 Rambai muchinyora ndima ino - kushora kweAlbania kuzvimiririra kweYugoslavia uye kunyanya Serbia kwakanga kwambobuda mumhirizhonga 1968 naKurume 1981muguta guru rePristina. Rugova pakutanga akatsigira chisina chisimba kurwisa, asi gare gare kupikisa akatora chimiro kuparadzanisa kurudziro nevanopikisa mapoka ezvematongerwo enyika uye zvombo chiito kubva 1996 ne Kosovo Liberation Army Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës, kana UÇK vane mabasa akatungamirira kuKosovo Hondo kupera pamwe 1999 NATO kubhomba Federal Republic of Yugoslavia uye pakupedzisira kusikwa UN Kosovo protectorate UNMIK. 