How Serbs ambushed Shkelzen Haradinaj and the other fighters...

The guy at RTV Dukagjini said for him the KLA is a creature he's trying to protect with his whole being.

“I was among the first to establish KLA”.

Lahi Brahimaj relates the first confrontations with Serbian power in 1993, which had Decanas.

In 1993, some of my allies were in comfort, and suddenly a police patrol came and began to persecute them, seeking identification and other legitimacy. A local man reacted by telling the police commander who you are asking for ID in my house, I should ask you because you're a stranger here. There begins a skirmish and Serb police are disarmed and then released. They (Serbian police) said we will see again who we are in”.

“Two days behind, the Serbian police return, but with the highway, and are thought to be around 100 police and soldiers. They had just entered the village and arrested Halit Zenel. Meanwhile, we as a village had begun to keep custody and surrounded Haliti from Serb forces, and from then on we had weapons but not as the KLA, only as an organised village”, says Brahimaj.

Brahimaj has said most of the attacks he had taken The KLA has been well studied, but despite that, Serbian police have taken revenge action against the civilian population.

There have been cases when an intervention to protect civilians has caused them more damage. In one case, we have accepted a tip that Serbian forces have entered a secondary-leg path and are heading towards civilians. The stepsman Haradinaj and four fellow fighters have gone to verify the information and they are facing Serbian forces where, after the imminent fighting,” were killed.

He recalls an episode when he visited the Jashar family to coordinate for the combat stake and the weapons needs we both had.

For me, Shaban Jashar made the biggest impression. He, although old age, tried to serve us and gave us the feeling that we were not without parents, since some of our group had not met families for a long time”, Lahi Brahimaj said.