 Drenica is a hilly region in central Kosovo inhabited almost exclusively by Kosovo Albanians . Prior to the Kosovo War , the government of Yugoslavia considered it " the hotbed of Albanian terrorism . " Jashari was an illiterate farmer . He participated in an armed uprising against Serbian authorities which had erupted in the region in 1991 ( while still all part of SFR Yugoslavia ) . During this period , an Albanian irredentist organization that came to be known as the Kosovo Liberation Army first emerged . 
