Astrit Bytyçi, a fighter of the Kosova Liberation Army and a martyr, was born in Ferizaj, Kosova. He studied Albanian language and literature at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Prishtina. In April 1998, he joined the Kosova Liberation Army ranks in the Drenica area. He continued his combat activity in Ferizaj, then joined the soldiers going to Albania for armaments (November 1998). On December 13, 1998, together with many other soldiers, with equipment and weapons, led by commander Mujë Krasniqi, they entered in Kosova from Albania. In 1998, he was killed when, along with 148 other fighters in the column, he was ambushed by Serbian forces in the Pashtrik mountains. (In the photo: Astrit Bytyçi)
Text: The encyclopedic dictionary of Kosova – Vol. I , Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova, Prishtina, 2018, page 245.
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