Career
After graduating from military school,Berisha served in the Yugoslav People's Army. From 1984 to 1985,Berisha served as a platoon commander in Karlovac. [2] From 1985 to 1988,Berisha attended a military school in Sarajevo to train to be an officer. [2]
From 1988 to 1991,after graduation to a Yugoslav People's Army officer,Berisha served as a company commander in Delnice,Croatia,which was then part of Yugoslavia. [2]
From 1991 to 1992,Berisha fought in the Croatian War of Independence on the side of the Croatians. [2]
From 1998 to 1999,Berisha was a member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). [2] [3] In this time he fought in the Dukagjini region of Kosovo. [4]
In 1999,following the disarmament of the KLA,Berisha joined the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC). [2] From 1999 to 2002,he served as the Chief of Staff of the KPC's Second Defense Zone. [2]
From 2002 to 2009,Berisha directed the Hamëz Jashari military academy. [2]
In 2009,Berisha was named the Deputy Commander of the Rapid Reaction Brigade of the newly formed Kosovo Security Force (KSF). [2] The KSF was a relatively new entity at the time,having come into existence on 21 January 2009. [5] Berisha continued in this position until 2014. [2]
Politics
In 2013,Berisha entered politics,joining the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo. That year,he became a member of the AFK's governing council and its presidency. [2]
In 2014,Berisha ran for a seat in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo and won. He became a member of the Assembly's Committee on Rights,Interests of Communities and Returns and the Committee for Economic Development. [2] He also became the Vice Chairperson of Oversight Committee for Kosovo Intelligence Agency. [2]
In February 2016,a Serbian court convicted Berisha and seven other former KLA soldiers in absentia of acts of terrorism for attacks on soldiers of the Yugoslav army in September 1998. [3] Before the trial ended,Berisha questioned the credibility of the indictment and the allegations on which it was based. [3]
Berisha was reelected to the Assembly in the 2017 elections in Kosovo. [2]
On 9 September 2017,Berisha was appointed the Minister of the Kosovo Security Force. [2] He replaced Haki Demolli. [6]
As minister for the security force,Berisha worked towards closer cooperation between the Albanian Armed Forces and the Kosovo Security Force. [7]
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