Interim Years
In 1989, using a false name, Haradinaj emigrated to Lucerne, Switzerland. He worked there for eight years as a construction worker, security guard, and a bouncer in a nightclub. As the Soviet Union dealt with new internal challenges, movements for independence began to form among many of the ethnicities of the Balkans and other states. In Switzerland, Haradinaj joined the separatist National Movement of Kosovo, from which the UÇK originated. It wanted to leave Yugoslavia to achieve an independent Kosovo. In 1998, Haradinaj returned to his hometown of Glodjane in Kosovo.
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