Former rebel commander surrenders to peacekeepers in Kosovo

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Former rebel commander surrenders to peacekeepers in Kosovo

Xhehmail Hyseni, an ethnic Albanian and former rebel commander, surrendered to the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR), the Tanjug news agency reported Tuesday.

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Xhehmail Hyseni, an ethnic Albanian and former rebel commander, surrendered to the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR), the Tanjug news agency reported Tuesday.

Hyseni, a former commander of the now-disbanded National Liberation Army (NLA), surrendered late Monday night and was transported to a United States military base in the town of Urosevac, in the Serbian province of Kosovo, Tanjug cited KFOR as saying.

Hyseni is now detained in the military base, and will be handedover to United Nations police in Kosovo after being questioned, the KFOR said.

Hyseni was sentenced in absence to seven years in prison by a Macedonian court in November. The court found that he was responsible for a bomb attack in the Macedonian city of Kumanovo, and for planting a mine in the Belgrade-Skopje railway.

The NLA, an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group, was founded at thebeginning of 2001 to press for more rights for ethnic Albanians inthe country.

After it attacked security forces, Macedonia entered a serious crisis. On August 13 2001, the ethnic Albanian and Macedonian parties signed a peace agreement. Under an agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the NLA was disbanded in September.

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