Bajram Kelmendi

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Bajram Kelmendi (1937-1999) was a Kosovan lawyer and public figure. He was born near Peć, Kosovo. At age of eighteen, he was imprisoned for eighteen months for criticizing the forced expulsion of Albanians to Turkey. He later studied law and became a lawyer. Kelmendi was among the founders of Council for Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms in Pristina and on 3 May 1998 filed charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague against Slobodan Milošević for crimes committed in Kosovo. At the beginning for the bombing campaign of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), on 24 March 1999, the Serb police broke into his home and arrested him and his two sons. Their dead bodies were found at a gas station outside of Pristina the next day.