Bardhyl Ajeti
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Bardhyl Ajeti is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, June 28, 2005) was a reporter for the Albanian-language daily Bota Sot
Bota Sot
Bota Sot is a daily newspapers from Kosovo, originally published by Kosovo diaspora in Switzerland. It is published by Media Print and is owned by Xhevdet Mazrekaj, a diaspora businessman. The newspaper was published for the first time in 1995 - in the beginning only abroad...
, published in Priština
Pristina
Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....
. He wrote daily editorials for Bota Sot and supported anticrime campaign of international authorities in arresting former members of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA). Bota Sot also supported Ibrahim Rugova
Ibrahim Rugova
Ibrahim Rugova was an Albanian politician who was the first President of Kosovo and of its leading political party, the Democratic League of Kosovo ....
, a leader of ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo.
Several weeks before he was shot, Ajeti had written a complaint to the Temporary Media Commissioner, which is internationally supervised media regulator in Kosovo. In his complaint
Complaint
In legal terminology, a complaint is a formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons that the filing party or parties In legal terminology, a complaint is a formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons (see: cause of action) that the filing party or parties In...
he stated that his life had been threatened.
He was shot by unidentified assassins on June 3, 2005, while he was driving a car on the way to Prishtina. On June 28, 2005 he died of gunshot wounds in hospital in Milano, Italy. Police spokesman said that Bardhyl Ajeti was shot in the head at close range.
In the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices of the Department of State is emphasized that investigation of the killing of Bardhyl Ajeti had no developments.
Bardhyl Ajeti was not the only journalist of Bota Sot who was killed in Kosovo
Kosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
. Bekim Kastrati, killed on October 19, 2001 in village Lauša near Priština
Pristina
Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....
, was also journalist of Bota Sot. The drive-by shooting of Bardhyl Ajeti was one of the apparently politically motivated killings of Kosovo Albanians during 2005. The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and OSCE condemned the attack on Ajeti, emphasizing that his case and several other attacks on journalists on Kosovo have not been solved.