During the 1990s, most members of Kosovo's Albanian community boycotted Serbian state institutions and operated through parallel government structures.
During the funeral, he said that the massacre had shaken the civilized world and called for the Serbian government to provide more information on missing Kosovars from the wartime period.
[12] The following year, Shehu took part in negotiations to allow twenty Ashkali and Roma families displaced by the war to return to Gjakova.
[14] The details of this situation do not appear to be available online, but there is evidence that several prominent LDK members in Gjakova turned against Shehu in this period.
Shehu ran for re-election as an independent candidate and fared poorly, finishing in eighth place with under two per cent of the vote.