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 memb
