{"id":7813,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/elton-zherka\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:46","slug":"elton-zherka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/elton-zherka\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton Zherka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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El<\/span>t<\/span>on <\/span>Zherka<\/span>, a figh<\/span>t<\/span>er of <\/span>t<\/span>he Kosovo Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion Army and mar<\/span>t<\/span>yr, was born in <\/span>Gjakova<\/span>. He <\/span>comple<\/span>t<\/span>ed primary school and high school in his home<\/span>t<\/span>own before con<\/span>t<\/span>inuing his s<\/span>t<\/span>udies a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he Universi<\/span>t<\/span>y of Pris<\/span>t<\/span>ina, focusing on law. He ac<\/span>t<\/span>ively <\/span>par<\/span>t<\/span>icipa<\/span>t<\/span>ed<\/span> in demons<\/span>t<\/span>ra<\/span>t<\/span>ions and revol<\/span>t<\/span>s and joined <\/span>t<\/span>he “Mo<\/span>t<\/span>her <\/span>T<\/span>eresa” humani<\/span>t<\/span>arian associa<\/span>t<\/span>ion, where he <\/span>provided aid <\/span>t<\/span>o <\/span>t<\/span>he innocen<\/span>t<\/span> and vulnerable popula<\/span>t<\/span>ion. On April 18, 1998, he enlis<\/span>t<\/span>ed in <\/span>t<\/span>he Kosovo Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion Army, serving in <\/span>t<\/span>he “Commando” uni<\/span>t<\/span> of <\/span>t<\/span>he Dukagjin Opera<\/span>t<\/span>ional Zone, par<\/span>t<\/span>icularly in <\/span>t<\/span>he village of <\/span>Gllogjan<\/span>, which was a focal poin<\/span>t<\/span> for even<\/span>t<\/span>s and ba<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>les in <\/span>t<\/span>he Dukagjin Plain. His las<\/span>t<\/span> ac<\/span>t<\/span> of heroism <\/span>t<\/span>ook place during <\/span>t<\/span>he <\/span>Junik<\/span> War, where he engaged in a fierce face-<\/span>t<\/span>o-face ba<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>le <\/span>wi<\/span>t<\/span>h Serbian forces, <\/span>ul<\/span>t<\/span>ima<\/span>t<\/span>ely falling<\/span> while defending Kosovo from Serbian reprisals on Augus<\/span>t<\/span> 10, 1998. His bo<\/span>dy res<\/span>t<\/span>s in <\/span>t<\/span>he Mar<\/span>t<\/span>yrs’ Ceme<\/span>t<\/span>ery in <\/span>Gjakova<\/span>. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/em><\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span>o: El<\/span>t<\/span>on <\/span>Zherka<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elton Zherka, a fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army and a martyr, was born in Gjakova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7813","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\/7813","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=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11368,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions\/11368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}