Kosovo's President Behgjet Pacolli, gestures during an interview in his office four years before he took over the office of the President of Kosovo, whose presidency was toppled by Kosovo's top court when it disclosed details of a ruling saying Pacolli's election violated the constitution in capital Pristina. Dec 3, 2007. He stepped down as soon as the country's top court found that his election violated the constitution and ordered him to vacate the post. (Photo/ Vudi Xhymshiti)

The Kosovo Protection Corps was a civilian emergency services organisation in Kosovo active from 1999 to 2009. The KPC was created on September 21, 1999, through the promulgation of UNMIK Regulation 1999/8 and the agreement of a "Statement of Principles" on the KPC's permitted role in Kosovo.

Adem Demaçi is a symbol of the struggle for Kosovo's independence. Following his release, Demaçi took on the leadership of the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms. In 1991 the European Parliament awarded Demaçi the Sakharov Prize for integrity in his opposition to 'an authoritarian and intolerant regime'. Demaci spent 28 years in various prisons in former Yugoslavia for his passionate advocacy of Kosovo Albanian rights, later becoming a symbol of the national independence struggle – despite this, he remained a sworn opponent of the politics of revenge and national hatred. Adem Demaci was born in August 1935 in Prishtina, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. As a result of tough living conditions and lack of healthcare, of the seven children, only three survived. Unsure whether Adem would also survive, his parents did not even register his birth until February 26, 1936, six months later. Adem Demaci, a human rights defender who embodied Kosovo’s national resistance and was often called the “Balkans’ Mandela,” has died at 82, it was reported on Thursday, July 26, 2018.

Thuggish Serbian “bridge watchers” still maintain their vigil on the north side of the Ibar River here, ready to punish any ethnic Albanian who dares to cross the unofficial boundary between Serbian and ethnic Albanian territory in Europe’s unfinished war. This is a set of pictures, following the warning of the Serbian organization, Tsar Lazar's Guard, to hold a protest on October 14, 2007 - against Kosovo's independence.

The party leader, Ramush Haradinaj (in the picture), on Saturday, August 22, 2009, has focused the last letters of three U.S. congressmen sent to Latin American states for recognition state of Kosovo. (Photo/Vudi Xhymshiti)