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SITUATA POLITIKE NË PRISHTINË NË VITET 1945-1999
POLITICAL SITUATION IN PRISHTINA FOR THE PERIOD 1945-1999

Author(s): Abaz Makolli
Subject(s): History of Law, Constitutional Law, Public Administration, Political history, Government/Political systems, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Drejtoria e Përgjithshme e Arkivave e Republikës së Shqipërisë; Agjencia Shtetërore e Arkivave të Kosovës
Keywords: Prishtina; Kosovo; demonstrations; war; politics; situation;

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present my research on a very important stage-related to the political situation of the Municipality of Prishtina from the period after the Second World War until the liberation of Kosovo in 1999. Carefully dealing with political events and developments chronologically, which were decisive in the realization of the centuries-old aspirations for freedom and independence and the establishment of the Republic of Kosovo. The paper will have scientific sources and references arguing with facts these events that are related in terms of time and space. The chronology of events will be followed by the initial establishment of public institutions in Pristina, for the territory of the former Province of Kosovo in the savage repression of the 50s (arms action) where Albanians were subjected to un precedent repression by the Yugoslav government known also as the “Rankovi. Period”. Then the demonstrations of the 60's will be elaborated, as a result of which the University of Prishtina was established and the use of the Albanian national flag was allowed until the proclamation of the Constitution of 1974. In the third part will be reflected the demonstrations of the 80s which played a decisive role in the later development switch calls for the peace full movement for freedom, independence and democracy that laid the foundations for the creation of parallel institutions of the Republic of Kosovo and which later culminated in the armed resistance of Kosovo Liberation Army which brought the final liberation of Kosovo.

  • Issue Year: 56/2020
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 145-154
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Albanian