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{{Infobox political party|name=Kosovo Liberation Army|native_name=Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës<br>Ослободилачка војска Косова|logo=KLA symbol.svg|founded=1996|logo_size=200|leader=[[Hashim Thaçi]]|dissolved=20 September 1999|political_orientation=Albanian [[nationalism]]<br>[[Fascism]]}}

The '''Kosovo Liberation Army''' ('''KLA''') was a [[Fascism|fascist]]<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Richard Becker|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Why the U.S. backs Kosovo ‘independence’|date=2007-12-14|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/07-12-14-why-us-backs-kosovo-independe-html/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517133746/https://www.liberationschool.org/07-12-14-why-us-backs-kosovo-independe-html/|archive-date=2022-05-17|retrieved=2022-10-28}}</ref> separatist organization in [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]] active during the 1990s. It attacked [[Republic of Serbia|Serbs]] and anti-separatist [[Republic of Albania|Albanians]]. The majority of its victims in [[Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija|Kosovo]] between 1996 and 1998 were ethnic Albanians. As late as 1998, the [[United States of America|USA]] publicly considered it a [[Terrorism|terrorist]] organization while secretly sending it weapons. The KLA also received supplies, weapons, and training from [[Federal Republic of Germany|Germany]], Albania, and [[Islamic fundamentalism|Islamic fundamentalist]] organizations.<ref name=":02">{{Citation|author=[[Michael Parenti]]|year=2000|title=To Kill a Nation|chapter=On to Kosovo|page=98–102|pdf=https://leftychan.net/edu/src/1614706295182-3.pdf|publisher=Verso}}</ref>

== Ideology ==
The KLA wanted to separate Kosovo from Yugoslavia and attach it to a "Greater Albania" that included parts of Serbia, [[Republic of North Macedonia|Macedonia]], [[Montenegro]], and [[Hellenic Republic|Greece]].<ref name=":02" />

== Infighting ==
By May 2000, [[Hashim Thaçi]] had ordered the executions of at least 12 other KLA commanders.<ref name=":02" />

== References ==
[[Category:Fascist groups]]

Kosovo Liberation Army - Revision history

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