Hamëz_Jashari

Hamëz Jashari

Hamëz Jashari

Kosovar soldier (1950–1998)

Hamëz Jashari[lower-alpha 1] (19 February 1950 – 7 March 1998) was a Kosovar Albanian combatant and the brother of Adem Jashari. He was also a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). He accompanied his brother Adem during the Kosovo War, in 1998.

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On 30 December 1991, when the brothers were at home in Prekaz, the Serbian police surrounded them in an attempt to arrest them, they managed to escape unharmed.[2] Later, Adem and Hamëz started attacks against the Yugoslav Police.[2]

Finally, on 5 March 1998, Prekaz was attacked by Yugoslav police forces.[2] Adem and Hamëz Jashari and approximately 58 members of their family were killed, after the refusal of Adem Jashari and his brothers to surrender. The sole survivor of the attack was Hamëz's then 11-year-old daughter, Besarta.[3]

In 2010 he received the order Hero of Kosovo by the president of Kosovo, Jakup Krasniqi.[1]

Notes

  1. Albanian: Hamëz Jashari; Serbo-Croatian Latin: Hamaz Jašari

References

  1. [1]
    "VOAL - Online Zëri i Shqiptarëve - KRASNIQI DEKORON "HERO I KOSOVËS" HAMËZ JASHARIN, ADEM DEMAÇIN, JUSUF GËRVALLËN,.... PRESIDENTI NË DETYRË DEKORON PERSONALITETE TË KOSOVËS". voal-online.ch.
  2. [2]
    Bartrop, Paul A. (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO. pp. 142–143. ISBN 9780313386794.
  3. [3]
    Kolstø, Pål (2016). Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts: Representations of Self and Other. Routledge. p. 96. ISBN 9781317098928.


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