Awards Hero of Kosovo Name Bahri Fazliu | Died 1998, Plav, Montenegro | |
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Born 1971 Llausha, Podujevo, Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia Known for National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo, Clirimi newspaper | ||
Pyet Kosova - Kendon Bahri FAZLIU - HEROI I KOMBIT
Bahri Fazliu (1971–1998) was a Kosovo Albanian poet, publicist, and nationalist.
Contents
- Pyet Kosova Kendon Bahri FAZLIU HEROI I KOMBIT
- Hysni klinaku kenge per bahri fazliun
- Biography
- Legacy
- Publications
- References
Hysni klinaku kenge per bahri fazliun
Biography
Bahri Fazliu was born in the village of Llaushë near Podujevo (Albanian: Besiana), Yugoslavia, today's Kosovo. He was the younger brother of Fahri Fazliu, PMK member who lost his life in a shoot-out with Serbian police on November 2, 1989, in "Kodra e Diellit" neighborhood in Prishtina.
Bahri was one of the founders of NMLK (Albanian: Lëvizja Kombëtare për Çlirimin e Kosovës, LKÇK), and its leader after the imprisonment of Avni Klinaku. NMLK was a revolutionary movement, and a constant criticizer of Democratic League of Kosovo and Ibrahim Rugova's Gandhism.
He was the chief editor of the newspaper Çlirimi (English: Liberation), which would be secretly delivered inside Kosovo every three months. On May 7, 1998, he got involved in a skirmish with Serbian Armed Forces in an area called Bjeshka e Bogiqes, in the vicinity of Plava, a Montenegrin town at the border between Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo (then Serbia, Yugoslavia), eventually getting killed. This was 4 days before the official agreement between NMLK and newly-active Kosovo Liberation Army, that would result in NMLK officially joining KLA.
Legacy
There are streets in nowadays Kosovo which bear his name. He would later receive the title "Hero of Kosovo" (Albanian: "Hero i Kosovës").