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Rrahman Morina
President of the Provincial Committee for Kosovo and Metohija of the Socialist Party of Serbia
In office
27 January 1989 – 12 October 1990
Preceded byRemzi Kolgeci
Succeeded byPost abolished (as the League of Communists disbanded)
Personal details
Born1943
Peja, Kosovo, Italian protectorate of Albania
Died12 October 1990(1990-10-12) (aged 46–47)
Pristina, Socialist Republic of Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalityYugoslav and Serbian
Political partySocialist Party of Serbia, League of Communists of Kosovo (until 1990)
SpouseBratislava Buba Banjac-Morina
Professionpolice officer, politician

Rrahman Morina (Serbian: Рахман Морина, romanizedRahman Morina; 1943 – 12 October 1990) was a Yugoslav police officer and communist politician. A Kosovo Albanian, he is remembered as being an opponent of Albanian separatism.

Early career

Morina had a career as an agent of the Ministry of Interior of SFR 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 the 1981 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 boss Mahmut Bakalli, as the latter did not prove himself accountable enough in the eyes of the government in Belgrade.

Leadership in Kosovo

In 1988, Morina was installed as leader of the Kosovan wing of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia due to the Anti-bureaucratic revolution in support of the policies of Slobodan Milošević, and the subsequent removal of Azem Vllasi and Kaqusha Jashari from 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 leader Slobodan Milošević, although Milošević originally despised Morina. Years earlier, Milošević approached the Yugoslavian president Lazar 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 the League of Communists of Serbia, if Morina was not ousted. In 1989 Morina resigned from Kosovo's political structures during the miners' strike.

Death

Grave of Morina, Alley of Distinguished Citizens, Belgrade New Cemetery. (Poet Mira Alečković is buried in the same tomb.)

He died in 1990, at the age of 47 after suffering a heart attack in Pristina, while attending the constituent convention of the Kosovan branch of the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Personal life

He was married to Bratislava "Buba" Morina, a Serbian lawyer, government minister, and Commissioner for Refugees of Serbia who died in 2022.

References

  1. "Albanian leader suffers fatal heart attack during speech". UPI Archives. 12 October 1990.
  2. "Vdes Bratislava Buba Morina, e veja e Rrahman Morines". gazetablic.com (in Albanian).

Bibliography

  • Raif Dizdarević, Od smrti Tita do smrti Jugoslavije (Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 2000)
  • Viktor Meier, Yugoslavia - A History of its Demise (London: Routledge, 1999)
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