Remzi Ademaj, an activist, fighter in the Kosovo Liberation Army, and martyr, was born in the village of Zhur in the Prizren municipality. In the early 1980s, he emigrated to the West. In 1985, while returning to Kosovo, he was arrested by Italian police and handed over to Yugoslav authorities. In the summer of 1986, the District Court of Prizren sentenced him to six years in prison for political activity. In 1995, he was arrested again and sentenced to 3.5 years on charges of involvement in establishing structures for the Ministry of Defense of Kosovo in the Vërri area. In early 1998, he joined the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Drenica Zone. Later, he was appointed by the Kosovo Liberation Army General Staff as the commander of the war in the Vërrini region. He participated in battles in the “Tusus” neighborhood, Hoça e Qytetit, and the Prizren area. In August 1998, the General Staff of the Kosovo Liberation Army appointed him as deputy commander of the Pashtrik Operational Zone. On August 14, 1998, while traveling from Kleçka to Vërri with several comrades, he encountered Serbian forces’ ambushes in Tupec, then in Vlashnjë, and finally in Grazhdanik. He fell in military confrontation with Serbian forces in 1998. (In the photo: Remzi Ademaj)
Text: Kosovo Encyclopedic Dictionary – Vol. I, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Pristina, 2018, page 8
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