Remzi Shala

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 Orders Retrial of Wartime Guerrilla Unit Commander

Published by Balkan Insight on Thu, 04/30/2020 - 14:55

Remzi Shala's lawyer, Natal Bullakaj, told BIRN on Thursday that the Supreme Court has upheld the former guerrilla commander's appeal against his war crime conviction and sent the case for a retrial.

The retrial will be held at Prizren Basic Court, where Shala was originally sentenced in July last year to 14 years in prison.

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.

Kosovo Arrests Fugitive Ex-Guerrilla Commander

Published by Balkan Insight on Fri, 05/24/2019 - 16:20

Fugitive former Kosovo Liberation Army unit commander Remzi Shala, known during wartime as 'The Red Apple', appeared in court in Prizren on Friday after being arrested, but denied he was trying to evade justice.

Shala is a suspect in the kidnapping in 1998 of an ethnic Albanian man who was subsequently killed, and was initially supposed to appear in court in Prizren on January 9.