PRISTINA OVER ARMY COMMANDER'S MURDER PRISTINA, Jan 6 (Hina) - More than a thousand residents of Pristina protested in the centre of Kosovo's capital on Sunday evening against the murder of former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
commander Tahir Zemaj and two other Kosovo Albanians.
PRISTINA, Jan 6 (Hina) - More than a thousand residents of Pristina
protested in the centre of Kosovo's capital on Sunday evening
against the murder of former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander
Tahir Zemaj and two other Kosovo Albanians. #L#
Lt. Col. Zemaj, his son Enis and their cousin Hasan, president of
the Kosovo Democratic Alliance Youth Forum in Decani, were killed
in an armed assault in Pec on Saturday evening.
These murders were the latest in a series whose targets were the
associates and supporters of Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova.
The protest in Skenderbeg square rallied mainly Pristina's youth
and was held under the slogan "Stop to Murders and political
Violence in Kosovo".
The protesters paid homage to the victims by lighting candles in
front of the National theatre and carrying pictures of Tahir Zemaj
and other recently assassinated prominent politicians.
Also present was the speaker of Kosovo's parliament, Nexhat Daci,
who harshly slammed the murders which he said had dealt a heavy blow
to the development of democracy in Kosovo.
Lt. Col. Zemaj had been one of the key witnesses in the trial of five
former KLA and Kosovo Protection Corps members who last December
were convicted of the kidnapping, mistreatment and killing of four
ethnic Albanians in 1999.
Police have still not revealed any details of the weekend's murders
and no one has yet been arrested.
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