MILITARY PERSONNEL

Adem Jashari

1955 - 1998

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Adem Jashari (born Fazli Jashari; 28 November 1955 – 7 March 1998) was one of the founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a Kosovo Albanian separatist militia which fought for the secession of Kosovo from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Beginning in 1991, Jashari participated in attacks against the Serbian police before travelling to Albania to receive military training. Arrested in 1993, he was released at the behest of the Albanian Army and later returned to Kosovo, where he continued launching attacks against the Yugoslav establishment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adem Jashari has received more than 894,878 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Adem Jashari is the 517th most popular military personnel (up from 735th in 2019).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adem Jashari ranks 517 out of 2,058. Before him are Andriy Melnyk, Pierre Cambronne, Sigismund Korybut, Franz Böhme, Gao Shun, and Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov. After him are Stonewall Jackson, Bo'orchu, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ernst Lindemann, and Dmitry Pozharsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Adem Jashari ranks 65. Before him are J. K. Simmons, Jean Tigana, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Michael Rooker, Billy Idol, and Eddie Van Halen. After him are Béla Tarr, José Antonio Camacho, Billy Milligan, Maria Shriver, Toninho Cerezo, and Griffin Dunne. Among people deceased in 1998, Adem Jashari ranks 42. Before him are Florence Griffith Joyner, Martha Gellhorn, Conrad Schumann, Alan J. Pakula, Alan Hodgkin, and Imi Lichtenfeld. After him are David McClelland, Kunitaka Sueoka, Maurice Bucaille, Shoichi Nishimura, Kurt Franz, and Maria Reiche.

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