Halil Geci Says Three Assassination Attempts Were Planned Against Him After the War and Provides Details

Halil Geci has made public a statement in which he claims that many Albanians were killed for political reasons after the war ended. He links this issue to the decision to base the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.

According to Geci, a number of LDK activists were initially branded “traitors” and later killed. In this context, he mentions the ambush killings of Besim Dajaku and Bekim Kastrati, as well as the wounding of his brother, Gani, claiming they were attacked solely because they supported Ibrahim Rugova.

Geci also says that three assassination attempts against him were planned in Tirana and Durrës. He names several people who, according to his information, were involved in or connected to these plans. He claims the attempts were not carried out because he had been warned in advance and had taken measures to protect himself.

Geci recounts these claims as part of his personal experience, without presenting any new evidence to support them.

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Geci calls on citizens to listen to how, by whom and why, according to him, Albanians were killed after the war, and to reflect on why the Kosovo Specialist Chambers were established in The Hague rather than in Kosovo.

He writes that, based on numerous explanations made public, concerns over witness security and the ability to conduct trials without interference or intimidation were among the reasons the Specialist Chambers were based in The Hague. They are part of Kosovo’s legal system but operate in The Hague with international staff.

According to him, the same method was used to kill many LDK patriots who had previously been branded “traitors.”

Geci claims that Besim Dajaku and Bekim Kastrati, two of their friends, were killed in an ambush, while his brother, Gani, was wounded. According to him, the only reason was that they supported Ibrahim Rugova.

He says the first assassination attempt against him was planned in Tirana while he was at Ahmet Krasniqi’s Ministry of Defense. According to information he claims to have obtained, Skënder Misiri from the village of Rundik had been hired to carry out the killing, while the plot was uncovered by Sadik Rama from Gjurgjevik, who lived in Qerret.

According to Geci, another assassination attempt was later planned at Hotel Drenica in Durrës, owned by Gani Kapiti. He claims that, based on information he had received, a person from Drenica and Qerim Kelmendi had undertaken to carry it out.

Geci recounts that Gani Kapiti, unaware that Geci himself was the person in question, had warned him by saying that a man considered a “Serbian spy” worked at Ahmet Krasniqi’s Ministry of Defense and that this man’s brother had killed a commander. According to Geci, Kapiti had asked for this person to be ambushed, offering to pay whatever amount was requested. When he learned that the target was Geci, he regretted it. After the war, Gani Kapiti went to the Geci family’s tower house in Drenica and recounted what had happened.

According to Geci, the third attempt was intended to arrange his killing through a family friend. He claims that this person had been incited by Sabit Geci and others. However, after his friends, Sadik Rama of Qerret and the group formed to protect him uncovered the plot and began tracking those involved, they withdrew and abandoned the plan.