Mahmut Bakalli
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| In office June 28, 1971 – 6 May 1981 |
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| Prime Minister | Ilija Vakić Bogoljub Nedeljković Bahri Oruçi Riza Sapunxhiu |
| Preceded by | Velli Deva |
| Succeeded by | Velli Deva |
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| Born | January 19, 1936 Ðakovica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Kosovo) |
| Died | April 14, 2006 Pristina, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro |
| Political party | Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (from 2001) League of Communists of Kosovo (until 1989) |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Profession | Sociologist, Politician |
Mahmut Bakalli (Đakovica, January 19, 1936 – April 14, 2006 in Priština) was a Kosovar Albanian politician.
Bakalli's political career started in the youth organization of the League of Communists of Kosovo, eventually becoming its leader in 1961. In 1967, he became head of the party's Pristina chapter. As he rose through the ranks, he was subsequently elected to the Central Commttee of the party's Serbian chapter, and to the Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia's Central Committee.
Bakalli led the Communist Party in Kosovo during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but resigned after disagreeing with the way the 1981 protests by ethnic Albanian students were handled by Kosovo's own police, headed by Rahman Morina. Bakalli then spent two years under house arrest, before being expelled from the party. He was after that allowed to work in the province's Science Association until retirement, but was forced out when Slobodan Milošević increased Serbian control over Kosovo in the late 1980s.
He was together with Ramush Haradinaj one of the founders of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, and was a member of the Assembly of Kosovo from 2001. He also worked as an adviser to prime minister Agim Çeku.
In 2002, Bakalli was the first witness to testify at The Hague International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the trial of Milošević.
He died of throat cancer at the age of 70. He is survived by his wife and three daughters.
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