Arben Sadik Ramadani (13 June 1981 – 19 May 2000) was one of the commanders of the

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militant group

Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac The Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac ( sq, Ushtria Çlirimtare e Preshevës, Medvegjës dhe Bujanocit, UÇPMB) was an Albanian militant group fighting for separation from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for three municipalit ...

(UÇPMB). During the

insurgency in the Preševo Valley The Insurgency in the Preševo Valley was a year-long armed conflict between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the ethnic Albanian separatists of the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB). There were instances duri ...

, he was one of the commanders of the 113th "Ibrahim Fejzullahu" Brigade.

Biography

Ramadani was born on 13 June 1981 in

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. He was the second out of the six children of the Ramadani family. In 1998, Ramadani, along with his uncle's son, Ibrahim Fejzullahu, joined the

Kosovo Liberation Army The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA; , UÇK) was an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that sought the separation of Kosovo, the vast majority of which is inhabited by Albanians, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the ...

. In March 1999, together with Agron Fejzullahu and Besim Mustafa, they joined the group again to fight in the

Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...

. In 2000 Ramadani joined the UÇPMB. On 19 May, Ramadani was wounded in the shoulder by a gunshot fired from Serbian Police near the

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in the

Preševo Valley The Preševo Valley ( sr-cyrl, Прешевска долина, Preševska dolina, al, Lugina e Preshevës) is a geopolitical region in southern Serbia, along the border with Kosovo. The valley geographically includes municipalities of Bujanova ...

Death

On 20 May, while him and the 113th "Ibrahim Fejzullahu" Brigade were crossing the border, Ramadani was shot twice in the chest by Serb snipers. He was taken to

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by a military helicopter for medical treatment, where he died due to internal bleeding.{{Cite web , date=2016-03-06 , title=Qendra për Informim e Kosovës , url=http://www.kosova.com/arkivi1997/i000522.htm , access-date=2023-12-28 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306075358/http://www.kosova.com/arkivi1997/i000522.htm , archive-date=2016-03-06 He was buried in his birthplace of

References

1981 births 2000 deaths People from Gjilan Albanian nationalists in Kosovo Deaths by firearm in Serbia