Bardhyl Ajeti (May 29, 1977 in
Prilepnica
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,
SFR Yugoslavia
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– 28 June 2005 in
Milan
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,
Italy
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) was a reporter for the Albanian-language daily newspaper ''
Bota Sot
''Bota Sot'' (English: World Today) is a daily newspaper from Kosovo, originally published by members of the Kosovo diaspora in Switzerland.
History
''Bota Sot'' is published by Media Print and is owned by Xhevdet Mazrekaj, a diaspora businessman ...
'', published in
Pristina
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. He wrote daily editorials for Bota Sot and supported anticrime campaign of international authorities in arresting former members of the
Kosova Liberation Army (KLA). Bota Sot also supported
Ibrahim Rugova, a leader of ethnic Albanian party, the
Democratic League of Kosovo.
Several weeks before he was shot, Ajeti had written a complaint to the Temporary Media Commissioner, which is internationally supervised media regulator in Kosovo. In his complaint he stated that his life had been threatened.
He was shot by unidentified assassins on 3 June 2005, while he was driving a car on the way to Pristina. On 28 June 2005 he died of gunshot wounds in hospital in Milano, Italy. Police spokesman said that Bardhyl Ajeti was shot in the head at close range.
In the
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of the
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is emphasised that investigation of the killing of Bardhyl Ajeti had no developments.
Bardhyl Ajeti was not the only journalist of Bota Sot who was killed in
Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
. Bekim Kastrati, killed on 19 October 2001 in the village Lauša near Pristina, was also journalist of Bota Sot. The drive-by shooting of Bardhyl Ajeti was one of the apparently politically motivated killings of
Kosovo Albanians during 2005. The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe condemned the attack on Ajeti, emphasizing that his case and several other attacks on journalists on Kosovo have not been solved.
See also
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List of journalists killed in Europe
Notes
References
External links
Text about Bardhyl Ajeti published on the CPJ website
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1977 births
2005 deaths
Kosovan journalists
20th-century journalists