Agim Ceku Agim Çeku
(Serbo-Croat: Agim Ceku) (born October 29, 1960 in the village of Cuska [1] in the vicinity of Pec, in Kosovo, Yugoslavia, is a former Prime Minister of the Kosovo and a leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Ceku is an ethnic Albanian. He served as an officer in the Croatian army during the war against the breakaway Republic of Serbian Krajina, and was military commander of the KLA during the Kosovo war in 1999, and then the Kosovo Protection Corps ordered under the UN administration of Kosovo.
Contents [hide]
a military and paramilitary Political career
2 Career
3 family life
4 References 5 External links
[edit] Military and paramilitary career
After Agim Ceku completed the secondary military school in Belgrade, he attended the Military Academy in Zadar. A short time later, he joined the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) as a captain artillery. 1991 broke out in the Yugoslav wars and the abandoned JNA and the Croatian National Guard, when the Republic of Croatia began its war of independence from Yugoslavia.
He was closely involved in the later Croatian and Serbian war against the breakaway Republic of Krajina. He participated in several military operations, he was initially in the operation Maslenica when he took the head of the Velebit's artillery section, from January to February 1993, Operation Medak pocket in the vicinity of Gospic, where he was wounded, and Operation Storm in August 1995 caught the Most of the Krajina region. Afterwards he continued the advance as the head of the Croatian troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina fighting in western Bosnia against the forces of the Serb Republic in operation Maestral.
was reformed after the war, the Croatian army, Ceku and President Franjo Tudjman named commander of the Fifth District in Rijeka region. In 1998, he submitted the request to go for retirement, to Kosovo, the Kosovo Liberation Army, that they maintain links that had met in 1999.
Ceku developed contacts with the KLA, a guerrilla group fighting Serbian rule in Kosovo, some time in the mid-1990s. He stepped out of the Croatian Army in February 1999. When the Kosovo war in March 1999, the KLA was initially very badly against Serbian / Yugoslav forces, partly because of poor leadership under its senior commander Suleiman Selimi, a militarily inexperienced person was given the post mainly because his influence in the Drenica region (the KLA's heartland).
In May 1999, Ceku, the KLA's chief of staff, replacing Selimi. He immediately set about the reorganization the KLA and the proper conduct of the military structure within the company. In the last days of the war in Kosovo, the KLA began a systematic intelligence of NATO and mounting attacks to lure Serbian forces in the open too, so that NATO warplanes bomb. According to reports at the time, Ceku was the most important link between NATO and the KLA. [Edit]
After the war ended in June 1999, Ceku oversaw the demilitarization of the KLA and its transformation into the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), a supposedly civilian organizations with disaster response, demining, search and response, and humanitarian projects . Although the international Community insisted that the CCP was a civilian organization, Ceku and the number of its members said they believed that the CCP should develop in the future army of an independent Kosovo. [Edit] Ceku managed as many difficult challenges to the CCP, including allegations that its members had the support of the Albanian insurgency in Macedonia in 2001 [edit] The Serbian government claims
that Ceku is a war criminal, [2] if Serbia jurisdiction in the matter is not recognized by the United Nations. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has stated that all the charges, which for War crimes in former Yugoslavia have been issued, and no further charges are planned [citation needed]. Although Ceku has not been the subject of an ICTY indictment, he was briefly detained in Slovenia in October 2003 and in Hungary in March 2004 on the basis of an arrest warrant from Interpol, from Serbia. Ceku was released quickly, in both cases, after pressure from the United Nations in Kosovo (UNMIK). [Edit]
During the Kosovo war in what is known as "The Massacre Cuska" Serbian forces soldiers, police and paramilitary forces killed Ceku's father and brother and another 42 innocent Albanians from Ceku's village. [Edit]
[edit] Political career
On 10 March 2006 Ceku was elected prime minister of Kosovo by the Kosovo Assembly. After the inauguration, he declared his support for Kosovo's independence, while promising to protect the rights of the Serb minority. [3] Ceku was appointed by former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned in early 2005, after the ICTY indicted him for war crimes. In his first hundred days in office, Ceku prioritized the implementation of the UN "standards" for good governance and multi-ethnicity, earning praise from UN Kosovo chief Soren Jessen-Petersen and Contact Group countries. On 24 July 2006, Ceku went to Vienna to discuss for the first high-level meeting between the presidents and prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo's future status of Kosovo.
He stated that he would down a new political party to step-like PM, disspelling rumors that he is the reformist ORA party. [4] However, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo on 10 April 2008, and not exclude that the party would unify with ORA [5].
[edit] Family life
He is married to a woman from Croatia Dragica Ponos whom he met in Zadar. The family lives between Kosovo and the Croatian city of Zadar, where they live, most of the time.
0 comments:
Post a Comment