Avdil Jakupi

Advil Jakupi was born on 20 April 1974 in Tanuševci, SR Macedonia (now North Macedonia). He was a member of the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac and National Liberation Army.{{cite book |title=White Book: Terrorism of the So-Called NLA |date=2001 |publisher=Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia |location=Skopje |page=87 |url=http://star.dnevnik.com.mk/whitebook/ |archive-date=5 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305050513/http://star.dnevnik.com.mk/whitebook/|url-status=dead}} Jakupi led a group formed in 2003.{{cite web |title=The dream of a Greater Albania |url=https://mondediplo.com/2006/07/14albania |website=Le Monde diplomatique |date=July 2006}} British defense intelligence officer Anthony Tucker-Jones estimated that he had not more than seventy fighters.{{cite book |author1=Anthony Tucker-Jones |title=The Rise of Militant Islam: An Insider's View of the Failure to Curb Global Jihad |date=2010 |publisher=Pen & Sword Military |isbn=9781844159451 |page=97}} In the 2000s, he was placed on United States' blacklist.{{cite web |title=САД ги продолжи санкциите за екстремистите од Македонија и Западен Балкан |url=https://sitel.com.mk/sad-gi-prodolzhi-sankciite-za-ekstremistite-od-makedonija-i-zapaden-balkan |website=Sitel |language=mk |date=22 June 2016}} In 27 August 2003, Jakupi and fifteen other members of the ANA kidnapped two policemen. Jakupi demanded that an ethnic Albanian man who was imprisoned for placing bombs in Kumanovo be released.{{cite web |title=Командант Чакала бара ослободување на Ајети, МВР најавува акција |url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.mk/a/1471587.html |website=Radio Free Europe |language=mk |date=27 August 2003}} The policemen were freed.{{cite web |title=Скопје: Ослободени киднапираните полицајци |url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.mk/a/1471591.html |website=Radio Free Europe |language=mk |date=27 August 2003}}{{cite web |title=New concerns over Albanian guerrillas |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3084482.stm |website=BBC |date=5 September 2003}} The Macedonian National Security Council gave the green light to the police to arrest ethnic Albanian gunmen active in the northwest of the country.{{cite web |title=Refugees flee northern Macedonia as police clamp down on militants |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/former-yugoslav-republic-macedonia/refugees-flee-northern-macedonia-police-clamp-down |website=ReliefWeb |publisher=DPA |date=1 September 2003}} An operation to capture the members was carried out by the Macedonian police in the north of Macedonia.{{Cite news |last=Geshakova |first=Julia |date=2008-04-09 |title=Macedonia: Tensions Rise As Police Crack Down On Armed Groups |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1104226.html |access-date=2024-02-01 |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |language=en}} Hundreds of ethnic Albanians fled the area. Police withdrew in September after their search alarmed the local people and after the villagers of Vaksince assured the police that Jakupi was no longer there.{{cite web |title=Macedonia: Police Manhunt Provokes Ethnic Tensions |url=https://iwpr.net/global-voices/macedonia-police-manhunt-provokes-ethnic-tensions |website=Institute for War and Peace Reporting |date=6 September 2005}}{{cite web |title=Balkan Report: September 12, 2003 |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1341035.html |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=12 September 2003}} In 11 September, the interior minister Hari Kostov ordered deputy interior minister Hazbi Lika, Administration for Security and Counterintelligence's deputy director Fatmir Dehari and deputy from public security bureau Besir Dehari the order to conduct an action to arrest him and another commander, with the deadline being a month.{{cite web |title=Еден месец рок за апсење на Чакала |url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.mk/a/1471738.html |website=Radio Free Europe |language=mk |date=11 September 2003}}

He was placed on the European Union's blacklist in 10 February 2004.{{cite web |title=ЕУ ја објави црната листа |url=https://www.dw.com/mk/%D0%B5%D1%83-%D1%98%D0%B0-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8-%D1%86%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0/a-2530966 |website=Deutsche Welle |language=mk |date=10 February 2004}} In 2004, Jakupi surrendered to authorities in Kosovo.{{Cite news |date=2004-02-03 |title=Albanischer Extremist stellt sich den Behörden in Kosovo |url=https://www.nzz.ch/article9DSV2-ld.1144633 |access-date=2023-10-20 |work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |language=de-CH |issn=0376-6829}} The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo transferred him to the Republic on Macedonia on 29 April.{{cite web |title=Transfer of Two Macedonian Nationals to the Custody of the Government of FYROM |website=UNMIK |url=https://unmik.unmissions.org/1177-transfer-two-macedonian-nationals-custody-government-fyrom |date=29 April 2004}} A court in Skopje sentenced him to around ten years for kidnapping and robbery in the Idrizovo prison in 20 December.{{cite web |title=Newsline - December 21, 2004 |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1143305.html |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=21 December 2004}}{{Cite web |title=Pas 14 viteve në burg. lirohet Avdil Jakupi (Çakalla) |url=http://fax.al/news/14331926/pas-14-viteve-ne-burg-lirohet-avdil-jakupi-cakalla |access-date=2023-10-20 |website=fax.al}}{{Cite web |title=Schwere Vorwürfe gegen mazedonische Regierung: Verbindungen zur Mafia und Destabilisierungsversuche – DW – 05.09.2003 |url=https://www.dw.com/de/schwere-vorw%C3%BCrfe-gegen-mazedonische-regierung-verbindungen-zur-mafia-und-destabilisierungsversuche/a-963807 |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=dw.com |language=de}} His lawyers claimed the trial was politically motivated. In June 2017, he wrote a letter to Macedonian prime minister Zoran Zaev, requesting to be released and said that he was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit.{{cite web |title=На Командант Чакала му заврши казната во Идризово |url=https://faktor.mk/na-komandant-chakala-mu-zavrshi-kaznata-vo-idrizovo |website=Faktor |language=mk |date=2 July 2018}} He was released from prison in 2018.{{cite web |title=Ослободен командант на УЧК: Чакала го напушти Идризово |url=https://netpress.com.mk/osloboden-komandant-na-uchk-chakala-go-napusti-idrizovo/ |website=Netpress |language=mk |date=10 February 2018}}

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