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Born and raised in the village of Karac, Vucitrn municipality of Kosovo, Rahim Ademi finished the Yugoslav military academy in Belgrade in 1976 and was assigned to a station in Rogoznica near Šibenik in Croatia, where he got married and had two children.
In 1986, the Military Court in Sarajevo convicted him of counterrevolutionary acts and Albanian irredentism, but after serving a year and a half in jail, the Supreme Military Court agreed with his appeal and acquitted him. He would spend the next years serving as an officer in Sinj until 1990 when the war in Croatia was starting and he deserted from the Yugoslav People's Army in order to help create Croatian army formations in that part of the country.
He officially joined the Ministry of the Interior in 1990 and later became part of the Croatian Army forcesCroatia's military is officially called "Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia" Oruzane Snage Republike Hrvatske and it consists of these branches: ground forces Hrvatska kopnena vojska naval forces Hrvatska Ratna Mornarica air and air defense forces Hr. In 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. he was assigned to the post of the subcommander of the GospicGospic is a town in Croatia, Lika region. It is the center of the Lika-Senj county and it has a population 12,980 (2001), making it the third smallest town that's also the center of county government in the country (Lika is a mountainous, sparsely populat military district, but was relieved of duty later in the year, after the infamous Medak pocket operation.
Ademi later served as a subcommander of the SplitSee stock split for the investing term. Split ( Italian: Spalato is the largest and most important city in Dalmatia, center of the Split-Dalmatia county. It is situated on a promontory on the east side of the Adriatic Sea. With a population of 188,694 (20 military district and was promoted to brigadier general for his achievements in Operation StormIn the summer 1995, Croatia carried out a large scale military operation called Oluja Storm the objective of which was to reclaim areas of Croatia held by rebel Serb forces. The operation officially lasted four days and effectively eliminated the wartime in 1995. He remained there until 1999 when he was reassigned to the post of the Assistant Chief Inspector of the Armed Forces in Zagreb.
In 2001 the ICTY finally indicted Ademi for crimes against humanity ( ethnic cleansing) committed against the Krajina Serbs in the aforementioned Medak pocket operation. He was in the custody of the Court but was later allowed to prepare his defence free.
Ademi claims that the Croatian government, under pressure from the international community, relieved him of duty in Gospic in 1993 in order to make him a scapegoat, rather than implicating actual commanding officers Janko Bobetko, Mirko Norac and Mladen Markac .
He also claims that the Tribunal prosecution wanted him for questioning as far back as 1998 but that the government never allowed him to answer their questions. He is convinced that he is being sacrificed because of his Albanian descent.