Haradin Bala

Haradin Bala (born 10 June 1957, Glogovac, Yugoslavia), also known as Shala, is a Kosovar-Albanian former commander of the Albanian militant organization UÇK.

He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Serbs and moderate Albanians by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. His trial ended on 30 November 2005 and he was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment, particularly for crimes at the Lapušnik prison camp between May and July 1998 and executing orders to kill Serb civilians in the Beriša Mountains on 25 July 1998, after the fall of Lapušnik as a result of the Serbian Army advances in Kosovo.