Former Kosovo Liberation Army Commander Shot Dead

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Former Kosovo Liberation Army Commander Shot Dead

Three people were killed in a drive-by shooting in Yugoslavia's Kosovo province on Saturday, including a former commander of the now disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), reports said Sunday.

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Three people were killed in a drive-by shooting in Yugoslavia's Kosovo province on Saturday, including a former commander of the now disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), reports said Sunday.

Tahir Zemaj, a regional chief of the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and former commander of the ethnic Albanian rebel forces of UCK, was among the dead, police authorities of the Kosovo capital Pristina said in a statement. The other two were identified by local press as Zemaj's 20-year-old son, Enis, and a relative, Hasan Zemaj.

The three were slain late Saturday afternoon in the city of Pec, western Kosovo, when their car came under fire.

The LDK later issued a statement condemning the killing. It also planned to hold a rally in central Pristina to protest the "political violence."

Kosovo, which remains part of Yugoslavia's Serbia republic under related UN resolutions, has been administered by the United Nations mission UNMIK since June 1999.

Analysts believe that the slaying reflects the intensifying conflict between the LDK, headed by Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), one of the three major parties in Kosovo's ruling coalition.

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