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	1995/06/30 22:54 FORMER POLICEMEN ON TRIAL
		It was not denied either that conversations of police bodies were tracked by 10 talky-walkies, "but only when the situation was so complicated that a danger existed that conflicts of great proportions might have occurred, that is, in order to inform the international public in time for it to prevent possible conflicts".
		To a question how he comments on this trial, Vllasi was resolute in the assessment that the criminal proceedings instigated against the former workers of the Albanian Province police is "a classical and drastic example of staged police trials.
		Azem Vllasi who is a protagonist of this trial too, says that "in all cases, sentences are a surprise because they were pronounced in a total lack of evidence that any criminal offence was committed.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199506/50630-001-trae-pri.htm (1013 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Azem Vllasi
		Under Vllasi, the Albanian-led Party took a more assertive position towards the Serbian government, and could be expected to put up strong opposition to any moves to reassert Serbian authority over Kosovo.
		In November 1988, Azem Vllasi and Kaqusha Jashari, two top-ranked Kosovo politicians, were dismissed and replaced by appointees of Slobodan Milošević (the leader of the Serbian Communist Party at the time).
		In response to this, the local population started a series of public demonstrations and a general strike.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Azem_Vllasi (254 words)

	September 25, 1995 Vreme News Digest Agency No 208 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For this issue, we have selected excerpts from the account by Azem Vllasi, who was the leader of the former Communist League of Kosovo.
		Azem Vllasi says that everything Ivan Stambolic has written in his book about the sinister role of two generals - Nikola Ljubicic and Petar Gracanin - is true.
		Azem Vllasi also has no nice words for the former Yugoslavia's state and party leadership.
	www.scc.rutgers.edu /serbian_digest/208/t208-9.htm (798 words)

	Azem Vllasi - GigaDictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Azem Vllasi (born 1948; surname also sometimes spelled Vlasi) is a Kosovo politician, an ethnic Albanian.
		Vllasi was born in Rubovc municipality of Kamenica and became a lawyer before he joined politics.
		In December 2005, Kosovo's prime minister Bajram Kosumi appointed Vllasi as special advisor for negotiations over the final status of Kosovo.
	www.gigadictionary.com /Azem_Vllasi (263 words)

	Milosevic Transcript 2004-12-02
		Azem Vllasi was a closer associate of mine than he was of Mr.
		Azem Vllasi was tried in Kosovska Mitrovica, and he was acquitted by the court.
		But Vllasi was qualified as the organiser and manipulator of the strikes and demonstrations in Kosovo because he had lost his leading position in Kosovo and Metohija.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /documents/trial/2004-12-02.html (18867 words)

	Kosovo: CHAPTER ONE
		As Albanian political leader Azem Vllasi has observed, "Kosovo functioned as a republic in the federal state of Yugoslavia and we were not [a republic] only by name."(14) But for Kosovo Albanians, almost was not good enough.
		Vllasi says that some of those who had been imprisoned for organizing the 1981 demonstrations told him that one of the members of their group went to Albania after the demonstrations to "get instructions" from Sigurimi.
		Vllasi and others who support this thesis underscore that those cooperating with the Sigurimi were a minority, but that their influence doomed the protest.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8454/8454.ch01.html (9763 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		Azem Vllasi, who was a senior communist-era Kosovar political leader, told Deutsche Welle's Albanian Service on 6 October that there is little difference between the present Serbian leadership and that of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic where attitudes toward Kosova are concerned.
		Vllasi believes that the main achievement in the three years since Milosevic's ouster is that the present Serbian leadership has renounced war as an instrument of policy.
		Vllasi said the Kosovars are willing to discuss almost all issues with Belgrade, adding, however, that independence is non-negotiable.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/10/4-SEE/see-071003.asp?po=y (1496 words)

	Kosovo War
		In Voivodina which was mostly Serb-populated, this did not present a problem, however, Kosovo's Albanian Communist leadership became increasingly aggressive (particularly after the 1981 demonstrations) in calling for independence.
		The Kosovo Communist leadership of Mahmut Bakalli (who later joined the Party of Hashim Thaci and the KLA) was judged too extremist and was replaced by that of Azem Vllasi who was judged as more moderate.
		Kosovo was the least developed region of all of Yugoslavia and the rest of the country (the more advanced regions of Serbia particularly) had to implement separate taxes to contribute in the development of the backwater province.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ko/Kosovo_war.html (3629 words)

	Easy Encyclopedia - Online Encyclopedia. Knowledge is Power
		In Vojvodina which was mostly Serb-populated, this did not present a problem.
		In November 1988, Kosovo's president Azem Vllasi was arrested and the province's communist leadership was dismissed en masse.
		In March 1989, Milosevic announced an "anti-bureaucratic revolution" in Kosovo and Vojvodina, curtailing their autonomy and imposing a curfew and a state of emergency in Kosovo.
	easyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/k/ko/kosovo_war.html (7120 words)

	Focus
		Chairperson of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Sonja Biserko, lawyer Azem Vllasi, Jehona Gjurgjealo of the Gender Study Center, and Head of the Helsinki Committee’s Novi Sad branch office Pavel Domonji acted as the panel’s keynote speakers.
		According to lawyer Azem Vllasi, establishment of a state and democratic society in Kosovo entail that Albanians, being in the majority, should take upon themselves the responsibility for each and every citizen.
		Referring to the nature of Kosovo conflicts, Vllasi said that Kosovo Albanians had never been in conflict with Kosovo Serbs, but with discriminatory policies and regimes, including the one of Slobodan Milosevic.
	www.helsinki.org.yu /focus_text.php?lang=en&idteks=1395 (2145 words)

	RNW: Witness to the Break-up of Yugoslavia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Serbs who complained of being treated harshly to Milosevic (on his first visit to Kosovo in 1987, when the Serbian leader coined his ominous phrase, "Nobody should be allowed to beat you") did have a point.
		The ethnic Albanian leader Azem Vllasi, who was there, immediately realised the fateful impact of Milosevic's apparently spontaneous, nationalist words and advised him to distance himself from the tirade.
		From then on, Jospi Broz Tito's multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, with ethnic Albanian officials like Mr Bakalli and Mr Vllasi in positions of real power, was a thing of the past.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /currentaffairs/region/internationalorganisations/icty020219.html (482 words)

	Untitled
		VLLASI: REVENGE AGAINST INNOCENT SERBS CANNOT BE em Vllasi, a lawyer from Prishtina and former renowned Kosovar politician, said that unjustified revenge against innocent and powerless Serbs rules in Kosovo, reported Koha Ditore on page three referring to a statement that Vllasi gave to the Croatian weekly “Feral Tribune”.
		Vllasi was also reported to have said that only a year after the war in Kosovo there are still irrational tensions, frustrations and nationalistic demagogy which have included a large number of Kosovar intellectuals, while others have bowed their heads and do not dare to speak openly.
		In fact, when I remember the time of 20 years ago, I notice a lot of what the west is today recommending to us as a normal and civilized future,” concluded Azem Vllasi.
	www.unmikonline.org /press/mon/lmm090700.html (1869 words)

	Introduction: “Sovereignty” and the Resolution of Ethno-Separatist Conflict
		In November of 1988, Party leader Azem Vllasi, a former Tito protégé, resigned from party leadership in protest of the growing threat to Kosovo’s autonomy.
		When Vllasi was formally charged along with 14 other leading Albanians with "counter-revolutionary endangerment," a sit-in strike was held in Kosovo’s largest mine, Trepca, as well as other major cities.
		These protests called for the release of Azem Vllasi and the resignation of three top ethnic Albanian officials seen as tools of the Serb regime (including the man who had succeeded Vllasi as head of the Communist Party in Kosovo).
	www.sas.upenn.edu /penncip/Reports/MarchSil.htm (14277 words)

	Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They particularly broached the status and position of minorities as preconditions for the development of Kosovo’s democratic potential to which the solution of the Kosovska Mitrovica problem will be the litmus test.
		In his capacity as a panelist in the conference, lawyer Azem Vllasi underlined that all political parties in Kosovo should be aware that independent Kosovo would be recognized as a democratic state and law-abiding community only if it guaranteed full respect for the rights of all ethnic groups and minorities.
		Dissecting the official Belgrade’s role in Kosovo so far, Cedomir Jovanovic, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, said that Belgrade-Prishtina partnership was the key prerequisite to reconciliation of all nations in Kosovo and its democratic prospects.
	www.helsinki.org.yu /focus_text.php?lang=en&idteks=1648 (425 words)

	ECIKS - News and analysis about Kosovo Economy in English
		Mobikos also plans to sue the government and ask for reimbursement, which they calculated to be around 150 million.
		Azem Vllasi, Mobikos lawyer, said that the legal situation in Kosovo is chaotic, “because we have a Government violating the laws they pass.
		Lama said, however, that if Mobikos-Mobitel initiates court procedures, then it would be up to court to decide about this issue.
	www.eciks.org /english/lajme.php?action=total_news&main_id=353 (640 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		A Kosova government spokeswoman said in Prishtina on 3 March that Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica's proposal to partition Kosova along ethnic lines is "not surprising" in view of the nationalistic public statements he made during the 1999 Kosova conflict, Deutsche Welle's "Monitor" reported.
		Vllasi noted that Kostunica did not propose the cantonization of Serbia's own multiethnic regions, including Vojvodina, Sandzak, and the Presevo Valley area.
		The Belgrade-based parties called the Subotica Initiative a "direct attack on the integrity of the Serbian state and the interests of the [ethnic Serbian] majority population." PM
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/03/4-SEE/see-040304.asp (1638 words)

	ISN Security Watch - UN court to question Kosovo political leader
		Beqajâs indictment, handed to him last Friday, is linked with war crimes charges against former senior UCK leader Fatmir Limaj and two other Kosovar Albanians, Hajredin Balaj and Isak Musliu.
		Although the ICTY has declined to comment on the issue, Beqajâs lawyer Azem Vllasi revealed on Wednesday an ICTY document charging Beqaj with attempting to âinfluence the witnessesâ expected to testify in the trial of Fatmir Limaj and his two former subordinates.
		Beqaj has denied the charge, but has also admitted that he knows one of the war crimes suspects and some of the witnesses in the Limaj case.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=10096 (638 words)

	UNDER ORDERS: War Crimes in Kosovo - 2. Background
		Azem Vllasi, the communist party chief of Kosovo and then the leading ethnic Albanian politician at the Yugoslav federal level, was dismissed.
		After a massive pro-Milosevic rally in Belgrade, Vllasi was arrested on March 2.9 Three weeks later, a new Serbian constitution was announced.
		9 After six months in prison, Vllasi was charged with "counter-revolutionary acts" on August 28, as well as culpability in the deaths of twenty-four ethnic Albanians who had been shot by Serbian police on March 28, 1989 (see below), even though he was in prison at the time.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/kosovo/undword-01.htm (13437 words)

	190 Orthodox churches ruined in Kosovo since 1999 - Russian expert (Klinton/Bin Ladin legacy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ergo, any argument based upon the fallacy that the will of the Albanians was being expressed is fatally compromised from the start.
		Azem Vllasi, who wasn't going to go along with the program, was arrested at the beginning of March and held for 5 months to keep him out of Milosevic's way.
		The tragedy of this particular episode is that the US Ambassador at the time, John Scanlan, tried to talk some sense into Milosevic as far as keeping Vllasi in place, thereby keeping available the option of working with a Yugoslav-oriented Albanian.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1353175/posts (3801 words)

	F&P áÒÈÉ× ÒÁÄÉÏ ó×ÏÂÏÄÁ É ó×ÏÂÏÄÎÁÑ å×ÒÏÐÁ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Milo added that "without democratization, the situation in Serbia cannot be peaceful and there cannot be cooperation and peace" in the Balkans.
		Meanwhile, prominent Kosovo politician Azem Vllasi told the Belgrade daily "Danas" that the outbreak of a "war in Kosovo is only a matter of time." PM WHY IS DINI IN BELGRADE?
		Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini said in Belgrade on 15 December that the reason for his previously unannounced trip to the Yugoslav capital is to promote ties between Yugoslavia and the EU.
	www.friends-partners.org /friends/news/omri/1997/12/971216II.html(opt,mozilla,pc,russian,koi8,default) (3252 words)

	DPI
		VLLASI: PEOPLE HAVE TO BE CONVINCED THAT THERE IS The protests in support of the National Liberation Army and statements by political parties were reported in Koha Ditore on page five.
		Independent Students Union of Pristina University (UPSUP) organized three protests led by its president Afrim Hoti.
		VLLASI: NATIONS MUST BE CONVINCED THAT THERE IS Zëri on page four carried a comment by Former President of Kosovo's Communist Central Committee, Azem Vllasi.
	www.unmikonline.org /press/2001/mon/lmm020401.html (1844 words)

	Doug Lorimer, Kosova's long struggle for independence
		Milosevic's aim was to restore the flagging popularity of the Communist Party bureaucracy he headed by inciting Serbian national chauvinism against the Kosovars' demands for greater control of their own affairs.
		In November 1988, protests again erupted in Pristina when Serbian authorities sacked local Kosova officials, including provincial president Azem Vllasi, who was later arrested.
		Belgrade imposed a military curfew following a Kosova miners' strike in February 1989.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/62/305.html (1438 words)

	EXPERT IN PYSCHOLOGY OF ETHNIC CONFLICT CHANGES HIS MIND ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Speaking with reporters at the beginning of the Gazimestan celebrations, Kosovo LC President Rahman Morina said that no innocent people were being placed in isolation in Kosovo, and had isolation not been implemented much more severe measures would have been needed today, Tanjug reported.
		He also said that former ethnic Albanian leader Azem Vlasi would deserve everything that happened to him.
		Reporting on the security situation in Kosovo on the 28th, the agency noted that there were no major problems apart from those caused by the large number of vehicles travelling to the celebrations.
	freerepublic.com /focus/fr/625326/posts (10636 words)

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		Ivanovic said that the Serb regime has deliberately exaggerated the danger of an armed uprising by Sandzak Muslims.
		Meanwhile, defense lawyer and former Kosovo Albanian politician Azem Vllasi agreed, saying that only "stupid people could want to found a state in that ravine from Pesteri to Novi Pazar." Fabian Schmidt, RFE/RL, Inc. SERBS REPEAT CALL FOR ARREST OF RUGOVA.
		Recently Rugova has modified this position, saying that he wanted a "civil protectorate" but did not say what he meant by "civil." Fabian Schmidt, RFE/RL, Inc. BELGRADE BANK OFFICIAL INTERVIEWED.
	www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/94-05/may11.rfe (783 words)

	BALKAN MEDIA & POLICY MONITOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And so, some isolated voices were heard, e.g.
		Azem Vllasi's, saying "the establishment autonomy is possible, as a provisional phase towards statehood".
		This statement was criticized also because, apart from the optimistic verbal statements of some politicians, nothing new was happening in Kosova.
	mediafilter.org /MFF/Mon.20-21.html (10491 words)

	SUM72782 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Its buying time and creating a situation in which either the Albanians or the international community will be blamed for the failure of the peace process." - Azem Vllasi, a prominent Kosovo Albanian
		The arrangements for sharing power between communities in Kosovo also appeared to restrain the ethnic Albanian community by granting equal political weight to all minorities.
		Azem Vllasi, a prominent Kosovo Albanian, said, "Serbia has rejected Hill's draft with Milutinovic's proposal.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /balkans/SUMn1622.htm (12882 words)

	050425ED
		24 Azem Vllasi, a lawyer, then a political leader, he's a man of peace, isn't
		2 A. As for Azem Vllasi, all of those who were in the leadership did
		7 Vllasi says that the executive secretary of the Central Committee came.
	www.un.org /icty/transe54/050425ED.htm (15763 words)

	The Nationalism Project: Competing National Ideologies Chapter II
		The awaited showdown emerged in Kosovo but would soon, with the aid of the media, send a message to Croatia that any dissent would be dealt with swiftly (Lampe 1996: 345).
		The staged for television repression of the civil action undertaken by some 1 300 Kosovar miners on February 29 1989, and the usurpation of the regional government under the newly proclaimed ‘counter revolutionaries’, Azem Vllasi and Kaqusha Jashari, provided powerful images for thought (Tanner 1997: 217-218).
		What was more chilling was Milosevic’s playing of the nationalist card at the 600th anniversary of the the fall of the Kingdom of Serbia on June 29, 1989.
	www.nationalismproject.org /articles/Pero/ch12.html (15330 words)

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