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Muharrem Bajraktari (15 May 1896 — 21 January 1989) was an Albanian Muslim tribal leader of Luma in northern Albania, and a political and military figure during World War II.
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Family and early life
His father was Nezir Bajraktari, and he had a brother, Bajram. He emigrated to Yugoslavia.
Pre-World War II Muslim landowners supporter
In December 1924 when Ahmet Zog returned in Albania he divide the country in four zones, that confide to four best military, captains : Muharrem Bajraktari on north-est (Kruma, Fikri Dine on north-west (Shkodra);, Prenk Pervizi on center (Tirana), and Hysni Dema on South (Vlora). In 1926 blast the rebellion of Dukagjini, Shala and Shoshi, that President Zog confide to the supreme command to Prenk Pervizi, and not to Bajraktari which led gendarmes, together with fighters from Dibra and Mat, punished rebellious highlander of Puka, that have participate to these rebellion.Bajraktari has not never gone to Shala and Shosh. In this case, he is then captain Prenk Pervizi, which put end to the revolt, fact known from all the Albanians. The same Bajraktari always praised it in every occasion for this success.This is the true history of the insurrection of Dukagjin. Bajraktari was dismissed from his commanding position in the gendarmerie because he refused to cooperate with the British-Inspector General. In 1936 Bajraktari had a disagreement with Zog, left Albania and went to Yugoslavia where he met with Draža Mihailović in the summer of 1936.
World War II
At the beginning of the war Bajraktar was one of the leaders of the first Axis resistance actions in Albania. Until the end of 1941 Bajraktari led large bands whose number and membership continually grew.
Following the British strategy of establishing a Balkan Union, Draža Mihailović, a leader of the Yugoslav royalist resistance movement, established cooperation with Bajraktari and his forces in Albania. Mihailović already knew Bajraktari from the period when he lived in Yugoslavia for several years before World War II as a political emigrant. It is possible that the British S.O.E. worked through him. According to one report he was opposed to the Kosovo Defense Committee and their methods and had good relations with Prenk Cali. Frequent meetings between Bajraktari's and Mihailovic's men were organized at the beginning of January.
Together with other elements of Balli Kombetar, Bajraktari controlled the area south of the Pukë-Kukes line at the end of World War II and secured the retreat of the German army in autumn 1944.
After the war, Bajraktari, together with Fiqri Dine, worked for the Albanian Committee in Paris. He was an executive member of the NCFA (National Committee for a Free Albania).