Haxhi Perteshi

Kosovo Convicts Wartime Guerrilla of Kidnapping Suspected Collaborator

Published by Balkan Insight on Tue, 06/27/2023 - 16:21

Prizren Basic Court on Tuesday convicted former Kosovo Liberation Army member, Remzi Shala, known by the nom de guerre Molla e Kuqe (The Red Apple) of committing a war crime by kidnapping an ethnic Albanian man from Duhel, a village in the Suhareka/Suva Reka area, during the Kosovo war.

Murdered Kosovo Albanian Could Have Been Serb Collaborator: Witness

Published by Balkan Insight on Thu, 09/02/2021 - 13:40

Witness Shefki Bujari, who was the head of the village Duhel/Dulje for many years, told Remzi Shala's retrial at Prizren Basic Court on Wednesday that several murders during the Kosovo war, particularly in his village, could have happened because of personal resentments or suspicions that the victims were collaborating with Serbian forces.

Kosovo Liberation Army Ex-Guerrilla Convicted of War Crime

Published by Balkan Insight on Wed, 07/03/2019 - 16:37

The court in Prizren on Wednesday sentenced Remzi Shala, a former Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA unit commander known during wartime as 'The Red Apple', to 14 years in prison for committing a war crime.

Shala was convicted of the kidnapping of Haxhi Perteshi from Duhel, a village in the Suhareka/Suva Reka area in 1998. Days after he was seized, Perteshi was found dead.