Jona Beka Group 2 Political Personalities

Ramush Haradinaj

Ramush Haradinaj  – Aleanca për Ardhmërinë e Kosovës.

Ramush Haradinaj ~ born on 3rd of July, 1968 in Kosovo, accomplished masters in the Rochester University of Technology, USA. Haradinaj is known for being the formal leader of the political party called AAK ( Alliance for the futue of Kosovo). During 2005, Haradinaj was the Prime Minister of Kosovo for not more than 100 days because then he was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). 14th of March 2005, Haradinaj did not plead guilty. 7th of June 2005, in the mean time, he was given temporry release until the starting of the trial. Immediately after pleaded not guilty, the next day he quit his position as a prime minister, and he voluntarily went to the Hague Tribunal  to be remained in custody until he was granted release pending trial.  Continuing in 26th February 2007, Haradinaj was forced to return to The Hague in order to continue the trial.  On July 20, 2007 Ramush Haradinaj's request for provisional release during summer court vacations wasn't approved. Father was given a second temporary release at Christmas. On April 3, 2008 the trial made it's decision which was: not guilty. Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, which were the defendants of Haradinj, did not receive a single witness to the stand defense, finding this unnecessary. Haradinaj's second trial was on August 18, 2011, where he was pleaded not guilty for the second time because there was no evidence of his crimes, in contrary to that, there were evidences that he tried stopping criminal acts. According to a journal known as Trial International " in June 2015 Haradinaj was arrested by Slovenian police but was released after two days following diplomatic pressure. On 5 January 2017 Haradinaj was arrested on a Serbian international arrest warrant by French border police upon his arrival at Basel-Mulhouse airport. He was released on 12 January pending decision on his extradition to Serbia and has been placed under judicial supervision while his case is being reviewed" ( Trial International, 2019) 

Spotlight - " Ramush Haradinaj was Prime Minister of Kosovo at the time of his commitment for trial. He was the first high ranking Kosovar politician in office to be indicted by the ICTY. He is still leader of the party of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK)." (Trial International, 2019) 

Haradinaj arrested on one of the charges

Haradinaj was the savior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who was famous for his strategies, skills, crafts in the battlefield. He had established his fame in the Dukagjini district as dangerous demanding army fighter before and after Serbian nationals. Following the NATO intervention in Kosovo and Serbia it was Kosovo's liberation from the war but that most of the soldiers did not have good luck after the war. 

Agim Çeku

After being pushed in his political position, he promised support for Kosovo's independence by giving and protecting rights for the Serbian minorities. After Ramush Haradinaj's involvement as a prime minister, Ceku's appointment was canceled on 2005 after being indicted and pointed out for war crimes by ICTY. Agim Ceku was accused by the Serbian government for committing war crimes. Even though Ceku has never been the topic or subject of any ICTY allegation, he was apprehended in Slovenia and Hungary behalf of a warrant by Serbians.

Thanks to the pressure made by UNMIK, Ceku was quickly released. Later on, Ceku was evacuated from a conference held in May 2009, Serbia. This happened due to many accusations towards Ceku, regarding crimes done to Serbians during the Kosovo war. Leading to his arrest on 23th of June, 2009, he was once again arrested in Bulgaria under a warrant for committing crimes during war towards the non- Albanian population. After many consultations he was released in custody by the Bulgarians with conditions of staying within the country for 40 days.

He was criticized many times of being married to a Serbian - Croatian wife. 

 WIKI CONTRIBUTIONS

As a member of group 2, the so called "Political Personalities", I have tried my best to get involved in the discussions, contributions, and organization in the group. I decided to take over the former Prime Minister of Kosova, Ramush Haradinaj. At first, other group member had begun working on him, but had written only two to three sentences, so I decided to take on the task, where I started writing about his biography, his contribution and his position in Kosovo politics, and then decided to talk about Mr. Haradinaj's arrests, why he was arrested , and so on. I also included references, taken from a trusted site called "TrailInternational.org" where I recieved data on Ramush Haradinaj, towards his personal and professional life. To be honest, at first I was a little confused with what I was going to work on, because everyone had settled on one personality and I couldn't decide. Then, after seeing that almost every personality was somehow cut in half, because most were left unfinished , I could work on anyone I saw a shortcoming on. I found It a little hard working with macros, layouts, pictures, horizontal lines etc. I also decided to work on the political position of the ex-Prime Minister of Kosovo, Agim Ceku. I wrote about his arrest on criminal acts in the war against non-Albanians.