Following thecapitulation of Italy from the war,Xhafer Deva helped form a provisional government under German occupation and set up theSecond League of Prizren alongside other Albanian nationalists. The Kosovo Regiment was established as military formation of the Second League of Prizren.[2] The regiment was established by the Central Committee of the Second League of Prizren.[3] The Germans entrusted the establishment of the Kosovo Regiment to Bajazit Boletini.[4] The commander of the regiment was Bajazit Boletini, while commanders of regiment's battalions were Rasim Dajči, Jusuf Boletini (Bajazit's brother) and Rizo Agaj.[5]
The number of Albanians who joined this regiment was around 1,000[6] or 1,500.[7]
On 3 December 1943 the regiment murdered 30 Serbs in village Rakoš, on 4 December the regiment killed 34 Serbs inĐakovica and another 36 Serbs in village Siga.[8]
This regiment was used against Partisans in neighboring regions.[9]
Between 4 and 7 December 1943, 400 soldiers of Kosovo Regiment commanded byXhafer Deva surroundedPeć and committed mass murder of localSerbs andMontenegrins, killing at least 300 people.[10]
^(Elsie 1997, p. 36): "... after the Italian capitulation when the Germans set up an Albanian Kosovo Regiment."
^(Marović 1995, p. 390): "DRUGA PRIZRENSKA LIGA osnovala je i svoje oružane jedinice kojima je dala ime REGIMENTA KOSOVA (Kosovski puk)."
^(Lekić 1995, p. 77): "Централни комитет Друге призренске лиге формирао је, у новембру 1943. године, на терену косовско-митровичког округа Косовски пук.... "
^(Ličina & VavićPavlovski 1985, p. 237): "Taj zadatak povjeren je Bajazitu Boletiniju. koji je u studenome 1943. formirao zloglasni Kosovski puk (Regjiment Kosova) od oko 1000 žandara, kojima su se u njihovu pohodu, uz put, priključivali i drugi najokorjeliji Velikoalbanci."
^(Dželetović 2000, p. 167): "Поред Бајазита Бољетинија који је био командант Регимента, команданти батаљона били су: капетан Расим Дајчи, родом из Косовске Митровице, који је због ове дужности доведен из Албаније, у којој је живео као емигрант, ..."
^(Review 2004, p. 70): "Во таа смисла бил формиран Косовски полк (Регимент Косова) со околу 1000 лица."
^(Lekić 1995, p. 77): ".... са око 1.500 Арбанаса. "
^(TSSJ 2008, p. 55): "Thus at the end of 1943 the so-called Kosovo Regiment was formed and used to fight the Partisans in the neighboring regions."
^(Filipović 1989, p. 148): "At the end of 1943 (December 3), about 400 members of the so-called "Kosovo Regiment", headed by the criminal Xhafer Deva, arrived in Pec. As early as December 4, after the complete encirclement of the town, began the mass massacre of ..."