[ALBSA-Info] Killed KLA volunteers from Albania honored

[Kreshnik Bejko]

President Honours Albanian KLA Volunteers Killed in Kosovo

TIRANA - Albanian President Rexhep Meidani has honoured two Albanians killed 
while fighting for the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) against 
Serbian forces last year, the presidency said on Tuesday.
Meidani, marking the first anniversary of the entry of NATO troops into 
Kosovo, acknowledged for the first time the role played by Albanian 
volunteers by awarding Indrit Cara and Astrit Suli the Golden Eagle medal.
Albania has already honoured former NATO commander Wesley Clark with its 
highest award for foreigners. The alliance’s former Secretary-General, 
Javier Solana, will also receive the Skenderbeg Award.
Cara, originally from Kavaja in western Albania, joined Kosovo Albanian 
friends who had been living as immigrants in Britain in signing up for the 
KLA.
Many Albanian volunteers, most of them former soldiers, joined the ranks of 
the KLA, moved by the atrocities Serbian forces had committed and were 
committing in Kosovo, some 90 percent of whose population were ethnic 
Albanian, or by the prospect of better pay in the irregular army.


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