Agim Ramadani

Agim Ramadani
Monument of Agim Ramadani
Born 3 May 1963
Žegra, Gnjilane, SFR Yugoslavia
Died 11 April 1999
Košare, FR Yugoslavia
Rank Commander
Unit 138 Brigade
Commands held Kosovo Liberation Army
Battles/wars Kosovo War
Battle of Košare
Awards Hero of Kosovo (posthumously)[1]

Agim Ramadani (3 May 1963 – 11 April 1999) was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian paramilitary organization that sought the independence of Kosovo from Serbia. He was killed in action.

Biography

Agim Ramadani[a] was born in the village of Žegra (Albanian: Zhegër) in the municipality of Gnjilane (Gjilan) in AP Kosovo. He studied at the higher technical school in Gnjilane in 1980, and the Military Academy for communications in Zagreb, SR Croatia. Poetry and painting were his passions during high school. His poetry was published in literary magazines, whereas painting exhibitions were organized in Croatia, where he worked as a JNA officer, and in Switzerland, where lived after the Croatian War broke out. In 1998 Ramadani accepted honorary membership at the European Academy of Arts.

In 1998, Ramadani left Switzerland, where his wife and three children (two sons and a daughter[2]) lived, and joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).[3] He fell at the Battle of Košare.

Legacy

Agim is regarded an Albanian hero.[4] A main street in Pristina is named after him.[5]

Notes

a.   ^ Albanian spelling: Agim Ramadani, Serbian Cyrillic: Агим Рамадани.
b.   ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has received formal recognition as an independent state from 113 out of 193 United Nations member states.

References

  1. ↑ http://kryeministri-ks.net/?page=2,9,3479. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ albanian history Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Agim Ramadani Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ The exhibit of a hero, Berisha: Agim Ramadani, an eminent patriot, AS TV, November 14, 2012, archived from the original on November 10, 2013, retrieved 2013-11-09
  5. ↑ Të premten mbyllet pjesërisht për qarkullim rruga "Agim Ramadani" ["Agim Ramadani" street will be partly closed for circulation on Friday] (in Albanian), Municipality of Prishtina, 2013-09-25, retrieved 2013-10-07

Sources

  • John Oppenheim; Willem-Jan van der Wolf; Global Law Association. Global war crimes tribunal collection. Global Law Association.
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