Kosovo's 156 lawless Biographies of the men in the KLA Albanian-dominated Serbian province of Kosovo By Serbianna
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, 1963, in the village of Ljubižda,
Municipality of Orahovac. As the fund manager of the so-called Committee
for Financing the Republic of Kosovo, he made contacts with members of
the NPK illegal organization "Bali Kombetar", PNDS and others. At the
beginning of 1998, together with Fatmir Limaj, Gani Krasniqi and Skender
Krasniqi, he founded a KLA unit for the region of Mališevo and, as one
of the commanders of the 122nd KLA brigade, took part in the attacks on
the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA
forces, as well as on the Serb and Albanian civilians. He committed
terrorist acts in coordination with Jakup Krasniqi, Rame Buja, Sokol
Bashota and Sylejman Selimi. Together with Limaj, he organized the
assassination of a few dozen ethnic Serbs and Montenegrins at the
infamous execution site in the village of Klecka, Municipality of
Lipljan. After the Kumanovo Agreement was signed, following orders of
DPK top officials, he was engaged in taking over the local authorities
and was the head administrator in Mališevo. He is the president of that
party’s branch in Mališevo. 66. ANTON (Ton) KITAJ
Born on April 20th, 1978, in the village of Budisavci, Municipality
of Klina. In 1998 he joined the terrorist group which, together with Pal
Merditaj, was led by his brother Gjon, aka Vilson (born on April 2nd,
1976). They carried out their tasks as members of the 112th brigade,
commanded by Gani Thaqi. The Kitaj brothers, even prior to the
establishment of KLA, were well known as individuals prone to criminal
activities, i. e., they were involved in blackmail, arms smuggling,
theft, robbery and the like. On May 19, 1998, the group they belonged to
killed Dalibor Lazarevic, a minor from the village of Veliko Kruševo
and, in August 1998, they kidnapped Barllec Colij and his son Niko, from
the village of Zlokuchane. They continued their criminal activities
after the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK to K&M, cleansing the
non-Albanian population, looting and burning the houses and destroying
the graveyards in the villages of Naglavke and Budisavci. On June 19,
1999, the Kitaj brothers, Anton and Gjon, killed the brothers Radosav
and Dušan Dašic, from the village of Rudice, Municipality of Klina. With
their group, on July 19th 1999, they kidnapped the monk, Stefan
(Gradimir Puljic), from the monastery of Budisavci and Vujadin Vujovic, a
teacher from the village of Stup, Municipality of Klina, whose bodies,
together with the bodies of 20 other Serbs, were later found in a well
in Istok. Gjon Kitaj also killed Zorka Šiljkovic, from the village of
Rudica. In June 1999, the same group kidnapped a number of persons whose
destiny remains unknown. They are: Mihajlo Dašic, his sons Milutin and
Dragan, and Jovanka Dašic, all from the village of Rudica, Municipality
of Klina, and Milena Doncic and her son Ilija, Cveta Djordjevic, from
the village of Bic, as well as Radivoje, Jovana and Radojica Vidic, from
the village of Klinavac, Municipality of Klina. Anton Kitaj, together
with his cousin Frok Kitaj, following orders by Naser Shatri, in July of
2000, kidnapped and later killed Shaban Manaj. The Kitaj family, headed
by Anton and Gjon, is one of the leading criminal groups that controlls
the area between Klina and Istok. Armed members of this family, posing
as members of ANA, control all persons moving through the area, ask for
their ID cards. They are also involved in the trafficking of arms and
stolen vehicles. 67. FADHIL (Shaqir) KODRA
Born on November 19th, 1965, in the village of Donje Prekaze,
Municipality of Srbica. Due to his participation in a number of
terrorist acts against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and YA forces, he was sentenced, in absentia, to 20 years in
prison in 1997. Towards the end of 1998, together with Sami Lushtaku, he
performed the function of a Deputy Commander of the 112th "Fehmi
Lladrovci" brigade, in charge of leading the military, special and local
police forces. After that, he became commander of the special units for
the operations zone of Drenica. Towards the end of August 2002, the
members of the international forces in K&M searched his house in the
Kodra district, the village of Donje Prekaze and discovered firearms
and ammunition. He is connected with the members of the Drenica criminal
group, headed by Hashim Thaqi. He is currently at the post of the
Commander of the Information Division G-2, within the 4th RTG of KPC. 68. ARIF (Qamil) KRASNIQI, aka "Mujo"
Born on April 9th, 1971, in the village of Sibovac, Municipality of
Obilic. In Germany he joined an extremist emigrant organization and made
contacts with the members of the illegal organization PMKL. He arrived
in K&M in 1998 and became one of the top KLA officials. In the
region of Cicavica he formed a terrorist group called "Hakaret". He took
active part in the kidnapping of Dragan Vukmirovic, Zoran, Dušan and
Petar Adžandžic, Filip Gojkovic, Marko Buha, Miroslav Trifunovic,
Srboljub Savic and Božidar Alimpic, an employee of the Belacevac mine on
June 22, 1998, as well as of Žarko Spasic, who was kidnapped on May 14,
1998. 69. GANI (Selman) KRASNIQI
Born on November 23rd, 1950, in the village of Crni Lug,
Municipality of Klina. He is one of the founders of the illegal
organization PNDS for the area of Mališevo, Municipality of Orahovac. As
the commander of the 122nd KLA brigade, within the operative zone of
Paštrik, with the headquarters in the village of Mališevo, he organized
groups that committed terrorist acts. In July 1998, he took part in the
kidnapping of some 50 persons from the territory of Orahovac, who are
believed to have been killed and thrown into the limekiln in the village
of Klecka, Municipality of Lipljan. The unit Krasniqi commanded
performed its tasks in coordination with Fatmir Limaj’s unit, and
Krasniqi’s closest collaborators at that time were Hisni Kilaj, from the
village of Ljubižda, Municipality of Orahovac, Sokol Bashota, from
Cerovik, Municipality of Klina, Alush Agushi, from the village of
Drenovac, Municipality of Klina, Fadil Gashi, from Cupevo, Hallit
Krasniqi, from Iglarevo, Gjemal Gashi, aka "Cerman”, from Grebnika, and
others. After the withdrawal of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
and YA forces from the territory of K&M, Krasniqi, leading his
group, continued terrorist activities, intercepting vehicles, kidnapping
and murdering ethnic Serbs. At the same time, as a member of Hashim
Thaqi’s DPK party, he was elected president of the Municipality Mališevo
at the first elections. 70. GJIMSHIT (Riza) KRASNIQI
Born on December 12th, 1963, in the village of Leskovac,
Municipality of Prizren. He was the main perpetrator of the terrorist
acts in the region of Prizren from 1994, as a member of the terrorist
organization PMKL. Following orders from PMKL, he formed a terrorist
group in 1996 and, at the time of the attempt to arrest him, in March
1998, he managed to escape to Albania. Together with Xhevat Berisha and
Hajrim Çengaj, he formed KLA headquarters in the village of Jeskovo,
Prizren, and became one of the top officials of the headquarters. He was
engaged in organizing the training and illegal transfer of arms. In the
clash with a patrol of the YA forces and of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs, in July of 1998, his group killed the YA officer,
Bojan Denic, and seriously wounded the policeman Rustem Agushi. During
the armed conflict, Krasniqi carried out oral and written commands of
KLA so-called Court Martial responsible for the assassination of ethnic
Serbs and for the destruction of their property on the territory of
Prizren. The aforementioned court martial was headed by Sokol Dobruna,
from Djakovica, and Ilaz Kadolli, from Suva Reka. Beside Krasniqi, the
group for the assassination of the Serbs also included Elbasan Shoshaj,
from the village of Leskovac, and an individual who goes by the nickname
of "Uli". Krasniqi, among other things, is responsible for the
assassination of Sezair Skenderi’s family of four, from Prizren.
Following the establishment of KPC, he was promoted to one of the top
positions for the territory of Prizren and, at the same time, he was in
charge of the so-called Secret Service of Kosovo on the same territory,
responsible for ethnic cleansing and assassination of the members of the
local Serb and other non-Albanian population. The top KPC officials
placed him in charge of illegal transfer of arms and other military
equipment from Albania for the needs of ANA in FYROM and in southern
Serbia. At the beginning of 2002, he was arrested by KFOR and spent some
two weeks in detention.
71. EMIN (Hazir) KRASNIQI
Born on July 15th, 1957, in the village of Dajkovac, Municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica. He is a DPK representative in Kosovo’s Parliament.
In 1981 he formed, on the territory of the Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica, the illegal "Albanikos" group, which earned him a prison
sentence of 14 years in prison, of which he served nine. As a KLA
member, he completed his military training in Albania and, after his
return to K&M, he participated in the conflicts with the members of
the YA and the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Karadak zone
of operations. Following the withdrawal of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs and of YA forces from K&M, as KLA’s commander for
the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, he was the one who issued orders
for the forced expulsion of the non-Albanian population from this
Municipality. Later, he became one of the top officials of the 6th RTG
of KPC, with the headquarters in Gnjilane. During the time of LAPMB’s
activities on the territory of southern Serbia, Krasniqi organized young
Albanians and sent them to this organization. Ridvan Qazimi, aka
"Commander Leshi", stayed in his house in the village of Dajkovac, for a
long time and made daily trips to the "security zone". Because of the
authority he has over Hashim Thaqi, Krasniqi controls certain criminal
activities (arms smuggling and racketeering), coordinating, at the same
time, the appearance of ANA members on the territory of Kosovska
Kamenica Municipality. 72. JAKUP (Januz) KRASNIQI
Born on January 1st, 1951 in the village of Nergovac, Municipality
of Glogovac. Sentenced in 1982 for his activities within NPK. He is one
of the ideologists and founders of KLA on the territory of Drenica and
of the unit called "Plumbi" ("Dove"), which he commanded. In the KLA
general staff for K&M he was a spokesman and a member of KLA’s
political directorate for K&M so that he was acquainted with the
activities of the KLA members in the field of kidnapping,
assassinations, physical abuse of Serb population and with other
activities. He took part in organizing and kidnapping of ethnic Serbs
from Orahovac during the month of July 1998, in their maltreatment, rape
and massacre in the village of Klecka, where the charred remains of
their bodies were found. Beside this, he directly participated in the
attack on the village of Iglarevo, Municipality of Klina. He is now
secretary general of Hashim Thaqi’s DPK and the minister of public
services in the Government of Kosovo. 73. SKENDER (Nezir) KRASNIQI
Born on January 29th, 1959, in Orahovac. As a volunteer from
Germany, he joined the KLA units in K&M in 1998 and became the
Commander of the 122nd KLA brigade for a few villages in the Paštrik
zone of operations. His family estate, in the village of Vojnik, was
used as the headquarters of that brigade and as one of the secure places
for sheltering volunteers and arms. The aforementioned brigade was
enlarged when a terrorist group from the village of Drenovac, which was
later named "Gani Paqarizi", joined them in August 1998. As a member of
the 122nd brigade, commanded by Gjelal Gashi, aka "Djerman", while its
police was headed by Fatmir Limaj, Krasniqi committed a number of crimes
on the territory of Orahovac and Mališevo against the Serbs and the
Albanians who refused to join KLA. on May 17, he took part in the attack
on the police and army forces in the vicinity of Orahovac 1998 and in
the kidnapping of 50 Serbs and Montenegrins from that territory. They
were subsequently tortured and murdered on a hill over the village of
Zatric, Municipality of Orahovac. He is also responsible for the murder
of Hasan Morina, from the village of Senovac, Muram Rustemi, from the
village of Drenovac, Hidaj Popaj, from the village of Bela Crkva and
Hisen Krasniqi, from the village of Danjane, as well as for the attack
on the village of Bela Crkva and the murder of Sveta Tomic, the director
of Jugobanka from Djakovica (the direct perpetrators of this crime were
Isuf Gashi, Bedri Zuberaj and the members of Gani Paqarizi family).
Together with Enver Hoti, from the village of Crni Lug, Municipality of
Klina, he was accused of kidnapping and murdering of Branko Staletic and
his son Ranko, from the village of Mlecani. He is currently one of KPC
commanders for the territory of Mališevo. 74. BAJRAM (Nevzad) KRYEZIU
Born on January 30, 1955, in the village of Rogacica, Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica. As a member of the KLA general staff for the
Karadac zone, and the KLA commander for the village of Rogacica, he was
one of those who issued orders for the assassination and kidnapping of
the Serbs on the territory of the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica. He
organized the murder of Stojan Tasic, from the village of Carakovac and
of the policeman Trajan Trajkovic, from the village of Kololac,
Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, while the actual perpetrators of the
crime were members of his terrorist group acting on the territory of
this Municipality. Beside that, he organized and executed terrorist
attacks on police checkpoints in the village of Konculj, Municipality of
Bujanovac, and planned a series of terrorist attacks on the police
stations in Bujanovac and Preševo. Following the withdrawal of the
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces
from the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica in July 1999, he organized a
parade of the KLA members in the villages inhabited by the Albanian
population, aiming to demonstrate the power of this organization. After
KPC was formed, he became the spokesman for the 6th RTG in Gnjilane and
was also in charge with the coordination of cooperation with the members
of the international community on the territory of the Municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica. As a lieutenant colonel of KPC, together with the
members of ANA, he carefully watched the terrain in the Municipality of
Bujanovac and followed the activities of the police force, with the
intention of carrying out new terrorist attacks in that region. 75. MAZLOM (Alija) KUMNOVA
Born on March 17th, 1946, in Djakovica. In October 1993, he was
sentenced to five years imprisonment by the District Court in Pec. On
August 25, 1998, criminal charges were brought against Kumnova and 97
members of the terrorist group from Djakovica by the district public
prosecutor’s office. At the beginning of the 90s, together with Bajram
Mehmeti, Nasim Zeka, Nur Murtezi and Lulzim Shasivari, he was engaged in
the organization of Albanian paramilitary units thus forming an illegal
national defense headquarters where he performed the duties of a deputy
commander of the headquarters, in charge of the rear lines and
finances. In the terrorist base in the village of Jablanica, he was
engaged in the formation of a city guerilla and, together with Sokol
Dobruna, he organized the illegal transfer of a large number of arms and
other military equipment from Albania. In April and May 1999, on the
territory of Djakovica, in the Cabrat settlement, following his direct
instructions, Hekuran Hoda and Abdulah Babalija committed a number of
criminal acts in which three member of the police and army forces were
killed and a dozen suffered slight wounds. After the arrival of KFOR,
Kumnova proclaimed himself to be the "first mayor of liberated
Djakovica". He is currently the president of ABK branch in the same
city. 76. MIRSAD (Jusuf) KURTESHI, alias "Dubula"
Born on July 1st, 1975, in Priština. He was one of the most active
KLA members in this city. As a member of the terrorist group headed by
Abedin Sogojeva, one of the top officials of the KLA secret police for
the Obilic region he took part in the massacre of seven ethnic Serbs in
the village of Mazgit, Municipality of Obilic in June 1999 and in the
destruction of a dozen or so Serb houses in Obilic in November of that
same year. Between 1999 and 2000, he was involved in the terrorist
activities of the group headed by Arif Krasniqi, aka "Muja". He took
part in the murder of the Rapajic family from Obilic, on December 28,
2000, together with Kadri Sulejmani, aka "Mouse”, a member of the KLA
secret police, with Sabit Lladrovci, a former KLA member, now engaged in
the 1st RTG of KPC, with Muhamet Çerkezi, aka "Çerkez", a member of
LAPMB, and Ahmet Çerkezi and already mentioned Sogojeva. Together with
the above listed individuals he planted explosives in the Kastelo
restaurant in Obilic, where the Serb population congregates. He is
connected with the murder of Miladija Stanojevic, the harassment of
ethnic Serbs, KPS members (for example Tanja Mihajlovic from Priština),
with the destruction and plunder of Serb property in that region, as
well as with physical abuse (Stojka Stojanovic, Muhamed Limaj, Tomica
Antic, Novica Ilic, Milenko Mihailovic and others). Because of the said
activities, he was arrested by KFOR and UNMIK police on a number of
occasions. 77. AGIM (Latif) KUQI
Born on October 7th, 1963, in Suva Reka. In June 1998, together with
Blerim Kuqi, Naim Berisha, Osmani Elshani, aka "Shlafi", and a certain
Nusret from Samodreža, he formed a terrorist group on the territory of
the Reštane village, in the Suva Reka Municipality. Agim and Blerim Kuqi
managed the main KLA headquarters for the villages of Opteruša and
Zociste, situated in the village of Dobrodeljane, in the Suva Reka
Municipality. Following their orders, they illegally purchased arms and
ammunition. Kuqi’s group, on the Suva Reka – Orahovac route, better
known as the Restansi road, wounded the policeman Milorad Neškovic and
murdered Sadriu Kryeziu from Suva Reka. In the middle of July 1998,
under his command, 16 Serbs were kidnapped from Opteruša and Zociste and
were subsequently taken to the Drenovac village while their houses,
along with the houses of other Serbs in those villages, were burned to
the ground. Following the action of the members of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs and the YA forces in the region of Suva Reka, Agim,
Blerim and Ruzhdi Kuqi and Osmani Elshani, aka "Shlafi", fled to Albania
and joined FARK. 78. RAMIZ (Muhamet) LLADROVCI
Born on January 3rd, 1966, in the village of Gladno Selo,
Municipality of Glogovac. In the middle of 1993, he spent some time in
Albania where he was engaged in organizing of military training for
individuals who, having completed the training, were sent to K&M,
with the purpose to carry out diversionary terrorist activities. At the
end of the same year, he went to Germany where he joined and was active
in the work of NMRK, primarily in the field of arms, ammunition and
military equipment acquisition, which he transferred to K&M and sent
to his brother Fehmi, one of the most influental KLA commanders in the
Drenica region (killed in 1998). For KLA needs, he recruited young
Albanians who were employed in Germany and other Western Europe
countries. After the Serbian security forces withdrew, he came to
K&M, where he was immediately accepted into KPC and appointed deputy
commander of the National Guard within this formation. Throughout 2001,
he was engaged in providing logistic support to LAPMB members, as well
as to Albanian terrorists active on the territory of the Republic of
Macedonia. He used his high position in KPC to acquire financial
benefits. His associates accuse him of embezzling huge amounts of money
from the funds collected by the Albanian emigrants as aid to KLA and
later KPC formations. Because of his connection with the terrorist
organizations, he was placed on the American "black list" of
organizations that have restricted access to financial aid, i.e., of the
individuals who are forbidden to enter the US. Also, he is also banned
from all activities of KPC for a year. 79. FATMIR (Kadri) LIMAJ, alias "Steel"
Born on February 4th, 1971, in the village of Banja, Municipality of
Suva Reka. From 1992 to 1994, he was engaged in the illegal
organization PMKL. Toward the end of 1995 he joined KLA where, under the
command of Rexhep Selimi, he was in charge of identifying individuals
who were collaborating with the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and
of carrying out all preparations for the terrorist acts against the
Serb security forces in Mališevo and Orahovac. In 1996, together with
Selimi, he planned and attempted to murder Shukri Krasniqi, from the
village of Banja, and Vesel Pintolij, from the village of Temecin,
Municipality of Suva Reka. During 1998, he was the commander of the camp
in the village of Lapušnica, Glogovac Municipality, where, in the
period between June 22 and July 25 of the same year, 22 individuals were
held and, physically abused and murdered. Among the victims were
Milovan and Miodrag Krstic, Boban Mitrovic, Živorad Krstic, Stamen
Genov, Djordje Djuk and Siniša Blagojevic. He was the initiator and
direct participant in the capture and abuse of ethnic Albanians and
Serbs and he demonstrated special brutality in his direct participation
in the genocide against the civilians, since, following his orders, in
the limekiln in the village of Klecka, Municipality of Lipljan, over 50
individuals were burned. He was the organizer and perpetrator of the
attack on Orahovac on July 17, 1998, when over 50 people were kidnapped,
of whom 40 are still listed as missing. At the beginning of October
1999, the group headed by Fatmir Limaj kidnapped, in front of a number
of citizens, Ramiz Hoxha, in the Belanica village, because he had
allegedly negotiated with the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs the return of Albanian refugees from the village of
Banja to their homes. Ramiz Hoxha was later murdered. Together with
Rexhep Selimi, he founded the "Falcon’s Eye" group which, beside
terrorist activities (primarily murder), was involved in the arms and
drug trafficking, racketeering, organized prostitution and the like.
These activities were carried out in collaboration with the members of
the crime clans composed of the Elshani and Kolaku families, from Suva
Reka region. For a certain time period, Limaj was in the position of
Kosovo’s deputy defense minister only to be arrested by Slovenian police
on February 17, 2003, and taken to the Scheveningen jail, having been
indicted by the Hague Tribunal for crimes against humanity and the
violation of the laws and customs of war (for killing civilians in the
jail located in the Lapušnik village). From the top echelons of DPK, an
initiative was launched to form a special fund for the defense of Fatmir
Limaj, one of the most trusted associates of that party’s president,
Hashim Thaqi. The initiative was delivered to the Government of Kosovo.
The initiative suggests that, from the budget of the Government of
Kosovo, two million euros be taken for the said purpose. At the same
time, pressure was exerted on the owners of companies and shops to
contribute between a hundred and a thousand euros for the same purpose. 80. EKREM (Kurtesh) LLUKA, aka "Vuka"
Born on October 11th, 1959, in Pec. In 1992, as the owner of the
Dukadjini printing house in Pec, he helped make a seal for the
elementary and secondary schools in the Albanian language with the
inscription reading "Kosovo Republic”. Lluka diversified his business
activities in the second half of the 90s, thanks to his association
with, and the financial support to, Sellim Shabani and Salli Nimani. He
is currently one of the financially most powerful people in the province
and the owner of a number of companies on the territory of K&M and
abroad. Among other things, he owns a cigarette factory, a brewery, a
radio and television station. Also, a chain of restaurants and hotels
and a basketball team. He is one of the main financiers of Albanian
terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija and, towards the end of the 90s, he
provided close to two million euros for their needs. Recently he was
allegedly forced to pay the racket amounting to around 100,000 euros a
month. He is involved in trafficking of cigarettes, in oil and oil
derivates, and motor vehicles, and is included in drugs and arms
trafficking (via the network in Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, FYROM, Serbia
and Montenegro, Albania, Italy and Germany). At the same time, he
controls the Serbian–Albanian mafia and trade along the
Priština-Belgrade-Priština route. His closest associates in these
operations are Isa Balaj and Alli Haskaj. Considerable profits are
gained by trafficking in women from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia, who are later forced into prostitution. He is involved in
"money laundering" activities, for which he uses his companies
"Albatroniks" and "Dukadjini". Via the "Albatroniks" company, a certain
amount of money has been transferred and paid into the accounts of
certain Islamic non-governmental organizations, which are suspected of
being connected with the Islamic fundamentalists in Syria. Ekrem’s
brother, Agim Lluka, is a co-owner of the "Albatroniks" company which
carries out the largest part of the smuggled cigarettes trade. Beside
that, Ekrem Lluka uses EMK Petrol for transporting weapons and military
equipment through Albania to FYROM. He is very close with the members of
the Haradinaj family and he conducts his activities in collaboration
with and following the authorization of Hashim Thaqi and Ramush
Haradinaj, and is closely connected with Agim Çeku and Arben Xhaferi,
the leaders of the terrorist groups in FYROM. Ekrem Lluka’s connections
with the Elshani family are especially indicative. It is a family which,
among other criminal activities, is involved in serious threats to, and
elimination of, Ramush Haradinaj’s political rivals. Towards the end of
October 2002, the members of the Italian police, while trying to cut
the main cigarette smuggling routes in K&M, searched Lluka’s
business premises (cigarette plant in Zahac) and, on that occasion,
seized around 280 tons of cigarettes, while Ekrem Lluka and Naser
Kelmendi were taken into custody and later released to await trial. 81. ISA (Bajram) LATIFI
Born on August 25th, 1964, in the village of Štedim, Municipality of
Podujevo. Carrying out the orders of top KLA commanders on the
territory of the operative zone of Lab to murder certain ethnic Serbs in
Podujevo, on June 23, 1999, he killed Slobodan Mirovic and, three days
later, Sreten Živkovic. Two months later, together with Fehmi Jakupi and
Samet Arifi, he killed Srbislav Djukic, from the village of Glavnik,
and Radovan Djindjic, from Podujevo. 82. MUHAMET (Braim) LATIFI
Born on May 26th, 1955, in the village of Polatna, Municipality of
Podujevo. He was one of the organizers of KLA for the Podujevo region
and the whole Lab zone. During 1998 and 1999, he carried out duties of
the commander of the so-called territorial defense of Kosovo and, after
KPC was formed, he was appointed military police commander of the 5th
RTG. In the second half of 1999, he headed so-called 2nd group of KLA’s
police in the region of Priština, with 46 members situated in a building
belonging to the Catholic church. This group was in charge of the camp
where Serb prisoners were held, located in the village of Gornja
Lapaštica, in the hamlet of Žergovo. There, Latifi and with three
members of his group murdered Miroslav Milacic from Podujevo, Branko
Markovic and Branko Djukic from Priština, and Jovica Kordic, from
Vuchitrn. Following Daut Rexhepi’s orders, from the Corps for the
Defense of Kosovo, in mid-1999, Latifi planted explosives in the market
place in the village of Bresje, Municipality of Kosovo Polje, on which
occasion two Serbs were killed and some 40 persons were wounded.
Moreover, in the second half of 1999, he was in charge of overseeing the
area between Merdare and Podujevo, where he headed a terrorist group,
the socalled Assassination Guard, which was formed in order to carry out
attacks on the local non-Albanian population. Organizing some kind of
illegal customs authority on the territory under his control, he banned
the import of goods produced in Serbia and demolished each shop that
sold them. This "customs authority" imposed tax on the illegal felling
of state and privately owned forests (whose owners were Serbs), in the
amount of 5 DM per cubic meter. 83. LULZIM (Azir) LECI, alias "Gjagji"
Born on February 23rd, 1974, in the village of Gminac, Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica. He was an assistant commander of KLA’s Karadak
zone and a member of KLA headquarters for the Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica. In 1999, these headquarters were located in his house, in the
village of Gminac, where a large amount of weapons was also stored. He
managed a group of 15 KLA members which carried out a few murders and
set a large number of houses on fire in the villages of Oraovica,
Firiceji and in Kosovska Kamenica itself. Also, he organized an attack
on the Bogdanovic couple (Milutin and Taska), in the village of
Kriljevo, Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, in August 2000. While LAPMB
was active in southern Serbia, he organized the transfer of terrorists
from K&M into LAPMB and, on a number of occasions, he stayed in the
security zone. He is currently in the position of an adviser in the
Ministry of Labor and Social Policies in the Government of Kosovo. 84. AFRIM (Hallit) LULAJ, alias "Abu Musem"
Born on September 12th, 1974, in the city of Osek Hilja,
Municipality of Djakovica. He was a member of the infamous "Abu Bekir
Sidik" unit composed of foreign mercenaries – mujahedins and the most
extreme Albanian terrorists from K&M. Within this unit, Lulaj headed
the branch in the village of Smonica. He took part in the organization
and implementation of terrorist attacks against the members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces, on the Cabrat
hill, over Djakovica, on the Djakovica-Dechani route. 85. NUREDIN (Jetulah) LUSHTAKU
Born on February 27th, 1967, in the village of Donje Prekaze,
Municipality of Srbica. Because of his terrorist activities, he was
sentenced, in absentia, to 20 years in prison in 1997. From 1991, he was
a member of Adem Jashari’s terrorist group and took part in a large
number of terrorist acts on the territory of Drenica and other parts of
K&M. Beside other activities, he took part in the attack on a police
convoy in the Ludovic village, Municipality of Srbica, in 1997, and
together with a group of terrorists from the village of Lauša,
Municipality of Srbica, he was a perpetrator of the assassination of
Sefer Zani, from the village of Poljance. After Adem Jashari’s murder in
1998, Lushtaku was appointed commander of KLA headquarters in the
village of Donje Prekaze and a member of KLA general staff for the
operative zone of Drenica. He maintained close connections with Sami
Lushtaku, Sahit and Musa Jashari, Fadhil Kodra, Jetulah and Sabit Gecaj
and others. During his stay in the village of Likovac, he took part in
the harassment and abuse of the Serb prisoners. In the period between
1998 and June 1999, he supervised terrorist activities on the territory
of the aforementioned operative zone, carrying out the orders of Sami
Lushtaku, Hashim Thaqi and Sylejman Selimi, aka "Sultan", the then
acting KLA commander for the Drenica region. After the establishment of
KPC, Thaqi appointed him commander of the 114th brigade of the 1st RTG
in Drenica. After Sami Lushtaku was removed from KPC, Thaqi maintained
his influence over the said organization by appointing Nuredin Lushtaku
commander of the guard, with the headquarters in Prizren. He is a member
of the illegal terrorist group called the "Falcon’s Eye" and, together
with a group of terrorists from the Drenica region, he took part in a
large number of attacks against the members of the police and the YA
forces on the territory of Bujanovac and Preševo. He occasionally stays
on the territory of FYROM, providing assistance to the local terrorists.
At the previous elections in K&M, following Sami Lushtaku’s and
Thaqi’s orders, he intimidated Albanians in the Drenica region who
opposed Thaqi’s policies. 86. SAMI (Malazim) LUSHTAKU
Born on February 20, 1961, in the village of Donje Prekaze,
Municipality of Srbica. By a verdict of the District Court in Priština,
he was sentenced, in absentia, to 20 years of imprisonment for his
criminal acts of terrorism. Together with Adem and Hamza Hasari, Fadil
and Nuredin Lushtaku, Sylejman and Rexhepi Selimi, Tahir Jashari and
Jakup Nura, he is one of the founders of KLA in the Drenica region. He
completed his military training in Albanian and, in 1997, took part in
the abuse and the massacre of the Serb civilians who were kidnapped and
held in a camp situated in the Likovac village, Municipality of Srbica.
He was a perpetrator of a terrorist attack on a police station in the
Rudnik village, Municipality of Srbica, in 1998, as well as on a police
convoy in the village of Ludovic, Municipality of Srbica. In that
period, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the KLA General Staff for
the Drenica zone of operations, with the headquarters in the village of
Likovac, Municipality of Srbica, and for a certain period of time he
carried out the duties of the commander of this operative zone. Later,
Hashim Thaqi appointed him Commander of the 2nd operative zone in the
Prizren region (Paštrik). At the same time, he was elected Deputy Head
of the Kosovo’s Secret Service where, among other duties, he was in
charge of engaging volunteer units from Drenica, which were sent to the
region of the Bujanovac, Preševo and Medvedja municipalities, in order
to carry out terrorist acts. Due to the increased terrorist activities
the consequence of which is a destabilized security status in K&M
and following the initiative of the representative of the US
administration, on July 6, 2001, Lushtaku was fired from his position of
the KPC Commander and is prohibited from carrying firearms. For
violating this prohibition, he was taken into custody by KFOR for
questioning. After that, he left the region of the Srbica Municipality,
fearing the arrested for his criminal and terrorist activities during
and after the armed conflict, and spent the larger part of 2002 in
Albania, in the city of Kuks. His family is one of the most influential
in the Drenica region and works closely with Hashim Thaqi, Rexhep and
Sylejman Selimi and Xhavit Halliti, playing a significant role in the
organized crime in K&M. He is on the American "black list" of
organizations and individuals who, because of their terrorist
activities, have restricted access to financial aid, i.e., who are not
allowed to enter the US. 87. ENVER (Demo) MAVRIQI
Born on January 23rd, 1961, in the village of Firiceje, Municipality
of Kosovska Kamenica. Until 1990 he worked as a policeman in the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs. On behalf of the KLA General Staff
for the Kosovska Kamenica region, he led a group of 15 KLA members,
whose task was to form checkpoints where passengers and vehicles were
searched, and certain Serbs and Albanians were taken prisoner. In the
KLA General Staff situated in the dormitory of the secondary school in
Kosovska Kamenica, he personally took part in the physical abuse of a
large number of Albanians who were suspected of collaborating with the
state bodies of the Republic of Serbia. Beside that, on June 28, 1999,
he ordered the Serbs from the village of Firiceje to abandon their
homes, threatening them that otherwise they would be killed. In July
1999, he ordered the burning of all Serb houses in the said village. In
the same period, he kidnapped, and subsequently murdered Živorad
Stojanovic, a policeman from the Firiceje village. Throughout 2000, he
organized KLA police in Kosovska Kamenica and acted as its commander,
using the premises of a usurped apartment whose owner was an ethnic
Serb. He was also included in organizing the members of LAPMB on the
territory of Kosovska Kamenica and their transport to the ground
security zone. He was arrested by KFOR for illegal possession of arms
and spent some time in the prison in the Bondsteel camp. 88. NAIM (Ramadan) MALOKU, alias "Besnik"
Born on February 17th, 1958, in the village of Labljane,
Municipality of Pec. A former YNA officer. During his studies at the
Military Academy in Zagreb, Maloku, together with Xhafer Jashari, Fadil
Hakaj, Ramadan Gashi and a group of Albanian soldiers who were doing
military service at the time in Zagreb, formed an illegal organization
called the Movement for the Albanian Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia
(PASRJ). Because of that, in 1985, together with a dozen or so officers,
he was arrested and sentenced to 4.5 years in prison by the military
court. He was pardoned in 1988, after which he moved to Ljubljana. He
joined KLA in 1996 and, two years later, returned to K&M. He was
appointed the Chief of the General Staff of the operative zone Dukadjin
by Ramush Haradinaj, the then acting commander of the aforementioned
zone. Beside training KLA members, he also organized weapons supply from
Albania and, in March 1999, he headed a terrorist group in its attack
on the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs Serbia and
the YA forces in the village of Vrelo, Municipality of Istok. Following
the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from K&M, Maloku took
an active part in the forceful expulsion of the remaining Serbs. During
2000, he formed a new Albanian political party – the Liberal Center of
Kosovo - which later joined Ramush Haradinaj’s Alliance for the Future
of Kosovo, in which Maloku became Vice-President. 89. FATON (Bajram) MEHMETAJ
Born on January 24th, 1963, in the village of Požare, Municipality
of Dechani. Due to the criminal act of espionage for the Albanian
intelligence service, Mehmetaj was sentenced to 5 years in prison in
1986. He was a member of the KLA general staff in the operative zone of
Dukadjin, where he carried out the duties of the security chief,
maintaining direct contact with Ramush and Daut Haradinaj. He was the
perpetrator in the assassinations of a number of Kosovo Serbs and
Montenegrins, as well as the arrest and physical abuse of civilians in
Metohija. Following the demilitarization of KLA, he was made a member of
the general staff of the 3rd RTG of KPC and the chief of the
intelligence department of G-2 in this zone. He supplied the members of
the intelligence service of Albania with the data of security importance
connected with to the activities and organization of the international
security forces in K&M. In June 2002, together with a group of KPC
members, he was arrested by UNMIK police for a series of murders and
other crimes committed in 1999 against Albanian and non-Albanian
citizens whose bodies were later found close to the Radonjic Lake,
Municipality of Dechani. In July of the same year, he was released from
prison, due to the lack of evidence. He organized the murder of Tahir
Zemaj, a former FARK commander, who came into conflict with the clan of
Ramush Haradinaj. The murder was committed on August 18, 2001. He is one
of the organizers of the delivery of threatening messages addressed to
the Albanians of the well-to-do families in K&M, from whom, in the
name of "protection", huge financial sums were extracted. He is also a
member of the extremists terrorist organization known as "Black Eagles",
which is usually used for the protection of Ramush Haradinaj’s
political and criminal interests, i.e., the organized crime group
"Dukadjini". 90. NAZIF (Haradin) MEHMETI, alias "Dini"
Born on September 20, 1961, in the village of Sajkovci, Municipality
of Podujevo. Until September 1991, he was employed by Kosovo‘s
Provincial Secretariat of Internal Affairs and, after leaving the
service, he spent some time abroad. When he returned to K&M, he was
appointed Deputy Commander of the special KLA units on the territory of
the Lab operative zone and was later engaged in KPS, in the Police
Station No. 3 in Priština. According to the anecdotal evidence, Mehmeti,
in his position of a deputy commander of the special units within the
KLA’s 5th operative zone, together with Latif Gashi and Naim Kadriu,
participated in the murders of an operative of the State Security of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Milan Jovic, in Podujevo. The
members of the so-called Lab group, which Mehmeti belonged to, took part
in the attacks on the political opponents, primarily of the DSK
members. They were also involved in the robbery, racketeering of the
Albanian population in that region, as well as in the kidnapping of
young Albanians. They kidnapped Osman Sinani, from the village of
Murgule, Municipality of Podujevo, who was subsequently murdered, as
well as Milovan Stankovic, an employee of "Javor" in Podujevo, from the
village of Bechic, Municipality of Merošine, Ratko Vicentijevic, from
the village of Donja Dumnica, Visar Voca, Sabri Berisha, Goran Zbiljic,
Cedomir Blagojevic and Živorad Biserchic. Nazif Mehmeti is also one of
the perpetrators of the terrorist attack carried out in August 1996, in
the village of Donje Ljupche, Municipality of Podujevo, in which an
employee of the Center of the Serbian State Security of Priština, Ejup
Bajgora, was murdered. In that attack, beside Mehmeti, the other
perpetrators were Latif Gashi, Zahir Pajaziti, from the village of
Tutuchice, Naim Kadriu and Shaip Haziri, from the village of Kacikol,
Municipality of Priština. Beside that, he was one of the top officers of
an improvised jail in the village of Gornja Lapaštica, in which Serb
and Albanian prisoners were held. In July 2003, by a verdict of the
International Court, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, for the war
crimes committed on the territory of Priština and Podujevo. 91. FADIL (Sadik) MUJOTA, alias "Cubi"
Born on July 17th, 1969, in the village of Malopoljce, Municipality
of Štimlje. Prior to 1998, Mujota, together with his father Sadik and
his cousin Bajrush, were engaged in the illegal trade in weapons and
ammunition. He was arrested in 1993, but he soon escaped abroad. He
remained in Switzerland and Germany until 1998, when he returned to
Malopoljce and joined KLA, taking over the command of the terrorist
group in that village. This group was directly subordinated to the KLA
General Staff located in the village of Jezerce, and organized and
carried out terrorist attacks on the Štimlje-Uroševac and
Štimlje-Crnoljevo routes, kidnapped and abused Albanians loyal to the
Republic of Serbia (Naim Shabani, from the village of Vojnovci). Beside
that, Mujota illegally crossed the border with Albania and took part in
the acquisition and delivery of weapons for KLA’s use. Following the
withdrawal of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces
from K&M, he continued his terrorist activities with the intention
of ethnically cleansing the non-Albanian population from K&M. He
purchased a number of Gypsy houses on the Štimlje-Lipljan route and, in
mid-June 1999, following his orders, in the private house of Mujota’s
cousin in Štimlje, an improvised jail was set up for Serbs and Gypsies.
After the establishment of KPC, he was placed in the army barracks in
Uroševac. However, after a certain period of time, he filed an
application to be demobilized, since he was not satisfied with his rank
and the treatment he received. Along with Xhabir Zharku, he heads a
criminal group from the village of Malopoljci and is one of the
organizers of the illegal acquisition and resale of narcotics in the
region of Gnjilane. These narcotics arrive in K&M from Albania, via
Tetovo (FYROM). He is involved in the trafficking in human beings where
he collaborates with Jetulah Çari, aka "Guri”, from Suva Reka. Çari is
the owner of a facility in the village of Rechane where a certain number
of girls from Russia, Rumania and Bulgaria are kept. Mujota’s main
connection with the trafficking in human beings is an Albanian called
Balem, from Štimlje, from the Beqaj family. 92. SHEFQET (Esat) MUSLIU, nicknamed "Adzija"
Born on February 12th, 1963, in the village of Konculj, Municipality
of Bujanovac. As a KLA member in K&M, in 1998, he was engaged in
Special Units under the command of Ramush Haradinaj. During 1999, he
took part in the abuse of the Serbs in Gnjilane, in the interception,
illegal arrests, harassment and looting of the passengers on the
Bujanovac-Gnjilane road, above the village of Dobrosin. At the beginning
of 2000, he joined the then formed group for the assassination of
Albanians who lived in the region of Gnjilane and who refused to
cooperate with the terrorists. From December 1999, especially after
armed conflicts in southern Serbia were intensified, with his cousin
Junuz Musliu and other associates, he intercepted vehicles in the
vicinity of the village of Dobrosin, harassed the passengers, illegally
arrested and mistreated them, confiscated vehicles and goods and robbed
them of their valuables, extorted money, allegedly for KLA’s use. After
LAPMB was formed, he managed its headquarters in Dobrosin. With the
intention of enlarging the influence of his organization, he ordered
forced mobilization of able-bodied Albanians, their short-term training
and participation in terrorist actions. He initiated the foundation of
the local village headquarters in the region of Bujanovac and Preševo,
which he later united and placed under his command. At that time, he
personally took part or commanded a number of armed attacks on police
positions in the villages of Dobrosin and Konculj. From October 1999
until March 2001, in the Bujanovac Municipality, he committed 49 of the
most serious criminal acts. In KPC uniform, together with his
associates, he stopped vehicles moving towards Gnjilane and collected
"toll", saying that every Albanian from Preševo and Bujanovac had to pay
the requested sum. He took part in the terrorist attack on a police
patrol in Konculj, on November 23, 1999, when two policemen were
wounded, as well as in the action carried out on February 26, 2000,
when, with a group of 11 armed LAPMB members, he attacked the policemen
in the vicinity of the village of Konculj, at which time two members of
the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were killed. On June 8, 2000,
together with Ramadan Zairi and Nasuf Musliji, he planted four anti-tank
mines in the vicinity of the elementary school in Konculj, on the road
towards Dobrosin, when 5 members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs were wounded. He organized, on June 22, 2000, the murder of the
last remaining Serb residents of the village of Mali Trnovac and ordered
that anti-tank mines be placed on the village road in Mali Trnovac, and
when the explosion went off on November 10, 2000, a member of the
police force, Ivica Božinovic, was killed. In 2000, together with Lirim
Jakupi and Vulnet Ibishi, he extorted 20,000 DM from Junuz Vasufi and
seized his car, threatening to burn his house if he reported the
incidents to the police. In this period, the same group took 2,000 DM by
extortion from Naim Rexhepi, the owner of "Ideal Commerce", and from
the owner of "Jeton Trans", in the village of Dobrosin, 5,000 DM.
Towards the end of December 2000, in the company of Bulnet Ibisi, he
stopped the "Madjar-Tours" bus in Konculj, from the direction of
Gnjilane, and harassed the pass engers Reshat Ebibi from the village of
Turije, Municipality of Bujanovac, and an older Albanian because,
allegedly, they had assisted Serbs during the sale of their property to
Albanians. On that occasion, he forcefully took the amount of 10,000 DM
from the passengers. Musliu continued his criminal activities in 2001
when, with a group of associates, he seized Sabedin Ibraimi’s jeep. For
the confiscated vehicle, the aforementioned individual received a
certificate, along with a threat that he would be killed if he reported
the incident to the police. Although, at the beginning of 2001 he had
declared that he would accept the agreement on the demilitarization of
LAPMB, as the commander of the General Sstaff of this organization, he
ordered its members to hide the greater part of the weapons in the
bunkers and warehouses, and on February 4 of the same year, he organized
an attack on the position of the YA and police force in Lucani. At the
beginning of March, he organized the kidnapping of four Serbs, who were
held in Konculj, as well as the kidnapping and harassment of Radomir
Stojiljkovic, from Trstenik. After LAPMB was disbanded, he moved to
Gnjilane, but continued to command a group of terrorists who, following
his orders, committed a number of terrorist acts in the region of
southern Serbia. When ANA was formed in southern Serbia, he was elected
its official and, together with Lirim Jakupi, he organized the
activities of a diversionary terrorist group following the commands of
ANA top officials. With the help of the members of his family in
Germany, he initiated the establishment of the so-called humanitarian
fund, "Fatherland Calls", intended for the collection of funds from the
Albanians abroad. He usurped the larger part of those means for his own
personal needs. Until his arrest, he led an extremely comfortable
existence and, in the last two years, in the Gnjilane Municipality, he
bought a house and a few business premises. Although he possessed the
means which he had "acquired" as LAPMB commander, Musliu, together with
Mustafa Xhemajli, was also involved in the smuggling of arms brought in
from Albania and sold on the territory of K&M, the FYRepublic of
Macedonia and southern Serbia. He was put on the American "black list"
of organizations and individuals who, because of their terrorist
activities, have restricted access to financial aid, i.e., who are
forbidden to enter the US. He was arrested on April 12, 2003, by KFOR
and is currently in the military base Bondsteel in the vicinity of
Uroševac. 93. ISAK (Smajl) MUSLIU, alias "Cerciz"
Born on October 31st, 1970, in the village of Rachak, Municipality
of Štimlje. After a stay abroad, he returned to K&M in May 1998 and
joined the KLA members in the Municipality of Štimlje, where he was
appointed deputy commander of KLA general staff in the village of Rance.
He belonged to the 121st "Agim Qelaj" brigade within the operative zone
of Paštrik. In the village of Rance, he organized the recruitment and
military training of new KLA members, as well as the delivery of arms
from Albania. Beside that, he personally interrogated and harassed the
kidnapped individuals (among whom Albanian Hajriz Hajrizi, from the
village of Belinac), and organized attacks on the members of the police
and YA forces. Towards the end of September 1998, together with his
unit, he abandoned his position in the Rance village and retreated into
the Lapuštnik village, Municipality of Drenica, only to be sent, in
November of the same year, to a special terrorist training center
organized in Switzerland. After his return to K&M, he was appointed
one of the deputy commanders of the KLA general staff of the Nerodimlje
operative zone, in the village of Jezerce, Municipality of Uroševac.
Following the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, he
continued his terrorist activities as a member of the KPC secret police
in Uroševac, where he was one of the top officials. He was arrested in
February 14, 2003, by the members of the international security forces,
together with six like-minded individuals, and taken to the Bondsteel
base, whence he was subsequently transferred to the Hague, since the
indictment of the Hague tribunal has charged him with a number of crimes
against humanity and the violation of the laws and customs of war
committed in 1998. 94. RUSTEM (Musli) MUSTAFA, alias "Remi"
Born on February 27th, 1971, in the village of Prepolac,
Municipality of Podujevo. He commenced terrorist activities in 1989,
within the illegal group NMRK, and continued them in 1998, by joining
the KLA general staff for the Lab region, the 5th operative zone, where
he carried out the duties of the deputy commander and later of the
commander of the said zone. Under his command, towards the end of 1998,
terror was committed against the Serb population, the members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces, as well as
against some members of the Albanian population who were murdered,
kidnapped and taken to the prisons located in the villages of Bradaš and
Gornja Lapaštica, while their property was looted and destroyed.
Following the withdrawal of the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs and the YA forces from K&M, he formed terrorist
groups "Skifteri", "BIA" and "Red Hand" whose members conducted ethnic
cleansing, kidnapping and murder of the remaining Serbs in the region of
Priština and Podujevo (the murder of Milan Milovanovic, in the village
of Dabovac, Municipality Kuršumlija, as well as the placing of anti-tank
mines on the Kuršumlija-Prepolac road, in November 1999, when three
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were murdered and
five wounded). In September 1999, the KPC commander, Agim Çeku, promoted
him to the rank of major-general and appointed him commander of the 5th
RTG of Lab, and towards the end of 2000, commander of the 6th RTG.
These appointments were intended to initiate organizational and
technical preparations for further terrorist activities in the region of
Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, in view of the fact that, members of
LAPMB had carried out terrorist acts under the direct command of Rustem
Mustafa, in 2000. He abused his high position in KPC to accumulate
financial means some of which were used to finance LAPMB, while he took
the rest for himself. Together with Ismet Bekteshi, he is accused of
embezzling seven million DM from the KSIK aid fund, which he used to
finance his private business activities in Priština. He had close
contacts with Rexhep Veseli and Ellami Bajrami, connected to the
narcotics smuggling, and a member of the Fadil Gumnista mafia
organization. Upon his and Fatmir Humoli’s command, the terrorist group
"BIA" committed, an attack on the Niš-Ekspres bus, when 11 passengers of
Serb nationality were killed on February 16, 2001, in the vicinity of
the Livadice village, Municipality of Podujevo. From June 26, 2001,
Mustafa is on the so-called black list of the US administration, as an
individual who is directly responsible for the instability in K&M
and the overall Balkan region, which is why he was replaced as the
commander of the 6th RTG of KPC, and an investigation was launched
against him following KFOR initiative. On the basis of the statements
given by family members of the murdered Albanians (Agim Musliu, Alush
Kastrati, Idriz Svarça, Drita Voce) and the eyewitnesses report on the
murder of Enver Sekiraça, the UNMIK police arrested Rustem Mustafa on
August 11, 2002. On July 16, 2003, he was sentenced by the International
Judicial Council of the District Court in Priština to 17 years in
prison, for the war crimes committed in the region of Priština and
Podujevo. 95. SALIH (Jaha) MUSTAFA
Born on January 1st, 1972, in Priština. Due to his membership in the
NMRK illegal organization, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment
in 1993. As a KLA member, he acted within a special unit which committed
murder and kidnapping and robbed the property in the Priština and
Podujevo municipalities. After KPC was formed, and following orders from
Rustem Mustafa and Fatmir Humoli, he formed an illegal terrorist group
called "Skifteri", with the goal to carry out assassinations, kidnapping
and looting of ethnic Serbs and their property. Within "Skifteri", he
formed his own group, which was composed of Behar Berisha, Ruzhdi
Halili, aka "Rudi", Nazif Metoli, aka "Tabut", Hilmi Veli, aka "Death",
Haki Abazi, Aslan Sinani, Gani Koci, Shefqet Murseli, Shaqir Beqiri,
brothers Faik and Raif Arifi and others. Toward the end of June 1999,
together with Agim Rexhepi (false name Agron Xhemaili), from the village
of Karuševac, Municipality of Obilic, he organized the assassination of
a certain Boško, a former department store employee in the same city.
He was the organizer and perpetrator of the assassination of a number of
ethnic Albanians from the region of Podujevo (among whom Ukshin Zeqiri
and Milaim Gjakoli), and is connected with illegal arms trade and
narcotics distribution. 96. ARIF (Pajazit) MUQOLI, alias "Prof"
Born on May 15th, 1952, in the village of Hrtica, Municipality of
Podujevo. He was a member of the KLA operative zone Lab and, after the
151st brigade "Zahir Pajaziti" was formed, he was appointed its
commander, with the headquarters in the village of Bradaš. After the
demobilization of KLA, he was appointed one of the top officials in the
KPC general staff. He was involved in the murder of Mirko Saric, from
the village of Tacevac, Municipality of Kuršumlija, committed on July
20, 1999, in the village of Metohija, as well as in the systematic
ethnic cleansing of the Serb population on the territory of the Podujevo
and Priština municipalities. 97. MALIQ NDRECAJ, alias "Commander Maliqi"
Born in the village of Maciteva, Municipality of Suva Reka. After
KLA operative zone Dukadjin was formed, Ramush Haradinaj appointed
Ndrecaj commander of the 132nd KLA brigade, named "Murat Zeneli", with
the headquarters in the village of Jablanica. This brigade was in charge
of the jail in which the kidnapped Serbs were tortured and murdered.
Following the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in K&M, he commanded a
special unit called "Evil River" whose members carried out a large
number of criminal acts against the non-Albanian population in the
region of Djakovica. After ANA headquarters were formed in the Debalde
village, Municipality of Vitina, in 2002, Ndrecaj was appointed
commander, entrusted with the training of ANA members. Following the
instructions of Ramush Haradinaj, Ndrecaj took part in the armed
conflicts in Kumanovo (FYROM), where he led the terrorist group within
NLA, using the alias of "Commander Mala". He was also active in the
illega transport of arms and other military equipment from Albania for
the needs of the terrorists in the regions of Preševo, Bujanovac,
Medvedja and in FYROM. In that context, with his group, composed of
Shaban Tahiri, from the village of Berjah, Selman Sadiku, from the
village of Nivokaz, Municipality of Djakovica, Binak Mazreku, from the
village of Voks, and Hajdar Habibi, from the village of Junik,
Municipality of Dechani, Ndrecaj took weapons from a warehouse situated
in the Dechani region and stored them in the immediate vicinity of the
administrative border with southern Serbia, as well as the state border
with FYROM. Due to these activities, he was arrested by KFOR in March of
2003, but was soon released. 98. SELAMI (Ilmi) NEZIRI, alias "Agron"
Born on July 5th, 1972, in the village of Donja Slatina,
Municipality of Vitina. Due to his activities within PMKL, criminal
charges were filed against him in August 1993, and he was tried and
sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. Having completed his training in
Albania, at the beginning of 1998, with a group of 10 KLA members, he
illegally crossed into the territory of K&M where, together with
Ahmet Isufi, Shemsi Syla and Lulzim Leci, from the village of Gmince,
Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, he participated in the establishment
of KLA headquarters for the operative zone of Karadak, as well as in
mobilizing and training new KLA members, and in the delivery of weapons
and military equipment. In the summer of 1999, he was appointed
commander of the 173rd KLA brigade, and later commander of a KPC unit in
Vitina. At the same time, he carried out duties of vice-president of
the Municipal Assembly of Vitina until October 2000, and was also the
leader of the terrorist group "Black Eagles", whose members took part in
assassination, harassment and expulsion of Serbs from that
Municipality. In March 2001, during the armed conflicts in FYR
Macedonia, Neziri headed a group of around 300 terrorists from the
territory of the Vitina Municipality, which took part in the battles
against Macedonian security forces in the region of the Tanuševci
village. Shortly after the aforementioned activities, he was removed
from KPC. In mid-2002, he was engaged in the delivery of weapons to
FYROM. A part of the weapons was stored in the border villages of
Debelde and Mjak, in Vitina Municipality. In the same year, he was
appointed director of the Insurance Department in the municipal assembly
of Vitina. He still holds the same position and is very active in
organizing the purchase of Serb property in that Municipality. 99. JAKUP (Smajl) NURA
Born on February 13th, 1966, in the village of Prelovac,
Municipality of Srbica. At the beginning of 1997, by the verdict of the
District Court in Priština, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for
his criminal acts of terrorism. After a short stay with the terrorist
group of Adem Jashari in 1991, he was sent to Albania for military
training. After his return to K&M, he took part in a number of
terrorist acts against the members of the police, including the attack
on the police members on the railroad crossing in Glogovac, when four
policemen were killed, and the attack in the village of Likosane,
Municipality of Glogovac, as well as in a number of kidnappings and
assassinations of the Serb civilians. In the period between February
1998 and June 1999, he was the KLA commander for the village of
Prelovac, Municipality of Srbica, and a member of the KLA general staff
for the region of Drenica, and is now a member of the special unit
within KPC for the Drenica region. He is closely connected with the
currently most active terrorist groups in K&M, southern Serbia and
FYROM. In mid-2001, with a group of terrorists, he stayed the
administrative border towards Bujanovac, Preševo and Medvedja, where he
took part in the terrorist acts against the members of the police and YA
forces. 100. ENVER (Osman) ORUÇI
Born on December 6th, 1962, in the village of Rezalo, Municipality
of Srbica. He graduated from the Military Academy in Belgrade and used
to be the commander of the Federal Secretariat of Internal Affairs in
Vuchitrn. From 1998, he was active as a KLA member, in the region of the
Cicavica mountain, where a large number of crimes were committed
against the members of the ethnic Serb population. Under the direct
leadership of Oruçi and Mensur Kasumi, the abduction of the Serbs from
the village of Nevoljane, Municipality of Vuchitrn, was organized.
Members of the KLA 124th brigade, commanded by Enver Oruçi, kidnapped
five Serb senior citizens from the village of Nevoljane and drove them,
via Cicavica and Prekaze, into an improvised jail set up in the village
of Likovac. In this jail, Serb and Albanian prisoners were mistreated
and murdered, among whom was the policeman Ivan Bulatovic. Sabit Geca
and Sylejman Selimi, aka "Sultan”, especially excelled in the massacre
and assassinations. 101. GJUMSHIT (Ahmet) OSMANI
Born on May 2nd, 1951, in the village of Zitinje, Municipality of
Vitina. Within KLA, he was engaged in the collection of intelligence
data. After KLA was disbanded, he was appointed head of the KPC secret
police in Gnjilane, usually carrying out orders given by Ahmet Isufi and
Shemsi Syla, the commander and the deputy commander of the operative
zone of Karadak. Together with Nazmi Bekteshi, from Gnjilane, a former
member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and now a member of
the secret police, he abused the remaining members of the Serb
population in the region of Gnjilane Municipality, with the goal of
their forced expulsion. Also, following the orders of Isufi and Syla, he
organized the murder of prominent Serbs in Gnjilane, so that in the
city itself more than a hundred people were killed and 90% of the ethnic
Serbs were exiled. He usually engaged individuals from the criminal
environment for the most serious criminal acts (murder, rape, arson,
physical abuse). These activities were especially directed at the former
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs who had remained in
K&M. In order to demonstrate his loyalty to KLA, the former
operative of the Security Service of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs, Fatmir Drmaku, from Gnjilane, had to, following orders given by
Osmani, take part in the murder of DSK members. 102. NEBIH (Qerkim) PRENIQI
Born on August 26th, 1975, in the village of Ade, Municipality of
Obilic. As a member of the KLA secret police, under the direct command
of Abedin Sogojeva and Sabit Lladrovci, he took part in the murder of
the Rapajic family from Obilic, on November 28, 2000. 103. RAHMAN (Sadri) RAMA
Born on November 23rd, 1970, in the village of Okraštica,
Municipality of Vuchitrn. He performed the duties of the commander of
KLA 4th operative zone encompassing the region of the municipalities of
Kosovska Mitrovica, Vuchitrn, Leposavic, Zvechan, Zubin Potok and a few
villages from the Obilic Municipality. As a member of Adem Jashari’s
terrorist group, he was directly involved in the supervision of the
actions in the Drenica region in 1993, only to be moved on later to the
Vuchitrn region, where he was engaged in the organization of the
terrorist groups in almost all the villages of this region. In June
1998, he organized and supervised terrorist attacks against the Serb
families in the village of Pantina, Municipality of Vuchitrn. On the
occasion, he kidnapped the Miljkovic couple (Ratomir and Cedomirka),
whose destiny remains unknown. After the expulsion of the ethnic Serbs
from the aforementioned village, he ordered total destruction of all
Serb houses and other buildings. In June 1998, he headed a group of
1,000 KLA members who managed to transport a large amount of weapons and
military equipment from Albania to K&M. As the commander of the
aforementioned zone, Rama embezzled the financial means collected abroad
for the acquisition of weapons and other equipment for KLA needs. After
the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from the territory of
K&M, he forcefully took over a number of business premises and
apartments whose owners were members of the non-Albanian ethnic
communities, mostly Serbs. After the establishment of KPC, Rama was
appointed commander of the 4th RTG, with the headquarters in Kosovska
Mitrovica. In November 2001, he found himself with the rank of
major-general in the position of the commander of the 5th RTG of KPC in
Priština, from which he was removed at the end of June 2003. Rama has
huge financial means at his disposal, which he used to buy a house in
Priština, the value of which is estimated at approximately 250,000
euros, and he built four large houses in the village of Okraštica, where
his parents and brothers live and constructed the most contemporary
farm for raising cattle and poultry, the value of which is estimated at
over 200,000 euros. He owns a number of luxury cars and jeeps. He is
closely connected with Agim Shahini from Vuchitrn, the owner of the
"Bes-Arti" trade company from that city and the president of the
Association of Trade Companies in K&M. 104. ILLMI (Selman) RAMUSHOLI, alias "Granite"
Born on May 10th, 1964, in the village of Manastirci, Municipality
of Uroševac. A former member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
in Priština. In 1998, he joined the KLA general staff for the
UroševacMunicipality, located in the Jezerce village. Soon after that,
he was appointed commander of the 161st brigade of the Nerodimlje
operative zone. After the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and the YA forces were withdrawn from K&M, he organized and,
on a number of occasions, took part in the kidnapping civilians of Serb
nationality form the village of Gornje and Donje Nerodimlje,
Municipality of Uroševac (Dimko Parli, Miloš and Milorad Djordjevic). He
interrogated the kidnapped individuals and physically abused them,
after which they were never found. Beside this, he organized the
expulsion of the Serb population from the aforementioned villages and
the destruction of their property. After KPC was formed, in September
1999, he was appointed operations officer of the Istok zone, and is now
engaged as an officer in the army barracks of "Jezerachka Epopeja" in
Uroševac, as the Chief of Staff. At the same time, he is a member of the
illegal secret police and a member
of the ANA general staff for the
region of the Uroševac, Kachanik, Štrpce and Štimlje municipalities. He
is closely connected with Ismet Sadiku, from the village of Balic,
Municipality of Uroševac, a member of the secret police in Uroševac,
with Elmi Reqica, from Uroševac, the Deputy Chief of the secret police
and the coordinator of the secret police and ANA activities in Uroševac,
and with Imri Ilazi, from the village of Kamena Glava, Municipality of
Uroševac, the commander of the 6th RTG of KPC.
105. ELMI (Rexhep) REQICA, alias "Petrit"
Born on October 6th, 1961, in Uroševac. Because of his separatist
and terrorist activities, he was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in
prison in 1985. After serving his sentence, he was active in the illegal
NPK organization. Together with Xhabir Morina, Enver Topalli and
Sullejman Bitiqi, he was an organizer of the terrorist acts which were
carried out in the region of Uroševac in 1997 and at the beginning of
1998 (the attack on the police checkpoint in the village of Grlica,
Municipality of Uroševac, and the attack on two apartment buildings
where members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs lived). Beside
his role as organizer, he personally took part in the attack on a
residential building in which an employee of the State Security Service
lived, by throwing an explosive device manufactured by Sullejman Bitiqi.
In June 1998, he initiated the formation of KLA general staff for
Uroševac, in which he was appointed liaison officer with the general
staff in Drenica. Beside that, he was in charge of weapons acquisition
and collection of financial means, as well of finding bases where those
weapons may be stored. Following the arrest of a member of these
headquarters, he escaped to Drenica, and then to the village of Jezerce,
Municipality of Uroševac, where KLA headquarters were located. As one
of the top officials of the KLA general staff of the Nerodimlje
operative zone, in 1999, he established the so-called intelligence
group, which was connected with the Albanian intelligence service, SIK.
This group was later transformed into the so-called secret police,
entrusted with kidnapping and murder of members of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs. Following the withdrawal of the Serbian Security
Forces from K&M, Reqica was appointed chief of the intelligence
division of G-2 within KPC by Agim Çeku, with the headquarters in
Priština. Besides his tasks in KPC, he was also appointed by Kadri
Veseli, aka "Luli", chief of the secret police of Kosovo, deputy
commander of the aforementioned organization where he has remained until
today. In addition to his engagement in the establishment of the
departments of the secret police of Kosovo in all larger centers
throughout K&M, and in the coordination of the operations of this
service in Uroševac, Reqica, together with his associates, organized
kidnappings and assassinations of Albanians who, according to their
assessment, were connected with the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs. Elmi’s brother, Bashkim Reqica (together with Nijazi
Lohaj, Nexhat Krasniqi, Fatmir Azemi, Nexhat Azemi and Qamil Shabani,
aka "Four Eyes") was actively involved in the smuggling of narcotics
from Turkey to western Europe, via Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia. The said persons represent one of the most powerful criminal
groups on the territory of Uroševac who are involved in the transport of
narcotics to western European countries. A part of the financial means
acquired through this activity, Reqica uses for the purchase and
delivery of modern weapons for the needs of ANA members engaged in the
conflicts on the territory of FYROM and southern Serbia. Beside this, he
is engaged in establishing ANA headquarters in the Municipalities of
Uroševac, Štimlje, Štrpci and Kachanik. Some time ago, in the village of
Kamena Glava, UNMIK carried out a search and discovered around 20
kilograms of heroin, owned by Reqica and his criminal group. In a
similar action, the Macedonian police, also this year, discovered and
seized around 10 kilograms of heroin from the members of this same
group. 106. EKREM (Raim) REXHA, nicknamed "Drini"
Born on December 6th, 1961, in the village of Ljubižda, Municipality
of Prizren. A former YNA officer. He was the commander of the KLA 125th
brigade general staff for the operative zone Paštrik and a member of
the KLA general staff, as well as one of the top officials of Shefqet
Haxhija’s secret police, known as "Landowners". He is responsible for
numerous crimes committed on this territory: over 26 murders, 77
kidnappings, organization of six jails located on the territory of
Orahovac and Prizren, group rape and torture of women, of which some
were held captive in the prison in Orahovac. Also, he is responsible for
the execution of over twenty terrorist attacks, among which is the
attack on the village of Bratotin, Opteruša, Retimlje and Zochiste,
committed in July and in November 1998. When in the middle 1999, during
the armed conflict, the local population took refuge from their homes on
the territory of Prizren, Ekrem Rexha ordered all public facilities and
non-Albanian houses burned and looted. On that occasion, he also issued
the command for the murder of a few ethnic Albanians because of their
loyalty to the Republic of Serbia. He was killed on May 8, 2000, by the
members of the "Black Hand" terrorist group, due to his conflict with
Hashim Thaqi. 107. BEDRI (Shaban) REXHAJ, alias "Galjan"
Born on April 3rd, 1962, in the village of Petrovo, Municipality of
Štimlje. Immediately after KLA was established, he was appointed chief
of the secret police in the village of Lanište, Municipality of Štimlje,
and then also a member of the KLA general staff in the village of
Jezerce, under the command of Shukri Buja. At one time, following his
superior’s orders, he was active in the Drenica region. He was a
participant in the armed attacks on the village of Nerodimlje in 1998
and 1999, and on the village of Grebno in April 1999, when the local
population from the territory of Uroševac was driven into exile. After
the armed conflict on the territory of K&M was concluded as the
chief of police of the general staff, later of KPC, in Štimlje, together
with the commander Isak Musliu, aka "Cherciz", he organized the
expulsion of the non-Albanian population from that region (in a very
short period of time he expelled 95% of the population, and their
property was burned or looted). The aforementioned group opened, for
Serbs and Gypsies, jails in the villages of Petrovo, Mužichane and
Rachak. Bedri personally arrested and physically mistreated Vitomir
Nikšic, because he had requested KFOR and UNMIK protection. Towards the
end of 1999, the Nikšic family, under pressure, left K&M. Bedri,
beside Bajrush Rexhaj, Agim Ismaili, Muhamet Miftari and Heset Bleta, is
a member of the secret police (SIK) in Štimlje, headed by Fahrudin
Gashi. Each of the aforementioned individuals has his own formed group
engaged in criminal activities (burglary and theft, fraud, racketeering,
serious threats and the like). 108. ISMET (Adem) SADIKU
Born on April 23rd, 1941, in the village of Balic, Municipality of
Uroševac. A former reserve army officer, with the rank of major. As the
chief of the KLA general staff for the Municipality of Uroševac, after
his members were arrested, he managed to escape and join the KLA general
staff in Drenica, to be later appointed commander of the KLA general
staff in the village of Jezerce, Municipality of Uroševac. In the second
half of 1999, he established the local general staff of KLA in the
village of Balic, Municipality of Uroševac, and organized ethnic
cleansing of the Serbian population from the villages of Gornje and
Donje Nerodimlje, and after their expulsion, he ordered their houses
burned and demolished. Sadiku personally interrogated ethnic Serbs who
were brought in for questioning to the KLA headquarters and abused and
physically maltreated them. Eight of them were eventually murdered.
Beside that, he took part in the interrogation of Albanians brought into
the KLA headquarters, situated in the YA building in Uroševac, who were
suspected of having been collaborators of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs. As a member of the special group for conducting
diversionary activities, at the beginning of 2000, he activated an
explosive device in front of the Catholic church in Uroševac. For that,
he was arrested by KFOR and spent a month in custody. 109. RUZHDI (Ajdin) SARAMATI
Born on July 19th, 1950, in the village of Dobruša, Municipality of
Prizren. Due to his activities within the illegal organization NMRK, he
was sentenced to 7 years in prison in 1980. Having served his sentence,
he continued his terrorist activities, and inflicted a fire-arm wound on
a member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1992 in
Prizren, after which he fled to Albania. Following SIK instructions, he
became one of the organizers and instructors of KLA members on the
territory of Albania, together with officers of the Albanian army, and
was also engaged in illegal transport of weapons and military equipment
from Albania to K&M for KLA use. Following the withdrawal of the
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces,
he returned to Prizren, where he organized the expulsion of Serbs and
other non-Albanian population, as well as the destruction and looting of
their property, in which, beside him, Ismet Badallaj, Baki Elezkurtaj
and Hismen Kurtaj participated. Saramati also formed "triads" which
committed a series of assassinations. Until KPC was established, he was
the commander of the KLA 128th brigade, with the headquarters in the
village of Žur, as well as the commander of the camp in the Našec
village, in the premises of the youth resting home, and was later
appointed commander of a division of the KPC 324th brigade, with the
headquarters in Lapuški Han. He established a number of terrorist groups
on the territory of Opolj, which act directly under his command. Their
primary task is theft, physical abuse and assassination of the members
of the non-Albanian population in that region. With Hashim Thaqi’s
approval, he occupied a part of the border towards Albania, for the
purpose of an unhindered transport of weapons and other military
equipment which was subsequently transferred to the Drenica region and
thence to Macedonia and southern Serbia. Beside that, he was also
engaged in the mobilization of former KLA members who were to join NLA
in FYROM. Because of his abuse of the Albanians in Prizren, KFOR
arrested him towards the end of 2001, but he was soon released due to
the lack of evidence. After a few days, he was arrested again and
sentenced to 5 years in prison at the beginning of 2002, and is now
serving his sentence in the Bondsteel base, and the attorneys engaged in
his defense, Hazer Susuri and Bajram Hiseni, tried to question the
indictment, stating that this case was rigged in Belgrade. On a number
of occasions, he was visited in prison by Besnik Cengu, the head of the
Kuksa district (in Albania) and Spiro Butka, an officer of the Albanian
army and a ANA member now living in Uroševac. In addition to all this,
there were disciplinary proceedings held against Saramati and Petrit
Bojaxhiju in 2002, due to their embezzlement of a large amount of
financial means, collected from the citizens for the construction of KPC
army barracks in Lapuški Han. 110. REXHEP (Destan) SELIMI
Born on March 15th, 1971, in the village of Ovcharevo, Municipality
of Srbica. He was sentenced, in absentia, to 20 years in prison, for the
criminal acts of terrorism. From 1991, he was in the KLA terrorist
group of Adem Jashari, as one of his most loyal fellow fighters. After
his stay in Albania, attending diversionary terrorist training, he
illegally crossed the border with K&M and joined the terrorist
groups on the territory of the Srbica Municipality, conducting training
and arming KLA members. Later, he became commander of the special units
in the Drenica operative zone. He was a direct participant in the
terrorist acts against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs in May 1993, on the railroad crossing close to Glogovac, in
which four policemen were killed and three were seriously wounded, as
well as in the attacks against the police convoy in the village of
Lauša, the hamlet of Ludovic, Municipality of Srbica, on November 26 and
27, 1997. In the interim self proclaimed Government of Kosovo, Hashim
Thaqi appointed him minister of internal affairs. At that time, Selimi
established an organization called "Large Eagles", which encompassed a
few dozen former KLA members. Within the "Large Eagles", a group called
"Black Eagles" was also active and their task was assassination of
non-Albanian civilian population, of political opponents and members of
the rival criminal groups. In that sense, and under Thaqi’s control, a
number of thefts were carried out, arson, assassinations and injuries of
the Serbian and other non-Albanian population. Selimi was the direct
organizer of the majority of the kidnappings and assassinations of
Serbian civilians. He was also organizer of illegal transport of
terrorist groups from the Drenica region to the territory of the
FYRepublic of Macedonia, where they joined NLA, and he was also included
in the transfer of terrorists from Drenica to the region of the
Bujanovac, Preševo and Medvedja Municipalities, to carry out attacks
against the police and army forces. In 2000, international KFOR forces
in K&M launched an investigation of five high KPC officials, among
them Selimi, because of the murder and genocide committed on the
territory of K&M in the course of 1998 and 1999. Rexhep Selimi plays
a very important role in the criminal activities of K&M, where he
is included in arms, narcotics and human trafficking. Together with
Sylejman Selimi, his first cousin, he organized a network for the sale
of narcotics, weapons and military equipment. The network is also used
for the activities of the terrorist organizations on the territory of
FYROM. In these operations, he closely collaborates with Thaqi’s
"Drenica group", Xhavit Haliti, Ismet Osmani, Sabit Gecaj and Zan
Qaushi, the leader of one of the mafia groups from Albania, who often
travels and stays on the territory of Klina, Prizren and Priština. A
part of the profit acquired through criminal activities is used by
Selimi to arm and equip the Kosovo secret service, SIK, headed by Kadri
Veseli, from the village of Brabonic, Municipality of Kosovska
Mitrovica. Selimi, together with Fatmir Limaj, is the founder of illegal
criminal terrorist group known as "Falcon’s Eye" which, apart from arms
and drugs trafficking, racketeering and prostitution, is engaged in
following and assassinating of political opponents, rivals and prominent
Serbs, and in criminal activities in general. The organization receives
aid from Switzerland, Germany, France, Australia and Albania.
Currently, its operations base is located in the Teranda Hotel in
Prizren, where SIS members can often be seen. It is believed that this
organization is the paramilitary part of the Albanian Nationalist Party
"Bali Kombetar". He is on the American "black list" of organizations and
individuals who have restricted access to financial aid, i.e., who are
forbidden to enter the US. Currently, he is the head of KPC Academy. 111. SYLEJMAN (Saban) SELIMI, alias "Sultan"
Born on September 25th, 1970, in the village of Ovcharevo,
Municipality of Srbica. In the period between February 1998 and June
1999, he was the commander of the KLA general staff for Drenica, and is
currently the deputy commander of KPC, with the rank of major-general.
He was a direct participant in the terrorist acts carried out against
the court officers and the members of the police in the village of
Vocnjak on November 25 and 26, 1997, as well as against the police
convoy in village of Lauša, the hamlet of Ludovic, Municipality of
Srbica. Towards the end of 1997, he took part in the assassination of
Sadik Bajrami from the village of Donji Obilic, Municipality of Srbica.
In 1999, Hashim Thaqi’s interim Government appointed him commander of
the so-called National Guard of Kosovo. Beside his activities in
K&M, Selimi played an important role in the organization and the
transfer of terrorist groups from the Drenica region to FYROM. Also, his
role in the organization of criminal activities is considerable. He is
connected with Kadri Veseli, Xhavit Haliti and Rexhep Selimi, as well as
with certain criminal groups from Albania, among whom are Ismet Osmani,
aka "Curi", one of the leading narcotics dealer in west European
countries, and Zan Qaushi, leader of the Albanian criminal organization
which deals with illegal arms trade from Albania into the region of
FYROM, Montenegro and K&M. 112. ABEDIN (Abdurahman) SOGOJEVA
Born on February 26th, 1958, in the village of Donji Grabovac,
Municipality of Kosovo Polje. He performed duties of the KLA commander
for the Grabovac region, and is now a KPC member, within the 1st RTG. He
participated in the terrorist attack in which two members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were killed in the village of
Hamidij, Municipality of Obilic, and in the village of Pantina,
Municipality of Vuchitrn, as well as in the attack on the Belachevac
mine. He organized and took part in the kidnapping of the Serbs, the
employees of the Belachevac mine, on June 22, 1998, i.e., of Dragan
Vukmirovic, Zoran, Dušan and Petar Adžandžic, Filip Gojkovic, Marko
Buha, Miroslav Trifunovic, Srboljub Savic, Božidar Alimpic, and Žarko
Spasic, who were kidnapped on May 14, 1998. He is responsible for the
kidnapping and murder of Zvonko Bojanic, the Vice-President of the
Municipal Assembly of Kosovo Polje. In the region of the Obilic
Municipality, he and Sabit Lladrovci established a terrorist group
consisting of the former members of the KLA secret police, – Kadrija
Sullejmani, aka "Mouse", Nebih Preniqi and Bekim Berbatovci, all being
the members of the KLA secret service, than Muhamet Çerkezi aka
"Çerkez", Ahmet Çerkezi and Mirsad Kurteshi, and 14 mujahedins and four
German citizens, who conducted the weapons handling training. This
terrorist group, following Sogojeva’s orders, committed a series of
actions, among which the planting of explosives in the Kastelo
restaurant in Obilic, where local Serbs congregate. He is connected with
the murder of the Rapajic family, from Obilic, committed on November
28, 2000, followed by the murder of Miladija Stanojevic, as well as with
the harassment of ethnic Serbs, members of KPS (Tanja Mihajlovic from
Priština), destruction and looting of the Serb property in the region,
as well as with their physical abuse (Stojka Stojanovic, Tomica Antic,
Novica Ilic, Milenko Mihajlovic and others). 113. FATMIR (Halim) SOPI
Born on April 13th, 1961, in the village of Mramor, Municipality of
Priština. He was sentenced to four years in prison in 1984, for the
criminal act of association for the purpose of committing hostile
activities. Following the withdrawal of the Serb Security Forces from
K&M, as Deputy Commander of the 153rd brigade in the Zlaš village,
Municipality of Priština, he confiscated 700 automatic rifles from the
warehouse in the village of Lukare and sold them to Ramiz Asllani (for
300 DM a piece), after which Asllani resold them to ANA members in
Macedonia (for 700 DM a piece). Towards the end of August 1999, he took
part in kidnapping Milorad Popovic, from Grachanica, Slavica Stevic,
from Badovac, and Predrag Mikic, aka "Prota”, from Sušice, on the
location of the village of Zebince, Municipality of Novo Brdo. Together
with Fatmir Sopi and Adem Shehu, he is the main suspect for the murder
of Dragan Peric, Siniša Markovic and a certain Jovanovic, in the
Grachanica region. 114. AZEM (Riza) SYLA, alias "Tefik" and "Big Uncle"
Born on May 4th, 1951, in the village of Kišna Reka, Municipality of
Glogovac. Former Defense Minister in Hashim Thaqi’s Government, he
spent a number of years in Switzerland and is currently a resident of
Albania. He was one of the most influential members in the Kosovo
Albanian delegation that took part in the talks held in Rambouillet. He
belongs to the group of KLA ideological founders, and took part in the
establishment of SIK. Together with Gjeladin Gashi and Hashim Thaqi, he
organized a terrorist attack on the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs on the railroad crossing in Glogovac, in May 1993.
Beside that, he organized a terrorist attack on the police stations in
Podujevo and Štimlje, the assassination of a group of Serbs in Klina and
some 80 ethnic Serbs and Albanians in Mališevo, in 1998. During the
armed conflict in K&M, he ordered the assassination of around 800
Albanians who refused to become members of DPK, as well as the
assassination of certain influential activists of Ibrahim Rugova’s DSK
party. His recent activities are connected with the terrorist
organization ANA in K&M, within which he plays one of the most
important roles. He is responsible for the bomb attack on UNMIK police
premises in Pec carried out by SIK members at the beginning of 2003.
After the dispute with Hashim Thaqi and Xhavit Haliti, Syla left the
K&M territory and moved to Albania, from where he plans and
organizes diversionary terrorist activities to be carried out by SIK
members in Kosmet. For the purpose of coordinating their activities, he
often illegally crosses the border and stays in the territory of Pec,
Prizren and Djakovica. He also coordinates the organized crime network
on the territory of K&M and FYROM, in connection with the illegal
import of weapons, ammunition and other equipment, as well as with the
procurement of the means necessary for the conduct of terrorist
activities. He procures weapons and equipment for diversionary terrorist
activities in Albania, Germany and Switzerland, and distributes them,
via Albanian territory, to K&M. 115. SHEMSI (Nebija) SYLA, alias "Saca"
Born on July 1st, 1957, in the village of Bresaljce, Municipality of
Gnjilane. As a deputy commander of the KLA Karadak zone (within the Lab
zone, the 153rd brigade), in the Zlaš village, Municipality of
Priština, he was engaged in mobilizing individuals on the territory of
the Gnjilane and Vitina municipalities, which is why, at the beginning
of 1999, he formed the KLA auxiliary general staff in the village of
Žegrovachka Vrbica, Municipality of Gnjilane, in order to transfer
terrorist activities and the promotion of KLA to other regions where,
until that moment, there were no armed conflicts. Certain KLA members
accused him of stealing the money (in the amount of 140,000 DM), which
was set aside to finance the activities of the said general staff. He
personally organized and issued orders for the assassination of Serbs,
but also of Albanians who they believed had cooperated with the members
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces. Upon his
orders, and in agreement with Florim Kllokoqi, now KPC member in the
Novo Brdo Municipality, a group of Albanian terrorists kidnapped the
members of the Bunjaku family (father Bislim and son Agim), from the
Bunjaci district, Municipality of Novo Brdo, and took them in the
direction of the Marevci village. The said persons are now listed as
missing. Upon his orders, a series of murders were committed in the
villages of Poneš, Paralovo, Straža and Cernica, in the Gnjilane
Municipality, as well as in Gnjilane itself. During 2000, he stayed,
Together with Avdul Hasani, from the village of Cernica, and Isa Agushi,
from the village of Žegra, in the region of the Preševo and Bujanovac
municipalities and was an instructor of LAPMB members, assisting in
providing fighters, weapons, material and financial means. 116. FADIL (Hajdar) SULJEVIC
Born on October 19th, 1965, in the village of Ravna Banja,
Municipality of Medvedja. A former employee of the Priština Secretariat
of Internal Affairs, now KPS member in the police station in Priština.
In 1998, he left the police force and joined the KLA, forming a unit on
the territory of Golak (region between Priština and Medvedja), with the
intention of carrying out terrorist acts. The aforementioned group whose
members, among others, were Hamdi Hiseni, Islam Mshica, Mehmet Alija
and Baki Gashi, planned a series of assassinations and diversionary
terrorist actions in the Priština region. In July 1998 Suljevic,
together with his group, carried out an attack in Priština on a military
bus transporting employees to the Slatina airport, at which time
Slavica Aleksic and Dejan Gavrilovic were seriously wounded as well as
YA members, Branislav Kubatovic and Zoran Mirkovic. Following the
withdrawal of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
and the YA forces from K&M, he took part in the expulsion of the
Serbian population in Priština, in theft, harassment and squatting. He
organized a robbery of the gas station in Priština, during which an
ethnic Serb employee was killed. Also, he is also connected with the
murder of over 15 Serbs in the Zlatare village, Municipality of
Uroševac, Kemal Shabani, a State Security employee in Priština, and
Ramiz Mehmeti, from the village of Ajkobil, Municipality Priština, as
well as with the kidnapping of Osman Sainovic, from Medvedja, Valon
Mehmeti and Fitim Vrajolli. He organized and ran a camp for Serb
prisoners which was located in the Zlatare hamlet, in the vicinity of
the Matichane village, close to Priština. Beside his activities in
K&M, Suljevic joined LAPMB within which he carried out a series of
terrorist acts in the region of the Medvedja Municipality. He heads one
of the criminal groups involved in drug pushing, the sale of stolen cars
and excise goods in Priština, as well as in racketeering and mediation
in the purchase and sale of real estate between Albanians and Serbs,
with a
high commission rate. 117. EMRUSH (Nesim) SUMA, alias "Hoxha"
Born on May 27th, 1974, in the village of Dimce, Municipality of
Kachanik. During NATO aggression on FRY, as a member of the 162nd
brigade in the operative zone of Nerodimlje, he took an active part in
terrorist acts in the Kachanik region. As a member of the secret police
of Kosovo, together with Rushit and Zeqif Bardhi and Mehmet Ballazhi, he
took part in the forced expulsion and murder of the non-Albanian
population, and of the local Albanians who refused to join KLA, after
the withdrawal of the Serbian Security forces from K&M. During 1999,
the members of the aforementioned group killed Emin Drenjani and
carried out a terrorist act in which Ziber Curi, an Albanian from
Djeneral Jankovic, Municipality of Kachanik, was killed. After Curi’s
murder, KFOR arrested Suma, Mehmet Ballazhi and another terrorist, but
they were released after a few days under pressure by Albanian-organized
demonstrations. During the conflict of Albanian terrorists with the
Security Forces of the FYRepublic of Macedonia, Suma was engaged in
collecting and sending weapons and military equipment, as well as in
recruiting and transferring able-bodied Albanians to the region of the
aforementioned country. After the Ohrid agreement was signed in 2001, he
moved to FYROM and joined the General Staff of the newly formed
terrorist organization, ANA, and at the beginning of 2002, following an
initiative of the top leadership, he was appointed Deputy Chief of the
bodyguards of Ali Ahmeti, the president of the Democratic Union for
Integration (DUI), an Albanian political party in FYROM. During 2002, he
became one of the main organizers of smuggled weapons, narcotics and
excise goods from K&M into Macedonia. In March of the same year,
during one of his actions of weapon transfer, KFOR intercepted the group
of smugglers and, in the armed conflict which ensued, Suma was
seriously wounded. He was taken to the hospital in Priština for
treatment, but managed to run away. He is on the American "black list"
of organizations and individuals who have restricted access to financial
aid, i.e., who are forbidden to enter the US. 118. RUFKI (Ibrahim) SUMA
Born on April 15th, 1968, in the village of Dimce, Municipality of
Kachanik. At the beginning of 1998, following orders of the KLA general
staff in the Drenica region, he formed diversionary terrorist groups
active in the Djeneral Jankovic region. One of his groups organized a
channel to bring in weapons from FYROM into K&M, and Suma personally
financed its purchase and made decisions on its storage. When this
group was arrested by the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs, Rufki Suma managed to get away, but was sentenced, in absentia,
to 10 years in prison. After the Serbian Security Forces were withdrawn
from K&M, he was one of the organizers of the Serb exile from the
Djeneral Jankovic region, and he personally took part in organizing
several assassinations in that region. He was later appointed Commander
of the KPC 163rd brigade in Vitina, and is now, the commander of the KPC
unit stationed in Djeneral Jankovic, with the rank of major. During
2001 he organized collection of financial means with the intention of
providing aid to the LAPMB units in southern Serbia and to NLA in
Macedonia, and also personally participated in the clashes with
Macedonian Security Forces. Beside his terrorist activities, he is also
involved in criminal activities. Together with Emrush Suma, from the
village of Dimce, Municipality of Kachanik, he formed his own criminal
clan in 1999, which smuggled arms and drugs from FYROM to K&M and in
the opposite direction. They also extort money from the local companies
and wealthy individuals, as well as from the shippers whose trucks pass
through Djeneral Jankovic, The members of Suma’s clan are connected
with the criminal groups headed by Rustem Mustafa, aka "Remi”, from
Podujevo. 119. ISMET (Mihedin) TARA
Born on August 6th, 1963, in Orahovac. With a group of his fellow
fighters from KLA, including Gezim Hamza, aka "Piktor", Gjelal Hajda,
aka "Toni", Selajdin Mulabazi, aka "Mici", and Sabajdin Cena, aka
"Sosi", he formed a special KLA unit, with the headquarters located in
the village of Carevac, in the vicinity of Orahovac. He is one of the
organizers and perpetrators in the armed attack on Orahovac on July 17,
1998, and a large number of terrorist attacks against the members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces. In 1998, this
earned him the appointment to the position of the commander of the KLA
124th brigade in the operative zone of Paštrik, whose headquarters were
located in the village of Retimlje, Municipality of Orahovac, at that
time. With Sabajdin Cena, he is responsible for a number of
assassinations and crimes against the non-Albanian population in
Orahovac, when Albanian terrorists entered into this town in June 1999.
Also, together with Cena and Skender Hoxha, he was in charge of the camp
for Serb prisoners which, at one time, was located in Albania, two km
north from Trooper. After KPC was formed, he was appointed one of its
top officials for the Orahovac region and he personally seized a
"Jugopetrol" gas station for the needs of this formation. During the
terrorist activities of LAPMB in southern Serbia in 2000, he was
involved in the illegal transfer of weapons and military equipment to
the terrorists. He is the leader of the extremist Party of Justice for
the Orahovac region. 120. GANI (Haxhija) THAQI
Born on January 1st, 1958, in the village of Brocna, Municipality of
Srbica. He is Hashim Thaqi’s brother. From 1992 onwards, he took part
in the attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs. Through his brother, Hashim, he made contact with Sami
Lushtaku, Besim Rama, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi, Adem Jashari and
other terrorists. He was appointed commander of the 112th brigade "Arben
Halliti" which was active in the operative zone of Drenica in 1998. He
took an active part in the terrorist actions against the members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces. He is the owner
of 12 gas stations which now bear the name of Kosovo Petrol, formerly
owned by Jugopetrol and Beopetrol, and he holds a monopoly over the
trade in oil derivatives on the whole territory of K&M. Other gas
station owners pay him the licence "tax" and, in case they refuse, they
become the targets of an armed group of mercenaries personally
controlled by Gani Thaqi. The group issues a warning and then
confiscates their goods and forbids them further operations. His
position in the oil and oil derivatives market is secured by Hashim
Thaqi who, also, and in the same manner, reaps huge financial profits. 121. HASHIM (Haxhija) THAQI, alias "Gjarpni" ("Snake")
Born on April 24th, 1969, in the village of Brocna, Municipality of
Srbica. Following KLA’s demilitarization, he formed the DPK political
party whose president he has been from the beginning. In July 1997, he
was sentenced, in absentia, by a verdict of the District Court in
Priština, to 10 years in prison, for the criminal acts of terrorism, and
in February 1998, a central arrest warrant was issued in his name. As a
member of the inner circle of KLA, he took part in securing financial
means for KLA, smuggled terrorist groups into the country, was in charge
of their diversionary terrorist training and their armament. He
completed his military training, lasting a couple of months, in Albania,
after which he was directly engaged in a number of terrorist actions in
K&M. He was a participant in the attack on the railroad crossing in
Glogovac, when four policemen were killed, and three were seriously
wounded. Also, on a number of occasions, he visited the village of
Klecka, Municipality of Lipljan, at the time when a group of Serb
civilians were imprisoned, abused and subsequently murdered there. Even
though he had secured his participation in the interim bodies of
K&M, he maintains his powerful influence over the most extreme
structures of the former KLA, which he uses with the intention of
intimidating his political rivals and applying pressure on the
non-Albanian population to move out of K&M. Towards the end of 2001,
following Hashim Thaqi’s initiative, a number of terrorist groups were
organized, composed of former KLA members, mainly from the Drenica
region, whose activities he controls through Kadri Veseli, the head of
SIK, Sami Lushtaku, from Srbica, and others. A secret armed group is
also under his control and is responsible for a series of crimes,
murders, kidnappings and serious threats in the region of southern
Srbica, in the villages of Rudnik, Radiševo, Suvo Grlo, Banje, Kotore
and Kucica. The immediate supervisor of this group is Rexhep Selimi,
from the village of Ovcharevo, Municipality of Srbica, who is otherwise
the head of the KPC Academy. The members of the group are Musa
Dervishaj, Zenun Kadriju, Gjeladin Gecaj and others. Thaqi is in contact
with Alli Ahmeti, NLA commander in Macedonia, with whom he collaborates
in transporting terrorists from Macedonia into the territory of the
Preševo and Bujanovac municipalities, with the goal to carry out
terrorist actions against the multi-ethnic police checkpoints in certain
villages, on a part of the administrative border with K&M. He is
also the organizer of a criminal organization, known as the "Drenica
Group", with a large number of his family members included in it. The
aforementioned group controls between 10% to 15% of the overall number
of criminal activities in K&M in connection with the smuggling of
arms, stolen cars, oil and, partially, cigarettes, as well as with
prostitution, the establishment and maintenance of connections with the
members of the Albanian, Czech and Macedonian mafia. Other than that,
Thaqi’s sister is married to Sejdija Bajrush, one of the leaders of the
Albanian mafia. Thaqi controls the greater part of organized crime in
the region of Istok-Klina-Srbica-Priština. His closest associate in the
smuggling of stolen vehicles is Fadhil Thaqi. With this, he is assisted
by the Kitaj criminal clan. On the territory of the Klina Municipality,
Hamdi Thaqi is involved in organized prostitution, while operations
connected with the trafficking of drugs and with prostitution are
handled by Hashim Thaqi, together with his cousin Menduh Thaqi, and
Betush Zihugoli and Engel Shabani, aka "Angel". Through Menduh Thaqi, he
is connected with the illegal arms and oil trade. Along with Ekrem
Lluka, Fatmir Limaj, Flori Maloku and Ismet Osmani, Thaqi is one of the
bosses of illegal cigarette trade in K&M. Thaqi’s close associate in
the organized prostitution, narcotics and arms trafficking operations
is Xhavit Haliti who, among other things, is involved in intimidation,
blackmail and elimination of Thaqi’s political rivals. A considerrable
part of the financial means thus acquired is used by the Thaqi clan and
channeled into the political campaign for Hashim Thaqi, while the other
part of the money is delivered as aid to the Albanian terrorist groups. 122. AHMET (Alli) QERIQI, alias "Shpat"
Born on December 26th, 1946, in the village of Krajmirovci,
Municipality of Lipljan. Since 1996, he was arrested on a number of
occasions because of his extremist activities. He was one of the top
officials of the KLA general staff in the village of Krajmirovci,
Municipality of Lipljan. During 1998, he took part in organizing and
carrying out terrorist attacks on the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs and the YA forces. Following orders from KLA, he
traveled to Albania where, in the camps of Vljor and Kruma, he completed
his military training. On June 29, 1998, in the village of Crnoljevo,
Municipality of Štimlje, together with Ramiz Qeriqi, Ramadan Beluji,
Rahman Tafa and Sylejman Qeriqi, he took part in the kidnapping of four
ethnic Serbs (Veljko Bakrac, Ivan Bakrac, Stamena Geno and another
person). He was also a participant in the kidnapping of the Albanian,
Kadri Tafa, his son Sherif, then Gjem Fehmi, Emin Emini and Elmi
Qerkini. In November 1998, he was seriously wounded on his way back from
Albania, where he went with the purpose of purchasing and illegally
transporting weapons and ammunition. Following this incident, and due to
his medical condition, he stopped all terrorist activities and became
active in the fundraising activities for Hashim Thaqi’s DKP. In 1999, he
was in the position of the Deputy Commander of the KLA police in the
Štimlje Municipality. He is currently the owner of a private Union Bank
in Lipljane. In the bank‘s Managing Board, beside Qeriqi, there are also
Fahrudin and Hizer Gashi, both former KLA members. This bank is used
for the laundering of the funds acquired through drugs and weapons
sales. 123. RAMIZ (Rexhep) QERIQI, alias "Luan" or "Sokol"
Born on April 15th, 1962, in the village of Krajmirovci,
Municipality of Lipljan. At the beginning of the 90s, he was in Germany
and was active in the Albanian emigration circles. He completed his
training for terrorist activities in Skadar, Albania and, at the
beginning of 1998, he joined KLA terrorist activities in the
municipalities of Lipljan, Štimlje and Mališevo, where he carried out
the duties of the commander of the KLA general staff for the villages of
Krajmirovci and Petraštica. Prior to arriving in this region, he took
part in the attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs and the YA forces, in the village of Prekaze. On June
22, 1998, he personally killed a policeman and wounded another. Seven
days later, together with Ramadan Beluli, Rahman Tafa and Sylejman
Qeriqi, he took part in the kidnapping four civilians and headed the
group which kidnapped, and later murdered, Agim Ademi, Ahmeti Veseli and
Adem Ramadani. The same group carried out the terrorist act in which
Miroslav Stanišic, a reserve police officer of the police station in
Lipljan, was wounded. He also headed the attack against the family of
Fatmir Qerimi, from the village of Glodjanac, Municipality of Štimlje,
as well as the action of kidnapping Tanjug’s journalists, Nebojsa
Radoševic and Vladimir Dobrichic. The kidnapped individuals were jailed
into the previously dug wells in the village of Klecka, Municipality of
Lipljan. Towards the end of 1998, he became the commander of KLA newly
formed 121st brigade and, following the withdrawal of the Serbian
security forces from K&M, he was one of the top officials of the
secret police of Kosovo. After KLA was disbanded, he joined the LAPMB
terrorist organization in south of Serbia. Starting from 2002, he was
engaged in the recruitment of the members for the terrorist organization
ANA, together with Bekim Zejnulahu and he maintained contacts with
Ajvaz Karpuzi and Rame Buja, as well as with former NLA members in
Macedonia. 124. SAMI (Brahim) UKSHINI, nicknamed "Sokol"
Born on October 15th, 1967, in the village of Morina, Municipality
of Djakovica. Together with Sadri Avduli, he formed and led a terrorist
group that was active in the Djakovica region. The group numbered 35
members and was armed with automatic and semiautomatic guns, mortars,
heavy machine guns and a cannon. In the course of 1998, it carried out a
number of armed attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs and the YA forces. He was deputy to Maliq Ndrecaj,
Commander of the Kumanovo operative zone, which included the 113th
brigade, "Ismet Jashari", headed by Kushtrim Hoxha. 125. AVNI (Beqir) FETA
Born on November 15th, 1974, in the village of Penduh, Municipality
of Podujevo. As the commander of KLA police in the operative zone of
Lab, in 1999, Feta, together with Sefedin and Jashar Ejupi, former
policemen of the Kosovo Secretariat of Internal Affairs, now members of
KPS, from the village of Sekiraca, Municipality of Podujevo, directly
participated in the murder of Srba Djukic, from the village of Glavnik,
Municipality of Podujevo, as well as in the terrorist attacks on
Stanimir Dimovic, a policeman of the police station in Podujevo.
Together with Safet Hasani and Blerim Blakqori, aka "Beni”, on December
21, 1998, in Podujevo, he carried out a terrorist attack in which Milic
Jovic, an operative of the State Security Center of Priština was killed.
Together with Avni Berisha, aka "Tarkan", from the village of
Konjuševac, Municipality of Podujevo, and Rustem Mustafa, aka "Remi",
from the village of Prepolac, Municipality of Podujevo, Feta was a
member of the group which, in this region, carried out a number of
terrorist attacks and, after the withdrawal of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs the YA forces from K&M, carried out ethnic
cleansing on the territory of the Podujevo and Priština municipalities.
After the arrest of Latif Gani, Feta was appointed head of the operative
zone within SIK and, together with Elmi Reqica, aka "Petrit", and
Xhavit Haliti, was one of the top officials of the secret police. He is
currently a member of the terrorist formation ANA active on the
territory of K&M, as confirmed by the fact that he is in possession
of this illegal organization’s ID card. UNMIK police has issued an
arrest warrant in his name, for a number of crimes committed in K&M,
in the period following the arrival of the international forces. 126. ADEM (Rust) HAGJOCAJ
Born in the village of Prekoluk, Municipality of Dechani. As a
member of the KLA group in the aforementioned village, Hagjocaj traveled
illegally to Albania, on a number of occasions, from where he
transferred a large amount of weapons necessary to carry out terrorist
activities. Until August 1998, he took part, together with the
terrorists from Glodjani, in the abduction, torture and assassination of
a large number of members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
and the Serb civilians from the region of the municipalities of Dechani,
whose bodies were subsequently dumped into the Radonjic Lake. Beside
that, he is was one of the perpetrators in the murder of a large number
of Albanians from the Dechani Municipality, amongst whom Muarem
Hagjocaj, a member of the local security force in the Prekoluk village.
127. ABIT (Ajet) HAZIRAJ, alias "Ninja"
Born on June 26th, 1956, in the village of Lauš, Municipality of
Srbica. He was the commander of the 2nd battalion of the 113th KLA
brigade, which was active in the Drenica region. In July 1998, he headed
a terrorist group that kidnapped and subsequently murdered Cedomir
Kandic, from the village of Kotore, Municipality of Srbica, and burned
down a number of Serb houses in the same village. In November 1999, in
the vicinity of the village of Vitaka, he and Muhamet Haliti, aka
"Naser”, kidnapped Dostana Smigic, from the village of Leoccin,
Municipality of Srbica, and took her to an improvised jail in the
village of Likovac, where she was subsequently murdered. In May 2000,
following the orders of Sali Veseli, accompanied with a financial
reward, Haziraj murdered Ekrem Rexha, aka "Drini", from Prizren. Because
of that, he was arrested by UNMIK together with his three accomplices
and his trial for this criminal act commenced at the beginning of 2003. 128. SADIK (Magjun) HALITJAHA
Born on June 7th, 1955, in the village of Mušutište, Municipality of
Suva Reka. Acting within the illegal organization NPK from this region,
Halitjah drew attention to himself as one of the most extremist
members, which is why criminal charges were brought against him, in
1986. In the same year, he illegally travelled to Switzerland, where he
was granted asylum and joined the activities of the Albanian extremist
immigration. In addition to his engagement in the recruitment of young
Albanians who were sent to the diversionary terrorist training, and then
to the KLA units in K&M, in 1998, Halitjah, with a group of
terrorists, arrived in K&M from Albania, where he was immediately
appointed commander of the KLA regional general staff in the village of
Budakovo, Municipality of Suva Reka. He was an organizer of weapons and
ammunition acquisition from Albania and soon established a powerful
terrorist organization, which placed a significant part of the territory
in this region under its temporary control. Under his command, an
illegal jail was established in the village of Budakovo. As a member of
the illegal "Eagle’s Eye" organization he was engaged in controlling the
operations and racketeering the night clubs and brothels, in the region
of Uroševac, Gnjilane, Glogovac and Prizren, in 1999. After KPC was
formed, Halitjaha was appointed head of the department for civilian and
military affairs, but was suspended in 2002. During the same period,
following the initiative of the KLA general staff, an Association of KLA
War Veterans was formed and Halitjaha was elected its president. 129. XHAVIT (Mehmet) HALITI, alias "Bunny"
Born on March 8th, 1956, in Novo Selo, Municipality of Pec. In the
eighties, he was a member of the illegal extremist organization which,
in its manifesto, listed the secession of K&M from the Republic of
Serbia and its accession to Albania as its primary goal. Following the
unsuccessful attempt to arrest him in Priština, he resisted to, and in
the ensuing shooting, wounded a member of the State security, he fled to
Switzerland where he was granted political asylum. He became a member
of the top NPK leadership for the region of Western Europe and, as one
of the leading officials of the then KLA, he was a member of K&M
delegation in Rambouillet. He is a member of DPK and a representative in
the Parliament of Kosovo. At the beginning of 1991, he directly
organized the illegal delivery of a large quantity of arms and
ammunition to the Pec region where, as liaison officers, he used G¸zim
Avdimetaj, from Streoce, Municipality of Decani, the Elezaj brothers,
from Radavac, Municipality of Pec, the Camaj brothers, from Novo Selo,
Municipality of Pec, and some others. Also, he was connected with the
organization of the diversionary terrorist training of KLA members. In
direct contacts with the top KLA officials in Switzerland and Germany
(Gafur Elshani, Jashar Salihaj, Emrush Xhemajli, Adem Grabovci, Ibrahim
Kelmendi, Muhamed Kelmendi, Hasan Ukhagjaj, Hakif Hoti and others), he
planned, managed and coordinated KLA activities in K&M and the
Republic of Albania, and upon orders from the organization, he
occasionally stayed in those regions, in order to strike deals on the
distribution of weapons and equipment to KLA members. In 1998, he
personally stored a large amount of arms in the region of Tropoje,
Albania, and prepared a number of bases to provide shelter for the
terrorist groups which arrived in Albania from K&M. After the
international forces were deployed, he came to the Pec region, to
Vitomirica, where he built a plant for the manufacture of construction
materials. He holds the monopoly in that field, which brings him
incredibly high financial benefits. He held a significant role in the
establishment of the secret police in K&M, which was ready to assist
the most extreme terrorist groups in the Province, carrying out ethnic
cleansing in the Pec region. As the SIK director, he organized logistic
support for the formation of NLA in the FYRepublic of Macedonia and is
also mentioned as the man responsible for the establishment of OVIK. The
Albanian press accuses him of organizing the assassination of Muhamet
Xhemajil, Ibrahim Rugova’s advisor, as well as the top officials of the
former State Security Service, Selim Broshaj and Ibusha Kllokoqi. He is
connected with the mafia in Albania, as well as with the Albanian
intelligence service. He usurps a part of the funds acquired in an
illegal manner for himself, while a part is used to finance the
activities of Albanian terrorists in K&M, southern Serbia and FYROM.
He is one of the central figures of organized crime in K&M. He has
an enormous capital and is involved in the racketeering and the
activities connected with drugs and protection. Also, he has a total
control over the districts of Vitomirica, which is situated 2 km
north-east of Pec where he has a number of residences (as well as in
Kosovska Mitrovica, Pec, Albania and Switzerland). He is the owner of a
number of restaurant and hotel facilities which he uses to launder the
money, and which serve him as a cover for the performance of various
criminal activities. Following the elections held on November 17, 2001,
he was elected representative in the assembly of K&M and, in March
2002, was named its vicepresident. 130. BUJAR (Rasim) HARADINAJ
Born on May 15th, 1976, in the village of Glodjani, Municipality of
Dechani. As a member of the armed formation which was active on the
territory of the operative zone of Dukadjin, he took part in over 87
assassinations, 29 kidnappings and set up a number of jails in the
villages of Glodjani, Belanica, Likovac, Jablanica and Smonica,
Municipality of Prizren, in the rape and sexual harassment of a number
of individuals and in the destruction of considerable property. Beside
this, he is responsible for some 180 terrorist attacks, among which
armed attacks on the villages of Ljodja and Babaloc, in the middle of
1998, as well as for the forced expulsion of the population from the
territory of Djakovica, Pec and Dechani, and for setting the church in
the village of Gornji Rašic on fire. He is the immediate perpetrator of a
number of armed attacks on the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and the YA forces. Together
with Agim Selmani and Daut Haradinaj, he took part in the attack on the
members of the army and police, in August 1998, in the vicinity of the
village of Šaptej, Municipality of Dechani, and headed a group of
terrorists in the attack against the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs in the village of Jablanica, Municipality of Djakovica,
as well as in the attacks against the policemen and soldiers in the
village of Glodjani, in October 1998 and in the Dašinovac bridge,
Municipality of Dechani in November 1999. In addition to all this, he is
connected with the smuggling of arms to K&M. 131. DAUT (Hilmi) HARADINAJ, alias "Cufi" or "Cripple"
Born on April 6th, 1978, in the village of Glodjani, Municipality of
Dechani. As a KLA member, he was seriously wounded in the conflicts
with the Serbian security forces and was left without an arm. Following
an initiative of the Ramus brothers, Daut and Shkelzen Haradinaj, at the
beginning of 1998, he formed the KLA general staff in Glodjani, whose
commander became Ramush, and his deputy Daut Haradinaj who was
subsequently named a member of the KLA general staff and the commander
of the 131st brigade "Isuf Grvala”, whose members committed a large
number of crimes in the Dechani region. In the Glodjani prison, which
was under direct control of Ramush and Daut Haradinaj, a large number of
Serbs were murdered, amongst whom Slobodan Radojevic, Miloš and Milica
Radunovic, Milka Vlahovic, Darinka Kovac, Novica Vujišic, Zdravko
Radunovic, Dragan Djukic, Miloje and Vinka Krstic and others. Daut
Haradinaj also directly participated in the murder of Slobodan
Prašchevic and the policeman Milorad Otaševic. He is also held
responsible for the crimes against the Serbs and Albanians loyal to the
Republic of Serbia, as well as those who could have been potential
witnesses of the crimes committed by the Haradinaj brothers. He is the
direct perpetrator of a number of assassinations, and he organized the
assassination of Tahir Zemaj, as well as a score of other political
rivals of Hashim Thaqi. After KPC was formed, he was the deputy
commander and, afterwards, the commander of the 3rd RTG. Upon KPC
command, he was in charge of coordinating operations with the Islamic
terrorist organization Al Qaeda. In that capacity, he organized a
meeting with Muhamed Al Zawahiri, brother of the ideological leader of
the aforementioned organization Dr. Yaman Al Zawahiri in Sophia in
October 2001. He was suspended from KPC in 2001 because he was placed on
the American "black list" of organizations and individuals who, due to
terrorist activities, had restricted access to financial aid, i.e., who
were forbidden to enter the US. Until his arrest by KFOR in July 2002,
he directly participated in the attacks on the security forces of the
Republic of Macedonia, together with NLA members, and he was also active
in the area of arms and drugs trafficking, as part of the criminal
group led by Ramush Haradinaj. He is accused of war crimes committed
against Kosovo’s Albanians in June 1999. 132. RAMUSH (Hilmi) HARADINAJ
Born on July 3rd, 1968, in the village of Glodjani, Municipality of
Dechani. Suspected to have committed criminal acts of terrorism,
association with hostile intentions and the murder of civilians, 108
criminal charges were brought against him. He emigrated to Switzerland
in 1989, after which he joined the Foreign Legion in France. In 1996 he
completed his diversionary terrorist training. In Albania he took part
in establishing the logistics bases in Kuks and Tropoj which he later
used, with a group of trustworthy associates, to transport weapons to
K&M. In mid-1997, he illegally entered the country and, together
with his brothers, Daut and Shkelzen, organized terrorist attacks
against the police department in the village of Ranic, Municipality of
Dechani, and the village of Ponoševac, Municipality of Djakovica, and on
the refugee camps in Junik and Babaloc. At the beginning of 1998, in
Glodjani, he formed a diversionary terrorist group which, following his
orders, intercepted and threatened the Serbs and Albanians loyal to the
Republic of Serbia. This group, headed by the Haradinaj brothers,
attacked a police patrol in the village of Glodjani, in which Miodrag
Otovic was murdered. In April of the same year, the terrorist group, led
by Ramush Haradinaj, established the KLA general staff in Glodjani for
Metohija, the members of which became his brothers Daut and Skeljzen, as
well as Hilmi Haradinaj, Faton Mehmeti, Rasim Haradinaj, Fadil Nimonaj,
Maliq Ndrecaj and others, while Ramush himself was engaged in the
promotion and establishment of local general staffs on the overall
region of Dechani and Djakovica. At the same time, on his initiative, a
special KLA unit was formed in Glodjani, called "Black Eagles", whose
commander was Idriz Balaj, aka "Toger". Under the leadership of Ramush
Haradinaj, the "Black Eagles" kidnapped and brutally murdered dozens of
Serb civilians. A number of bodies were found in the Radonjic Lake and
village wells in the Dechani Municipality. After KPC was formed,
Haradinaj was appointed Deputy Commander of the commander of KPC, Agim
Çeku. Towards the end of 2000, he left KPC and established the ABK
party. In order to maintain his influence over KPC, he managed to place
his brother Daut as the commander of the 3rd RTG of KPC which carries
out the assassinations of Ramush’s political rivals. Haradinaj also has
close connection within the KPS structure, bearing in mind that a large
number of policemen and officers of this formation were active in KLA at
the time when Haradinaj was the commander of the KLA general staff in
Metohija. Ramush Haradinaj is the most influential criminal in Metohija,
in the region of Pec, Dechani and Djakovica. In cooperation with Ekrem
Lluka and Naser Kelmendi, he created a criminal organization which
controls the organized smuggling of drugs, cigarettes, oil, oil
derivates, weapons, vehicles and other goods. His close associates, Isa
Balaj, Arton Tolaj, Avdyl Mushkoli and Ali Haskaj, all from Dechani, are
in contact with the members of the Albanian mafia. A part of the
acquired profit from the criminal activities of Haradinaj and his
criminal group was given to KPC, and from the same source, a significant
part of the financial means was forwarded to Nazim Haradinaj, who
supplied the Albanian terrorists in Macedonia with weapons. He belongs
to an influential family in the Pec region, which has great rivals in
the Rugova and the Musaj clan, which traditionally aids Rugova’s DSK,
and formerly had close connections with FARK of Bujar Bukosi. On July 7,
2000, he was seriously wounded in the village of Strelci, in the
western part of K&M, which was a result of inter-mafia conflict
between the groups belonging to Hashim Thaqi and Haradinaj and the Musaj
family. Before and after that, a series of murders were committed as a
consequence of the blood feud among the warring clans. In the second
half of 2002, an investigation was launched and Daut Haradinaj and a
group of top KPC officers were arrested and sentenced to a number of
years in prison. Beside that, criminal charges were brought in the
District Court in Pec, against Ramush Haradinaj. Aiming to free his
brother from prison, Haradinaj, by the mediation of Avdyl Mushkoli,
organized demonstrations and initiated the formation of a group of some
30 people who attempted to release Daut Haradinaj by force from the
Dubrava prison, Istok Municipality. In January 2003, Haradinaj organized
the assassination of Tahir Zemaj, a FARK commander, his son Enis and
nephew Hysen, on the Priština–Pec road, in the vicinity of a lumber
plant, due to the fact that Zemaj was supposed to be the crown witness
in the proceedings against Daut Haradinaj and himself. Following Ramush
Haradinaj’s orders, Maliq Ndrecaj was sent to the Vitina region, in
order to organize the terrorist ANA, which proof of Haradinaj’s
involvement in the incidents in southern Serbia. He was especially
active in arms procurement and the secret training of terrorists from
this region, which was organized in the villages along the
administrative border. 133. NAIT (Gjemajl) HASANI
Born on January 15th, 1965, in the village of Randubrava,
Municipality of Prizren. In 1997, he was sentenced to many years of
imprisonment for his terrorist activities. In 2002 he was granted
amnesty. He is one of the founders of KLA and worked for the unification
of the terrorist groups that were active at the beginning of the 90s.
In connection with this, he had direct contacts with Azem Syla, Rexhep
Selimi, Sylejman Selimi, aka "Sultan", Gjeladin Gashi, Zarih Pajaziti,
as well as with Adem Jashari’s group. Following his release from prison,
he joined the DPK political party in 2002 and was elected member of its
presidium. However, due to misunderstandings with the party’s leaders,
he soon left the party. 134. SAFET (Rahman) HASANI, alias "Breca"
Born on April 23rd, 1970, in Podujevo. As a KLA member of the Lab
zone, together with Avni Feta, from the village of Penduh, Municipality
of Podujevo, and Blerim Blakqori, aka "Beni", he participated in the
assassination of Milic Jovic, an employee of the State Security Service
in Priština. Following the withdrawal of the Serbian Security Forces
from the territory of K&M, Hasani conducted systematic ethnic
cleansing of the Serb population on the territory of the Podujevo
Municipality. He took part in the kidnapping of a number of ethnic Serbs
in this region (for example Ivan Majstorovic). Together with Isa Latifi
and Fahri Jakupi, he murdered Srbislav Djukic from the village of
Glavnik. He was arrested on September 13, 2002, by the members of UNMIK
police and KFOR as he was accused of having participated in the
kidnapping his fellow citizens on the territory of Podujevo, in the
period between 1998 and 1999. For the aforementioned crimes, he was
sentenced to four years of imprisonment and is currently serving his
sentence in the Dubrava jail, Municipality of Istok. 135. XHABIT HASANI, alias "Rakip"
Born on March 10, 1957, in the village of Tanuševci, Municipality of
Skopje, FYRepublic of Macedonia. He joined KLA in 1999, when he
organized the infiltration of volunteers into K&M, through the
territory of the village of Tanuševci. He had his own unit of KLA
members. Following the conflict in K&M, he bought and sold arms,
pharmaceuticals and other goods for the benefit of LAPMB and NLA. When
NLA commenced its armed activities in FYROM, he immediately became one
of its commanders. However, he soon left the formation and, with some 50
terrorists under his control, carried out actions against the
Macedonian police and army. He now smuggles cigarettes and military
equipment and is active in recruiting, financing and training ANA
members in the region of Uroševac, Vitina and Kachanik. He is Ramush
Haradinaj’s spokesman in FYROM. During 2000, he was promoted to the rank
of major. He was one of the organizers who also gave orders for the
assassination of the Serbs and Albanians loyal to the Republic of
Serbia, as well as for burning down Serbian houses and other property in
the Vitina Municipality. For the sake of founded suspicion of having
committed the murder of a few policemen, and of a construction inspector
of the Cair Municipality in FYROM, and following the request of the
Government of FYROM, KFOR members arrested Hasani in March 2000 in
downtown Vitina and handed him over to the international police forces
in FYROM. He was soon released from prison, in exchange for four
Macedonian border policemen captured by NLA members, after which he
returned to Vitina. He is a member of the illegal "Free Eagles"
organization, which is know as "Leopards" in Vitina, which deals in
extortion and intimidation. Its members took part in a sudden attack
also on the Macedonian security forces in Tanuševci on February 16,
2001. Hasani is closely connected with Skender Habibi, one of the main
financiers of ANA terrorist activities in the region of southern Kosovo.
KFOR members arrested Hasani again in the first half of 2002 for his
criminal acts committed in FYROM, as well as for crimes against the Serb
population in K&M. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the
District Court in Gnjilane, on June 21, 2002. 136. ZEQIR (Mehmet) HAXHIJA, nicknamed "Cannon"
Born on April 16th, 1972, in Djakovica. He joined KLA ranks on the
territory of Djakovica in 1998, with a group of Albanian immigrants from
Switzerland, and was soon appointed one of the commanders of the 134th
brigade "Bedri Shala". At the same time, he was the leader of the "Black
Hand" terrorist group and, together with its members Hekuran Hoda, Nik
Pnishi, Nik Smajli, Esat Lata, Kujtim Shala and Anton Lekaj, aka
"Pinco”, and was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Milivoje
Bukovic, from the village of Raca, a policeman in the Djakovica
Secretariat of Internal Affairs, of the policeman Pashko Qerimi, from
the village of Sopot, Municipality of Djakovica, of Nua Qupi, from the
village of Ujz, Municipality of Djakovica, and of Zef Berisha, from the
village of Zjum. After the demobilization of KLA, he was appointed one
of the top officials of the 3rd RTG of KPC in Pec, but in mid-2001, upon
Hashim Thaqi’s request, he was suspended from that position for lacking
enthusiasm because of a series of criminal acts which he had committed.
He was involved in making forged documents referring to the
privatization of certain socially owned companies on the territory of
the Djakovica Municipality, which he sold to interested parties at
extremely high prices, primarily to the members of the Albanian
nationality. In that manner, Haxhija sold the "Deva" company for 500,000
euros to Kolja Komani, from the village of Žub, Municipality of
Djakovica. He also squatted in the house of Dmitar Obradovic, from
Djakovica, where he opened a local radio and TV station. 137. G¨ZIM (Sami) HAXHIMUSA, alias "Shpingj" and "Piktori"
Born on February 21st, 1968, in the village of Dukanjevo,
Municipality of Uroševac. He was a courier for the KLA Commander of the
General Staff in the village of Jezerce, in charge of liaison with the
persons from Uroševac who were providing logistic support to KLA
members. Later, he became the commander of a special KLA unit in that
region. Following the armed conflict in K&M, he was one of the
organizers and direct participants in the ethnic cleansing of the
Serbian population in the villages of Zaskok, Doganjevo, Nekodim, Selo
Varoš, Plešina, Grebno and Gatnje, in the Uroševac Municipality. As a
member of KPS, he was placed in the police station in Uroševac, but he
left this job due to medical reasons. However, he immediately joined the
illegal secret police of Kosovo for the region of the said
Municipality, and after ANA was formed, he joined its activities and is
now the head of the ANA general staff for the Uroševac region. 138. HEKURAN (Miftar) HODA
Born on February 18th, 1965, in Djakovica. Starting from 1992, he
was a member of the illegal general staff of the national defense in
Djakovica, headed by Mazlom Kumnova, Naser Zeka, Ilir Bitiqi and Bedri
Cahani. At the beginning of 1998, following orders of Mazlom Kumnova,
Sokol Dobruna and Aqifi Qehu, he formed a center for the recruitment of
volunteers who were subsequently taken to the Smonica and Jablanica
villages, Municipality of Djakovica, and the Glodjani village,
Municipality of Dechani, where strong KLA terrorist bases existed, and
later he himself joined these groups. He was appointed to one of the
commander functions by Ramush Haradinaj, and during June, July and
August 1998, he led a number of terrorist attacks against the members of
the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs which resulted, at the end of
August 1998, in the criminal charges against him for the criminal act of
terrorism. In the spring of 1999, in the Djakovica region, he formed a
city guerilla, which was active in the Cabrat district, and in April and
at the beginning of May of that year, it carried out a few terrorist
attacks in which a number of civilians and three members of the police
and army forces were killed. After the Kumanovo Agreement was signed, he
organized a number of terrorist groups, which carried out kidnapping
and murder of the remaining members of the Serb and Montenegrin
population in Djakovica, among whom were Negovan Dedic, Zvezdan Mojsic,
Budimir Baljoševic, Staniša Milenkovic and Goran Stolic. He is also
responsible for kidnapping and murder of Milica Vekic and Desanka Ilic,
from Djakovica. His closest associates and accomplices in the
aforementioned murders were Antun Lekaj, aka "Pinqo", Baton Morina,
Adnan Krasniqi, aka "Cipi", and Kreshnik Prtoli. After KPC was
established, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the 332nd brigade in
Djakovica. He abused his official position by usurping enormous
financial means from the humanitarian aid and used them to build a
luxurious hotel on Cabrat hill. Beside that, he is also the owner of the
"Sini" radio and television station. In September 2002, UNMIK police
questioned Hoda about his participation in the theft and extortion of
money from wealthy Albanians from Djakovica, after which he was fired
from his top position in the brigade of KPC. Fearing that the members of
the International Security Force would make him pay for the crimes he
had committed, he fled to Albania in 2002. 139. FATMIR (Shefqet) HUMOLLI, alias "Baci"
Born on April 11th, 1965, in the village of Donje Ljupche,
Municipality of Podujevo. He is the president of the Governing Board of
PMKL and a representative in the Parliament of Kosovo, and is also
active in KPC’s Lab RTG. In 1982, as a member of the illegal
organization "New Kosovo", he was arrested and sentenced to three years
in prison. After serving his sentence, he joined the NPK organization
and, when a number of its members were arrested, he illegally fled to
Albania and joined PMKL. In 1997, he was sentenced in absentia, to 8
years in prison. At the beginning of 1998, he illegally crossed the
border and returned to K&M from Albania, where he was engaged in the
organization of a shelter for armed individuals who came from Albania
and their transfer to KLA units on the territory of the Podujevo
Municipality. During the same year, owing to his connections with Rustem
Mustafa, he became a member of the KLA general staff of the Lab general
staff. Following his and Rustem Mustafa’s orders, in 1999 and 2000, two
terrorist groups were formed: "BIA" (the group got its name from the
first initials of the killed terrorists Bahri Fazliu, Ilir Konjushevci
and Agron Rahmani, its headquarters were in Priština, in the Vranjevac
district), whose task was to carry out terrorist activities against the
remaining Serb population on the territory of K&M, and "Skifteri",
in charge of applying pressure on the non-Albanian population (the
leader of this group was Ruzhdi Halili, aka "Rudi", and its members were
Behar Berisha, Nazif Metoli, nicknamed "Tabut", Hilmi Veli, aka
"Death", Haki Abazi, Aslan Sinani, Gani Koci, Shefqet Murseli, Shaqir
Beqiri, and the brothers Faik and Raif Arifi). The members of the said
group were connected with the assassination of Kemal Shabani, a member
of the Central State Security in Priština, Latif Krasniqi, from the
Mahovac village, Xhavit Shala, from Vranjevic, and Enver Gjaki. The
members of the "Skifteri” group murdered Miško Maršulovic, a reserve
officer of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and his
brother-in-law, Dragan, from Kruševac. The members of the "BIA"
terrorist group were the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on the
Niš-Express passenger bus on February 16, 2001, in the vicinity of the
village of Livadice, Municipality of Podujevo, when 11 people were
killed and a number of ethnic Serb passengers were wounded. Humolli is
also connected with the murder of Milan Milovanovic in the village of
Dabovac, Municipality of Kuršumlija, and of planting an anti-tank mine
on the Kuršumlija-Prepolac passenger route in November 1999, when three
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were killed, while 6
were seriously wounded. In 2001, he was elected a representative to the
Assembly of the Podujevo Municipality, as an ABK member but, at the
same time, he was engaged in the general staff of the 5th RTG of KPC. At
PMKL’s fifth session, held on July 29, 2001, he was elected president
of movement. At the last parliamentary elections in Kosovo, PMKL
received a single seat, on the list with Fatmir Humolli’s name. 140. SABAJDIN (Samedin) CENA, alias "Sosi"
Born on March 13th, 1953, in Orahovac. He was one of the initiators
and organizers of the diversionary terrorist group in the Orahovac
region, at the beginning of 1998. As a member of KLA general staff for
Orahovac, he was one of those who decided to launch an armed attack on
Orahovac on July 17, 1998, and then to carry out kidnappings and
assassination of dozens of civilians of the Serb and Montenegrin
nationality. Following the withdrawal of the Security Forces of the
Republic of Serbia from K&M, he entered Orahovac with his terrorist
formation. Then, upon his orders, Serbs and Montenegrins were arrested,
as well as some Albanians loyal to the Republic of Serbia, of whom a
certain number were killed. As the president of DPK for the Orahovac
region, he took part in the seizing of the local government, at which
time the private property of the Serb civilians was plundered. Due to
the crimes committed by KLA members in 1998 and 1999 against the
non-Albanian population in the Orahovac region, the members of UNMIK
police have been searching for Sabajdin Cena and Ismet Tara, also from
Orahovac. At the moment, both are at large. 141. AGIM (Hasan) ÇEKU
Born on October 29th, 1960, in the village of Cuška, Municipality of
Pec. A former YNA officer, now the Commander-in-Chief of KPC. He is
married to Dragica, a Serb. During the armed conflicts in Croatia, as a
colonel of the Assembly of the National Guard, he headed the unit which,
towards the end of September 1991, carried out kidnappings,
assassinations and massacres of 156 of the most renown Serbs from
Gospic. In September 1993, he took part in the attack of the members of
the Croatian army on the Medak Pocket, when 87 Serbian civilians were
massacred. He was one of the key participants in the planning of the
"Storm" operation executed in August 1995. Together with Rahim Ademi, a
general of the Croatian Army, he organized the recruitment and transfer
of the Albanians from Croatia to the KLA units in 1997. In 1998, he was
appointed chief of the KLA general staff and took part in the planning
and execution of terrorist acts aimed against the members of Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces, as well as against the
non-Albanian population in K&M. After KLA was disbanded, Çeku was
named the Commander-in-Chief of KPC whose members, under his control,
channeled their terrorist activities towards the members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs deployed in the security zone in the
municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, as well as against
the members of the army and police forces of the FYRepublic of
Macedonia. Following Çeku’s instructions, large amounts of arms, which
were at KLA’s disposal, were hidden in secret locations in K&M.
Through his brother Besim, after NATO’s bombing campaign, Agim Çeku
controlled the jails where Serb civilians were held, of which many were
killed. Aiming to better coordinate terrorist activities and provide
more efficient logistic support to the members of LAPMB, upon Çeku’s
orders, this formation’s headquarters were located in the main
headquarters of RTG KPC Karadak in Gnjilane until May 2001. From May to
August 2001, in Agim Çeku’s organization, certain KPC officers,
primarily members of the "Black Eagles" group, headed by KPC major Idriz
Balaj, aka "Toger", took an active part in the conflicts in Macedonia,
within NLA units. At the beginning of 2002, Çeku publicly denounced the
arrest of the active KPC officers – Latif Gashi, former Deputy Commander
of RTG Lab, and Rustem Mustafa, former commander of RTG Karadak, by
UNMIK members, who were accused of committing war crimes in K&M.
Through his brother Ethem, he controls criminal activities connected
with the trafficking in arms, drugs and in the illegal trade in excise
goods in the Pec region, directly collaborating with Daut Kadriovski and
Rufat Musa. He is the owner of the "Sloga" company from Priština that
owns the Grand and Božur hotels, used as brothels, gambling facilities
and drug distribution centers. His business operations are handled by
Sylejman Selimi. He has some 60 shops throughout K&M. He is very
close to Rahim Ademi, Ramush Haradinaj, Adem Krasniqi, Murat Jashari,
Shaqir Shaqiri, Shefqet Musliu and Hashim Thaqi, with whom he controls
all KPC public and secret activities. 142. ETHEM (Demo) ÇEKU
Born on October 1st, 1962, in Pec. He was a member of the illegal
organization PMKL, which earned him a prison sentence. He initiated the
establishment of the extremist wing of the Parliamentary Party of Kosovo
in Pec, promoted KLA in the region and took part in the illegal
transfer of arms. He received and took care of the volunteers joining
KLA from western Europe and their illegal transport to the Drenica
region, where armed operations were carried out. He took part in the
activities of the KLA general staff for the Metohija zone whose
commander was Ramush Haradinaj. In mid-1999, he was appointed President
of the Municipal Assembly of Pec. At the time when ABK was formed, he
was elected member of the Presidium and, during the election campaign,
he was the president of that party’s Central Election Commission. During
NATO’s bombing, Ethem and Besim Çeku commanded the camps, of which one
was situated in the Junik mountains, and the other in the village of
Dragobilje in the vicinity of Mališevo. The Serbs who were imprisoned in
these camps were forced to carry out hard physical labor in the Deva
mine. His criminal activities were carried out within the criminal
organization of Ramush Haradinaj and Ekrem Lluka, and the profit they
acquired was used to finance the activities of the Albanian terrorist
groups which, from the Pec region, were illegally transferred to
southern Serbia and western FYROM. He is currently in the position of
minister of ecology and development in the Government of Kosovo. 143. MUHAMET (Mahmut) ÇERKEZI, alias "Çerkez"
Born on July 9th, 1979, in Priština. He belonged to the terrorist
group formed in the Obilic region, headed by Abedin Sogojeva and Sabit
Lladrovci. He was connected to the murder of the Rapajic family from
Obilic, committed on November 28, 2000, and he planted an explosive
device in the restaurant Kastelo, and is the main organizer of the
destruction of the Miloš Obilic monument in the downtown area of the
same city. Beside his activities in K&M, he joined LAPMB units in
carrying out terrorist activities in southern Serbia. He was arrested by
UNMIK police, together with Bekim Berbatovci, from Obilic, because he
was suspected of being involved in the murder of the Stolic family. Due
to the lack of evidence, they were both released from prison after 72
hours. 144. EMRUSH (Muharem) XHEMAJLI
Born on May 1st, 1959, in the village of Kamena Glava, Municipality
of Uroševac. Between 1981 and the outbreak of hostility in K&M, he
lived in Bien, Switzerland. Together with his brother Mustafa, he was an
initiator of the establishment of NMRK. When NMRK suddenly started
losing membership in 1991, the Xhemajli brothers formed an illegal
extremist organization NPK. As secretary of this organization, Emrush
Xhemajli was especially active in recruiting and organizing the transfer
of the recruited Albanians to the Republic of Albania for military
training. Thence, after the completion of the training, they were sent
to join KLA units in K&M. He also took part in the collection of
financial means for the weapons and military equipment acquisition for
KLA needs. After his arrival in K&M in 1998, he helped form KLA
terrorist general staff in the region of the municipalities Uroševac,
Kachanik and Vitina. Following the deployment of international forces in
K&M in June 1999, he was appointed coordinator of NPK with KFOR and
UNMIK. At the beginning of 2000, together with Gafur Elshani, he
registered NPK as a new political party and became its president. After
LAPMB was formed, he maintained intense contacts with Junuz Musliu and
often stayed in the territory of the municipalities of Preševo,
Bujanovac and Medvedja. In connection with this, as the president of
NPK, he played a decisive role in establishing ANA on the territory of
Prizren and Dragaš, and was also active in collecting financial means
for the needs of this terrorist formation. Xhemajli is a close associate
of Ali Ahmeti and together they planned NLA activities in FYROM. He was
one of the main organizers of the illegal transfer of this formation’s
members to the training camps in K&M, followed by their return to
FYROM with the intention of carrying out terrorist activities. Due to
his connection with terrorist organizations, he was placed on the
American "black list" of organizations who have restricted access to
financial aid, i.e., who are forbidden to enter the US. 145. IDRIZ (Rizah) SHABANI, alias "Luta"
Born on December 1st, 1958, in the village of Orlani, Municipality
of Podujevo. He is a retired YNA officer. He was a member of the general
staff of the operative zone of Lab, and later the commander of the
152nd brigade called "Shaban Shala", with headquarters in the village of
Burince. After KLA was disbanded, he took a high officer position in
the KPC general staff where he carries out the duties of the department
head in the 5th RTG. He belonged to the terrorist group which was, for a
while, led by Zahir Pajaziti, and which carried out a number of
terrorist actions, among which the throwing of hand grenades on the
Serbs from Croatia, situated in the Djuro Djakovic high school building
in Podujevo, the attack on the refugee Serbs from Croatia situated in
the former rest home of the Power Industry, in the village of Batlava,
the attack on Sredo Radovic and Stanko Dimovic, members of the police
station in Podujevo, the attack on Bejtush Beka, an employee of the
Central State Security of Priština, who later succumbed and died because
of the wounds, as well as the attack on the building of the Department
of Internal Affairs of Podujevo and the police departments in the
villages of Krpimej, Lužane and Orlani. Beside that, in 1996, Shabani,
together with the members of this terrorist group, carried out a new
attack on Sredo Radovic, he took part in the assassination of a member
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Miloš Nikolic, and an
employee of the Podujevo Municipality Dragan Rakic, from the village of
Velika Reka, in the village of Sukriš, Municipality of Podujevo. The
same group carried out an attack in 1997 on Radivoje Papovic, the rector
of the University of Priština. Beside the listed crimes, Idriz Shabani,
after the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from K&M,
continued to take part in a systematical ethnic cleansing of the Serb
population on the territory of the Podujevo and Priština municipalities.
146. BESNIK (Zenel) SHALA
Born on May 31st, 1974, in the village of Ozrim, Municipality of
Pec. He is one of the founders of the KLA branch in the region of the
Drim district. He belonged to a group of terrorists from the village of
Lodja, composed of Naim Gjuraj, from the village of Radavac, Naim Lushi,
from the village of Cuška, and Muhamet Demaj, from the village of
Dobruše, in the vicinity of Pec. This group committed a series of
murders, kidnappings and issued threats at the population from the
region of the Pec and Istok municipalities. In December 1998, Shalja
took part in a terrorist attack on the members of the Serbian Ministry
of Internal Affairs, engaged in the protection of the hospital where the
wounded member of Shalja’s group was hospitalized. On that occasion, a
few persons were wounded. Beside that, he is one of two perpetrators of
the terrorist attack on a group of high school pupils in the café
"Panda" in Pec, on December 14, 1998, when 6 persons were killed (Ivan
Radevic, Dragan Trifovic, Ivan Obradovic, Svetislav Ristic, Vukota
Gvozdenovic and Zoran Stanojevic), while three young men were seriously
wounded (Mirsad Šabovic, Vladan Loncarevic and Nikola Rajevic). In
January 1999, he tried to kidnap Smajl Mehmetaj, from the village of
Ruhot, and in July 1999, he took part in the attacks on the patrol of
the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the vicinity of the village
of Lodja. He is responsible for the assassination of several members of
the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as for the
assassinations of some Albanians from the same village who had,
allegedly, cooperated with the Serbian police. 147. SHABAN (Beko) SHALA
Born on May 15th, 1961, in the village of Lodja, Municipality of
Pec. He graduated from the Military Academy and was a member of the
Kosovo Secretariat for Internal Affairs. Towards the end of 1994, he was
sentenced for his activities within the illegal Ministry of Internal
Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo. At the beginning of 1995, he was
involved in the organization of the diversionary terrorist training of
KLA members in Albania. Upon his orders, a number of Serbs were
kidnapped and murdered in the Pec region and the non-Albanian population
was forcefully exiled. Shala was responsible for issuing orders for the
kidnapping of Velizar Stošic, from the village of Belo Polje,
Municipality of Pec, whose body was later found in the Radonjic Lake. In
one of the terrorist attacks carried out by the group headed by Shala,
the policemen Mirko Radunovic and Mile Rajkovic were killed, while
captain Srdjan Milovic was captured and, after torture, killed. He led
the KLA group in the village of Lodja, Municipality of Pec, which, in
1998 and 1999, on the outskirts of Pec, carried out a series of attacks
on the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was
directly involved in kidnapping of ethnic Serb and Montenegrin civilians
in the wider region of Lodja, of which some were murdered. From June to
September 1999, he carried out the duties of commander of KLA military
police in Pec, where he took an active part in the organization and
execution of ethnic cleansing of the non-Albanian population in the
wider region of that Municipality. After that, he was appointed chief of
the Police Academy class in Vuchitrn and subsequently transferred to
the Pec region where, together with Gani Hajdari, he carried out the
duties of the instructor in charge of personnel training for KPS needs.
Ramush Haradinaj, through Shala, organized illegal transfer of arms and
military equipment from Albania, later stored in the region of Dechani
and Djakovica for ANA’s needs. In view of the fact that Haradinaj’s
terrorist and criminal organization is increasingly concerned by the
investigations conducted by the international forces in relation with
the crimes committed prior to, at the time of, and after NATO bombing,
it stands to reason that some of these arms might be used in terrorist
attacks on the members of KFOR and UNMIK. 148. SHABAN (Veli) SHALA
Born on December 1st, 1958, in the village of Negrovac, Municipality
of Glogovac. Because of his activities within the illegal organization
NMRK, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison in 1985. Within KLA, he
carried out the duties of the deputy commander for the Drenica region,
and he was later appointed commander of the 6th RTG, and then commander
of the 1st Drenica RTG in KPC. He is responsible for setting up illegal
jails in the village of Likovac, Municipality of Srbica, and in the
village of Lapuštnik, Municipality of Glogovac. In these jails, citizens
of the Serb and Albanian nationality which KLA suspected of having
collaborated with the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were tortured
and killed. Commanding the 6th RTG of KPC until October 2000, he
ordered intensified terrorist attacks and threats against the Serb
population in the village of Pasjani, Municipality of Gnjilane. Also, he
advised Albanian citizens from the villages of Mucibaba, Lipovica and
Burince to move out of Gnjilane in an organized manner, in order to
create a clear area for the terrorist activities and the transfer of
arms into Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja. For carrying out these
activities, bases were formed under the control of the general staff of
the 6th RTG KPC. Together with Ramush Haradinaj, he is one of the main
organizers of drug trafficking in K&M. These activities are carried
out together with Bashkim Ibrahimi and Imer Tahiri, from Preševo, and a
part of the means acquired in this manner is used to finance LAPMB. He
maintains close contact with the former KLA member, Irfeta Spahiu, who
was, in November 2000, investigated by the Norwegian members of KFOR for
his connections with illegal trade and prostitution of children and
adults, as well as trafficking in children and human organs. At the time
his apartment was searched, documents belonging to Shala were found,
and it is suspected that he personally had taken part in Irfeta Spahiu’s
aforementioned activities. 149. NASER (Sadik) SHATRI, alias "Ermal"
Born on September 23rd, 1957, in the village of Tomance,
Municipality of Istok. In October 1989, in Istok, he carried out an
attack on Tomislav Babovic, a member of the Serbian State Security,
resulting in severe injures, after which, via illegal channels, he left
for Sweden where he was granted political asylum. He was sentenced, in
absentia, by the District Court in Pec, to 12 years of imprisonment.
Beside playing a significant role in the promotion of terrorist activity
among the Albanian emigration in western European countries, asking
them to support the terrorist activities of Albanians in K&M, Satri,
in 1997 and 1998, via Albania, arrived in the region of the Dechani
Municipality, where he got in touch with Ramush Haradinaj and joined the
organization of diversionary terrorist training of KLA members. In that
period, he was appointed commander of KLA in the village of Prilep,
Municipality of Dechani. At the beginning of 1999, following a
suggestion by Haradinaj, he was appointed assistant commander of the
brigade for military police issues and took part in terrorist attacks on
the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA
forces in the region of the Istok Municipality where, in an ambush,
together with Ziguran Shatri, from the Tomance village, Municipality of
Istok, he killed the policeman Selim Adovic. Following the withdrawal of
the Serbian Security forces, he formed an illegal terrorist group, made
up of former KLA police members, whose task was to murder and exert
pressure upon non-Albanian population. This group committed a number of
murders, among which, that of Momchilo and Sreten Pumpalovic from Istok,
who were abused and tortured before they were killed. He organized and
ran the jails where Serbs and Albanians were held in the penitentiary
facility of "Dubrava", in the vicinity of Istok. 150. XHAFER (Demo) SHATRI
Born on November 10th, 1949, in the village of Tomanci, Municipality
of Istok. As a highschool student, he was sentenced several times for
his extremist and separatist activities. Because of his attempt to
organize an armed rebellion in K&M in 1975, he was sentenced to 8
years in prison. His sentence was extended for another three and a half
years because, in the meantime, he had committed another criminal act.
In February of 1982, he ran away from jail and via Albania fled to
Switzerland where he was granted political asylum. For a number of
years, Shatri had, despite formally being a DSK member, consistently
kept in contact with the leading extremists from NMRK, taking part in
the planning of their operations and in his public appearances he openly
supported aggressive methods, such as diversion, assassinations and the
like. He established a close connection with Bujar Bukoshi, who
appointed him minister of information of his Government in exile. In
1998, the Swiss police confiscated the personal computer, the diskettes
and written documents from Shatri’s office and arrested two of his
associates on the charge of illegal purchase of arms for KLA. During
that year, but in 1999 as well, Shatri organized the transfer of
technical equipment to K&M, which is why he visited Albania on a
number of occasions and, illegally, Kosovo and Metohija as well.
Following NATO’s bombing, he returned to K&M where, on the basis of
his instructions, repressive measures were employed against the Serb
population, which led to ethnic cleansing in the Istok Municipality. His
position was compromised by his collaboration with Bujar Bukoshi, since
both were accused of misusing and embezzling 8 million DM, which is
part of the means the Albanian emigration from western Europe collected
for the needs of Albanian extremists in K&M. Dissatisfied with the
treatment, especially by Hashim Thaqi, he returned to Switzerland in the
second half of 2002 and became one of the top officials of the central
headquarters of the illegal terrorist organization "Ideali", whose
members are gradually joining KPC. 151. MUSTAFA (Shaqir) SHAQIRI, alias ‘Commander Shpejtim"
Born on March 25th, 1967, in the village of Oraovica, Municipality
of Preševo. He was one of the initiators for the establishment of LAPMB.
As a distinguished member of this organization, besides carrying out
activities intended to supply arms to the members of LAPMB, Shaqiri took
part in the terrorist attacks against the security forces in the region
of the Municipality of Preševo. In October 2000, he was appointed
commander of the 113th brigade "Emin Fejzulahu", which was located in
this region, commanding armed actions against the members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces, until May 2001.
Following LAPMB’s demilitarization, for the needs of NLA members, he saw
to it that a part of the weapons be transferred to the territory of
Macedonia. 152. SHAQIR (Ismaill) SHAQIRI
Born on September 1st, 1964, in the village of Depci, Municipality
of Preševo. As the organizer and initiator of the activities of the
illegal "Bajram Curi" organization, Sachiri was sentenced by the
District Court in Vranje in 1982 to six years in prison, of which he
served four in the Leskovac jail. He was supported by the majority of
the Albanian extremists from K&M and abroad, and especially
distinguished himself during NATO’s bombing of FRY. At that time, he
maintained direct contacts with KLA leaders Hashim Thaqi, Ramush
Haradinaj and other terrorist leaders. He was the main organizer of
weapons, ammunition and medical acquisition, which he distributed to KLA
members. He is a participant in the illegal transport of Albanian
citizens from K&M to the Republic of Albania, where they were
trained for carrying out terrorist actions. Following the deployment of
the international forces in K&M, he became the deputy commander of
the 6th RTG of KPC for the Gnjilane region. However, after six months,
he was suspended by Bernard Couchner’s decision, the then head of the UN
civilian mission in K&M. He is one of the main organizers of the
establishment and activities of LAPMB, where he was in favor of
intensified terrorist activities in the region of the Preševo and
Bujanovac municipalities. During 2000, in the region of the Preševo
Municipality, he maintained his command structure through which
terrorist activities against the Serbian security forces were realized.
On a number of occasions, he called attention to his extremist views and
beliefs, particularly at the meetings with the members of the
international community, regarding the demilitarization of LAPMB, which
earned him six months imprisonment in the American Bondsteel base, in
the vicinity of Uroševac. He played a significant role in the
establishment of a new political group of Albanians – PDP, consisting
mainly of former LAPMB members. He is currently the unsurpassed
authority on the extremist separatist policies in southern Serbia. His
views are expressed in the Association of War Veterans of the former KLA
terrorist organization, where he is deputy president. 153. ADEM SHEHU
A former officer of the Albanian Army, he actively participated in
the training of Albanian terrorists in the camps throughout Albania.
After his arrival in K&M in June 1999, he became one of the top KLA
officials in the operative zone of Lab, the commander of the 153rd
brigade, which was active in the Golaka region and along the Priština –
Leskovac route, i.e., in the villages of Kacikol, Graštica, Kolic and
others. He maintained extremely close contacts with Sejdi Veseli and
Rustem Mustafa, aka "Remi”, the then commander of the Lab operative
zone. On August 31, 1999, in the village of Zebnica, the members of the
group commanded by Shehu murdered Dragan Peric, from Grachanica, Siniša
Markovic, from Badovac, and Jovanovic N., from Sušica. Also, this group
kidnapped Milorad Popovic and was responsible for the kidnapping of
Slaviša Stevic, from Badovci, and Predrag Mikic, aka "Prota”, from
Sušica. After the Kumanovo agreement was signed, KLA general staff in
the Lab operative zone, where Shehu was located, made a decision on
forming illegal terrorist groups, in charge of ethnic cleansing in the
region of the Podujevo and Priština municipalities. At the beginning of
December 2000, Shehu returned to Albania, where he continued with his
activities within FNUA and ANA, as its military wing. 154. ELBASAN SHOSHAJ
Born on December 12th, 1963, in the village of Leskovac,
Municipality of Priština. He was the KLA commander for the villages of
Poslište, Biluša and Ljeskovac in 1998. He personally took part in a
number of assassination of the non-Albanian population, together with
Gjimshit Krasniqi and Besim Shala. They received written and oral
commands for the assassination of the Serb population from the so-called
court martial, headed by Sokol Dobruna, from Djakovica, and Ilaz
Kadolli, from Suva Reka While he was carrying out his tasks of the
deputy head of the counterintelligence service, and following the orders
of his superior, Skender Berisha, he committed a few assassinations and
exiled a number of Serbs and other non-Albanian citizens, and kidnapped
and harassed the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
He is a participant of the massacre committed on January 11, 2000, of
the Skenderi family in the Prizren’s district of Tusus. 155. BEKIM (Vesel) SHUTI, alias "Niku"
Born on May 1st, 1976, in the village of Osljani, Municipality of
Vuchitrn. He was the commander of the special KLA unit in the operative
zone of Shala. at the beginning of May 1999, this unit, numbering 40
trained members, kidnapped Ljubomir Kneževic, from Vuchitrn, the
correspondent of the dailies "Politika" and "Jedinstvo" from the said
city. Kneževic was taken to the headquarters situated in the Osljani
village, where he was tortured, and subsequently murdered. Also in May
1999, the same group murdered Miroslav Spiric, the driver of the
president of the municipal assembly of Vuchitrn, and in June of the same
year, Shuti personally killed Milorad Avramovic, from the village of
Osljani. Following the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces, Shuti,
with the entire unit, forcefully entered into 40 Serb apartments in the
southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, and when UNMIK police members
tried to evict some of the illegal Albanian tenants, he organized the
members of his unit to prevent that action, threatening the use of
explosives. In 2001, together with Ronald Bartetsky, he took part in the
murder of an employee of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs,
Aleksandar Petrovic, the head of the passports department in the liaison
office with UNMIK in Priština. However, for this murder, an attempted
murder and terrorism, only a German citizen, married to the sister of
Bekim Shuti, was sentenced. For a time, Shuti was engaged as the
commander of the KPC guard unit in Priština, and is currently holding
one of the top positions in KPC in Kosovska Mitrovica. 156. MET (Sefer) SHUTI
Born on October 3rd, 1944, in the village of Osljani, Municipality
of Vuchitrn. Until 1989, he was an employee of the Secretariat of
National Defense in Vuchitrn. Shortly after KLA was formed, he became a
member of the general staff for the operative zone of Shala, in charge
of training the new members. He took part in kidnapping and murder of
Ljubomir Kneževic, "Politika" correspondent from Vuchitrn and, toward
the end of February 1999, in the murder of the brothers Milan and Marko
Miloševic, in front of their house in the village of Bukoš. He is
currently engaged in the general staff of the 4th RTG of KPC in Kosovska
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