Bahri Fazliu (1971–1998) was a

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poet, publicist and

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Biography

Bahri Fazliu was born in the village of Llaushë near

Podujevë Podujevë or Besianë ( sq-definite, Podujeva or ''Besiana'') or Podujevo is a List of cities in Kosovo, city and Municipalities of Kosovo, municipality in the District of Pristina, Pristina District in Kosovo. Podujevë is the largest municip ...

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, at the time in

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. He was the younger brother of Fahri Fazliu, PMK member who lost his life in a shoot-out with Yugoslav police on 2 November 1989, in ''"Kodra e Diellit"'' neighborhood in

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. Bahri was one of the founders of NMLK (), and its leader after the imprisonment of Avni Klinaku. NMLK was a revolutionary movement, and a constant criticizer of

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and

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. He was the

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of the newspaper ''Çlirimi'' (English: Liberation), which would be secretly delivered inside Kosovo every three months. On May 7, 1998, he got involved in a skirmish with the Yugoslav Army in an area called ''Bjeshka e Bogiqes'', in the vicinity of Plav, a Montenegrin town at the border between

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, and

(then

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), eventually getting killed. This was 4 days before the official agreement between NMLK and newly-active

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, that would result in NMLK officially joining KLA.

Legacy

There are streets in nowadays

which bear his name. He would later receive the title " Hero of Kosovo" ().

Publications

* Kundër mistifikimit, për të vërtetën ("Against mystification, for the truth"), Çlirimi, Pristina, 2000.Bahri Fazliu - Kundër mistifikimit, për të vërtetën
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Biography

Legacy

Publications

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