{"id":7858,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/rasim-rrahman-kicina-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:51","slug":"rasim-rrahman-kicina-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/rasim-rrahman-kicina-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasim Rrahman Ki\u00e7ina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rasim Rrahman <\/span>Kiçina<\/span>, a figh<\/span>t<\/span>er of <\/span>t<\/span>he Kosovo Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion Army and Hero of Kosovo, was born in <\/span>t<\/span>he village of <\/span>Baincë<\/span> in <\/span>Drenas<\/span>. He comple<\/span>t<\/span>ed his primary educa<\/span>t<\/span>ion in his na<\/span>t<\/span>ive village before con<\/span>t<\/span>inui<\/span>ng his s<\/span>t<\/span>udies a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he Facul<\/span>t<\/span>y of Ma<\/span>t<\/span>hema<\/span>t<\/span>ical-Na<\/span>t<\/span>ural Sciences a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he Universi<\/span>t<\/span>y of Pris<\/span>t<\/span>ina. In <\/span>t<\/span>he early 1990s, he <\/span>main<\/span>t<\/span>ained<\/span> con<\/span>t<\/span>ac<\/span>t<\/span> wi<\/span>t<\/span>h ac<\/span>t<\/span>ivis<\/span>t<\/span>s of <\/span>t<\/span>he People’s Movemen<\/span>t<\/span> of Kosovo and joined groups <\/span>t<\/span>ha<\/span>t<\/span> conduc<\/span>t<\/span>ed armed ac<\/span>t<\/span>ions agains<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he Serbian pol<\/span>ice. On February 28, 1998, he <\/span>par<\/span>t<\/span>icipa<\/span>t<\/span>ed<\/span> in <\/span>t<\/span>he ba<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>le in <\/span>Likoshan<\/span> alongside o<\/span>t<\/span>her figh<\/span>t<\/span>ers of <\/span>t<\/span>he Kosovo Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion Army. In <\/span>t<\/span>he spring of 1998, he co-founded <\/span>t<\/span>he local mili<\/span>t<\/span>ary barracks in <\/span>Baica<\/span>, where KLA figh<\/span>t<\/span>ers were <\/span>t<\/span>rained. He was also one of <\/span>t<\/span>he <\/span>founders of <\/span>t<\/span>he comba<\/span>t<\/span> uni<\/span>t<\/span> “Alfa.” <\/span>T<\/span>hroughou<\/span>t<\/span> his service, he <\/span>t<\/span>ook par<\/span>t<\/span> in <\/span>numerous<\/span> opera<\/span>t<\/span>ions and ba<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>les of <\/span>t<\/span>he Kosovo Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion Army, including engagemen<\/span>t<\/span>s in <\/span>Kijeva<\/span> and <\/span>t<\/span>he gorge of <\/span>Llapushnik<\/span>. <\/span>Kiçina<\/span> was par<\/span>t<\/span> of <\/span>t<\/span>he close circle of superiors a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he <\/span>General S<\/span>t<\/span>aff. <\/span>T<\/span>ragically, on May 30, 1999, he was ambushed by enemy forces a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he exi<\/span>t<\/span> of <\/span>Negroc<\/span>, on <\/span>t<\/span>he road <\/span>t<\/span>o <\/span>Arlla<\/span>t<\/span>, where he los<\/span>t<\/span> his life. In 2009, he was pos<\/span>t<\/span>humously awarded <\/span>t<\/span>he “Hero of Kosovo” order by <\/span>t<\/span>he Presiden<\/span>t<\/span> of Kosovo. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/em><\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span>o: Ras<\/span>im <\/span>K\u0131çina<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>ex<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Encyclopedic Dic<\/span>t<\/span>ionary of Kosovo – Vol. <\/span>I <\/span><\/span>,<\/span> Academy of Sciences and Ar<\/span>t<\/span>s of Kosovo, Prish<\/span>t<\/span>ina, 2018, page 787.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>o<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© h<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>ps:\/\/<\/span>t<\/span>rima<\/span>t<\/span>.al\/en\/hero\/rasim-kicina<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rasim Rrahman Ki\u00e7ina, a fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army and a Hero of Kosovo, was born in the village of Bainc\u00eb in Drenas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11458,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions\/11458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}