Mahmut Bakalli

Mahmut Bakalli ( born January 19, 1936 in Đakovica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, † April 14, 2006 in Pristina ) was a Yugoslav and Kosovar politicians.

Biography

Bakalli was born in Gjakova in southwestern Kosovo. He attended secondary school in Prizren, studied political science at the University of Belgrade and worked first at the University of Prishtina.

Bakalli was initially a member of the youth organization of the Communist League of Kosovo, and in 1961 its chairman. From 1967 he was chairman of the Committee of the League Prishtinaer community and as a result also a member of the Central Committee of the Serbian division and the Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ).

Bakalli was from June 28, 1971 President of the LCY in Kosovo. On May 6, 1981, he resigned in the wake of the Albanian student protests that had been answered by the party leadership with the use of the police and the Yugoslav army from his office.

Prior to the war in Kosovo in 1998 was, among other things Bakalli together with Ibrahim Rugova member of a five-member delegation that negotiated with the Serbian leadership under Slobodan Milošević about an end to violence in Kosovo, but had no success. In the Milošević trial before the ICTY in The Hague, he was, among other things For this reason, on 18 and 19 February 2002, the first witness for the prosecution.

Mahmut Bakalli was on the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj member of the Kosovo parliament and recently served as a consultant to Agim Çeku list since 2001.

He died on 14 April 2006, throat cancer. Bakalli was married and had three daughters.