Family and Personal Life
He was formerly married to a Finnish woman with whom he has a minor son, Shkëlzen. Ramush Haradinaj is currently married to the RTK news reporter Anita Haradinaj, they have three young children, two boys and one girl.
Haradinaj has five brothers. Two of them, Luan and Shkelzën, were killed as members of the UÇK during the fights with the Serbian security forces. In December 2002, Haradinaj's brother Daut sentenced by a UN court in Kosovo for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of four Kosovo Albanians, who belonged to the FARK, an armed formation of Kosovo Albanians and rivals of the UÇK, to five years in prison. Enver Haradinaj, an another brother of Ramush, was assassinated in April 2005 in a drive-by shootout in Kosovo. According to the UN security forces, there was a confrontation between rival Kosovo-Albanian clans. The youngest brother Frashër was still a student as of 2007 and worked in the service of the now former Provisional Institutions of Self-Government.
His father, mother and remaining family member still reside in the family home in the community of Glodjane.
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