Talk:Ali Sokoli

Daut Mustafa

We need an article on Daut Mustafa and National Democratic Party of Albania NDSh (Party) and Gjon Serreqi

brother of Daut, was secretary to the NDSH branch of Prishtina, which was established by Gjon Serreqi. Later, Serreqi and many others were executed by Communists, and The brother who has passed away for some years now, spend many years in prison. Many books are written, but unfortunately most of them do not account for the truth of NDSh

James Michael DuPont (talk) 19:14, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

NDHs

also known as : NDHs-ja LNDSh, ND-ja

Leadership of the Kosovar uprising was assumed at the end of the war by a new organization that emerged almost spontaneously: the Albanian National Democratic Movement, known by its Albanian initials as LNDSh, and in the popular vocabulary as Endeja (ND-ja) or "the ND."[xxvi] ND-ja became an informal but near-total resistance effort. It drew some of its members from among the functionaries of the former pro-Axis Albanian occupation regime, but since the insurrection became general, embracing almost the entire Kosovar Albanian populace, numerous Kosovar Albanian Partisans were quickly drawn to participate in it. Indeed, ND-ja represents a unique example of a near-unanimous popular insurrection in Europe, neglected by historians who do not know Albanian sources. It was a genuine collective rebellion encompassing Dukagjini and western Macedonia. On March 11, 1945, the Albanian women of Gjakova went into the streets to protest against the drafting of their menfolk to serve the Yugoslavs in the repression of ND-ja. Many of the women protestors were arrested and received lengthy prison sentences. But one Albanian woman stood out from the others. She was Marie Shllaku (1922-46), a Catholic schoolteacher born in Shkodra in northern Albania.[xxvii] Marie Shllaku became a martyr, succeeding to the legacy of Shota Galica; she even surpassed her, and is known as "the Joan of Arc of Kosovo." Marie Shllaku was seriously wounded during fighting in Drenica. Sheltered by a peasant family, she was discovered and arrested. The Yugoslav police ignored her injuries, beating and otherwise torturing her. She was carried into the courtroom in Prizren, where she was tried. The judge was Ali Shukrija, the leading Communist among the Kosovar Albanians for many years afterward. He ranted at her during the proceeding, declaring that she was unfit to be shot, and should be burned alive.

In her last words in court, Marie Shllaku declared, "one day your sons and daughters will be ashamed of your treachery and inhumanity against us and against the whole Albanian people." During the period when she awaited death, she was heard in her prison cell nightly singing folk songs from Shkodra, as if preparing for her wedding. She was 24 when she was executed late in 1946. Many more LNDSh supporters were imprisoned and killed before the insurrection was completely defeated. Fighting in Kosovo had not ended until the establishment of martial law in 1945; several tens of thousands of Albanians perished in the uprising.

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James Michael DuPont (talk) 19:31, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

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