Fadil Nimani
Kosovo Liberation Army commander (1967-2001)
Fadil Nimani (Albanian: Fadil Nimani; Macedonian and Serbian Cyrillic: Фадил Нимани; 7 April 1967 – 25 May 2001) was a Kosovar Albanian insurgent commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo War and the National Liberation Army (NLA) during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia.
He was appointed commander of the 114th Brigade of the NLA, active in the Kumanovo region, and had about 150 people under his command. He was killed by Macedonian special forces in an operation during the Macedonian insurgency, on 25 May 2001. A statue has been erected by ethnic Albanian politicians and former NLA fighters at Vaksince in his honour.
Biography
Nimani was born on 7 April 1967, in the village of Gergoc, in the municipality of Gjakova. He went to secondary school in his village, and gymnasium in the nearby village of Cermjane. An armed uprising led by Kosovo Albanian nationalists against Serbian rule erupted in the region in 1991, when an Albanian irredentist organization that came to be known as the Kosovo Liberation Army first emerged. At this time it is known that the organization underwent military training in Albania. In 1997, the Serbian police sought to arrest him, along with Jakup Krasniqi and Hashim Thaçi, for "murders and kidnappings of civilians, as well as attacks on the army and police of Yugoslavia". Nimani had joined the Kosovo Liberation Army by 1998 and initially smuggled weapons from Albania at the beginning of the Kosovo War.
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