Beta, January 07, 2003
Protests in Pristina
PRISTINA -- More than a thousand Pristina residents protested last night over the murder of the former commander of the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army Tahir Zemaj and another two Kosovo Albanians.
Tahir Zemaj, his son Enis and their cousin Hasan Zemaj were killed on Saturday in Pec.
Zemaj’s murder is the last in a series of attacks on Kosovo Presidnet Ibrahim Rugova’s associates, supporters and friends, report the Belgrade media explaining that Zemaj was a supporter of Rugova’s Democratic League of Kosovo.
Zemaj was one of the key witnesses in the trial of five former KLA and Kosovo Protection Corps members, known as the Dukadjini group, convicted in December of kidnapping murder of four Kosovo Albanians in 1999.
President Rugova described this crime as a terrorist act.
This terrorist act is aimed against Kosovo’s progress and independence, against our children’s future, said Rugova.
We demand that the judiciary and UNMIK arrest the assailants as soon as possible and take them to court. Our society must isolate these criminals who are attacking Kosovo’s freedom and independence, said President Rugova.
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