Hashim Thaci (Full Albanian variation: Hashim Thaēi; sometimes
Hashim Thaqi, Serbo-Croat: Haim Tači) (born 24 April 1968 in
Buroje/Brocna in the municipality of Srbica (northwest of
Drenica valley], Kosovo, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is the president of
the Democratic Party of Kosovo and former political leader of
the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Before Thaci emigrated to Switzerland, he studied philosophy and
history at the University of Pritina. By 1993, Thaēi joined the
Kosovar Albanian political emigration in Switzerland. There he
became one of the founding fathers of the People's Movement of
Kosovo (LPK), a political party in Kosovo. Its ideology lied in
Albanian nationalism and the plight to unify all
Albanian-populated areas into one state. In 1993, Thaci was sent
in and became a member of the inner circle of the KLA. Thaēi
(nom de guerre "Gjarpėri" [the Snake]) was responsible for
securing financial means, training and armament of recruits,
teaching them in Albania under the shield of its Kosovar-aims-sympathetic
government, to be dispatched to Kosovo.
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