{"id":7718,"date":"2026-03-25T00:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/shkelzen-haradinaj-2\/---f6ebd067-9069-40d0-86a8-bd9861f2ae27"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:28:22","slug":"shkelzen-haradinaj-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/shkelzen-haradinaj-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shk\u00eblzen Haradinaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shk\u00eblzen Haradinaj, a fighter and organizer of the Kosova Liberation Army martyr, was born in the village of Gllogjan in De\u00e7an. He completed primary and secondary school in Irzniq. Shk\u00eblzen Haradinaj is one of the first fighters of the Kosova Liberation Army, together with his brother, Luan Haradinaj. In the period 1995\u20131998, he participated in a series of attacks against police posts and in battles against the Serbian army, where he stood out for his leadership skills. He was wounded several times. Shk\u00eblzen Haradinaj played an important role in supplying the Kosova Liberation Army with combat equipment and in dealing with the consequences of the Serbian invasion of September 1998. After that, he was appointed assistant commander for combat operations in the Dukagjin Operational Zone. The Guards Battalion of the Operative Zone of Dukagjin, which was formed after his fall, was given the name &#8220;Shk\u00eblzen Haradinaj&#8221;. In May 1999, the Kosova Liberation Army General Staff awarded him the rank of colonel general. He fell heroically in the mountains of Maznik, in a fierce battle with Serbian forces to protect the civilian population, in 1999. <i>(In the photo: Shk\u00eblzen Haradinaj)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 2 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 883.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/kosovalive.net\/24-vjetori-i-renies-heroike-te-shkelzen-haradinajt\/&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shk\u00eblzen Haradinaj, a fighter and organizer of the Kosova Liberation Army martyr, was born in the village of Gllogjan in De\u00e7an.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11187,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions\/11187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}