Abdullah Tahiri

Kosovo liberation fighter
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroKosovo liberation fighter
PlacesSerbia Mali Kosovo
wasFighter
Gender
Male
Birth2 September 1956, Malisheva, Malishevë Municipality, Prizren District, Kosovo
Death1999Gjilan, Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia, Kosovo (aged 42 years)
Star signVirgo
The details

Biography

Abdullah Tahiri (September 2, 1956 – 1999) was an Albanian born in Malishevë, a village located in Gjilan. He was an Albanian leader in the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Education

Tahiri attended primary school until 1975, at which point he left because of "hostile activities" against the state. His secondary education continued in Bujanovac, but he was expelled after helping organize demonstrations in the spring of 1981.

Political activity

Tahiri was one of the organizers of the 1981 protests that took place on March 11, 1981, in Pristina. While many believed the protest to be spontaneous, it was in fact planned and organized by Gani Koci, Bajram Kosumi, and others. On 1–2 April 1981, organized demonstrations began, asking for recognition of a Kosovar Republic. Tahiri organized his fellow citizens around his ideology of freeing Kosovo from Serbian influence.

Tahiri was the OZK (Operative Zone of Karadak) founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the first commander of OZK Regulation (military force). He became a Major General in the military force and Tahiri had been active in the leadership of the Union of Political Parties of Gjilan (Albanian: "USPGJ") that acted as a unique body.

Tahiri was later jailed and sentenced to four years imprisonment.

Death

Tahiri's body lies in the cemetery of martyrs in Gjilan.

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