President Ibrahim Rugova
Another act of defiance against the Serbians was the election of the Albanian writer Ibrahim Rugova as their president. The Albanians of Kosovo also set up their own government, but Serbia declared the election illegal.
The Serbian domination continued and in 1993 over thirty Albanians were arrested and charged by the Serbians with setting up an armed revolt. This Serbian action continued in 1995 when their court sentenced sixty-eight Albanians up to eight years in prison for establishing their own police force.
In 1996 the Serbians signed an agreement that allowed Albanian students to return to mainstream education. But, in the same year the secretive group called the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) began a campaign of bombing Serbian police and forces in their effort to win independence for Kosovo.
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