia, to 20 years of imprisonment for his criminal acts of terrorism.
Together with Adem and Hamza Hasari, Fadil and Nuredin Lushtaku, Sylejman
and Rexhepi Selimi, Tahir Jashari and Jakup Nura, he is one of the founders
of KLA in the Drenica region. He completed his military training in Albanian
and, in 1997, took part in the abuse and the massacre of the Serb civilians
who were kidnapped and held in a camp situated in the Likovac village,
Municipality of Srbica. He was a perpetrator of a terrorist attack on a
police station in the Rudnik village, Municipality of Srbica, in 1998,
as well as on a police convoy in the village of Ludovic, Municipality of
Srbica. In that period, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the KLA General
Staff for the Drenica zone of operations, with the headquarters in the
village of Likovac, Municipality of Srbica, and for a certain period of
time he carried out the duties of the commander of this operative zone.
Later, Hashim Thaqi appointed him Commander of the 2nd operative zone in
the Prizren region (Paštrik). At the same time, he was elected Deputy Head
of the Kosovo’s Secret Service where, among other duties, he was in charge
of engaging volunteer units from Drenica, which were sent to the region
of the Bujanovac, Preševo and Medvedja municipalities, in order to carry
out terrorist acts. Due to the increased terrorist activities the consequence
of which is a destabilized security status in K&M and following the
initiative of the representative of the US administration, on July 6, 2001,
Lushtaku was fired from his position of the KPC Commander and is prohibited
from carrying firearms. For violating this prohibition, he was taken into
custody by KFOR for questioning. After that, he left the region of the
Srbica Municipality, fearing the arrested for his criminal and terrorist
activities during and after the armed conflict, and spent the larger part
of 2002 in Albania, in the city of Kuks. His family is one of the most
influential in the Drenica region and works closely with Hashim Thaqi,
Rexhep and Sylejman Selimi and Xhavit Halliti, playing a significant role
in the organized crime in K&M. He is on the American "black list" of
organizations and individuals who, because of their terrorist activities,
have restricted access to financial aid, i.e., who are not allowed to enter
the US.
87. ENVER (Demo) MAVRIQI
Born on January 23rd, 1961, in the village of Firiceje, Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica. Until 1990 he worked as a policeman in the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs. On behalf of the KLA General Staff for the
Kosovska Kamenica region, he led a group of 15 KLA members, whose task
was to form checkpoints where passengers and vehicles were searched, and
certain Serbs and Albanians were taken prisoner. In the KLA General Staff
situated in the dormitory of the secondary school in Kosovska Kamenica,
he personally took part in the physical abuse of a large number of Albanians
who were suspected of collaborating with the state bodies of the Republic
of Serbia. Beside that, on June 28, 1999, he ordered the Serbs from the
village of Firiceje to abandon their homes, threatening them that otherwise
they would be killed. In July 1999, he ordered the burning of all Serb
houses in the said village. In the same period, he kidnapped, and subsequently
murdered Živorad Stojanovic, a policeman from the Firiceje village. Throughout
2000, he organized KLA police in Kosovska Kamenica and acted as its commander,
using the premises of a usurped apartment whose owner was an ethnic Serb.
He was also included in organizing the members of LAPMB on the territory
of Kosovska Kamenica and their transport to the ground security zone. He
was arrested by KFOR for illegal possession of arms and spent some time
in the prison in the Bondsteel camp.
88. NAIM (Ramadan)
MALOKU, alias "Besnik"
Born on February 17th, 1958, in the village of Labljane, Municipality
of Pec. A former YNA officer. During his studies at the Military Academy
in Zagreb, Maloku, together with Xhafer Jashari, Fadil Hakaj, Ramadan Gashi
and a group of Albanian soldiers who were doing military service at the
time in Zagreb, formed an illegal organization called the Movement for
the Albanian Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (PASRJ). Because of that,
in 1985, together with a dozen or so officers, he was arrested and sentenced
to 4.5 years in prison by the military court. He was pardoned in 1988,
after which he moved to Ljubljana. He joined KLA in 1996 and, two years
later, returned to K&M. He was appointed the Chief of the General Staff
of the operative zone Dukadjin by Ramush Haradinaj, the then acting commander
of the aforementioned zone. Beside training KLA members, he also organized
weapons supply from Albania and, in March 1999, he headed a terrorist group
in its attack on the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
Serbia and the YA forces in the village of Vrelo, Municipality of Istok.
Following the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from K&M, Maloku
took an active part in the forceful expulsion of the remaining Serbs. During
2000, he formed a new Albanian political party – the Liberal Center of
Kosovo - which later joined Ramush Haradinaj’s Alliance for the Future
of Kosovo, in which Maloku became Vice-President.
89. FATON (Bajram) MEHMETAJ
Born on January 24th, 1963, in the village of Požare, Municipality
of Dechani. Due to the criminal act of espionage for the Albanian intelligence
service, Mehmetaj was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 1986. He was a
member of the KLA general staff in the operative zone of Dukadjin, where
he carried out the duties of the security chief, maintaining direct contact
with Ramush and Daut Haradinaj. He was the perpetrator in the assassinations
of a number of Kosovo Serbs and Montenegrins, as well as the arrest and
physical abuse of civilians in Metohija. Following the demilitarization
of KLA, he was made a member of the general staff of the 3rd RTG of KPC
and the chief of the intelligence department of G-2 in this zone. He supplied
the members of the intelligence service of Albania with the data of security
importance connected with to the activities and organization of the international
security forces in K&M. In June 2002, together with a group of KPC
members, he was arrested by UNMIK police for a series of murders and other
crimes committed in 1999 against Albanian and non-Albanian citizens whose
bodies were later found close to the Radonjic Lake, Municipality of Dechani.
In July of the same year, he was released from prison, due to the lack
of evidence. He organized the murder of Tahir Zemaj, a former FARK commander,
who came into conflict with the clan of Ramush Haradinaj. The murder was
committed on August 18, 2001. He is one of the organizers of the delivery
of threatening messages addressed to the Albanians of the well-to-do families
in K&M, from whom, in the name of "protection", huge financial sums
were extracted. He is also a member of the extremists terrorist organization
known as "Black Eagles", which is usually used for the protection of Ramush
Haradinaj’s political and criminal interests, i.e., the organized crime
group "Dukadjini".
90. NAZIF (Haradin)
MEHMETI, alias "Dini"
Born on September 20, 1961, in the village of Sajkovci, Municipality
of Podujevo. Until September 1991, he was employed by Kosovo‘s Provincial
Secretariat of Internal Affairs and, after leaving the service, he spent
some time abroad. When he returned to K&M, he was appointed Deputy
Commander of the special KLA units on the territory of the Lab operative
zone and was later engaged in KPS, in the Police Station No. 3 in Priština.
According to the anecdotal evidence, Mehmeti, in his position of a deputy
commander of the special units within the KLA’s 5th operative zone, together
with Latif Gashi and Naim Kadriu, participated in the murders of an operative
of the State Security of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Milan
Jovic, in Podujevo. The members of the so-called Lab group, which Mehmeti
belonged to, took part in the attacks on the political opponents, primarily
of the DSK members. They were also involved in the robbery, racketeering
of the Albanian population in that region, as well as in the kidnapping
of young Albanians. They kidnapped Osman Sinani, from the village of Murgule,
Municipality of Podujevo, who was subsequently murdered, as well as Milovan
Stankovic, an employee of "Javor" in Podujevo, from the village of Bechic,
Municipality of Merošine, Ratko Vicentijevic, from the village of Donja
Dumnica, Visar Voca, Sabri Berisha, Goran Zbiljic, Cedomir Blagojevic and
Živorad Biserchic. Nazif Mehmeti is also one of the perpetrators of the
terrorist attack carried out in August 1996, in the village of Donje Ljupche,
Municipality of Podujevo, in which an employee of the Center of the Serbian
State Security of Priština, Ejup Bajgora, was murdered. In that attack,
beside Mehmeti, the other perpetrators were Latif Gashi, Zahir Pajaziti,
from the village of Tutuchice, Naim Kadriu and Shaip Haziri, from the village
of Kacikol, Municipality of Priština. Beside that, he was one of the top
officers of an improvised jail in the village of Gornja Lapaštica, in which
Serb and Albanian prisoners were held. In July 2003, by a verdict of the
International Court, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, for the war
crimes committed on the territory of Priština and Podujevo.
91. FADIL (Sadik) MUJOTA,
alias "Cubi"
Born on July 17th, 1969, in the village of Malopoljce, Municipality
of Štimlje. Prior to 1998, Mujota, together with his father Sadik and his
cousin Bajrush, were engaged in the illegal trade in weapons and ammunition.
He was arrested in 1993, but he soon escaped abroad. He remained in Switzerland
and Germany until 1998, when he returned to Malopoljce and joined KLA,
taking over the command of the terrorist group in that village. This group
was directly subordinated to the KLA General Staff located in the village
of Jezerce, and organized and carried out terrorist attacks on the Štimlje-Uroševac
and Štimlje-Crnoljevo routes, kidnapped and abused Albanians loyal to the
Republic of Serbia (Naim Shabani, from the village of Vojnovci). Beside
that, Mujota illegally crossed the border with Albania and took part in
the acquisition and delivery of weapons for KLA’s use. Following the withdrawal
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces from K&M,
he continued his terrorist activities with the intention of ethnically
cleansing the non-Albanian population from K&M. He purchased a number
of Gypsy houses on the Štimlje-Lipljan route and, in mid-June 1999, following
his orders, in the private house of Mujota’s cousin in Štimlje, an improvised
jail was set up for Serbs and Gypsies. After the establishment of KPC,
he was placed in the army barracks in Uroševac. However, after a certain
period of time, he filed an application to be demobilized, since he was
not satisfied with his rank and the treatment he received. Along with Xhabir
Zharku, he heads a criminal group from the village of Malopoljci and is
one of the organizers of the illegal acquisition and resale of narcotics
in the region of Gnjilane. These narcotics arrive in K&M from Albania,
via Tetovo (FYROM). He is involved in the trafficking in human beings where
he collaborates with Jetulah Çari, aka "Guri”, from Suva Reka. Çari
is the owner of a facility in the village of Rechane where a certain number
of girls from Russia, Rumania and Bulgaria are kept. Mujota’s main connection
with the trafficking in human beings is an Albanian called Balem, from
Štimlje, from the Beqaj family.
92. SHEFQET (Esat)
MUSLIU, nicknamed "Adzija"
Born on February 12th, 1963, in the village of Konculj, Municipality
of Bujanovac. As a KLA member in K&M, in 1998, he was engaged in Special
Units under the command of Ramush Haradinaj. During 1999, he took part
in the abuse of the Serbs in Gnjilane, in the interception, illegal arrests,
harassment and looting of the passengers on the Bujanovac-Gnjilane road,
above the village of Dobrosin. At the beginning of 2000, he joined the
then formed group for the assassination of Albanians who lived in the region
of Gnjilane and who refused to cooperate with the terrorists. From December
1999, especially after armed conflicts in southern Serbia were intensified,
with his cousin Junuz Musliu and other associates, he intercepted vehicles
in the vicinity of the village of Dobrosin, harassed the passengers, illegally
arrested and mistreated them, confiscated vehicles and goods and robbed
them of their valuables, extorted money, allegedly for KLA’s use. After
LAPMB was formed, he managed its headquarters in Dobrosin. With the intention
of enlarging the influence of his organization, he ordered forced mobilization
of able-bodied Albanians, their short-term training and participation in
terrorist actions. He initiated the foundation of the local village headquarters
in the region of Bujanovac and Preševo, which he later united and placed
under his command. At that time, he personally took part or commanded a
number of armed attacks on police positions in the villages of Dobrosin
and Konculj. From October 1999 until March 2001, in the Bujanovac Municipality,
he committed 49 of the most serious criminal acts. In KPC uniform, together
with his associates, he stopped vehicles moving towards Gnjilane and collected
"toll", saying that every Albanian from Preševo and Bujanovac had to pay
the requested sum. He took part in the terrorist attack on a police patrol
in Konculj, on November 23, 1999, when two policemen were wounded, as well
as in the action carried out on February 26, 2000, when, with a group of
11 armed LAPMB members, he attacked the policemen in the vicinity of the
village of Konculj, at which time two members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs were killed. On June 8, 2000, together with Ramadan Zairi
and Nasuf Musliji, he planted four anti-tank mines in the vicinity of the
elementary school in Konculj, on the road towards Dobrosin, when 5 members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were wounded. He organized,
on June 22, 2000, the murder of the last remaining Serb residents of the
village of Mali Trnovac and ordered that anti-tank mines be placed on the
village road in Mali Trnovac, and when the explosion went off on November
10, 2000, a member of the police force, Ivica Božinovic, was killed. In
2000, together with Lirim Jakupi and Vulnet Ibishi, he extorted 20,000
DM from Junuz Vasufi and seized his car, threatening to burn his house
if he reported the incidents to the police. In this period, the same group
took 2,000 DM by extortion from Naim Rexhepi, the owner of "Ideal Commerce",
and from the owner of "Jeton Trans", in the village of Dobrosin, 5,000
DM. Towards the end of December 2000, in the company of Bulnet Ibisi, he
stopped the "Madjar-Tours" bus in Konculj, from the direction of Gnjilane,
and harassed the pass engers Reshat Ebibi from the village of Turije, Municipality
of Bujanovac, and an older Albanian because, allegedly, they had assisted
Serbs during the sale of their property to Albanians. On that occasion,
he forcefully took the amount of 10,000 DM from the passengers. Musliu
continued his criminal activities in 2001 when, with a group of associates,
he seized Sabedin Ibraimi’s jeep. For the confiscated vehicle, the aforementioned
individual received a certificate, along with a threat that he would be
killed if he reported the incident to the police. Although, at the beginning
of 2001 he had declared that he would accept the agreement on the demilitarization
of LAPMB, as the commander of the General Sstaff of this organization,
he ordered its members to hide the greater part of the weapons in the bunkers
and warehouses, and on February 4 of the same year, he organized an attack
on the position of the YA and police force in Lucani. At the beginning
of March, he organized the kidnapping of four Serbs, who were held in Konculj,
as well as the kidnapping and harassment of Radomir Stojiljkovic, from
Trstenik. After LAPMB was disbanded, he moved to Gnjilane, but continued
to command a group of terrorists who, following his orders, committed a
number of terrorist acts in the region of southern Serbia. When ANA was
formed in southern Serbia, he was elected its official and, together with
Lirim Jakupi, he organized the activities of a diversionary terrorist group
following the commands of ANA top officials. With the help of the members
of his family in Germany, he initiated the establishment of the so-called
humanitarian fund, "Fatherland Calls", intended for the collection of funds
from the Albanians abroad. He usurped the larger part of those means for
his own personal needs. Until his arrest, he led an extremely comfortable
existence and, in the last two years, in the Gnjilane Municipality, he
bought a house and a few business premises. Although he possessed the means
which he had "acquired" as LAPMB commander, Musliu, together with Mustafa
Xhemajli, was also involved in the smuggling of arms brought in from Albania
and sold on the territory of K&M, the FYRepublic of Macedonia and southern
Serbia. He was put on the American "black list" of organizations and individuals
who, because of their terrorist activities, have restricted access to financial
aid, i.e., who are forbidden to enter the US. He was arrested on April
12, 2003, by KFOR and is currently in the military base Bondsteel in the
vicinity of Uroševac.
93. ISAK (Smajl) MUSLIU,
alias "Cerciz"
Born on October 31st, 1970, in the village of Rachak, Municipality
of Štimlje. After a stay abroad, he returned to K&M in May 1998 and
joined the KLA members in the Municipality of Štimlje, where he was appointed
deputy commander of KLA general staff in the village of Rance. He belonged
to the 121st "Agim Qelaj" brigade within the operative zone of Paštrik.
In the village of Rance, he organized the recruitment and military training
of new KLA members, as well as the delivery of arms from Albania. Beside
that, he personally interrogated and harassed the kidnapped individuals
(among whom Albanian Hajriz Hajrizi, from the village of Belinac), and
organized attacks on the members of the police and YA forces. Towards the
end of September 1998, together with his unit, he abandoned his position
in the Rance village and retreated into the Lapuštnik village, Municipality
of Drenica, only to be sent, in November of the same year, to a special
terrorist training center organized in Switzerland. After his return to
K&M, he was appointed one of the deputy commanders of the KLA general
staff of the Nerodimlje operative zone, in the village of Jezerce, Municipality
of Uroševac. Following the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution
1244, he continued his terrorist activities as a member of the KPC secret
police in Uroševac, where he was one of the top officials. He was arrested
in February 14, 2003, by the members of the international security forces,
together with six like-minded individuals, and taken to the Bondsteel base,
whence he was subsequently transferred to the Hague, since the indictment
of the Hague tribunal has charged him with a number of crimes against humanity
and the violation of the laws and customs of war committed in 1998.
94. RUSTEM (Musli)
MUSTAFA, alias "Remi"
Born on February 27th, 1971, in the village of Prepolac, Municipality
of Podujevo. He commenced terrorist activities in 1989, within the illegal
group NMRK, and continued them in 1998, by joining the KLA general staff
for the Lab region, the 5th operative zone, where he carried out the duties
of the deputy commander and later of the commander of the said zone. Under
his command, towards the end of 1998, terror was committed against the
Serb population, the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
and the YA forces, as well as against some members of the Albanian population
who were murdered, kidnapped and taken to the prisons located in the villages
of Bradaš and Gornja Lapaštica, while their property was looted and destroyed.
Following the withdrawal of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and the YA forces from K&M, he formed terrorist groups "Skifteri",
"BIA" and "Red Hand" whose members conducted ethnic cleansing, kidnapping
and murder of the remaining Serbs in the region of Priština and Podujevo
(the murder of Milan Milovanovic, in the village of Dabovac, Municipality
Kuršumlija, as well as the placing of anti-tank mines on the Kuršumlija-Prepolac
road, in November 1999, when three members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs were murdered and five wounded). In September 1999, the KPC commander,
Agim Çeku, promoted him to the rank of major-general and appointed
him commander of the 5th RTG of Lab, and towards the end of 2000, commander
of the 6th RTG. These appointments were intended to initiate organizational
and technical preparations for further terrorist activities in the region
of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, in view of the fact that, members of
LAPMB had carried out terrorist acts under the direct command of Rustem
Mustafa, in 2000. He abused his high position in KPC to accumulate financial
means some of which were used to finance LAPMB, while he took the rest
for himself. Together with Ismet Bekteshi, he is accused of embezzling
seven million DM from the KSIK aid fund, which he used to finance his private
business activities in Priština. He had close contacts with Rexhep Veseli
and Ellami Bajrami, connected to the narcotics smuggling, and a member
of the Fadil Gumnista mafia organization. Upon his and Fatmir Humoli’s
command, the terrorist group "BIA" committed, an attack on the Niš-Ekspres
bus, when 11 passengers of Serb nationality were killed on February 16,
2001, in the vicinity of the Livadice village, Municipality of Podujevo.
From June 26, 2001, Mustafa is on the so-called black list of the US administration,
as an individual who is directly responsible for the instability in K&M
and the overall Balkan region, which is why he was replaced as the commander
of the 6th RTG of KPC, and an investigation was launched against him following
KFOR initiative. On the basis of the statements given by family members
of the murdered Albanians (Agim Musliu, Alush Kastrati, Idriz Svarça,
Drita Voce) and the eyewitnesses report on the murder of Enver Sekiraça,
the UNMIK police arrested Rustem Mustafa on August 11, 2002. On July 16,
2003, he was sentenced by the International Judicial Council of the District
Court in Priština to 17 years in prison, for the war crimes committed in
the region of Priština and Podujevo.
95. SALIH (Jaha) MUSTAFA
Born on January 1st, 1972, in Priština. Due to his membership in the
NMRK illegal organization, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment
in 1993. As a KLA member, he acted within a special unit which committed
murder and kidnapping and robbed the property in the Priština and Podujevo
municipalities. After KPC was formed, and following orders from Rustem
Mustafa and Fatmir Humoli, he formed an illegal terrorist group called
"Skifteri", with the goal to carry out assassinations, kidnapping and looting
of ethnic Serbs and their property. Within "Skifteri", he formed his own
group, which was composed of Behar Berisha, Ruzhdi Halili, aka "Rudi",
Nazif Metoli, aka "Tabut", Hilmi Veli, aka "Death", Haki Abazi, Aslan Sinani,
Gani Koci, Shefqet Murseli, Shaqir Beqiri, brothers Faik and Raif Arifi
and others. Toward the end of June 1999, together with Agim Rexhepi (false
name Agron Xhemaili), from the village of Karuševac, Municipality of Obilic,
he organized the assassination of a certain Boško, a former department
store employee in the same city. He was the organizer and perpetrator of
the assassination of a number of ethnic Albanians from the region of Podujevo
(among whom Ukshin Zeqiri and Milaim Gjakoli), and is connected with illegal
arms trade and narcotics distribution.
96. ARIF (Pajazit)
MUQOLI, alias "Prof"
Born on May 15th, 1952, in the village of Hrtica, Municipality of Podujevo.
He was a member of the KLA operative zone Lab and, after the 151st brigade
"Zahir Pajaziti" was formed, he was appointed its commander, with the headquarters
in the village of Bradaš. After the demobilization of KLA, he was appointed
one of the top officials in the KPC general staff. He was involved in the
murder of Mirko Saric, from the village of Tacevac, Municipality of Kuršumlija,
committed on July 20, 1999, in the village of Metohija, as well as in the
systematic ethnic cleansing of the Serb population on the territory of
the Podujevo and Priština municipalities.
97. MALIQ NDRECAJ,
alias "Commander Maliqi"
Born in the village of Maciteva, Municipality of Suva Reka. After KLA
operative zone Dukadjin was formed, Ramush Haradinaj appointed Ndrecaj
commander of the 132nd KLA brigade, named "Murat Zeneli", with the headquarters
in the village of Jablanica. This brigade was in charge of the jail in
which the kidnapped Serbs were tortured and murdered. Following the arrival
of KFOR and UNMIK in K&M, he commanded a special unit called "Evil
River" whose members carried out a large number of criminal acts against
the non-Albanian population in the region of Djakovica. After ANA headquarters
were formed in the Debalde village, Municipality of Vitina, in 2002, Ndrecaj
was appointed commander, entrusted with the training of ANA members. Following
the instructions of Ramush Haradinaj, Ndrecaj took part in the armed conflicts
in Kumanovo (FYROM), where he led the terrorist group within NLA, using
the alias of "Commander Mala". He was also active in the illega transport
of arms and other military equipment from Albania for the needs of the
terrorists in the regions of Preševo, Bujanovac, Medvedja and in FYROM.
In that context, with his group, composed of Shaban Tahiri, from the village
of Berjah, Selman Sadiku, from the village of Nivokaz, Municipality of
Djakovica, Binak Mazreku, from the village of Voks, and Hajdar Habibi,
from the village of Junik, Municipality of Dechani, Ndrecaj took weapons
from a warehouse situated in the Dechani region and stored them in the
immediate vicinity of the administrative border with southern Serbia, as
well as the state border with FYROM. Due to these activities, he was arrested
by KFOR in March of 2003, but was soon released.
98. SELAMI (Ilmi) NEZIRI,
alias "Agron"
Born on July 5th, 1972, in the village of Donja Slatina, Municipality
of Vitina. Due to his activities within PMKL, criminal charges were filed
against him in August 1993, and he was tried and sentenced to 14 months
imprisonment. Having completed his training in Albania, at the beginning
of 1998, with a group of 10 KLA members, he illegally crossed into the
territory of K&M where, together with Ahmet Isufi, Shemsi Syla and
Lulzim Leci, from the village of Gmince, Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica,
he participated in the establishment of KLA headquarters for the operative
zone of Karadak, as well as in mobilizing and training new KLA members,
and in the delivery of weapons and military equipment. In the summer of
1999, he was appointed commander of the 173rd KLA brigade, and later commander
of a KPC unit in Vitina. At the same time, he carried out duties of vice-president
of the Municipal Assembly of Vitina until October 2000, and was also the
leader of the terrorist group "Black Eagles", whose members took part in
assassination, harassment and expulsion of Serbs from that Municipality.
In March 2001, during the armed conflicts in FYR Macedonia, Neziri headed
a group of around 300 terrorists from the territory of the Vitina Municipality,
which took part in the battles against Macedonian security forces in the
region of the Tanuševci village. Shortly after the aforementioned activities,
he was removed from KPC. In mid-2002, he was engaged in the delivery of
weapons to FYROM. A part of the weapons was stored in the border villages
of Debelde and Mjak, in Vitina Municipality. In the same year, he was appointed
director of the Insurance Department in the municipal assembly of Vitina.
He still holds the same position and is very active in organizing the purchase
of Serb property in that Municipality.
99. JAKUP (Smajl) NURA
Born on February 13th, 1966, in the village of Prelovac, Municipality
of Srbica. At the beginning of 1997, by the verdict of the District Court
in Priština, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his criminal acts
of terrorism. After a short stay with the terrorist group of Adem Jashari
in 1991, he was sent to Albania for military training. After his return
to K&M, he took part in a number of terrorist acts against the members
of the police, including the attack on the police members on the railroad
crossing in Glogovac, when four policemen were killed, and the attack in
the village of Likosane, Municipality of Glogovac, as well as in a number
of kidnappings and assassinations of the Serb civilians. In the period
between February 1998 and June 1999, he was the KLA commander for the village
of Prelovac, Municipality of Srbica, and a member of the KLA general staff
for the region of Drenica, and is now a member of the special unit within
KPC for the Drenica region. He is closely connected with the currently
most active terrorist groups in K&M, southern Serbia and FYROM. In
mid-2001, with a group of terrorists, he stayed the administrative border
towards Bujanovac, Preševo and Medvedja, where he took part in the terrorist
acts against the members of the police and YA forces.
100. ENVER (Osman) ORUÇI
Born on December 6th, 1962, in the village of Rezalo, Municipality
of Srbica. He graduated from the Military Academy in Belgrade and used
to be the commander of the Federal Secretariat of Internal Affairs in Vuchitrn.
From 1998, he was active as a KLA member, in the region of the Cicavica
mountain, where a large number of crimes were committed against the members
of the ethnic Serb population. Under the direct leadership of Oruçi
and Mensur Kasumi, the abduction of the Serbs from the village of Nevoljane,
Municipality of Vuchitrn, was organized. Members of the KLA 124th brigade,
commanded by Enver Oruçi, kidnapped five Serb senior citizens from
the village of Nevoljane and drove them, via Cicavica and Prekaze, into
an improvised jail set up in the village of Likovac. In this jail, Serb
and Albanian prisoners were mistreated and murdered, among whom was the
policeman Ivan Bulatovic. Sabit Geca and Sylejman Selimi, aka "Sultan”,
especially excelled in the massacre and assassinations.
101. GJUMSHIT (Ahmet) OSMANI
Born on May 2nd, 1951, in the village of Zitinje, Municipality of Vitina.
Within KLA, he was engaged in the collection of intelligence data. After
KLA was disbanded, he was appointed head of the KPC secret police in Gnjilane,
usually carrying out orders given by Ahmet Isufi and Shemsi Syla, the commander
and the deputy commander of the operative zone of Karadak. Together with
Nazmi Bekteshi, from Gnjilane, a former member of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs, and now a member of the secret police, he abused the
remaining members of the Serb population in the region of Gnjilane Municipality,
with the goal of their forced expulsion. Also, following the orders of
Isufi and Syla, he organized the murder of prominent Serbs in Gnjilane,
so that in the city itself more than a hundred people were killed and 90%
of the ethnic Serbs were exiled. He usually engaged individuals from the
criminal environment for the most serious criminal acts (murder, rape,
arson, physical abuse). These activities were especially directed at the
former members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs who had remained
in K&M. In order to demonstrate his loyalty to KLA, the former operative
of the Security Service of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Fatmir
Drmaku, from Gnjilane, had to, following orders given by Osmani, take part
in the murder of DSK members.
102. NEBIH (Qerkim) PRENIQI
Born on August 26th, 1975, in the village of Ade, Municipality of Obilic.
As a member of the KLA secret police, under the direct command of Abedin
Sogojeva and Sabit Lladrovci, he took part in the murder of the Rapajic
family from Obilic, on November 28, 2000.
103. RAHMAN (Sadri) RAMA
Born on November 23rd, 1970, in the village of Okraštica, Municipality
of Vuchitrn. He performed the duties of the commander of KLA 4th operative
zone encompassing the region of the municipalities of Kosovska Mitrovica,
Vuchitrn, Leposavic, Zvechan, Zubin Potok and a few villages from the Obilic
Municipality. As a member of Adem Jashari’s terrorist group, he was directly
involved in the supervision of the actions in the Drenica region in 1993,
only to be moved on later to the Vuchitrn region, where he was engaged
in the organization of the terrorist groups in almost all the villages
of this region. In June 1998, he organized and supervised terrorist attacks
against the Serb families in the village of Pantina, Municipality of Vuchitrn.
On the occasion, he kidnapped the Miljkovic couple (Ratomir and Cedomirka),
whose destiny remains unknown. After the expulsion of the ethnic Serbs
from the aforementioned village, he ordered total destruction of all Serb
houses and other buildings. In June 1998, he headed a group of 1,000 KLA
members who managed to transport a large amount of weapons and military
equipment from Albania to K&M. As the commander of the aforementioned
zone, Rama embezzled the financial means collected abroad for the acquisition
of weapons and other equipment for KLA needs. After the withdrawal of the
Serbian security forces from the territory of K&M, he forcefully took
over a number of business premises and apartments whose owners were members
of the non-Albanian ethnic communities, mostly Serbs. After the establishment
of KPC, Rama was appointed commander of the 4th RTG, with the headquarters
in Kosovska Mitrovica. In November 2001, he found himself with the rank
of major-general in the position of the commander of the 5th RTG of KPC
in Priština, from which he was removed at the end of June 2003. Rama has
huge financial means at his disposal, which he used to buy a house in Priština,
the value of which is estimated at approximately 250,000 euros, and he
built four large houses in the village of Okraštica, where his parents
and brothers live and constructed the most contemporary farm for raising
cattle and poultry, the value of which is estimated at over 200,000 euros.
He owns a number of luxury cars and jeeps. He is closely connected with
Agim Shahini from Vuchitrn, the owner of the "Bes-Arti" trade company from
that city and the president of the Association of Trade Companies in K&M.
104. ILLMI (Selman)
RAMUSHOLI, alias "Granite"
Born on May 10th, 1964, in the village of Manastirci, Municipality
of Uroševac. A former member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
in Priština. In 1998, he joined the KLA general staff for the UroševacMunicipality,
located in the Jezerce village. Soon after that, he was appointed commander
of the 161st brigade of the Nerodimlje operative zone. After the members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces were withdrawn
from K&M, he organized and, on a number of occasions, took part in
the kidnapping civilians of Serb nationality form the village of Gornje
and Donje Nerodimlje, Municipality of Uroševac (Dimko Parli, Miloš and
Milorad Djordjevic). He interrogated the kidnapped individuals and physically
abused them, after which they were never found. Beside this, he organized
the expulsion of the Serb population from the aforementioned villages and
the destruction of their property. After KPC was formed, in September 1999,
he was appointed operations officer of the Istok zone, and is now engaged
as an officer in the army barracks of "Jezerachka Epopeja" in Uroševac,
as the Chief of Staff. At the same time, he is a member of the illegal
secret police and a member
of the ANA general staff for the region of the Uroševac, Kachanik,
Štrpce and Štimlje municipalities. He is closely connected with Ismet Sadiku,
from the village of Balic, Municipality of Uroševac, a member of the secret
police in Uroševac, with Elmi Reqica, from Uroševac, the Deputy Chief of
the secret police and the coordinator of the secret police and ANA activities
in Uroševac, and with Imri Ilazi, from the village of Kamena Glava, Municipality
of Uroševac, the commander of the 6th RTG of KPC.
105. ELMI (Rexhep)
REQICA, alias "Petrit"
Born on October 6th, 1961, in Uroševac. Because of his separatist and
terrorist activities, he was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison
in 1985. After serving his sentence, he was active in the illegal NPK organization.
Together with Xhabir Morina, Enver Topalli and Sullejman Bitiqi, he was
an organizer of the terrorist acts which were carried out in the region
of Uroševac in 1997 and at the beginning of 1998 (the attack on the police
checkpoint in the village of Grlica, Municipality of Uroševac, and the
attack on two apartment buildings where members of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs lived). Beside his role as organizer, he personally
took part in the attack on a residential building in which an employee
of the State Security Service lived, by throwing an explosive device manufactured
by Sullejman Bitiqi. In June 1998, he initiated the formation of KLA general
staff for Uroševac, in which he was appointed liaison officer with the
general staff in Drenica. Beside that, he was in charge of weapons acquisition
and collection of financial means, as well of finding bases where those
weapons may be stored. Following the arrest of a member of these headquarters,
he escaped to Drenica, and then to the village of Jezerce, Municipality
of Uroševac, where KLA headquarters were located. As one of the top officials
of the KLA general staff of the Nerodimlje operative zone, in 1999, he
established the so-called intelligence group, which was connected with
the Albanian intelligence service, SIK. This group was later transformed
into the so-called secret police, entrusted with kidnapping and murder
of members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Following the withdrawal
of the Serbian Security Forces from K&M, Reqica was appointed chief
of the intelligence division of G-2 within KPC by Agim Çeku, with
the headquarters in Priština. Besides his tasks in KPC, he was also appointed
by Kadri Veseli, aka "Luli", chief of the secret police of Kosovo, deputy
commander of the aforementioned organization where he has remained until
today. In addition to his engagement in the establishment of the departments
of the secret police of Kosovo in all larger centers throughout K&M,
and in the coordination of the operations of this service in Uroševac,
Reqica, together with his associates, organized kidnappings and assassinations
of Albanians who, according to their assessment, were connected with the
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Elmi’s brother, Bashkim
Reqica (together with Nijazi Lohaj, Nexhat Krasniqi, Fatmir Azemi, Nexhat
Azemi and Qamil Shabani, aka "Four Eyes") was actively involved in the
smuggling of narcotics from Turkey to western Europe, via Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic and Slovakia. The said persons represent one of the most
powerful criminal groups on the territory of Uroševac who are involved
in the transport of narcotics to western European countries. A part of
the financial means acquired through this activity, Reqica uses for the
purchase and delivery of modern weapons for the needs of ANA members engaged
in the conflicts on the territory of FYROM and southern Serbia. Beside
this, he is engaged in establishing ANA headquarters in the Municipalities
of Uroševac, Štimlje, Štrpci and Kachanik. Some time ago, in the village
of Kamena Glava, UNMIK carried out a search and discovered around 20 kilograms
of heroin, owned by Reqica and his criminal group. In a similar action,
the Macedonian police, also this year, discovered and seized around 10
kilograms of heroin from the members of this same group.
106. EKREM (Raim)
REXHA, nicknamed "Drini"
Born on December 6th, 1961, in the village of Ljubižda, Municipality
of Prizren. A former YNA officer. He was the commander of the KLA 125th
brigade general staff for the operative zone Paštrik and a member of the
KLA general staff, as well as one of the top officials of Shefqet Haxhija’s
secret police, known as "Landowners". He is responsible for numerous crimes
committed on this territory: over 26 murders, 77 kidnappings, organization
of six jails located on the territory of Orahovac and Prizren, group rape
and torture of women, of which some were held captive in the prison in
Orahovac. Also, he is responsible for the execution of over twenty terrorist
attacks, among which is the attack on the village of Bratotin, Opteruša,
Retimlje and Zochiste, committed in July and in November 1998. When in
the middle 1999, during the armed conflict, the local population took refuge
from their homes on the territory of Prizren, Ekrem Rexha ordered all public
facilities and non-Albanian houses burned and looted. On that occasion,
he also issued the command for the murder of a few ethnic Albanians because
of their loyalty to the Republic of Serbia. He was killed on May 8, 2000,
by the members of the "Black Hand" terrorist group, due to his conflict
with Hashim Thaqi.
107. BEDRI (Shaban)
REXHAJ, alias "Galjan"
Born on April 3rd, 1962, in the village of Petrovo, Municipality of
Štimlje. Immediately after KLA was established, he was appointed chief
of the secret police in the village of Lanište, Municipality of Štimlje,
and then also a member of the KLA general staff in the village of Jezerce,
under the command of Shukri Buja. At one time, following his superior’s
orders, he was active in the Drenica region. He was a participant in the
armed attacks on the village of Nerodimlje in 1998 and 1999, and on the
village of Grebno in April 1999, when the local population from the territory
of Uroševac was driven into exile. After the armed conflict on the territory
of K&M was concluded as the chief of police of the general staff, later
of KPC, in Štimlje, together with the commander Isak Musliu, aka "Cherciz",
he organized the expulsion of the non-Albanian population from that region
(in a very short period of time he expelled 95% of the population, and
their property was burned or looted). The aforementioned group opened,
for Serbs and Gypsies, jails in the villages of Petrovo, Mužichane and
Rachak. Bedri personally arrested and physically mistreated Vitomir Nikšic,
because he had requested KFOR and UNMIK protection. Towards the end of
1999, the Nikšic family, under pressure, left K&M. Bedri, beside Bajrush
Rexhaj, Agim Ismaili, Muhamet Miftari and Heset Bleta, is a member of the
secret police (SIK) in Štimlje, headed by Fahrudin Gashi. Each of the aforementioned
individuals has his own formed group engaged in criminal activities (burglary
and theft, fraud, racketeering, serious threats and the like).
108. ISMET (Adem) SADIKU
Born on April 23rd, 1941, in the village of Balic, Municipality of
Uroševac. A former reserve army officer, with the rank of major. As the
chief of the KLA general staff for the Municipality of Uroševac, after
his members were arrested, he managed to escape and join the KLA general
staff in Drenica, to be later appointed commander of the KLA general staff
in the village of Jezerce, Municipality of Uroševac. In the second half
of 1999, he established the local general staff of KLA in the village of
Balic, Municipality of Uroševac, and organized ethnic cleansing of the
Serbian population from the villages of Gornje and Donje Nerodimlje, and
after their expulsion, he ordered their houses burned and demolished. Sadiku
personally interrogated ethnic Serbs who were brought in for questioning
to the KLA headquarters and abused and physically maltreated them. Eight
of them were eventually murdered. Beside that, he took part in the interrogation
of Albanians brought into the KLA headquarters, situated in the YA building
in Uroševac, who were suspected of having been collaborators of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs. As a member of the special group for conducting
diversionary activities, at the beginning of 2000, he activated an explosive
device in front of the Catholic church in Uroševac. For that, he was arrested
by KFOR and spent a month in custody.
109. RUZHDI (Ajdin) SARAMATI
Born on July 19th, 1950, in the village of Dobruša, Municipality of
Prizren. Due to his activities within the illegal organization NMRK, he
was sentenced to 7 years in prison in 1980. Having served his sentence,
he continued his terrorist activities, and inflicted a fire-arm wound on
a member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1992 in Prizren,
after which he fled to Albania. Following SIK instructions, he became one
of the organizers and instructors of KLA members on the territory of Albania,
together with officers of the Albanian army, and was also engaged in illegal
transport of weapons and military equipment from Albania to K&M for
KLA use. Following the withdrawal of the members of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs and the YA forces, he returned to Prizren, where he
organized the expulsion of Serbs and other non-Albanian population, as
well as the destruction and looting of their property, in which, beside
him, Ismet Badallaj, Baki Elezkurtaj and Hismen Kurtaj participated. Saramati
also formed "triads" which committed a series of assassinations. Until
KPC was established, he was the commander of the KLA 128th brigade, with
the headquarters in the village of Žur, as well as the commander of the
camp in the Našec village, in the premises of the youth resting home, and
was later appointed commander of a division of the KPC 324th brigade, with
the headquarters in Lapuški Han. He established a number of terrorist groups
on the territory of Opolj, which act directly under his command. Their
primary task is theft, physical abuse and assassination of the members
of the non-Albanian population in that region. With Hashim Thaqi’s approval,
he occupied a part of the border towards Albania, for the purpose of an
unhindered transport of weapons and other military equipment which was
subsequently transferred to the Drenica region and thence to Macedonia
and southern Serbia. Beside that, he was also engaged in the mobilization
of former KLA members who were to join NLA in FYROM. Because of his abuse
of the Albanians in Prizren, KFOR arrested him towards the end of 2001,
but he was soon released due to the lack of evidence. After a few days,
he was arrested again and sentenced to 5 years in prison at the beginning
of 2002, and is now serving his sentence in the Bondsteel base, and the
attorneys engaged in his defense, Hazer Susuri and Bajram Hiseni, tried
to question the indictment, stating that this case was rigged in Belgrade.
On a number of occasions, he was visited in prison by Besnik Cengu, the
head of the Kuksa district (in Albania) and Spiro Butka, an officer of
the Albanian army and a ANA member now living in Uroševac. In addition
to all this, there were disciplinary proceedings held against Saramati
and Petrit Bojaxhiju in 2002, due to their embezzlement of a large amount
of financial means, collected from the citizens for the construction of
KPC army barracks in Lapuški Han.
110. REXHEP (Destan) SELIMI
Born on March 15th, 1971, in the village of Ovcharevo, Municipality
of Srbica. He was sentenced, in absentia, to 20 years in prison, for the
criminal acts of terrorism. From 1991, he was in the KLA terrorist group
of Adem Jashari, as one of his most loyal fellow fighters. After his stay
in Albania, attending diversionary terrorist training, he illegally crossed
the border with K&M and joined the terrorist groups on the territory
of the Srbica Municipality, conducting training and arming KLA members.
Later, he became commander of the special units in the Drenica operative
zone. He was a direct participant in the terrorist acts against the members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in May 1993, on the railroad
crossing close to Glogovac, in which four policemen were killed and three
were seriously wounded, as well as in the attacks against the police convoy
in the village of Lauša, the hamlet of Ludovic, Municipality of Srbica,
on November 26 and 27, 1997. In the interim self proclaimed Government
of Kosovo, Hashim Thaqi appointed him minister of internal affairs. At
that time, Selimi established an organization called "Large Eagles", which
encompassed a few dozen former KLA members. Within the "Large Eagles",
a group called "Black Eagles" was also active and their task was assassination
of non-Albanian civilian population, of political opponents and members
of the rival criminal groups. In that sense, and under Thaqi’s control,
a number of thefts were carried out, arson, assassinations and injuries
of the Serbian and other non-Albanian population. Selimi was the direct
organizer of the majority of the kidnappings and assassinations of Serbian
civilians. He was also organizer of illegal transport of terrorist groups
from the Drenica region to the territory of the FYRepublic of Macedonia,
where they joined NLA, and he was also included in the transfer of terrorists
from Drenica to the region of the Bujanovac, Preševo and Medvedja Municipalities,
to carry out attacks against the police and army forces. In 2000, international
KFOR forces in K&M launched an investigation of five high KPC officials,
among them Selimi, because of the murder and genocide committed on the
territory of K&M in the course of 1998 and 1999. Rexhep Selimi plays
a
very important role in the criminal activities of K&M, where he is
included in arms, narcotics and human trafficking. Together with Sylejman
Selimi, his first cousin, he organized a network for the sale of narcotics,
weapons and military equipment. The network is also used for the activities
of the terrorist organizations on the territory of FYROM. In these operations,
he closely collaborates with Thaqi’s "Drenica group", Xhavit Haliti, Ismet
Osmani, Sabit Gecaj and Zan Qaushi, the leader of one of the mafia groups
from Albania, who often travels and stays on the territory of Klina, Prizren
and Priština. A part of the profit acquired through criminal activities
is used by Selimi to arm and equip the Kosovo secret service, SIK, headed
by Kadri Veseli, from the village of Brabonic, Municipality of Kosovska
Mitrovica. Selimi, together with Fatmir Limaj, is the founder of illegal
criminal terrorist group known as "Falcon’s Eye" which, apart from arms
and drugs trafficking, racketeering and prostitution, is engaged in following
and assassinating of political opponents, rivals and prominent Serbs, and
in criminal activities in general. The organization receives aid from Switzerland,
Germany, France, Australia and Albania. Currently, its operations base
is located in the Teranda Hotel in Prizren, where SIS members can often
be seen. It is believed that this organization is the paramilitary part
of the Albanian Nationalist Party "Bali Kombetar". He is on the American
"black list" of organizations and individuals who have restricted access
to financial aid, i.e., who are forbidden to enter the US. Currently, he
is the head of KPC Academy.
111. SYLEJMAN (Saban)
SELIMI, alias "Sultan"
Born on September 25th, 1970, in the village of Ovcharevo, Municipality
of Srbica. In the period between February 1998 and June 1999, he was the
commander of the KLA general staff for Drenica, and is currently the deputy
commander of KPC, with the rank of major-general. He was a direct participant
in the terrorist acts carried out against the court officers and the members
of the police in the village of Vocnjak on November 25 and 26, 1997, as
well as against the police convoy in village of Lauša, the hamlet of Ludovic,
Municipality of Srbica. Towards the end of 1997, he took part in the assassination
of Sadik Bajrami from the village of Donji Obilic, Municipality of Srbica.
In 1999, Hashim Thaqi’s interim Government appointed him commander of the
so-called National Guard of Kosovo. Beside his activities in K&M, Selimi
played an important role in the organization and the transfer of terrorist
groups from the Drenica region to FYROM. Also, his role in the organization
of criminal activities is considerable. He is connected with Kadri Veseli,
Xhavit Haliti and Rexhep Selimi, as well as with certain criminal groups
from Albania, among whom are Ismet Osmani, aka "Curi", one of the leading
narcotics dealer in west European countries, and Zan Qaushi, leader of
the Albanian criminal organization which deals with illegal arms trade
from Albania into the region of FYROM, Montenegro and K&M.
112. ABEDIN (Abdurahman) SOGOJEVA
Born on February 26th, 1958, in the village of Donji Grabovac, Municipality
of Kosovo Polje. He performed duties of the KLA commander for the Grabovac
region, and is now a KPC member, within the 1st RTG. He participated in
the terrorist attack in which two members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs were killed in the village of Hamidij, Municipality of Obilic,
and in the village of Pantina, Municipality of Vuchitrn, as well as in
the attack on the Belachevac mine. He organized and took part in the kidnapping
of the Serbs, the employees of the Belachevac mine, on June 22, 1998, i.e.,
of Dragan Vukmirovic, Zoran, Dušan and Petar Adžandžic, Filip Gojkovic,
Marko Buha, Miroslav Trifunovic, Srboljub Savic, Božidar Alimpic, and Žarko
Spasic, who were kidnapped on May 14, 1998. He is responsible for the kidnapping
and murder of Zvonko Bojanic, the Vice-President of the Municipal Assembly
of Kosovo Polje. In the region of the Obilic Municipality, he and Sabit
Lladrovci established a terrorist group consisting of the former members
of the KLA secret police, – Kadrija Sullejmani, aka "Mouse", Nebih Preniqi
and Bekim Berbatovci, all being the members of the KLA secret service,
than Muhamet Çerkezi aka "Çerkez", Ahmet Çerkezi and
Mirsad Kurteshi, and 14 mujahedins and four German citizens, who conducted
the weapons handling training. This terrorist group, following Sogojeva’s
orders, committed a series of actions, among which the planting of explosives
in the Kastelo restaurant in Obilic, where local Serbs congregate. He is
connected with the murder of the Rapajic family, from Obilic, committed
on November 28, 2000, followed by the murder of Miladija Stanojevic, as
well as with the harassment of ethnic Serbs, members of KPS (Tanja Mihajlovic
from Priština), destruction and looting of the Serb property in the region,
as well as with their physical abuse (Stojka Stojanovic, Tomica Antic,
Novica Ilic, Milenko Mihajlovic and others).
113. FATMIR (Halim) SOPI
Born on April 13th, 1961, in the village of Mramor, Municipality of
Priština. He was sentenced to four years in prison in 1984, for the criminal
act of association for the purpose of committing hostile activities. Following
the withdrawal of the Serb Security Forces from K&M, as Deputy Commander
of the 153rd brigade in the Zlaš village, Municipality of Priština, he
confiscated 700 automatic rifles from the warehouse in the village of Lukare
and sold them to Ramiz Asllani (for 300 DM a piece), after which Asllani
resold them to ANA members in Macedonia (for 700 DM a piece). Towards the
end of August 1999, he took part in kidnapping Milorad Popovic, from Grachanica,
Slavica Stevic, from Badovac, and Predrag Mikic, aka "Prota”, from Sušice,
on the location of the village of Zebince, Municipality of Novo Brdo. Together
with Fatmir Sopi and Adem Shehu, he is the main suspect for the murder
of Dragan Peric, Siniša Markovic and a certain Jovanovic, in the Grachanica
region.
114. AZEM (Riza)
SYLA, alias "Tefik" and "Big Uncle"
Born on May 4th, 1951, in the village of Kišna Reka, Municipality of
Glogovac. Former Defense Minister in Hashim Thaqi’s Government, he spent
a number of years in Switzerland and is currently a resident of Albania.
He was one of the most influential members in the Kosovo Albanian delegation
that took part in the talks held in Rambouillet. He belongs to the group
of KLA ideological founders, and took part in the establishment of SIK.
Together with Gjeladin Gashi and Hashim Thaqi, he organized a terrorist
attack on the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs on the
railroad crossing in Glogovac, in May 1993. Beside that, he organized a
terrorist attack on the police stations in Podujevo and Štimlje, the assassination
of a group of Serbs in Klina and some 80 ethnic Serbs and Albanians in
Mališevo, in 1998. During the armed conflict in K&M, he ordered the
assassination of around 800 Albanians who refused to become members of
DPK, as well as the assassination of certain influential activists of Ibrahim
Rugova’s DSK party. His recent activities are connected with the terrorist
organization ANA in K&M, within which he plays one of the most important
roles. He is responsible for the bomb attack on UNMIK police premises in
Pec carried out by SIK members at the beginning of 2003. After the dispute
with Hashim Thaqi and Xhavit Haliti, Syla left the K&M territory and
moved to Albania, from where he plans and organizes diversionary terrorist
activities to be carried out by SIK members in Kosmet. For the purpose
of coordinating their activities, he often illegally crosses the border
and stays in the territory of Pec, Prizren and Djakovica. He also coordinates
the organized crime network on the territory of K&M and FYROM, in connection
with the illegal import of weapons, ammunition and other equipment, as
well as with the procurement of the means necessary for the conduct of
terrorist activities. He procures weapons and equipment for diversionary
terrorist activities in Albania, Germany and Switzerland, and distributes
them, via Albanian territory, to K&M.
115. SHEMSI (Nebija)
SYLA, alias "Saca"
Born on July 1st, 1957, in the village of Bresaljce, Municipality of
Gnjilane. As a deputy commander of the KLA Karadak zone (within the Lab
zone, the 153rd brigade), in the Zlaš village, Municipality of Priština,
he was engaged in mobilizing individuals on the territory of the Gnjilane
and Vitina municipalities, which is why, at the beginning of 1999, he formed
the KLA auxiliary general staff in the village of Žegrovachka Vrbica, Municipality
of Gnjilane, in order to transfer terrorist activities and the promotion
of KLA to other regions where, until that moment, there were no armed conflicts.
Certain KLA members accused him of stealing the money (in the amount of
140,000 DM), which was set aside to finance the activities of the said
general staff. He personally organized and issued orders for the assassination
of Serbs, but also of Albanians who they believed had cooperated with the
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces.
Upon his orders, and in agreement with Florim Kllokoqi, now KPC member
in the Novo Brdo Municipality, a group of Albanian terrorists kidnapped
the members of the Bunjaku family (father Bislim and son Agim), from the
Bunjaci district, Municipality of Novo Brdo, and took them in the direction
of the Marevci village. The said persons are now listed as missing. Upon
his orders, a series of murders were committed in the villages of Poneš,
Paralovo, Straža and Cernica, in the Gnjilane Municipality, as well as
in Gnjilane itself. During 2000, he stayed, Together with Avdul Hasani,
from the village of Cernica, and Isa Agushi, from the village of Žegra,
in the region of the Preševo and Bujanovac municipalities and was an instructor
of LAPMB members, assisting in providing fighters, weapons, material and
financial means.
116. FADIL (Hajdar) SULJEVIC
Born on October 19th, 1965, in the village of Ravna Banja, Municipality
of Medvedja. A former employee of the Priština Secretariat of Internal
Affairs, now KPS member in the police station in Priština. In 1998, he
left the police force and joined the KLA, forming a unit on the territory
of Golak (region between Priština and Medvedja), with the intention of
carrying out terrorist acts. The aforementioned group whose members, among
others, were Hamdi Hiseni, Islam Mshica, Mehmet Alija and Baki Gashi, planned
a series of assassinations and diversionary terrorist actions in the Priština
region. In July 1998 Suljevic, together with his group, carried out an
attack in Priština on a military bus transporting employees to the Slatina
airport, at which time Slavica Aleksic and Dejan Gavrilovic were seriously
wounded as well as YA members, Branislav Kubatovic and Zoran Mirkovic.
Following the withdrawal of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and the YA forces from K&M, he took part in the expulsion of
the Serbian population in Priština, in theft, harassment and squatting.
He organized a robbery of the gas station in Priština, during which an
ethnic Serb employee was killed. Also, he is also connected with the murder
of over 15 Serbs in the Zlatare village, Municipality of Uroševac, Kemal
Shabani, a State Security employee in Priština, and Ramiz Mehmeti, from
the village of Ajkobil, Municipality Priština, as well as with the kidnapping
of Osman Sainovic, from Medvedja, Valon Mehmeti and Fitim Vrajolli. He
organized and ran a camp for Serb prisoners which was located in the Zlatare
hamlet, in the vicinity of the Matichane village, close to Priština. Beside
his activities in K&M, Suljevic joined LAPMB within which he carried
out a series of terrorist acts in the region of the Medvedja Municipality.
He heads one of the criminal groups involved in drug pushing, the sale
of stolen cars and excise goods in Priština, as well as in racketeering
and mediation in the purchase and sale of real estate between Albanians
and Serbs, with a
high commission rate.
117. EMRUSH (Nesim)
SUMA, alias "Hoxha"
Born on May 27th, 1974, in the village of Dimce, Municipality of Kachanik.
During NATO aggression on FRY, as a member of the 162nd brigade in the
operative zone of Nerodimlje, he took an active part in terrorist acts
in the Kachanik region. As a member of the secret police of Kosovo, together
with Rushit and Zeqif Bardhi and Mehmet Ballazhi, he took part in the forced
expulsion and murder of the non-Albanian population, and of the local Albanians
who refused to join KLA, after the withdrawal of the Serbian Security forces
from K&M. During 1999, the members of the aforementioned group killed
Emin Drenjani and carried out a terrorist act in which Ziber Curi, an Albanian
from Djeneral Jankovic, Municipality of Kachanik, was killed. After Curi’s
murder, KFOR arrested Suma, Mehmet Ballazhi and another terrorist, but
they were released after a few days under pressure by Albanian-organized
demonstrations. During the conflict of Albanian terrorists with the Security
Forces of the FYRepublic of Macedonia, Suma was engaged in collecting and
sending weapons and military equipment, as well as in recruiting and transferring
able-bodied Albanians to the region of the aforementioned country. After
the Ohrid agreement was signed in 2001, he moved to FYROM and joined the
General Staff of the newly formed terrorist organization, ANA, and at the
beginning of 2002, following an initiative of the top leadership, he was
appointed Deputy Chief of the bodyguards of Ali Ahmeti, the president of
the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), an Albanian political party
in FYROM. During 2002, he became one of the main organizers of smuggled
weapons, narcotics and excise goods from K&M into Macedonia. In March
of the same year, during one of his actions of weapon transfer, KFOR intercepted
the group of smugglers and, in the armed conflict which ensued, Suma was
seriously wounded. He was taken to the hospital in Priština for treatment,
but managed to run away. He is on the American "black list" of organizations
and individuals who have restricted access to financial aid, i.e., who
are forbidden to enter the US.
118. RUFKI (Ibrahim) SUMA
Born on April 15th, 1968, in the village of Dimce, Municipality of
Kachanik. At the beginning of 1998, following orders of the KLA general
staff in the Drenica region, he formed diversionary terrorist groups active
in the Djeneral Jankovic region. One of his groups organized a channel
to bring in weapons from FYROM into K&M, and Suma personally financed
its purchase and made decisions on its storage. When this group was arrested
by the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rufki Suma
managed to get away, but was sentenced, in absentia, to 10 years in prison.
After the Serbian Security Forces were withdrawn from K&M, he was one
of the organizers of the Serb exile from the Djeneral Jankovic region,
and he personally took part in organizing several assassinations in that
region. He was later appointed Commander of the KPC 163rd brigade in Vitina,
and is now, the commander of the KPC unit stationed in Djeneral Jankovic,
with the rank of major. During 2001 he organized collection of financial
means with the intention of providing aid to the LAPMB units in southern
Serbia and to NLA in Macedonia, and also personally participated in the
clashes with Macedonian Security Forces. Beside his terrorist activities,
he is also involved in criminal activities. Together with Emrush Suma,
from the village of Dimce, Municipality of Kachanik, he formed his own
criminal clan in 1999, which smuggled arms and drugs from FYROM to K&M
and in the opposite direction. They also extort money from the local companies
and wealthy individuals, as well as from the shippers whose trucks pass
through Djeneral Jankovic, The members of Suma’s clan are connected with
the criminal groups headed by Rustem Mustafa, aka "Remi”, from Podujevo.
119. ISMET (Mihedin) TARA
Born on August 6th, 1963, in Orahovac. With a group of his fellow fighters
from KLA, including Gezim Hamza, aka "Piktor", Gjelal Hajda, aka "Toni",
Selajdin Mulabazi, aka "Mici", and Sabajdin Cena, aka "Sosi", he formed
a special KLA unit, with the headquarters located in the village of Carevac,
in the vicinity of Orahovac. He is one of the organizers and perpetrators
in the armed attack on Orahovac on July 17, 1998, and a large number of
terrorist attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and the YA forces. In 1998, this earned him the appointment to
the position of the commander of the KLA 124th brigade in the operative
zone of Paštrik, whose headquarters were located in the village of Retimlje,
Municipality of Orahovac, at that time. With Sabajdin Cena, he is responsible
for a number of assassinations and crimes against the non-Albanian population
in Orahovac, when Albanian terrorists entered into this town in June 1999.
Also, together with Cena and Skender Hoxha, he was in charge of the camp
for Serb prisoners which, at one time, was located in Albania, two km north
from Trooper. After KPC was formed, he was appointed one of its top officials
for the Orahovac region and he personally seized a "Jugopetrol" gas station
for the needs of this formation. During the terrorist activities of LAPMB
in southern Serbia in 2000, he was involved in the illegal transfer of
weapons and military equipment to the terrorists. He is the leader of the
extremist Party of Justice for the Orahovac region.
120. GANI (Haxhija) THAQI
Born on January 1st, 1958, in the village of Brocna, Municipality of
Srbica. He is Hashim Thaqi’s brother. From 1992 onwards, he took part in
the attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Through his brother, Hashim, he made contact with Sami Lushtaku, Besim
Rama, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi, Adem Jashari and other terrorists. He
was appointed commander of the 112th brigade "Arben Halliti" which was
active in the operative zone of Drenica in 1998. He took an active part
in the terrorist actions against the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs and the YA forces. He is the owner of 12 gas stations
which now bear the name of Kosovo Petrol, formerly owned by Jugopetrol
and Beopetrol, and he holds a monopoly over the trade in oil derivatives
on the whole territory of K&M. Other gas station owners pay him the
licence "tax" and, in case they refuse, they become the targets of an armed
group of mercenaries personally controlled by Gani Thaqi. The group issues
a warning and then confiscates their goods and forbids them further operations.
His position in the oil and oil derivatives market is secured by Hashim
Thaqi who, also, and in the same manner, reaps huge financial profits.
121. HASHIM (Haxhija)
THAQI, alias "Gjarpni" ("Snake")
Born on April 24th, 1969, in the village of Brocna, Municipality of
Srbica. Following KLA’s demilitarization, he formed the DPK political party
whose president he has been from the beginning. In July 1997, he was sentenced,
in absentia, by a verdict of the District Court in Priština, to 10 years
in prison, for the criminal acts of terrorism, and in February 1998, a
central arrest warrant was issued in his name. As a member of the inner
circle of KLA, he took part in securing financial means for KLA, smuggled
terrorist groups into the country, was in charge of their diversionary
terrorist training and their armament. He completed his military training,
lasting a couple of months, in Albania, after which he was directly engaged
in a number of terrorist actions in K&M. He was a participant in the
attack on the railroad crossing in Glogovac, when four policemen were killed,
and three were seriously wounded. Also, on a number of occasions, he visited
the village of Klecka, Municipality of Lipljan, at the time when a group
of Serb civilians were imprisoned, abused and subsequently murdered there.
Even though he had secured his participation in the interim bodies of K&M,
he maintains his powerful influence over the most extreme structures of
the former KLA, which he uses with the intention of intimidating his political
rivals and applying pressure on the non-Albanian population to move out
of K&M. Towards the end of 2001, following Hashim Thaqi’s initiative,
a number of terrorist groups were organized, composed of former KLA members,
mainly from the Drenica region, whose activities he controls through Kadri
Veseli, the head of SIK, Sami Lushtaku, from Srbica, and others. A secret
armed group is also under his control and is responsible for a series of
crimes, murders, kidnappings and serious threats in the region of southern
Srbica, in the villages of Rudnik, Radiševo, Suvo Grlo, Banje, Kotore and
Kucica. The immediate supervisor of this group is Rexhep Selimi, from the
village of Ovcharevo, Municipality of Srbica, who is otherwise the head
of the KPC Academy. The members of the group are Musa Dervishaj, Zenun
Kadriju, Gjeladin Gecaj and others. Thaqi is in contact with Alli Ahmeti,
NLA commander in Macedonia, with whom he collaborates in transporting terrorists
from Macedonia into the territory of the Preševo and Bujanovac municipalities,
with the goal to carry out terrorist actions against the multi-ethnic police
checkpoints in certain villages, on a part of the administrative border
with K&M. He is also the organizer of a criminal organization, known
as the "Drenica Group", with a large number of his family members included
in it. The aforementioned group controls between 10% to 15% of the overall
number of criminal activities in K&M in connection with the smuggling
of arms, stolen cars, oil and, partially, cigarettes, as well as with prostitution,
the establishment and maintenance of connections with the members of the
Albanian, Czech and Macedonian mafia. Other than that, Thaqi’s sister is
married to Sejdija Bajrush, one of the leaders of the Albanian mafia. Thaqi
controls the greater part of organized crime in the region of Istok-Klina-Srbica-Priština.
His closest associate in the smuggling of stolen vehicles is Fadhil Thaqi.
With this, he is assisted by the Kitaj criminal clan. On the territory
of the Klina Municipality, Hamdi Thaqi is involved in organized prostitution,
while operations connected with the trafficking of drugs and with prostitution
are handled by Hashim Thaqi, together with his cousin Menduh Thaqi, and
Betush Zihugoli and Engel Shabani, aka "Angel". Through Menduh Thaqi, he
is connected with the illegal arms and oil trade. Along with Ekrem Lluka,
Fatmir Limaj, Flori Maloku and Ismet Osmani, Thaqi is one of the bosses
of illegal cigarette trade in K&M. Thaqi’s close associate in the organized
prostitution, narcotics and arms trafficking operations is Xhavit Haliti
who, among other things, is involved in intimidation, blackmail and elimination
of Thaqi’s political rivals. A considerrable part of the financial means
thus acquired is used by the Thaqi clan and channeled into the political
campaign for Hashim Thaqi, while the other part of the money is delivered
as aid to the Albanian terrorist groups.
122. AHMET (Alli) QERIQI,
alias "Shpat"
Born on December 26th, 1946, in the village of Krajmirovci, Municipality
of Lipljan. Since 1996, he was arrested on a number of occasions because
of his extremist activities. He was one of the top officials of the KLA
general staff in the village of Krajmirovci, Municipality of Lipljan. During
1998, he took part in organizing and carrying out terrorist attacks on
the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces.
Following orders from KLA, he traveled to Albania where, in the camps of
Vljor and Kruma, he completed his military training. On June 29, 1998,
in the village of Crnoljevo, Municipality of Štimlje, together with Ramiz
Qeriqi, Ramadan Beluji, Rahman Tafa and Sylejman Qeriqi, he took part in
the kidnapping of four ethnic Serbs (Veljko Bakrac, Ivan Bakrac, Stamena
Geno and another person). He was also a participant in the kidnapping of
the Albanian, Kadri Tafa, his son Sherif, then Gjem Fehmi, Emin Emini and
Elmi Qerkini. In November 1998, he was seriously wounded on his way back
from Albania, where he went with the purpose of purchasing and illegally
transporting weapons and ammunition. Following this incident, and due to
his medical condition, he stopped all terrorist activities and became active
in the fundraising activities for Hashim Thaqi’s DKP. In 1999, he was in
the position of the Deputy Commander of the KLA police in the Štimlje Municipality.
He is currently the owner of a private Union Bank in Lipljane. In the bank‘s
Managing Board, beside Qeriqi, there are also Fahrudin and Hizer Gashi,
both former KLA members. This bank is used for the laundering of the funds
acquired through drugs and weapons sales.
123. RAMIZ (Rexhep)
QERIQI, alias "Luan" or "Sokol"
Born on April 15th, 1962, in the village of Krajmirovci, Municipality
of Lipljan. At the beginning of the 90s, he was in Germany and was active
in the Albanian emigration circles. He completed his training for terrorist
activities in Skadar, Albania and, at the beginning of 1998, he joined
KLA terrorist activities in the municipalities of Lipljan, Štimlje and
Mališevo, where he carried out the duties of the commander of the KLA general
staff for the villages of Krajmirovci and Petraštica. Prior to arriving
in this region, he took part in the attacks against the members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces, in the village
of Prekaze. On June 22, 1998, he personally killed a policeman and wounded
another. Seven days later, together with Ramadan Beluli, Rahman Tafa and
Sylejman Qeriqi, he took part in the kidnapping four civilians and headed
the group which kidnapped, and later murdered, Agim Ademi, Ahmeti Veseli
and Adem Ramadani. The same group carried out the terrorist act in which
Miroslav Stanišic, a reserve police officer of the police station in Lipljan,
was wounded. He also headed the attack against the family of Fatmir Qerimi,
from the village of Glodjanac, Municipality of Štimlje, as well as the
action of kidnapping Tanjug’s journalists, Nebojsa Radoševic and Vladimir
Dobrichic. The kidnapped individuals were jailed into the previously dug
wells in the village of Klecka, Municipality of Lipljan. Towards the end
of 1998, he became the commander of KLA newly formed 121st brigade and,
following the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from K&M, he
was one of the top officials of the secret police of Kosovo. After KLA
was disbanded, he joined the LAPMB terrorist organization in south of Serbia.
Starting from 2002, he was engaged in the recruitment of the members for
the terrorist organization ANA, together with Bekim Zejnulahu and he maintained
contacts with Ajvaz Karpuzi and Rame Buja, as well as with former NLA members
in Macedonia.
124. SAMI (Brahim)
UKSHINI, nicknamed "Sokol"
Born on October 15th, 1967, in the village of Morina, Municipality
of Djakovica. Together with Sadri Avduli, he formed and led a terrorist
group that was active in the Djakovica region. The group numbered 35 members
and was armed with automatic and semiautomatic guns, mortars, heavy machine
guns and a cannon. In the course of 1998, it carried out a number of armed
attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
and the YA forces. He was deputy to Maliq Ndrecaj, Commander of the Kumanovo
operative zone, which included the 113th brigade, "Ismet Jashari", headed
by Kushtrim Hoxha.
125. AVNI (Beqir) FETA
Born on November 15th, 1974, in the village of Penduh, Municipality
of Podujevo. As the commander of KLA police in the operative zone of Lab,
in 1999, Feta, together with Sefedin and Jashar Ejupi, former policemen
of the Kosovo Secretariat of Internal Affairs, now members of KPS, from
the village of Sekiraca, Municipality of Podujevo, directly participated
in the murder of Srba Djukic, from the village of Glavnik, Municipality
of Podujevo, as well as in the terrorist attacks on Stanimir Dimovic, a
policeman of the police station in Podujevo. Together with Safet Hasani
and Blerim Blakqori, aka "Beni”, on December 21, 1998, in Podujevo, he
carried out a terrorist attack in which Milic Jovic, an operative of the
State Security Center of Priština was killed. Together with Avni Berisha,
aka "Tarkan", from the village of Konjuševac, Municipality of Podujevo,
and Rustem Mustafa, aka "Remi", from the village of Prepolac, Municipality
of Podujevo, Feta was a member of the group which, in this region, carried
out a number of terrorist attacks and, after the withdrawal of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs the YA forces from K&M, carried out ethnic
cleansing on the territory of the Podujevo and Priština municipalities.
After the arrest of Latif Gani, Feta was appointed head of the operative
zone within SIK and, together with Elmi Reqica, aka "Petrit", and Xhavit
Haliti, was one of the top officials of the secret police. He is currently
a member of the terrorist formation ANA active on the territory of K&M,
as confirmed by the fact that he is in possession of this illegal organization’s
ID card. UNMIK police has issued an arrest warrant in his name, for a number
of crimes committed in K&M, in the period following the arrival of
the international forces.
126. ADEM (Rust) HAGJOCAJ
Born in the village of Prekoluk, Municipality of Dechani. As a member
of the KLA group in the aforementioned village, Hagjocaj traveled illegally
to Albania, on a number of occasions, from where he transferred a large
amount of weapons necessary to carry out terrorist activities. Until August
1998, he took part, together with the terrorists from Glodjani, in the
abduction, torture and assassination of a large number of members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Serb civilians from the region
of the municipalities of Dechani, whose bodies were subsequently dumped
into the Radonjic Lake. Beside that, he is was one of the perpetrators
in the murder of a large number of Albanians from the Dechani Municipality,
amongst whom Muarem Hagjocaj, a member of the local security force in the
Prekoluk village.
127. ABIT (Ajet) HAZIRAJ,
alias "Ninja"
Born on June 26th, 1956, in the village of Lauš, Municipality of Srbica.
He was the commander of the 2nd battalion of the 113th KLA brigade, which
was active in the Drenica region. In July 1998, he headed a terrorist group
that kidnapped and subsequently murdered Cedomir Kandic, from the village
of Kotore, Municipality of Srbica, and burned down a number of Serb houses
in the same village. In November 1999, in the vicinity of the village of
Vitaka, he and Muhamet Haliti, aka "Naser”, kidnapped Dostana Smigic, from
the village of Leoccin, Municipality of Srbica, and took her to an improvised
jail in the village of Likovac, where she was subsequently murdered. In
May 2000, following the orders of Sali Veseli, accompanied with a financial
reward, Haziraj murdered Ekrem Rexha, aka "Drini", from Prizren. Because
of that, he was arrested by UNMIK together with his three accomplices and
his trial for this criminal act commenced at the beginning of 2003.
128. SADIK (Magjun) HALITJAHA
Born on June 7th, 1955, in the village of Mušutište, Municipality of
Suva Reka. Acting within the illegal organization NPK from this region,
Halitjah drew attention to himself as one of the most extremist members,
which is why criminal charges were brought against him, in 1986. In the
same year, he illegally travelled to Switzerland, where he was granted
asylum and joined the activities of the Albanian extremist immigration.
In addition to his engagement in the recruitment of young Albanians who
were sent to the diversionary terrorist training, and then to the KLA units
in K&M, in 1998, Halitjah, with a group of terrorists, arrived in K&M
from Albania, where he was immediately appointed commander of the KLA regional
general staff in the village of Budakovo, Municipality of Suva Reka. He
was an organizer of weapons and ammunition acquisition from Albania and
soon established a powerful terrorist organization, which placed a significant
part of the territory in this region under its temporary control. Under
his command, an illegal jail was established in the village of Budakovo.
As a member of the illegal "Eagle’s Eye" organization he was engaged in
controlling the operations and racketeering the night clubs and brothels,
in the region of Uroševac, Gnjilane, Glogovac and Prizren, in 1999. After
KPC was formed, Halitjaha was appointed head of the department for civilian
and military affairs, but was suspended in 2002. During the same period,
following the initiative of the KLA general staff, an Association of KLA
War Veterans was formed and Halitjaha was elected its president.
129. XHAVIT (Mehmet)
HALITI, alias "Bunny"
Born on March 8th, 1956, in Novo Selo, Municipality of Pec. In the
eighties, he was a member of the illegal extremist organization which,
in its manifesto, listed the secession of K&M from the Republic of
Serbia and its accession to Albania as its primary goal. Following the
unsuccessful attempt to arrest him in Priština, he resisted to, and in
the ensuing shooting, wounded a member of the State security, he fled to
Switzerland where he was granted political asylum. He became a member of
the top NPK leadership for the region of Western Europe and, as one of
the leading officials of the then KLA, he was a member of K&M delegation
in Rambouillet. He is a member of DPK and a representative in the Parliament
of Kosovo. At the beginning of 1991, he directly organized the illegal
delivery of a large quantity of arms and ammunition to the Pec region where,
as liaison officers, he used G¸zim Avdimetaj, from Streoce, Municipality
of Decani, the Elezaj brothers, from Radavac, Municipality of Pec, the
Camaj brothers, from Novo Selo, Municipality of Pec, and some others. Also,
he was connected with the organization of the diversionary terrorist training
of KLA members. In direct contacts with the top KLA officials in Switzerland
and Germany (Gafur Elshani, Jashar Salihaj, Emrush Xhemajli, Adem Grabovci,
Ibrahim Kelmendi, Muhamed Kelmendi, Hasan Ukhagjaj, Hakif Hoti and others),
he planned, managed and coordinated KLA activities in K&M and the Republic
of Albania, and upon orders from the organization, he occasionally stayed
in those regions, in order to strike deals on the distribution of weapons
and equipment to KLA members. In 1998, he personally stored a large amount
of arms in the region of Tropoje, Albania, and prepared a number of bases
to provide shelter for the terrorist groups which arrived in Albania from
K&M. After the international forces were deployed, he came to the Pec
region, to Vitomirica, where he built a plant for the manufacture of construction
materials. He holds the monopoly in that field, which brings him incredibly
high financial benefits. He held a significant role in the establishment
of the secret police in K&M, which was ready to assist the most extreme
terrorist groups in the Province, carrying out ethnic cleansing in the
Pec region. As the SIK director, he organized logistic support for the
formation of NLA in the FYRepublic of Macedonia and is also mentioned as
the man responsible for the establishment of OVIK. The Albanian press accuses
him of organizing the assassination of Muhamet Xhemajil, Ibrahim Rugova’s
advisor, as well as the top officials of the former State Security Service,
Selim Broshaj and Ibusha Kllokoqi. He is connected with the mafia in Albania,
as well as with the Albanian intelligence service. He usurps a part of
the funds acquired in an illegal manner for himself, while a part is used
to finance the activities of Albanian terrorists in K&M, southern Serbia
and FYROM. He is one of the central figures of organized crime in K&M.
He has an enormous capital and is involved in the racketeering and the
activities connected with drugs and protection. Also, he has a total control
over the districts of Vitomirica, which is situated 2 km north-east of
Pec where he has a number of residences (as well as in Kosovska Mitrovica,
Pec, Albania and Switzerland). He is the owner of a number of restaurant
and hotel facilities which he uses to launder the money, and which serve
him as a cover for the performance of various criminal activities. Following
the elections held on November 17, 2001, he was elected representative
in the assembly of K&M and, in March 2002, was named its vicepresident.
130. BUJAR (Rasim) HARADINAJ
Born on May 15th, 1976, in the village of Glodjani, Municipality of
Dechani. As a member of the armed formation which was active on the territory
of the operative zone of Dukadjin, he took part in over 87 assassinations,
29 kidnappings and set up a number of jails in the villages of Glodjani,
Belanica, Likovac, Jablanica and Smonica, Municipality of Prizren, in the
rape and sexual harassment of a number of individuals and in the destruction
of considerable property. Beside this, he is responsible for some 180 terrorist
attacks, among which armed attacks on the villages of Ljodja and Babaloc,
in the middle of 1998, as well as for the forced expulsion of the population
from the territory of Djakovica, Pec and Dechani, and for setting the church
in the village of Gornji Rašic on fire. He is the immediate perpetrator
of a number of armed attacks on the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and the YA forces. Together
with Agim Selmani and Daut Haradinaj, he took part in the attack on the
members of the army and police, in August 1998, in the vicinity of the
village of Šaptej, Municipality of Dechani, and headed a group of terrorists
in the attack against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
in the village of Jablanica, Municipality of Djakovica, as well as in the
attacks against the policemen and soldiers in the village of Glodjani,
in October 1998 and in the Dašinovac bridge, Municipality of Dechani in
November 1999. In addition to all this, he is connected with the smuggling
of arms to K&M.
131. DAUT (Hilmi)
HARADINAJ, alias "Cufi" or "Cripple"
Born on April 6th, 1978, in the village of Glodjani, Municipality of
Dechani. As a KLA member, he was seriously wounded in the conflicts with
the Serbian security forces and was left without an arm. Following an initiative
of the Ramus brothers, Daut and Shkelzen Haradinaj, at the beginning of
1998, he formed the KLA general staff in Glodjani, whose commander became
Ramush, and his deputy Daut Haradinaj who was subsequently named a member
of the KLA general staff and the commander of the 131st brigade "Isuf Grvala”,
whose members committed a large number of crimes in the Dechani region.
In the Glodjani prison, which was under direct control of Ramush and Daut
Haradinaj, a large number of Serbs were murdered, amongst whom Slobodan
Radojevic, Miloš and Milica Radunovic, Milka Vlahovic, Darinka Kovac, Novica
Vujišic, Zdravko Radunovic, Dragan Djukic, Miloje and Vinka Krstic and
others. Daut Haradinaj also directly participated in the murder of Slobodan
Prašchevic and the policeman Milorad Otaševic. He is also held responsible
for the crimes against the Serbs and Albanians loyal to the Republic of
Serbia, as well as those who could have been potential witnesses of the
crimes committed by the Haradinaj brothers. He is the direct perpetrator
of a number of assassinations, and he organized the assassination of Tahir
Zemaj, as well as a score of other political rivals of Hashim Thaqi. After
KPC was formed, he was the deputy commander and, afterwards, the commander
of the 3rd RTG. Upon KPC command, he was in charge of coordinating operations
with the Islamic terrorist organization Al Qaeda. In that capacity, he
organized a meeting with Muhamed Al Zawahiri, brother of the ideological
leader of the aforementioned organization Dr. Yaman Al Zawahiri in Sophia
in October 2001. He was suspended from KPC in 2001 because he was placed
on the American "black list" of organizations and individuals who, due
to terrorist activities, had restricted access to financial aid, i.e.,
who were forbidden to enter the US. Until his arrest by KFOR in July 2002,
he directly participated in the attacks on the security forces of the Republic
of Macedonia, together with NLA members, and he was also active in the
area of arms and drugs trafficking, as part of the criminal group led by
Ramush Haradinaj. He is accused of war crimes committed against Kosovo’s
Albanians in June 1999.
132. RAMUSH (Hilmi) HARADINAJ
Born on July 3rd, 1968, in the village of Glodjani, Municipality of
Dechani. Suspected to have committed criminal acts of terrorism, association
with hostile intentions and the murder of civilians, 108 criminal charges
were brought against him. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1989, after which
he joined the Foreign Legion in France. In 1996 he completed his diversionary
terrorist training. In Albania he took part in establishing the logistics
bases in Kuks and Tropoj which he later used, with a group of trustworthy
associates, to transport weapons to K&M. In mid-1997, he illegally
entered the country and, together with his brothers, Daut and Shkelzen,
organized terrorist attacks against the police department in the village
of Ranic, Municipality of Dechani, and the village of Ponoševac, Municipality
of Djakovica, and on the refugee camps in Junik and Babaloc. At the beginning
of 1998, in Glodjani, he formed a diversionary terrorist group which, following
his orders, intercepted and threatened the Serbs and Albanians loyal to
the Republic of Serbia. This group, headed by the Haradinaj brothers, attacked
a police patrol in the village of Glodjani, in which Miodrag Otovic was
murdered. In April of the same year, the terrorist group, led by Ramush
Haradinaj, established the KLA general staff in Glodjani for Metohija,
the members of which became his brothers Daut and Skeljzen, as well as
Hilmi Haradinaj, Faton Mehmeti, Rasim Haradinaj, Fadil Nimonaj, Maliq Ndrecaj
and others, while Ramush himself was engaged in the promotion and establishment
of local general staffs on the overall region of Dechani and Djakovica.
At the same time, on his initiative, a special KLA unit was formed in Glodjani,
called "Black Eagles", whose commander was Idriz Balaj, aka "Toger". Under
the leadership of Ramush Haradinaj, the "Black Eagles" kidnapped and brutally
murdered dozens of Serb civilians. A number of bodies were found in the
Radonjic Lake and village wells in the Dechani Municipality. After KPC
was formed, Haradinaj was appointed Deputy Commander of the commander of
KPC, Agim Çeku. Towards the end of 2000, he left KPC and established
the ABK party. In order to maintain his influence over KPC, he managed
to place his brother Daut as the commander of the 3rd RTG of KPC which
carries out the assassinations of Ramush’s political rivals. Haradinaj
also has close connection within the KPS structure, bearing in mind that
a large number of policemen and officers of this formation were active
in KLA at the time when Haradinaj was the commander of the KLA general
staff in Metohija. Ramush Haradinaj is the most influential criminal in
Metohija, in the region of Pec, Dechani and Djakovica. In cooperation with
Ekrem Lluka and Naser Kelmendi, he created a criminal organization which
controls the organized smuggling of drugs, cigarettes, oil, oil derivates,
weapons, vehicles and other goods. His close associates, Isa Balaj, Arton
Tolaj, Avdyl Mushkoli and Ali Haskaj, all from Dechani, are in contact
with the members of the Albanian mafia. A part of the acquired profit from
the criminal activities of Haradinaj and his criminal group was given to
KPC, and from the same source, a significant part of the financial means
was forwarded to Nazim Haradinaj, who supplied the Albanian terrorists
in Macedonia with weapons. He belongs to an influential family in the Pec
region, which has great rivals in the Rugova and the Musaj clan, which
traditionally aids Rugova’s DSK, and formerly had close connections with
FARK of Bujar Bukosi. On July 7, 2000, he was seriously wounded in the
village of Strelci, in the western part of K&M, which was a result
of inter-mafia conflict between the groups belonging to Hashim Thaqi and
Haradinaj and the Musaj family. Before and after that, a series of murders
were committed as a consequence of the blood feud among the warring clans.
In the second half of 2002, an investigation was launched and Daut Haradinaj
and a group of top KPC officers were arrested and sentenced to a number
of years in prison. Beside that, criminal charges were brought in the District
Court in Pec, against Ramush Haradinaj. Aiming to free his brother from
prison, Haradinaj, by the mediation of Avdyl Mushkoli, organized demonstrations
and initiated the formation of a group of some 30 people who attempted
to release Daut Haradinaj by force from the Dubrava prison, Istok Municipality.
In January 2003, Haradinaj organized the assassination of Tahir Zemaj,
a FARK commander, his son Enis and nephew Hysen, on the Priština–Pec road,
in the vicinity of a lumber plant, due to the fact that Zemaj was supposed
to be the crown witness in the proceedings against Daut Haradinaj and himself.
Following Ramush Haradinaj’s orders, Maliq Ndrecaj was sent to the Vitina
region, in order to organize the terrorist ANA, which proof of Haradinaj’s
involvement in the incidents in southern Serbia. He was especially active
in arms procurement and the secret training of terrorists from this region,
which was organized in the villages along the administrative border.
133. NAIT (Gjemajl) HASANI
Born on January 15th, 1965, in the village of Randubrava, Municipality
of Prizren. In 1997, he was sentenced to many years of imprisonment for
his terrorist activities. In 2002 he was granted amnesty. He is one of
the founders of KLA and worked for the unification of the terrorist groups
that were active at the beginning of the 90s. In connection with this,
he had direct contacts with Azem Syla, Rexhep Selimi, Sylejman Selimi,
aka "Sultan", Gjeladin Gashi, Zarih Pajaziti, as well as with Adem Jashari’s
group. Following his release from prison, he joined the DPK political party
in 2002 and was elected member of its presidium. However, due to misunderstandings
with the party’s leaders, he soon left the party.
134. SAFET (Rahman)
HASANI, alias "Breca"
Born on April 23rd, 1970, in Podujevo. As a KLA member of the Lab zone,
together with Avni Feta, from the village of Penduh, Municipality of Podujevo,
and Blerim Blakqori, aka "Beni", he participated in the assassination of
Milic Jovic, an employee of the State Security Service in Priština. Following
the withdrawal of the Serbian Security Forces from the territory of K&M,
Hasani conducted systematic ethnic cleansing of the Serb population on
the territory of the Podujevo Municipality. He took part in the kidnapping
of a number of ethnic Serbs in this region (for example Ivan Majstorovic).
Together with Isa Latifi and Fahri Jakupi, he murdered Srbislav Djukic
from the village of Glavnik. He was arrested on September 13, 2002, by
the members of UNMIK police and KFOR as he was accused of having participated
in the kidnapping his fellow citizens on the territory of Podujevo, in
the period between 1998 and 1999. For the aforementioned crimes, he was
sentenced to four years of imprisonment and is currently serving his sentence
in the Dubrava jail, Municipality of Istok.
135. XHABIT HASANI, alias
"Rakip"
Born on March 10, 1957, in the village of Tanuševci, Municipality of
Skopje, FYRepublic of Macedonia. He joined KLA in 1999, when he organized
the infiltration of volunteers into K&M, through the territory of the
village of Tanuševci. He had his own unit of KLA members. Following the
conflict in K&M, he bought and sold arms, pharmaceuticals and other
goods for the benefit of LAPMB and NLA. When NLA commenced its armed activities
in FYROM, he immediately became one of its commanders. However, he soon
left the formation and, with some 50 terrorists under his control, carried
out actions against the Macedonian police and army. He now smuggles cigarettes
and military equipment and is active in recruiting, financing and training
ANA members in the region of Uroševac, Vitina and Kachanik. He is Ramush
Haradinaj’s spokesman in FYROM. During 2000, he was promoted to the rank
of major. He was one of the organizers who also gave orders for the assassination
of the Serbs and Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia, as well as
for burning down Serbian houses and other property in the Vitina Municipality.
For the sake of founded suspicion of having committed the murder of a few
policemen, and of a construction inspector of the Cair Municipality in
FYROM, and following the request of the Government of FYROM, KFOR members
arrested Hasani in March 2000 in downtown Vitina and handed him over to
the international police forces in FYROM. He was soon released from prison,
in exchange for four Macedonian border policemen captured by NLA members,
after which he returned to Vitina. He is a member of the illegal "Free
Eagles" organization, which is know as "Leopards" in Vitina, which deals
in extortion and intimidation. Its members took part in a sudden attack
also on the Macedonian security forces in Tanuševci on February 16, 2001.
Hasani is closely connected with Skender Habibi, one of the main financiers
of ANA terrorist activities in the region of southern Kosovo. KFOR members
arrested Hasani again in the first half of 2002 for his criminal acts committed
in FYROM, as well as for crimes against the Serb population in K&M.
He was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the District Court in Gnjilane,
on June 21, 2002.
136. ZEQIR (Mehmet)
HAXHIJA, nicknamed "Cannon"
Born on April 16th, 1972, in Djakovica. He joined KLA ranks on the
territory of Djakovica in 1998, with a group of Albanian immigrants from
Switzerland, and was soon appointed one of the commanders of the 134th
brigade "Bedri Shala". At the same time, he was the leader of the "Black
Hand" terrorist group and, together with its members Hekuran Hoda, Nik
Pnishi, Nik Smajli, Esat Lata, Kujtim Shala and Anton Lekaj, aka "Pinco”,
and was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Milivoje Bukovic,
from the village of Raca, a policeman in the Djakovica Secretariat of Internal
Affairs, of the policeman Pashko Qerimi, from the village of Sopot, Municipality
of Djakovica, of Nua Qupi, from the village of Ujz, Municipality of Djakovica,
and of Zef Berisha, from the village of Zjum. After the demobilization
of KLA, he was appointed one of the top officials of the 3rd RTG of KPC
in Pec, but in mid-2001, upon Hashim Thaqi’s request, he was suspended
from that position for lacking enthusiasm because of a series of criminal
acts which he had committed. He was involved in making forged documents
referring to the privatization of certain socially owned companies on the
territory of the Djakovica Municipality, which he sold to interested parties
at extremely high prices, primarily to the members of the Albanian nationality.
In that manner, Haxhija sold the "Deva" company for 500,000 euros to Kolja
Komani, from the village of Žub, Municipality of Djakovica. He also squatted
in the house of Dmitar Obradovic, from Djakovica, where he opened a local
radio and TV station.
137. G¨ZIM (Sami)
HAXHIMUSA, alias "Shpingj" and "Piktori"
Born on February 21st, 1968, in the village of Dukanjevo, Municipality
of Uroševac. He was a courier for the KLA Commander of the General Staff
in the village of Jezerce, in charge of liaison with the persons from Uroševac
who were providing logistic support to KLA members. Later, he became the
commander of a special KLA unit in that region. Following the armed conflict
in K&M, he was one of the organizers and direct participants in the
ethnic cleansing of the Serbian population in the villages of Zaskok, Doganjevo,
Nekodim, Selo Varoš, Plešina, Grebno and Gatnje, in the Uroševac Municipality.
As a member of KPS, he was placed in the police station in Uroševac, but
he left this job due to medical reasons. However, he immediately joined
the illegal secret police of Kosovo for the region of the said Municipality,
and after ANA was formed, he joined its activities and is now the head
of the ANA general staff for the Uroševac region.
138. HEKURAN (Miftar) HODA
Born on February 18th, 1965, in Djakovica. Starting from 1992, he was
a member of the illegal general staff of the national defense in Djakovica,
headed by Mazlom Kumnova, Naser Zeka, Ilir Bitiqi and Bedri Cahani. At
the beginning of 1998, following orders of Mazlom Kumnova, Sokol Dobruna
and Aqifi Qehu, he formed a center for the recruitment of volunteers who
were subsequently taken to the Smonica and Jablanica villages, Municipality
of Djakovica, and the Glodjani village, Municipality of Dechani, where
strong KLA terrorist bases existed, and later he himself joined these groups.
He was appointed to one of the commander functions by Ramush Haradinaj,
and during June, July and August 1998, he led a number of terrorist attacks
against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs which resulted,
at the end of August 1998, in the criminal charges against him for the
criminal act of terrorism. In the spring of 1999, in the Djakovica region,
he formed a city guerilla, which was active in the Cabrat district, and
in April and at the beginning of May of that year, it carried out a few
terrorist attacks in which a number of civilians and three members of the
police and army forces were killed. After the Kumanovo Agreement was signed,
he organized a number of terrorist groups, which carried out kidnapping
and murder of the remaining members of the Serb and Montenegrin population
in Djakovica, among whom were Negovan Dedic, Zvezdan Mojsic, Budimir Baljoševic,
Staniša Milenkovic and Goran Stolic. He is also responsible for kidnapping
and murder of Milica Vekic and Desanka Ilic, from Djakovica. His closest
associates and accomplices in the aforementioned murders were Antun Lekaj,
aka "Pinqo", Baton Morina, Adnan Krasniqi, aka "Cipi", and Kreshnik Prtoli.
After KPC was established, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the 332nd
brigade in Djakovica. He abused his official position by usurping enormous
financial means from the humanitarian aid and used them to build a luxurious
hotel on Cabrat hill. Beside that, he is also the owner of the "Sini" radio
and television station. In September 2002, UNMIK police questioned Hoda
about his participation in the theft and extortion of money from wealthy
Albanians from Djakovica, after which he was fired from his top position
in the brigade of KPC. Fearing that the members of the International Security
Force would make him pay for the crimes he had committed, he fled to Albania
in 2002.
139. FATMIR (Shefqet)
HUMOLLI, alias "Baci"
Born on April 11th, 1965, in the village of Donje Ljupche, Municipality
of Podujevo. He is the president of the Governing Board of PMKL and a representative
in the Parliament of Kosovo, and is also active in KPC’s Lab RTG. In 1982,
as a member of the illegal organization "New Kosovo", he was arrested and
sentenced to three years in prison. After serving his sentence, he joined
the NPK organization and, when a number of its members were arrested, he
illegally fled to Albania and joined PMKL. In 1997, he was sentenced in
absentia, to 8 years in prison. At the beginning of 1998, he illegally
crossed the border and returned to K&M from Albania, where he was engaged
in the organization of a shelter for armed individuals who came from Albania
and their transfer to KLA units on the territory of the Podujevo Municipality.
During the same year, owing to his connections with Rustem Mustafa, he
became a member of the KLA general staff of the Lab general staff. Following
his and Rustem Mustafa’s orders, in 1999 and 2000, two terrorist groups
were formed: "BIA" (the group got its name from the first initials of the
killed terrorists Bahri Fazliu, Ilir Konjushevci and Agron Rahmani, its
headquarters were in Priština, in the Vranjevac district), whose task was
to carry out terrorist activities against the remaining Serb population
on the territory of K&M, and "Skifteri", in charge of applying pressure
on the non-Albanian population (the leader of this group was Ruzhdi Halili,
aka "Rudi", and its members were Behar Berisha, Nazif Metoli, nicknamed
"Tabut", Hilmi Veli, aka "Death", Haki Abazi, Aslan Sinani, Gani Koci,
Shefqet Murseli, Shaqir Beqiri, and the brothers Faik and Raif Arifi).
The members of the said group were connected with the assassination of
Kemal Shabani, a member of the Central State Security in Priština, Latif
Krasniqi, from the Mahovac village, Xhavit Shala, from Vranjevic, and Enver
Gjaki. The members of the "Skifteri” group murdered Miško Maršulovic, a
reserve officer of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and his brother-in-law,
Dragan, from Kruševac. The members of the "BIA" terrorist group were the
perpetrators of the terrorist attack on the Niš-Express passenger bus on
February 16, 2001, in the vicinity of the village of Livadice, Municipality
of Podujevo, when 11 people were killed and a number of ethnic Serb passengers
were wounded. Humolli is also connected with the murder of Milan Milovanovic
in the village of Dabovac, Municipality of Kuršumlija, and of planting
an anti-tank mine on the Kuršumlija-Prepolac passenger route in November
1999, when three members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were
killed, while 6 were seriously wounded. In 2001, he was elected a representative
to the Assembly of the Podujevo Municipality, as an ABK member but, at
the same time, he was engaged in the general staff of the 5th RTG of KPC.
At PMKL’s fifth session, held on July 29, 2001, he was elected president
of movement. At the last parliamentary elections in Kosovo, PMKL received
a single seat, on the list with Fatmir Humolli’s name.
140. SABAJDIN (Samedin)
CENA, alias "Sosi"
Born on March 13th, 1953, in Orahovac. He was one of the initiators
and organizers of the diversionary terrorist group in the Orahovac region,
at the beginning of 1998. As a member of KLA general staff for Orahovac,
he was one of those who decided to launch an armed attack on Orahovac on
July 17, 1998, and then to carry out kidnappings and assassination of dozens
of civilians of the Serb and Montenegrin nationality. Following the withdrawal
of the Security Forces of the Republic of Serbia from K&M, he entered
Orahovac with his terrorist formation. Then, upon his orders, Serbs and
Montenegrins were arrested, as well as some Albanians loyal to the Republic
of Serbia, of whom a certain number were killed. As the president of DPK
for the Orahovac region, he took part in the seizing of the local government,
at which time the private property of the Serb civilians was plundered.
Due to the crimes committed by KLA members in 1998 and 1999 against the
non-Albanian population in the Orahovac region, the members of UNMIK police
have been searching for Sabajdin Cena and Ismet Tara, also from Orahovac.
At the moment, both are at large.
141. AGIM (Hasan) ÇEKU
Born on October 29th, 1960, in the village of Cuška, Municipality of
Pec. A former YNA officer, now the Commander-in-Chief of KPC. He is married
to Dragica, a Serb. During the armed conflicts in Croatia, as a colonel
of the Assembly of the National Guard, he headed the unit which, towards
the end of September 1991, carried out kidnappings, assassinations and
massacres of 156 of the most renown Serbs from Gospic. In September 1993,
he took part in the attack of the members of the Croatian army on the Medak
Pocket, when 87 Serbian civilians were massacred. He was one of the key
participants in the planning of the "Storm" operation executed in August
1995. Together with Rahim Ademi, a general of the Croatian Army, he organized
the recruitment and transfer of the Albanians from Croatia to the KLA units
in 1997. In 1998, he was appointed chief of the KLA general staff and took
part in the planning and execution of terrorist acts aimed against the
members of Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces, as well
as against the non-Albanian population in K&M. After KLA was disbanded,
Çeku was named the Commander-in-Chief of KPC whose members, under
his control, channeled their terrorist activities towards the members of
the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs deployed in the security zone
in the municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, as well as against
the members of the army and police forces of the FYRepublic of Macedonia.
Following Çeku’s instructions, large amounts of arms, which were
at KLA’s disposal, were hidden in secret locations in K&M. Through
his brother Besim, after NATO’s bombing campaign, Agim Çeku controlled
the jails where Serb civilians were held, of which many were killed. Aiming
to better coordinate terrorist activities and provide more efficient logistic
support to the members of LAPMB, upon Çeku’s orders, this formation’s
headquarters were located in the main headquarters of RTG KPC Karadak in
Gnjilane until May 2001. From May to August 2001, in Agim Çeku’s
organization, certain KPC officers, primarily members of the "Black Eagles"
group, headed by KPC major Idriz Balaj, aka "Toger", took an active part
in the conflicts in Macedonia, within NLA units. At the beginning of 2002,
Çeku publicly denounced the arrest of the active KPC officers –
Latif Gashi, former Deputy Commander of RTG Lab, and Rustem Mustafa, former
commander of RTG Karadak, by UNMIK members, who were accused of committing
war crimes in K&M. Through his brother Ethem, he controls criminal
activities connected with the trafficking in arms, drugs and in the illegal
trade in excise goods in the Pec region, directly collaborating with Daut
Kadriovski and Rufat Musa. He is the owner of the "Sloga" company from
Priština that owns the Grand and Božur hotels, used as brothels, gambling
facilities and drug distribution centers. His business operations are handled
by Sylejman Selimi. He has some 60 shops throughout K&M. He is very
close to Rahim Ademi, Ramush Haradinaj, Adem Krasniqi, Murat Jashari, Shaqir
Shaqiri, Shefqet Musliu and Hashim Thaqi, with whom he controls all KPC
public and secret activities.
142. ETHEM (Demo) ÇEKU
Born on October 1st, 1962, in Pec. He was a member of the illegal organization
PMKL, which earned him a prison sentence. He initiated the establishment
of the extremist wing of the Parliamentary Party of Kosovo in Pec, promoted
KLA in the region and took part in the illegal transfer of arms. He received
and took care of the volunteers joining KLA from western Europe and their
illegal transport to the Drenica region, where armed operations were carried
out. He took part in the activities of the KLA general staff for the Metohija
zone whose commander was Ramush Haradinaj. In mid-1999, he was appointed
President of the Municipal Assembly of Pec. At the time when ABK was formed,
he was elected member of the Presidium and, during the election campaign,
he was the president of that party’s Central Election Commission. During
NATO’s bombing, Ethem and Besim Çeku commanded the camps, of which
one was situated in the Junik mountains, and the other in the village of
Dragobilje in the vicinity of Mališevo. The Serbs who were imprisoned in
these camps were forced to carry out hard physical labor in the Deva mine.
His criminal activities were carried out within the criminal organization
of Ramush Haradinaj and Ekrem Lluka, and the profit they acquired was used
to finance the activities of the Albanian terrorist groups which, from
the Pec region, were illegally transferred to southern Serbia and western
FYROM. He is currently in the position of minister of ecology and development
in the Government of Kosovo.
143. MUHAMET (Mahmut)
ÇERKEZI, alias "Çerkez"
Born on July 9th, 1979, in Priština. He belonged to the terrorist group
formed in the Obilic region, headed by Abedin Sogojeva and Sabit Lladrovci.
He was connected to the murder of the Rapajic family from Obilic, committed
on November 28, 2000, and he planted an explosive device in the restaurant
Kastelo, and is the main organizer of the destruction of the Miloš Obilic
monument in the downtown area of the same city. Beside his activities in
K&M, he joined LAPMB units in carrying out terrorist activities in
southern Serbia. He was arrested by UNMIK police, together with Bekim Berbatovci,
from Obilic, because he was suspected of being involved in the murder of
the Stolic family. Due to the lack of evidence, they were both released
from prison after 72 hours.
144. EMRUSH (Muharem) XHEMAJLI
Born on May 1st, 1959, in the village of Kamena Glava, Municipality
of Uroševac. Between 1981 and the outbreak of hostility in K&M, he
lived in Bien, Switzerland. Together with his brother Mustafa, he was an
initiator of the establishment of NMRK. When NMRK suddenly started losing
membership in 1991, the Xhemajli brothers formed an illegal extremist organization
NPK. As secretary of this organization, Emrush Xhemajli was especially
active in recruiting and organizing the transfer of the recruited Albanians
to the Republic of Albania for military training. Thence, after the completion
of the training, they were sent to join KLA units in K&M. He also took
part in the collection of financial means for the weapons and military
equipment acquisition for KLA needs. After his arrival in K&M in 1998,
he helped form KLA terrorist general staff in the region of the municipalities
Uroševac, Kachanik and Vitina. Following the deployment of international
forces in K&M in June 1999, he was appointed coordinator of NPK with
KFOR and UNMIK. At the beginning of 2000, together with Gafur Elshani,
he registered NPK as a new political party and became its president. After
LAPMB was formed, he maintained intense contacts with Junuz Musliu and
often stayed in the territory of the municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac
and Medvedja. In connection with this, as the president of NPK, he played
a decisive role in establishing ANA on the territory of Prizren and Dragaš,
and was also active in collecting financial means for the needs of this
terrorist formation. Xhemajli is a close associate of Ali Ahmeti and together
they planned NLA activities in FYROM. He was one of the main organizers
of the illegal transfer of this formation’s members to the training camps
in K&M, followed by their return to FYROM with the intention of carrying
out terrorist activities. Due to his connection with terrorist organizations,
he was placed on the American "black list" of organizations who have restricted
access to financial aid, i.e., who are forbidden to enter the US.
145. IDRIZ (Rizah)
SHABANI, alias "Luta"
Born on December 1st, 1958, in the village of Orlani, Municipality
of Podujevo. He is a retired YNA officer. He was a member of the general
staff of the operative zone of Lab, and later the commander of the 152nd
brigade called "Shaban Shala", with headquarters in the village of Burince.
After KLA was disbanded, he took a high officer position in the KPC general
staff where he carries out the duties of the department head in the 5th
RTG. He belonged to the terrorist group which was, for a while, led
by Zahir Pajaziti, and which carried out a number of terrorist actions,
among which the throwing of hand grenades on the Serbs from Croatia, situated
in the Djuro Djakovic high school building in Podujevo, the attack on the
refugee Serbs from Croatia situated in the former rest home of the Power
Industry, in the village of Batlava, the attack on Sredo Radovic and Stanko
Dimovic, members of the police station in Podujevo, the attack on Bejtush
Beka, an employee of the Central State Security of Priština, who later
succumbed and died because of the wounds, as well as the attack on the
building of the Department of Internal Affairs of Podujevo and the police
departments in the villages of Krpimej, Lužane and Orlani. Beside that,
in 1996, Shabani, together with the members of this terrorist group, carried
out a new attack on Sredo Radovic, he took part in the assassination of
a member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Miloš Nikolic, and
an employee of the Podujevo Municipality Dragan Rakic, from the village
of Velika Reka, in the village of Sukriš, Municipality of Podujevo. The
same group carried out an attack in 1997 on Radivoje Papovic, the rector
of the University of Priština. Beside the listed crimes, Idriz Shabani,
after the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from K&M, continued
to take part in a systematical ethnic cleansing of the Serb population
on the territory of the Podujevo and Priština municipalities.
146. BESNIK (Zenel) SHALA
Born on May 31st, 1974, in the village of Ozrim, Municipality of Pec.
He is one of the founders of the KLA branch in the region of the Drim district.
He belonged to a group of terrorists from the village of Lodja, composed
of Naim Gjuraj, from the village of Radavac, Naim Lushi, from the village
of Cuška, and Muhamet Demaj, from the village of Dobruše, in the vicinity
of Pec. This group committed a series of murders, kidnappings and issued
threats at the population from the region of the Pec and Istok municipalities.
In December 1998, Shalja took part in a terrorist attack on the members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, engaged in the protection
of the hospital where the wounded member of Shalja’s group was hospitalized.
On that occasion, a few persons were wounded. Beside that, he is one of
two perpetrators of the terrorist attack on a group of high school pupils
in the café "Panda" in Pec, on December 14, 1998, when 6 persons
were killed (Ivan Radevic, Dragan Trifovic, Ivan Obradovic, Svetislav Ristic,
Vukota Gvozdenovic and Zoran Stanojevic), while three young men were seriously
wounded (Mirsad Šabovic, Vladan Loncarevic and Nikola Rajevic). In January
1999, he tried to kidnap Smajl Mehmetaj, from the village of Ruhot, and
in July 1999, he took part in the attacks on the patrol of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the vicinity of the village of Lodja.
He is responsible for the assassination of several members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as for the assassinations of some
Albanians from the same village who had, allegedly, cooperated with the
Serbian police.
147. SHABAN (Beko) SHALA
Born on May 15th, 1961, in the village of Lodja, Municipality of Pec.
He graduated from the Military Academy and was a member of the Kosovo Secretariat
for Internal Affairs. Towards the end of 1994, he was sentenced for his
activities within the illegal Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic
of Kosovo. At the beginning of 1995, he was involved in the organization
of the diversionary terrorist training of KLA members in Albania. Upon
his orders, a number of Serbs were kidnapped and murdered in the Pec region
and the non-Albanian population was forcefully exiled. Shala was responsible
for issuing orders for the kidnapping of Velizar Stošic, from the village
of Belo Polje, Municipality of Pec, whose body was later found in the Radonjic
Lake. In one of the terrorist attacks carried out by the group headed by
Shala, the policemen Mirko Radunovic and Mile Rajkovic were killed, while
captain Srdjan Milovic was captured and, after torture, killed. He led
the KLA group in the village of Lodja, Municipality of Pec, which, in 1998
and 1999, on the outskirts of Pec, carried out a series of attacks on the
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was directly involved
in kidnapping of ethnic Serb and Montenegrin civilians in the wider region
of Lodja, of which some were murdered. From June to September 1999, he
carried out the duties of commander of KLA military police in Pec, where
he took an active part in the organization and execution of ethnic cleansing
of the non-Albanian population in the wider region of that Municipality.
After that, he was appointed chief of the Police Academy class in Vuchitrn
and subsequently transferred to the Pec region where, together with Gani
Hajdari, he carried out the duties of the instructor in charge of personnel
training for KPS needs. Ramush Haradinaj, through Shala, organized illegal
transfer of arms and military equipment from Albania, later stored in the
region of Dechani and Djakovica for ANA’s needs. In view of the fact that
Haradinaj’s terrorist and criminal organization is increasingly concerned
by the investigations conducted by the international forces in relation
with the crimes committed prior to, at the time of, and after NATO bombing,
it stands to reason that some of these arms might be used in terrorist
attacks on the members of KFOR and UNMIK.
148. SHABAN (Veli) SHALA
Born on December 1st, 1958, in the village of Negrovac, Municipality
of Glogovac. Because of his activities within the illegal organization
NMRK, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison in 1985. Within KLA, he carried
out the duties of the deputy commander for the Drenica region, and he was
later appointed commander of the 6th RTG, and then commander of the 1st
Drenica RTG in KPC. He is responsible for setting up illegal jails in the
village of Likovac, Municipality of Srbica, and in the village of Lapuštnik,
Municipality of Glogovac. In these jails, citizens of the Serb and Albanian
nationality which KLA suspected of having collaborated with the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs were tortured and killed. Commanding the 6th
RTG of KPC until October 2000, he ordered intensified terrorist attacks
and threats against the Serb population in the village of Pasjani, Municipality
of Gnjilane. Also, he advised Albanian citizens from the villages of Mucibaba,
Lipovica and Burince to move out of Gnjilane in an organized manner, in
order to create a clear area for the terrorist activities and the transfer
of arms into Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja. For carrying out these activities,
bases were formed under the control of the general staff of the 6th RTG
KPC. Together with Ramush Haradinaj, he is one of the main organizers of
drug trafficking in K&M. These activities are carried out together
with Bashkim Ibrahimi and Imer Tahiri, from Preševo, and a part of the
means acquired in this manner is used to finance LAPMB. He maintains close
contact with the former KLA member, Irfeta Spahiu, who was, in November
2000, investigated by the Norwegian members of KFOR for his connections
with illegal trade and prostitution of children and adults, as well as
trafficking in children and human organs. At the time his apartment was
searched, documents belonging to Shala were found, and it is suspected
that he personally had taken part in Irfeta Spahiu’s aforementioned activities.
149. NASER (Sadik)
SHATRI, alias "Ermal"
Born on September 23rd, 1957, in the village of Tomance, Municipality
of Istok. In October 1989, in Istok, he carried out an attack on Tomislav
Babovic, a member of the Serbian State Security, resulting in severe injures,
after which, via illegal channels, he left for Sweden where he was granted
political asylum. He was sentenced, in absentia, by the District Court
in Pec, to 12 years of imprisonment. Beside playing a significant role
in the promotion of terrorist activity among the Albanian emigration in
western European countries, asking them to support the terrorist activities
of Albanians in K&M, Satri, in 1997 and 1998, via Albania, arrived
in the region of the Dechani Municipality, where he got in touch with Ramush
Haradinaj and joined the organization of diversionary terrorist training
of KLA members. In that period, he was appointed commander of KLA in the
village of Prilep, Municipality of Dechani. At the beginning of 1999, following
a suggestion by Haradinaj, he was appointed assistant commander of the
brigade for military police issues and took part in terrorist attacks on
the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces
in the region of the Istok Municipality where, in an ambush, together with
Ziguran Shatri, from the Tomance village, Municipality of Istok, he killed
the policeman Selim Adovic. Following the withdrawal of the Serbian Security
forces, he formed an illegal terrorist group, made up of former KLA police
members, whose task was to murder and exert pressure upon non-Albanian
population. This group committed a number of murders, among which, that
of Momchilo and Sreten Pumpalovic from Istok, who were abused and tortured
before they were killed. He organized and ran the jails where Serbs and
Albanians were held in the penitentiary facility of "Dubrava", in the vicinity
of Istok.
150. XHAFER (Demo) SHATRI
Born on November 10th, 1949, in the village of Tomanci, Municipality
of Istok. As a highschool student, he was sentenced several times for his
extremist and separatist activities. Because of his attempt to organize
an armed rebellion in K&M in 1975, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
His sentence was extended for another three and a half years because, in
the meantime, he had committed another criminal act. In February of 1982,
he ran away from jail and via Albania fled to Switzerland where he was
granted political asylum. For a number of years, Shatri had, despite formally
being a DSK member, consistently kept in contact with the leading extremists
from NMRK, taking part in the planning of their operations and in his public
appearances he openly supported aggressive methods, such as diversion,
assassinations and the like. He established a close connection with Bujar
Bukoshi, who appointed him minister of information of his Government in
exile. In 1998, the Swiss police confiscated the personal computer, the
diskettes and written documents from Shatri’s office and arrested two of
his associates on the charge of illegal purchase of arms for KLA. During
that year, but in 1999 as well, Shatri organized the transfer of technical
equipment to K&M, which is why he visited Albania on a number of occasions
and, illegally, Kosovo and Metohija as well. Following NATO’s bombing,
he returned to K&M where, on the basis of his instructions, repressive
measures were employed against the Serb population, which led to ethnic
cleansing in the Istok Municipality. His position was compromised by his
collaboration with Bujar Bukoshi, since both were accused of misusing and
embezzling 8 million DM, which is part of the means the Albanian emigration
from western Europe collected for the needs of Albanian extremists in K&M.
Dissatisfied with the treatment, especially by Hashim Thaqi, he returned
to Switzerland in the second half of 2002 and became one of the top officials
of the central headquarters of the illegal terrorist organization "Ideali",
whose members are gradually joining KPC.
151. MUSTAFA (Shaqir)
SHAQIRI, alias ‘Commander Shpejtim"
Born on March 25th, 1967, in the village of Oraovica, Municipality
of Preševo. He was one of the initiators for the establishment of LAPMB.
As a distinguished member of this organization, besides carrying out activities
intended to supply arms to the members of LAPMB, Shaqiri took part in the
terrorist attacks against the security forces in the region of the Municipality
of Preševo. In October 2000, he was appointed commander of the 113th brigade
"Emin Fejzulahu", which was located in this region, commanding armed actions
against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the
YA forces, until May 2001. Following LAPMB’s demilitarization, for the
needs of NLA members, he saw to it that a part of the weapons be transferred
to the territory of Macedonia.
152. SHAQIR (Ismaill) SHAQIRI
Born on September 1st, 1964, in the village of Depci, Municipality
of Preševo. As the organizer and initiator of the activities of the illegal
"Bajram Curi" organization, Sachiri was sentenced by the District Court
in Vranje in 1982 to six years in prison, of which he served four in the
Leskovac jail. He was supported by the majority of the Albanian extremists
from K&M and abroad, and especially distinguished himself during NATO’s
bombing of FRY. At that time, he maintained direct contacts with KLA leaders
Hashim Thaqi, Ramush Haradinaj and other terrorist leaders. He was the
main organizer of weapons, ammunition and medical acquisition, which he
distributed to KLA members. He is a participant in the illegal transport
of Albanian citizens from K&M to the Republic of Albania, where they
were trained for carrying out terrorist actions. Following the deployment
of the international forces in K&M, he became the deputy commander
of the 6th RTG of KPC for the Gnjilane region. However, after six months,
he was suspended by Bernard Couchner’s decision, the then head of the UN
civilian mission in K&M. He is one of the main organizers of the establishment
and activities of LAPMB, where he was in favor of intensified terrorist
activities in the region of the Preševo and Bujanovac municipalities. During
2000, in the region of the Preševo Municipality, he maintained his command
structure through which terrorist activities against the Serbian security
forces were realized. On a number of occasions, he called attention to
his extremist views and beliefs, particularly at the meetings with the
members of the international community, regarding the demilitarization
of LAPMB, which earned him six months imprisonment in the American Bondsteel
base, in the vicinity of Uroševac. He played a significant role in the
establishment of a new political group of Albanians – PDP, consisting mainly
of former LAPMB members. He is currently the unsurpassed authority on the
extremist separatist policies in southern Serbia. His views are expressed
in the Association of War Veterans of the former KLA terrorist organization,
where he is deputy president.
153. ADEM SHEHU
A former officer of the Albanian Army, he actively participated in
the training of Albanian terrorists in the camps throughout Albania. After
his arrival in K&M in June 1999, he became one of the top KLA officials
in the operative zone of Lab, the commander of the 153rd brigade, which
was active in the Golaka region and along the Priština – Leskovac route,
i.e., in the villages of Kacikol, Graštica, Kolic and others. He maintained
extremely close contacts with Sejdi Veseli and Rustem Mustafa, aka "Remi”,
the then commander of the Lab operative zone. On August 31, 1999, in the
village of Zebnica, the members of the group commanded by Shehu murdered
Dragan Peric, from Grachanica, Siniša Markovic, from Badovac, and Jovanovic
N., from Sušica. Also, this group kidnapped Milorad Popovic and was responsible
for the kidnapping of Slaviša Stevic, from Badovci, and Predrag Mikic,
aka "Prota”, from Sušica. After the Kumanovo agreement was signed, KLA
general staff in the Lab operative zone, where Shehu was located, made
a decision on forming illegal terrorist groups, in charge of ethnic cleansing
in the region of the Podujevo and Priština municipalities. At the beginning
of December 2000, Shehu returned to Albania, where he continued with his
activities within FNUA and ANA, as its military wing.
154. ELBASAN SHOSHAJ
Born on December 12th, 1963, in the village of Leskovac, Municipality
of Priština. He was the KLA commander for the villages of Poslište, Biluša
and Ljeskovac in 1998. He personally took part in a number of assassination
of the non-Albanian population, together with Gjimshit Krasniqi and Besim
Shala. They received written and oral commands for the assassination of
the Serb population from the so-called court martial, headed by Sokol Dobruna,
from Djakovica, and Ilaz Kadolli, from Suva Reka While he was carrying
out his tasks of the deputy head of the counterintelligence service, and
following the orders of his superior, Skender Berisha, he committed a few
assassinations and exiled a number of Serbs and other non-Albanian citizens,
and kidnapped and harassed the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs. He is a participant of the massacre committed on January 11, 2000,
of the Skenderi family in the Prizren’s district of Tusus.
155. BEKIM (Vesel)
SHUTI, alias "Niku"
Born on May 1st, 1976, in the village of Osljani, Municipality of Vuchitrn.
He was the commander of the special KLA unit in the operative zone of Shala.
at the beginning of May 1999, this unit, numbering 40 trained members,
kidnapped Ljubomir Kneževic, from Vuchitrn, the correspondent of the dailies
"Politika" and "Jedinstvo" from the said city. Kneževic was taken to the
headquarters situated in the Osljani village, where he was tortured, and
subsequently murdered. Also in May 1999, the same group murdered Miroslav
Spiric, the driver of the president of the municipal assembly of Vuchitrn,
and in June of the same year, Shuti personally killed Milorad Avramovic,
from the village of Osljani. Following the withdrawal of the Serbian security
forces, Shuti, with the entire unit, forcefully entered into 40 Serb apartments
in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, and when UNMIK police members
tried to evict some of the illegal Albanian tenants, he organized the members
of his unit to prevent that action, threatening the use of explosives.
In 2001, together with Ronald Bartetsky, he took part in the murder of
an employee of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Aleksandar Petrovic,
the head of the passports department in the liaison office with UNMIK in
Priština. However, for this murder, an attempted murder and terrorism,
only a German citizen, married to the sister of Bekim Shuti, was sentenced.
For a time, Shuti was engaged as the commander of the KPC guard unit in
Priština, and is currently holding one of the top positions in KPC in Kosovska
Mitrovica.
156. MET (Sefer) SHUTI
Born on October 3rd, 1944, in the village of Osljani, Municipality
of Vuchitrn. Until 1989, he was an employee of the Secretariat of National
Defense in Vuchitrn. Shortly after KLA was formed, he became a member of
the general staff for the operative zone of Shala, in charge of training
the new members. He took part in kidnapping and murder of Ljubomir Kneževic,
"Politika" correspondent from Vuchitrn and, toward the end of February
1999, in the murder of the brothers Milan and Marko Miloševic, in front
of their house in the village of Bukoš. He is currently engaged in the
general staff of the 4th RTG of KPC in Kosovska Mitrovica, with the rank
of lieutenant colonel.
