 Adem Shaban Jashari was born in the village of Prekaz , in the Drenica region of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo , on 28 November 1955 . Descended from Kosovo Albanian guerrillas who had fought Yugoslav forces decades prior , he was raised on Albanian war stories and was rarely seen without a gun . According to the journalist Tim Judah , Jashari " hated the Serbs , and although he was one of the KLA ’ s early recruits , he was no ideological guerrilla . " Another source recounted : “ He liked to get drunk and go out and shoot Serbs . ” 
