Haradinaj says he had over 15 thousand soldiers in Dukagjin, but he used to say he was left with only 50.

In the second month of freedom, in July 1999, Ramush Haradinaj had given a long confession to war in the Dukagjin region, in a conversation with Zeri journalist Bardh Hamzaj. In the book Research on War and Freedom, Dialog with Commander Ramush Haradinaj, Commander of the Dukagjin Operative Zone, speaks from the Inquisition. [...]
In the second month of freedom, in July 1999, Ramush Haradinaj had given a long confession to war in the Dukagjin region, in a conversation with Zeri journalist Bardh Hamzaj.
In the book Research on War and Freedom, Dialog with Commander Ramush Haradinaj, commander of the Dukagjin Operative Zone, speaks from his KLA inspection in the 1990s to Kosovo's liberation, KTV reports.
In the book of 19 years ago, Haradinaj gets numbers out when he says that the big and small have fought in Dukagjin.
Haradinaj cites two total figures when he speaks of those who fought 4000 and 6,000.
After September 1998, eight closely linked operational units were created in Dukagjin. In a period of time, I would call it five months, the number of soldiers reached 4,000 people”, Haradinaj says.
The maximum number of soldiers he mentioned was 6,000. That is mentioned when Tahir Zemaj had asked him to establish his headquarters in the region.
But there was a period in 1998 when the Commander was left with only 50 soldiers.
That explains it to the subheading “I never believed that organised military flight” could happen.
After half an hour of sleep, Alush Agush and Lahi Brahimaj have come to the house where we were resting and asked to wake up. I refused to wake up because I was very tired. They broke into the room and started shouting at me: We've been betrayed. The army is gone. We're surrounded”. Seeing it's about something extraordinary, I've been brought up and explained that the entire army of 2000-3000 fled the Stralci Mountains the day before and that Serbian forces have entered as far as Isniq, as far as Krishec and even as Lumbardhi from the top, the village where I was”. (February 100)
And, to cope with the siege, Haradinaj was left with only 50 soldiers.
We've infiltrated the Jabllanica direction through Bistrica, through the water at times to the waist and sometimes higher. The siege has been very powerful. The distance between us and them in the retreat has been 50 to 100 meters. With us was Sokol Dobruna with my brother, Dale Hajosa, my father, who were very advanced in years, Shaban Laci, 13 and 14-year-old boys, some young warriors and wounded warriors. All of these normally without military action, we have reached Jablanice. When I lined them up in Jablanice, there were 75 of us. Of those who could be considered soldiers, there were 50. The others were associate”, remember Haradinaj.
All figures the prime minister now mentions are far from government Commission figures.
From 4,000 to 6,000, as Haradinaj mentions in 1999, the number of those who fought in Dukagjin increased to 15.023 in 2018.
Agim Ceku, under Elez Blakaj's indictment, had planned how to reason on this number.
If we're asked where there were 15 thousand soldiers at the Dukagjini Zone, we as a commission say that the KLA didn't have all these soldiers lined up in one day, but 45 thousand soldiers were part of the KLA and that the largest influx of entrances was in the Dukagjini Zone and the Pacific border with Albania<1>, it is said in the indictment.
On Wednesday, there will be a new protest demanding the resignation of Chief Prosecutor Aleksander Lumezi and vetoing the justice system, following the veterans' list breath scandal.











