Fadil Nimani

Kosovo Liberation Army commander

Fadil Nimani (7 April 1967 – 25 May 2001) was a Kosovar Albanian insurgent commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo War (1998–99), and of the National Liberation Army (NLA) during the Macedonian Conflict (2001), in which the Albanian population sought independence of Albanian-inhabited areas in FR Yugoslavia and Republic of North Macedonia, respectively.

He was appointed commander of the 114th Brigade of the NLA, active in the Kumanovo region, and had about 150 people under his command.

He was killed by Macedonian special forces in an operation during the Macedonian Conflict, on 25 May 2001.A statue has been erected by ethnic Albanian politicians and former NLA fighters at Vaksince in his honour.