PRISTINA, Jan 4 (Hina) - A former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander was shot dead on Saturday in an armed assault at the entrance to Pec, a town in western Kosovo, the Kosovo Committee for Human Rights and Freedoms said.
PRISTINA, Jan 4 (Hina) - A former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
commander was shot dead on Saturday in an armed assault at the
entrance to Pec, a town in western Kosovo, the Kosovo Committee for
Human Rights and Freedoms said. #L#
The murder occurred shortly before 6 p.m., killing Tahir Zemaj, his
son and his cousin, said the Committee.
Strong police and specialist Spanish and Italian troops of the
Kosovo Force (KFOR) peacekeepers cordoned off the area to
investigate. Neither police nor the KFOR have revealed the names of
the other two victims or the motive of the murder.
According to eyewitnesses quoted by Radio Kosovo, two vehicles
stopped the car with Zemaj inside before opening fire at it. The
unknown assassins then drove off towards a brewery in Pec.
An attempt had been made at Zemaj's life in a Pec inn not long ago,
leaving him wounded.
Late last year Zemaj had been a key witness in a Pristina trial of
five former senior officers of the KLA and the Kosovo Protection
Corps, known to the public as the Dukkagjinia group, who were found
guilty of the abuse, abduction and killing of four Kosovo
Albanians, and sentenced to a combined jail term of 31 years.
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