VEPRIMTARIA E KOMITETIT TË KOSOVËS 1925-1939
THE ACTIVITY OF THE KOSOVO COMMITTEE 1925-1939

Summary/Abstract: With all the vicissitudes, non-essential changes of name, unclear periods, etc., it seems that the Kosovo Committee has been operating continuously until 1939 and beyond. The first phase of its activity in the exile begins in December 1924,after the fall of Noli's government. In this case the leaders of the Kosovo National Defense Committee, Hasan Prishtina, Bedri Pejani, Ibrahim Gjakova and many others also fled abroad. They would concentrate initially in Bari and Brindisi, Italy, and very soon, within January 1925 mainly in Vienna, while a part in Geneva. Indeed, since the beginning of 1925, the Kosovo Committee operated under severe conditions in emigration, far from the Kosovo and the Albanian state. In relations with Albanian and Balkan political groups, the Committee continued to present as a continuation of the Kosovo National Protection Committee, namely as a representative of the Albanians under the rule of Yugoslavia. The Kosovo committee, with all its zigzags, has been present in the national movement not only in the years 1925-1930 but even further. He has kept alive the Albanian issue in general, especially fighting for sensitization of the international factor against Serbian chauvinist policies against the Albanian population in Kosovo and other Albanian territories in Yugoslavia, in order to stop the terror exerted on it, massive expropriation and systematic migration to Turkey and other countries. Zogu's approach and cooperation with Kosovar emigration, as well as his cooperative attitude towards Kosovo, seems to have resulted in a secret agreement between the Albanian KingZogu and the Committee of Kosovo and the dissolution of the residence of the Committee in Albania. It is clear that the Kosovo Committee was not officially recognized by the Albanian governments. He also had to act in complete illegality when Yugoslav intelligence services followed his steps with attention. According to King Zogu's project of June 1930, the committee started existed even in Kosovo, and not only in Albania. So then, from the beginning of August 1934 Yugoslav document sources reported that now the Kosovo Committee existed not only in Albania but also in Yugoslavia. These data and other information’s, especially of the European press in the period between 1925-1939, prove conclusively that Kosovo National Defense Committee, even after the many persecutions and damages it passed, even after the extinction of the armed uprising, organization survive and this great survival took dimensions as an important organization later, especially on the eve of the Second World War.

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