Rahim Beqiri (1 January 1957-1 August 2001), also known as Komandant Roki, was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo War and the Macedonian UCK during the Macedonian Civil War.
Biography[]
Rahim Beqiri was born on 1 January 1957 in Kopernica, SAP Kosovo, Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo). At the start of the Kosovo War, Beqiri became a commader in the Marec operative zone for the Kosovo Liberation Army. In 2001, with the Macedonian UCK Albanian insurgent group, he infiltrated Macedonia from the border in Albania, and he started attacking Macedonian security forces. He was mortally wounded in combat with the security forces and died in Drenovec during the Battle of Tetovo. He died in the hospital of Pristina, the capital of an independent Kosovo,