- Sinan Hasani
Infobox_President
name = Sinan Hasani
order = 10th President of Yugoslavia
term_start =15 May 1986
term_end =15 May 1987
primeminister =Branko Mikulić
predecessor =Radovan Vlajković
successor =Lazar Mojsov
order2 = 6th President of the League of Communists of Kosovo
term_start2 = June 1981
term_end2 = May 1983
predecessor2 =Velli Deva
successor2 =Ilaz Kurteshi
order3 = 2nd Kosovar member of the Yugoslav Presidency
term_start3 =May 15 1984
term_end3 =May 15 1989
predecessor3 =Fadil Hoxha
successor3 =Riza Sapunxhiu
birth_date = birth date|1922|5|14|df=y
birth_place = Požaranje/Pozharan, nearVitina ,Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (todayKosovo )
death_date =
death_place =
spouse =
party =League of Communists of Kosovo (1942-1990)
religion =Sinan Hasani, born 1922 in Požaranje/Pozharan near
Vitina , (Other sources say Žegra/Zhegër, nearGnjilane ), is a Kosovar Albanian novelist, statesman, diplomat and former President of Presidency of Yugoslavia .Early life & career
Hasani joined the
Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement in 1941, during the war, and theYugoslav Communist Party in 1942. He found himself inNazi German captivity in 1944, and spent time in a POW camp nearVienna until the end of theWorld War II . After the war, he attended theĐuro Đaković party school inBelgrade . Later, he became leader of the Socialist Union of the Working People mass organization in Kosovo, and was from 1965 to 1967 manager of the Kosovar publishing house "Rilindja". 1971-1974, he was the Yugoslav ambassador toDenmark , and in 1975 he was elected Deputy Speaker of the Yugoslav Federal Assembly, until he became the leader of theLeague of Communists of Kosovo in 1982.In the presidency
Hasani was elected as the
Kosovar member of the Yugoslavian presidency in 1984 with his term ending in 1989. He also served as head of the rotating presidency. On Hasani's first day as president, he and his presidency unanimously appointed the anti-reform hardlinerBranko Mikulić as the federalPrime Minister of Yugoslavia . After Mikulić and his cabinet voluntarily resigned in March 1989, as the first federal ministry in the history of Socialist Yugoslavia, Hasani initially supported the unsuccessful bid of the Milošević loyalist and Serb hardlinerBorisav Jović , to become the federal PM. It was contrary to the candidacy of the economically liberal reformistAnte Marković , which was proposed by the republics of Slovenia and Croatia, and finally approved by the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia, and also by the outgoing presidency, including Hasani himself.Relations with the Albanian community
As a publicly declared ethnic Albanian, Hasani was among the wider Albanian community however, perceived as being highly controversial because of the continuing oppressive situation of the ethnic Albanians during his regime. He used his position to feed the interests of the Slavic majority; he was thus unsympathetic towards the architects who fought for Albanian "non-Yugoslavian" interests, mostly in Kosovo, much to the anger of the Albanians in Yugoslavia.
Hasani is also remembered for his undiplomatic deals with the leader of Albania,
Enver Hoxha who in turn, through his patriotic speeches, gained a lot of support among the ethnic Albanians in Yugoslavia. Hasani had tagged Enver Hoxha “a scabby goat” (a Serbian idiom), while Hoxha called Hasani “a Serbian dog” in response to this. These events nevertheless, occurred some time before Hasani became head of presidency since Hoxha died in 1985.Works
Hasani also wrote a number of novels in Albanian, which were translated into Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian.
Novels
* "Një natë e turbullt" ("A troubled night", 1966)
* "Era dhe Lisi" ("The wind and the oak", 1973; filmed in 1979 as a TV-series)
* "Fëmijëria e Gjon Vatrës" ("The childhood of Gjon Vatra", 1975)
* "Për bukën e bardhë" ("For white bread", 1977)Other works
* "Kosovo : istine i zablude", ("Kosovo, Truths and Illusions" 1986, in Serbian, concerning Albanian nationalism in Kosovo)
* "Në fokus të ngjarjeve : bisedë me Sinan Hasani / Tahir Z. Berisha" ("In the focus of events, a conversation with Sinan Hasani / Tahir Z. Berisha" 2005, Biography, ISBN 9951-408-08-7)External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0367883/ Profile] on the
International Movie Database References
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Raif Dizdarević , "Od smrti Tita do smrti Jugoslavije" ("From Tito's death to the death of Yugoslavia", Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 2000)
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