Haradin Bala

Haradin Bala (born 10 June 1957, Glogovac, Yugoslavia), also known as Shala, is a Kosovar-Albanian former commander of the Albanian militant organization UÇK.

He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Serbs and Albanians by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. His trial ended on 30 November 2005 and he was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment, particularly for crimes at the Lapušnik prison camp between May and July 1998 and executing orders to kill Serb civilians in the Beriša Mountains on 25 July 1998, after the fall of Lapušnik as a result of the Serbian Army advances in Kosovo.

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^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has been recognised as an independent state by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.