Sylejman Kllokoqi: standing above death with a camera
A cameraman’s tales of seven wars.
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Photo: Personal archive of Sylejman Kllokoqi
Interview of Sylejman Kllokoqi in 1982, with the newspaper Zëri i Rinisë. Photo: Archive of the newspaper.
The Ten-Day War in Slovenia was Sylejman’s first war. His second was in Croatia.
For Sylejman, Sarajevo would become the city where he faced the greatest challenges of his life, and where he came closest to death.
Photo from Sylejman Kllokoqi’s 1982 interview with the newspaper Zëri i Rinisë. Photo: Newspaper archive.
And once, he himself had been the target of snipers.
A Sarajevo newspaper lists the faces of those working in television during 1992. Photo: Personal archive of Sylejman Kllokoqi.
He had not spoken to his family on the phone for two years.
Photo: Ferdi Limani / K2.0
“I filmed what I saw,” Sylejmani said when questioned by Serbian police.
Photo: Ferdi Limani / K2.0
Photo: Ferdi Limani / K2.0
Uran Haxha
Uran Haxha is a journalist at K2.0 and the host of the show “Pak ma Drejt” on Paper Radio. He’s covered economic issues and human interest stories for a number of Kosovo media outlets. He studied marketing and management.
This story was originally written in Albanian.