Gëzim Ostreni (born 1 November 1942) is a former KLA and NLA general. Ostreni is known for participating 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 ...

and the

2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia The 2001 insurgency in Macedonia was an armed conflict which began when the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) militant group, formed from veterans of the Kosovo War and Insurgency in the Preševo Valley, attacked Macedonian se ...

Life

General Gëzim Ostreni was born in the city of Debar on 1 November 1942. After finishing primary school, he also finished the school of reserve officers as well as some Military courses at the Military Academy. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology in

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. In the military field, he served as the commander of the territorial defense in Diber. He participated in the

and gradually started upping up the ranks. In 2000, he was promoted to Major General. In the spring of 2001 he joined the NLA, where he united guerrilla groups from

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and North Macedonia. With the start of the armed conflict in Macedonia he was assumed the role of Chief of the General Staff of the National Liberation Army which was created by

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. On October 3, 2002, he became the deputy of Assembly of Macedonia. In 2004, he became a candidate for the President of the Macedonian state and from 2002 to 2006 vice president of the Macedonian Assembly.

References

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