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Thaçi is from the region of Drenica in Kosovo, which is where the KLA originated. He studied philosophy in Prishtina before moving to Switzerland, where he joined the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1993. He rose through the ranks of the KLA to become leader of the most powerful faction by 1999, during the Rambouillet negotiations.
In 1992–1993, ethnic Albanians created the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) [7] which started attacking police forces and secret-service officials who abused Albanian civilians in 1995. [8] Starting in 1998, the KLA was involved in frontal battle, with increasing numbers of Yugoslav security forces.
During this period, a Kosovo Albanian irredentist organization that came to be known as the Kosovo Liberation Army first emerged. [14] From 1991 to 1992, Jashari and about 100 other ethnic Albanians wishing to fight for the secession of Kosovo from Yugoslavia underwent military training in the municipality of Labinot-Mal in Albania. [16]
The court is currently set up for delegating the trials of the crimes committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic-Albanian paramilitary organisation which sought the separation of Kosovo from Yugoslavia during the 1990s and the eventual creation of a Greater Albania.
The Kosovo Liberation Army disbanded soon after the end of the war, with some of its members going on to fight for the UÇPMB in the Preševo Valley [86] and others joining the National Liberation Army (NLA) and Albanian National Army (ANA) during the armed ethnic conflict in Macedonia, [87] while others went on to form the Kosovo Police. [88]
Kosovo: KLA Veteran Under Investigation, IWPR, 1 December 2001. Gani Imeri, a former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, has become the first of the now disbanded organisation's veterans to be arrested on suspicion of involvement in serious crimes against Kosovo Serb civilians during and after the war.
Sylejman Selimi (born September 25, 1970) is the former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who was convicted of war crimes for the torture and inhuman treatment of prisoners at the Likovac detention center during the Kosovo War. [1]
In 1990, Kosovo's autonomy within Yugoslavia was revoked. [1] Soon after, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was formed to fight the Yugoslav establishment. [2] After a string of minor attacks, the KLA's mission became much more aggressive, [3] which led to them claiming areas that were key to Serbia's fuel-supply, near the town of Orahovac.