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Kaqusha Jashari

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Kaqusha Jashari
Member of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo
In office
13 November 2007 – 3 November 2010
Parliamentary groupDemocratic Party
President of the League of Communists of Kosovo
In office
27 April 1988 – 17 November 1988
[citation needed]
Preceded byAzem Vllasi
Succeeded byRemzi Kolgeci
10th Chairwoman of the Executive Council of SAP Kosovo
In office
10 March 1987 – 9 May 1989
[citation needed]
PresidentBajram Selani
Remzi Kolgeci
Preceded byBahri Oruçi
Succeeded byNikolla Shkreli
Personal details
Born
Kaqusha Fejzullahu

(1946-08-16)16 August 1946
Pristina, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)[a]
Died6 May 2025(2025-05-06) (aged 78)
Pristina, Kosovo
NationalityKosovar
Yugoslav (formerly)
Political partySocial Democratic Party (1990–2025)
Other political
affiliations		League of Communists (until 1989)
Handball career
Senior clubs
Years Team
1961–1967
 Kosova Prishtinë
1967–1969
 Partizan
1969–197?
 Kosova Prishtinë

Kaqusha Jashari (née Fejzullahu; 16 August 1946 – 6 May 2025) was a Kosovan politician and engineer. She was a member of the Assembly of Kosovo on the Democratic Party of Kosovo list from 2007 onwards.

From 1986 until November 1988, she and Azem Vllasi were the two leading Kosovo politicians. In November 1988, they were both dismissed in the "anti-bureaucratic revolution" because of their unwillingness to accept the constitutional amendments curbing Kosovo's autonomy, and were replaced by proxies of Slobodan Milošević, the leader of the League of Communists of Serbia at the time.

Early life

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Jashari was born in Pristina on 16 August 1946.[a][5] She received her primary and secondary education in Kamenica, Gjilan and Pristina, while she started the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade and completed it in Pristina.[1][2] She was the daughter of Halil Fejzullahu,[6][7] a World War II soldier from the village of Tugjec in Kamenica.[4][8] The family had an apartment in Bulevar kralja Aleksandra, Belgrade, which Jashari lived in after her father's death, although Radmila Vuličević from Pristina claims to be the legal owner.[6] She was the sister of former handball manager and player Petrit Fejzula.[9]

Politics

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In May 1988, Jashari replaced Azem Vllasi as the President of the Provincial Committee of the League of Communists of Kosovo.[10] It seems that Serbia "accepted" her as it was said at the time it that her mother was Montenegrin.[11]

From 17 to 21 October, Albanians held protests throughout Kosovo against the changing of status of the SAP Kosovo.[12] On 17 November 1988, Jashari and Vllasi were forced to resign and Rahman Morina was elected President of the Provincial Committee on 27 January 1989 by the Presidium of the Provincial Committee.[13] This sparked new protests by Albanian youths and workers.[12] They were both dismissed because of their unwillingness to accept the constitutional amendments curbing Kosovo's autonomy, and were replaced by proxies of Slobodan Milošević, the leader of the League of Communists of Serbia at the time.

On 20 October 1990, Marko Orlandić and Jashari guested the gathering of Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo Polje, which was not met with positive reactions.[14]

She was the president of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo (PSDK) from 1991 until 2008,[15] when she was succeeded by the former prime minister and Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerilla leader Agim Çeku.

Death

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Jashari died on 6 May 2025, at the age of 78.[2]

Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b In the official biography of Jashari published by the Kosov0 Academy of Sciences and Arts,[1] her place of birth is listed as Pristina.[2] However, in an earlier version of her biography published by the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, her birthplace is recorded as Skenderaj,[3] because it is claimed that at the time she was born, her father was on duty in this municipality.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Fjalori Enciklopedik i Kosovës I, A-K" [Encyclopedic Dictionary of Kosovo I, A-K] (PDF) (in Albanian). Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts. 2018. p. 723.
  2. ^ a b c "Vdes Kaqusha Jashari, ish-aktiviste politike dhe themeluese e PSDK-së" [Kaqusha Jashari, former political activist and founder of PSDK, dies] (in Albanian). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 6 May 2025.
  3. ^ "Kaqusha Jashari" (in Albanian). Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Babai i Kaqusha Jasharit, Halil Fejzullahu, ishte nga fshati Tugjec i Kamenicës" [Kaqusha Jashari's father, Halil Fejzullahu, was from the village of Tugjec in Kamenica]. Facebook (in Albanian). TV Kamenica. 6 May 2025.[self-published]
  5. ^ "Index J". www.rulers.org.
  6. ^ a b "Iz stana me isterao otac Kaćuše Jašari". Vesti online.
  7. ^ "Nuset shqiptare në Serbi" [Albanian brides in Serbia]. ZemraShqiptare.net (in Albanian). 20 January 2008. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Sot, në shenjë nderimi e respekti vizitova dhe pastrova varrin e prindërve të mi" [Today, as a sign of honor and respect, I visited and cleaned the grave of my parents]. Facebook (in Albanian). Xhafer Leci. 6 September 2023.[self-published]
  9. ^ "E njihni yllin e Kosovës kur luante për Barcelonën ishte takuar me Maradonën para 37 vjetësh" [You know the star of Kosovo when played for Barcelona he met Maradona before 37 years] (in Albanian). Bota Sot. 26 December 2017.
  10. ^ Benson, Leslie (2001). Yugoslavia: A Concise History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-333-79241-4.
  11. ^ Viktor Meier (20 June 2005). Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise. Routledge. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-1-134-66511-2.
  12. ^ a b NIN. nedeljne informativne novine. Politika. 1999. p. 59.
  13. ^ Magaš, Branka (1993). The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-Up 1980-92. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-86091-593-5.
  14. ^ Milorad Đoković (1990). Kosmetski dosije: ispovesti i sudbine prognanih Kosovaca. AIZ Dosije. p. 98. ISBN 9788681563045.
  15. ^ "Kaqusha Jashari: Gjyshe dhe kuzhiniere e mirë". ShqipMedia.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
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