Haradinaj's interview in 2002: I watched Bruce Lee, beat up my whole class.

My teacher was very tough, but we had seen him eat. I remember very well when my physical education teacher, Obadiah, gave me the ball and said: “Go and start your watch. I'll be right there.

I watched all of Bruce Lee's movies from whose games and wars I learned and breathed. In my early youth - elementary school - I have read many Albanian literature.

I mean for the first time, at that age, I've tried to become a poet. Until eighth grade, I beat up my entire class. I was very early to convey the movements of the Serbian occupationist and could not be indifferent. My life in the West was full of life, very dynamic and has brought me happy times. I work for 15-18 hours, and as I'm making it public, sometimes even by talking together, I have to eat some bread. When I'm alone, I hear jazz, blues, squirrels, and some rock groups. I prefer Joe Cocer, Pink Floyd etc. I don't want to isolate myself from the reality of Kosovo. I'm a person who doesn't like loneliness...

Telegrafi brings back the interview with Ramush Harian, published in 2002 in the Albanian Political Week “Voice”, to address “Private”.

• What is your childhood?

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HISTORY: I was born in the village of Gllojan, in a middle - economic family. We lived with Uncle Rasim in a one-story house. I know we've even kept sheep, which I've been looking after since my youth. I started elementary school in the village of Irzniq, while my first teacher was Miftar Ceku, a zealous teacher who demanded that we learn and not go unprepared in class. I can tell you, without any modesty, that I was an excellent student. I've loved learning and school a lot. My teacher was very tough, but we had seen him eat. In class, we were sitting on three people, and I usually sat at the last bank.

• Do you isolate any situation, events from that time period?

HISTORY: I told you that until eighth grade in elementary school, I was the best student in class, even head of class, which meant that in absence of teachers, I cared for lessons, quiet, order and order in class. I remember very well when my physical education teacher, Abdel, gave me the ball and said: “Go and start your watch. I'll be right there. So even the educators trusted me because I was a good student.

• What were your sports activities?

HISTORY: Since the age of children and early youth, I have preferred combat sports, karate and judo. Of course, it was not possible for me to practice such sports in the village, but no matter how much I watched movies, I heard something about sports in the city, and I and my friends also practiced. One of my interests in those years was the movie. In this context I'll say that I've watched all the movies of Bruce Lee, whose games and wars I learned and breathed.

• You once said you read a lot at a young age?

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HISTORY: It is accurate that in my early youth, in elementary school, I have read many Albanian literature. As a sixth grade student, I had read dozens of relief books, then many other publications from Albania and those published in Kosovo. From that age, I had read the Brothers Frascher, Mesar, Kadare, Spassen, Hivzi Sulejmani, Fadil Hoxha...

• What were your dreams in youth?

HISTORY: My education was accomplished by my family circle. My family, my mother, my father, aja, etc. We've always been told about Serbia as an occupant and from that age on, the idea of how to drive the Serb out of Kosovo, or what they called popular, how to get the Serbian kral out of our country, which they had seized. That was my idea, this was my biggest dream, so to be able to confront the war against Serbia. My parents told us what Serbia had done in Kosovo and since that age I had been aware of Kosovo's occupation, and I had vowed to fight at any cost for the freedom of my people. In my mind they were always embedded and repeated as the refrain, so from that young age, the words that Serbia and Yugoslavia are occupants, that they have ruled us, possessed, that they are evil.

• Who were your inspirers who influenced your political formation?

HISTORY: At first I would have said that most of my political, patriotic, and national formation has influenced reading. So the Albanian literature I had read day and night and, of course, the lessons of my parents, uncle Rasim, and so on. I mean for the first time that, at that age, I tried to become a poet, so I wrote patriotic poetry. I had even prepared a collection, part of which was published in the school tracts, others disappeared before and during the war. The topic of those poems was patriotic and spoke of our national epipetes, from the Prizren League to the Bujan Conference.

• What personality were you in those years, temperament, loving, problematic...?

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HISTORY: Maybe all by a bit of what you shallow. I repeat that I was an excellent student, but I also knew how to beat up with my friends on vacation. I remember when the Miftar teacher came to class, we were playing one on top of one, he'd whip us and beat us. He often beat me up in front of my friends and rebuked me with the words: Why you Ramush, the best student you're fighting with friends. So, at that time, even we students on vacation were hiding, having a run, being kicked. I have to admit that by the eighth grade, I beat up my whole class because I was older as well. At least I could beat up some of my classmates, who were skanks...

• This is when you were troubled...?

HISTORY: Yes, that was when I was also spoiled and troubled. But with the beginning of my first year of high school, I changed completely and became wise, close, dear, good boy, as school rules required. So now I began to become a cultured boy. It was a new age, a more serious social and educational atmosphere, so I too began to adopt new rules.

• What makes you apart from this time? Who are your friends, what did you...?

HISTORY: From a part of my leisure time - free activities, my physical temper was a hobby. At the time, I helped my family, the father who was a salesman at the Irznich store. We since those years were a family in the eye of power, police, and we were on escort. I was a good student in high school. I remember my first exit from Kosovo, to Skopje, that is, in retirement. I never forget those memories... I came to Pristina for the first time as a school student. The mathematicians' races were held, and my school team took first place. I saw this victory because we had to go to another race in Bulgaria, and I have received passports.

• What were your ambitions at this time, as a high school student?

HISTORY: Continue to be an excellent student, also required of my parents and teachers. But, very early I followed the movements of the Serbian army and couldn't be inadequacil to all those Serb police officers who were malling and even killing my allies. I had simply created a huge revulsion against Serbian barbarism and projections, ideals, my ambitions, were slowly taking the path to resistance. My wish was for me to become good and to mix the barbarians from these lands with my friends.

• Of course you've even made an effort to look charming and attractive to girls?

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HISTORY: Of course, it was that time of youth, of the will of life, and of me as if my other friends tried to dress up nice, be pedantic, elegant, and possibly enjoy some beauty!

• Who was your idol in beauty plan, fashion...?

HISTORY: My idol was Ramush! Ramush looks more face-to-face!

• What music did you listen to?

HISTORY: A song of charms, that is, Crescreme, the song of Oso Kuka, the song of the Moja, Beq Sinan, primarily regional songs. I still remember the lyrics for Sadri Brahime: Tuk Len Dill mocks the hana, Sadik Brahim no Ma nana; I don't care if my son is standing on a mountain for seven years.

• Who were your best friends...?

HISTORY: I've had and I've still got a lot of friends, but depending on what's going on in my life I'm going to isolate some, feeling great respect even for those who aren't chasing them because of space. During the time of my elementary school I had friends Agushin, Sadriun, Avni Ahmeti, Besim Hasani, Milazim Mushkolajn, then in high school Martin Haliljan, Nicholas Kabashi...

• Why did you keep third grade in Gjakova?

HISTORY: During my schooling in Decan, I started getting some problems, trouble, and one day I decided to leave for Gjakova High. I was simply more liberal in many ways of life, and that way of my vital philosophy did not like the circle and separately the regime. It was at times of demonstrations that I was not in school, and simply, circumstances were created to continue my schooling at the same school.

• In 1986, however, have you traveled to Switzerland?

HISTORY: That same year I traveled to my uncle in Switzerland and really got excited about Western life. A new life began, a new experience and what inspired me was that Albanians worked hard, without interrupting. One day I realized what it meant to work hard. I even once said that if I worked in my father's land as in the West then I would become richer than they. By this time I had also perfected English because I had spoken it beautifully since Kosovo. My life in the West was full of life, very dynamic and has brought me happy moments and benefits in terms of general culture. I just created a new outlook on life, I've known a lot of girls... In 1994-1995, I started hanging out with my friend...

• How do you experience Kosovo's freedom today?

HISTORY: I don't experience total freedom because we haven't yet managed to create a functional society.

• What does your private life look like?

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HISTORY: My private life is very limited because of the jobs I do every single week. I work for 15-18 hours, and as you can see, sometimes even by talking together I have to eat some bread. When I have free time, I visit my father, mother, grandchildren, sisters, children of the Lion, and other relatives. I want to isolate myself that when I'm in Glodjan I wake up early and that only my mother and I drink the morning coffee, and she wants to talk to me alone.

• Movie, sport, press, music?

HISTORY: There's been a time since I started practicing twice a week in sports, so when I'm in Glodjan and here in Pristina, in the club of Nazif Gashi, I watch a movie, read the press, but only those articles I need to read. I hear from music all alone. When I'm just listening to jazz, T-shirts, songs, and some rock groups. I prefer Joe Cocer, Pink Floyd etc.

• You are described as a very close and communicative person. How do you have this quality?

HISTORY: It comes from inner security, from my heaven, out of respect for people. I just feel very brave in life, for me people are all the same, like the poor, rich, like the star of music, like the shepherd... they're all before all the people. I don't prefer style, to look more interesting, political star than others, to leave people, to society, and to be alone with chosen people. I know some criticize me, not with bad intentions, because I stay with each other. They make me wonder why I talk to everyone, why I say hello to people I don't know, why I drink coffee at a restaurant not very cool. I'm also determined to be as close to people as possible. I don't want to isolate myself from the reality of Kosovo.

• Do you mind the popularity you've achieved with the reputation of war?

HISTORY: There are also good and bad things. But I am a person who does not prefer loneliness.

• What makes you nervous?

HISTORY: Usually, when I get angry, that's not much of a habit. I think and I ask why that happens. So I experience vibrations inside my brain.

• What do you like and what bothers you about people?

HISTORY: I like it when they're honest, loyal, hardworking, and pedantic, that look good. I don't like it when people don't control themselves, when they drink too much, when they smoke too much and I feel sorry for them. It also prevents me from wasting time and working nothing.

• What's your vital motto?

HISTORY: Work, nothing comes from heaven itself!