CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: Leaders of #Kosovo Rebels Tied to #Deadly Power Play | >>Mr. #Thaci joined a clandestine organization known as the Kosovo Popular Movement that existed on the fringes of #Pristina University. The group was financed and backed by the #Stalinist dictator of #Albania, Enver Hoxha, until his death in 1985. Its members, including Mr. Syla, whom Mr. Thaci appointed his defense minister, and Mr. Haliti, have become the core of the leadership that dominates the Kosovo Liberation Army. Violence has long swirled around Mr. Thaci, whose nom de guerre was Snake. In June 1997, in an incident that many in the underground guerrilla movement found ominous, a Kosovo Albanian reporter who had close links with the movement was found dead in his apartment in Tirana, his face disfigured by repeated stabbings with a screwdriver and the jagged edge of a broken bottle. The reporter, Ali Uka, was supportive of the rebel movement, but also independent enough to criticize it. At the time of his death he was sharing his apartment with Mr. Thaci
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:11:59 +0000
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