Rrahman Morina
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Rrahman Morina | |
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President of the Provincial CommitteeforKosovo and Metohijaof theSocialist Party of Serbia | |
In office 27 January 1989 – 12 October 1990 | |
Preceded by | Remzi Kolgeci |
Succeeded by | Post abolished(as the League of Communists disbanded) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1943 Peć,Kosovo,Italian protectorate of Albania |
Died | 12 October 1990 Pristina,Serbia,SFR Yugoslavia | (aged 46–47)
Nationality | YugoslavandSerbian |
Political party | Socialist Party of Serbia,League of Communists of Kosovo(until 1990) |
Spouse | Bratislava Buba Banjac-Morina |
Profession | police officer, politician |
Rrahman Morina(Serbian:Рахман Морина,romanized:Rahman Morina;1943 – 12 October 1990) was aYugoslavpolice officer andcommunistpolitician. AKosovo Albanian,he is remembered as being an opponent ofAlbanian separatism.
Early career
[edit]Morina had a career as an agent of theMinistry of InteriorofSFR Yugoslavia,and later on as a party official in the League of Communists of Kosovo. He rose through the ranks and was in 1981 appointed as Kosovo's interior minister, and thereby held the top law enforcement office in the province. In March the same year, in the wake of the1981 riots in Kosovo,he called in the national police to quell the uprising, without informing or consulting the provincial government. This act contributed to the resignation of Kosovan party bossMahmut Bakalli,as the latter did not prove himself accountable enough in the eyes of the government inBelgrade.
Leadership in Kosovo
[edit]In 1988, Morina was installed as leader of the Kosovan wing of theLeague of Communists of Yugoslaviadue to theAnti-bureaucratic revolutionin support of the policies ofSlobodan Milošević,and the subsequent removal ofAzem VllasiandKaqusha Jasharifrom the Kosovan party leadership, as he was one of very few Albanian opponents of Kosovo Albanian separatism.
Morina came to be seen as a loyalist of the Serbian leaderSlobodan Milošević,although Milošević originally despised Morina. Years earlier, Milošević approached theYugoslavian presidentLazar Mojsov,furiously demanding Morina's removal from the Kosovan government (and the rest of it). Milošević even threatened to resign from his office as leader of theLeague of Communists of Serbia,if Morina was not ousted. In 1989 Morina resigned from Kosovo's political structures during theminers' strike.
Death
[edit]He died in 1990, at the age of 47 after suffering a heart attack inPristina,while attending the constituent convention of the Kosovan branch of theSocialist Party of Serbia.[1]
Personal life
[edit]He was married to Bratislava "Buba" Morina, aSerbianlawyer,government minister, and Commissioner for Refugees of Serbia who died in 2022.[2]
References
[edit]- ^"Albanian leader suffers fatal heart attack during speech".UPI Archives.12 October 1990.
- ^"Vdes Bratislava Buba Morina, e veja e Rrahman Morines".gazetablic.com(in Albanian).
Bibliography
[edit]- Raif Dizdarević,Od smrti Tita do smrti Jugoslavije(Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 2000)
- Viktor Meier,Yugoslavia - A History of its Demise(London: Routledge, 1999)
- 1943 births
- 1990 deaths
- Politicians from Peja
- Yugoslav police chiefs
- League of Communists of Kosovo politicians
- Ex officio members of the Presidency of the 13th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Members of the Central Committee of the 13th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Socialist Party of Serbia politicians
- Kosovo Albanians
- Kosovan politicians
- Death conspiracy theories
- Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery