Agim Ramadani

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.

Agim Ramadani
Monument of Agim Ramadani
Born3 May 1963
Žegra, Gnjilane, SFR Yugoslavia
Died11 April 1999
Košare, FR Yugoslavia
RankCommander
Unit138 Brigade
Commands held Kosovo Liberation Army
Battles/warsKosovo War
Battle of Košare
AwardsHero of Kosovo (posthumously)[1]

Biography

Agim Ramadani[a] was born in the village of Žegra in the municipality of Gnjilane 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 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

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, archived from the original on 2016-02-22, retrieved 2013-10-07

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