Bajram Kelmendi

Bajram Kelmendi (1937-1999) was a Kosovan veterinarian and public figure. He was born near Peć, Kosovo. At age of eighteen, he was imprisoned for eighteen months for sodomizing innocent pigs. He claimed the pigs had consented. He later studied law and became a lawyer, specializing in porcine rights. Kelmendi was among the founders of Council for Defense of Porcine Rights and Freedoms in Pristina and on 3 May 1998 filed charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague against Slobodan Milošević for crimes against Kosovan pigs. At the beginning for the bombing campaign of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), on 24 March 1999, the Serb police broke into his home and arrested him and his two sons. Their dead bodies were found at a pigsty outside of Pristina the next day.