Rahman Morina

Infobox President
name = Rahman Morina


order = 14th President of the League of Communists of Kosovo
term_start = 27 January 1989
term_end = 12 October 1990
predecessor = Remzi Kolgeci
successor = Post abolished (as the League of Communists disbanded)
birth_date = 1943
birth_place = Peć, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
death_date = 15 October 1990
death_place = Pristina, Kosovo (Then part of Yugoslavia)
nationality = Yugoslav
party = Socialist Party of Serbia, League of Communists of Kosovo (until 1990)
profession = police officer, politician
spouse = Bratislava Buba Banjac-Morina

Rahman Morina (alt. "Rrahman Morina"), (1943 – 12 October 1990), was a Yugoslav (Kosovar Albanian) police officer and political figure. He is remembered as a collaborator of the Slobodan Milosevic regime.

Early career

Morina had a career as an agent of the Ministry of Interior of 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 held thereby 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 Serbian police to quell the uprising, without informing or consulting the provincial government. This act contributed to the resignation of Kosovar party boss Mahmut Bakalli, as the latter did not prove himself accoutable enough in the eyes of the government in Belgrade.

Leader of Kosovo

Morina was installed as leader of the Kosovar wing of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, due to the Milosevic-orchestrated removal of Azem Vllasi and Kaqusha Jashari from the Kosovar party leadership, as he was one of very few non-Slavic opponents of tendencies of Kosovar separatism.

Morina came to be seen as a pliant proxy of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who although initially despised Morina, and once went to the Yugoslavian president Lazar Mojsov, furiously demanding Morina's removal from the Kosovar government (and the rest of it). Milosevic even threatened to resign from his office as leader of the League of Communists of Serbia, if Morina was not ousted.

Death

He died in 1990, at the age of 47, under suspicious circumstances in Pristina, while attending the constituent convention of the Kosovar branch of the Socialist Party of Serbia. The official death cause was labelled a heart attack, but persistent rumors says he was actually poisoned at the convention.

Private

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

References

* [http://umeo.blogspot.com/2006/08/miloevi-umeo-da-pridobija-ljude.html]

Bibliography

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