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	Ibrahim Rugova
		Ibrahim Rugova was born on 2nd December 1944 at the Cerrcë village, municipality of Istog, in Kosova.
		Rugova was elected president of the Kosova Writers Association in 1988, which was to prove as a strong nucleus of the mounting Albanian opposition movement to the Serbian/Yugoslav Communist rule in Kosova.
		Ibrahim Rugova was re-elected President of the Republic of Kosova in the elections held in March 1998.
	ibrahimrugova.blogspot.com (491 words)

	Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, Biography of President of Kosova
		Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the Democratic League of Kosova (LDK), was elected President of Kosova in a session of the Parliament of Kosova held in Prishtina on Monday.
		Ibrahim Rugova was born on 02 December 1944 at the Cerrcë village, municipality of Istog, in Kosova.
		In 1996, Ibrahim Rugova was conferred the Honoris Causa degree by the University of Paris VIII – Sorbonne, France.
	www.trepca.net /2002/03/020304-Ibrahim.Rugova-President-of-Kosova.htm (626 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rugova's reputation among Kosovar Albanians and their supporters reached its nadir when, in the middle of the bombing campaign, he was shown on Serb state television shaking hands with the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic - whose abolition of Kosovo's autonomy had launched a decade of humiliation and suffering for the province's ethnic Albanians.
		Rugova was born the son of a well-to-do farmer and trader in western Kosovo at the end of 1944.
		Rugova's critics continued to castigate him for being too passive and hesitant as well as lacking ideas and a sense of urgency in pursuing the standards of democracy, respect for the law and minority protection the UN required before it was prepared to launch talks on Kosovo's long-term status.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article340297.ece (2362 words)

	BBC News \| Balkan Flashpoint \| Profiles
		Rugova was elected president in semi-underground elections while a "government-in-exile" functioned mostly in Germany.
		However, Rugova appears to be regaining some of his popularity as Kosovo Albanians are increasingly beginning to blame his opponents in the ex-KLA for the continuing wave of crime, including extortion and protection rackets.
		Rugova, known for his trademark silk scarf, is a member of the Interim Adminstrative Council, the power-sharing executive set up under UN auspices to lead Kosovo towards elections and self-government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/kosovo_profiles/Rugova.stm (260 words)

	ISN Security Watch - The death of Ibrahim Rugova
		Without a doubt, Rugova was the man who did more than anyone else to put Kosovo on the political map of Europe, especially in the period from his election as head of the then newly born Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) in December 1989, until the outbreak of war in 1998.
		Rugovaâs rise paralleled Milosevic stripping of Kosovo autonomy from the 1980s, and the LDK propelled Rugova to a stature he had not held before.
		Although Rugova is now being praised for his historic and âmoderateâ role, it is also true that he clearly never saw himself as a president of all the citizens of Kosovo, as opposed to that of just the Kosovo Albanians.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=14493 (1692 words)

	Ibrahim Rugova's: decade-long leadership in Kosovo
		Rugova was marginalized and the US in particular played with the KLA, which at the time was officially categorized by US diplomats as "a terrorist organization".
		Although Rugova's LDK party got less support than in the local elections and did not achieve a majority of its own in the elections to the new Assembly a couple of weeks ago, it is, beyond all doubt, the leading and most experienced political force in today's Kosovo.
		Rugova repeatedly emphasizes that independence for Kosova should come sooner rather than later; he believes it will make it easier to build institutions, create law and order and open a faster road to membership in the EU and other international organizations.
	www.newsinsider.org /editorials/Rugova_Kosovo.html (1572 words)

	CNN.com - Kosovo President Rugova dies at 61 - Jan 22, 2006
		Rugova, who was diagnosed with cancer last year, died in the Kosovo capital Pristina on Saturday.
		Rugova died at a "crucial moment of final preparations for the talks on Kosovo's future status," according to a statement released by the United Nations that is "attributable" to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
		Rugova did what he could to reconcile Albanians and the Serb minority in the face of mutual hatred that often exploded into violence,.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/europe/01/21/kosovo.rugova/index.html (579 words)

	Life of Ibrahim Rugova: Victory in Politics, Defeat to Cancer
		Rugova died today at the age of 61, and the echo of his death is going to be heard in the region for long from now.
		Rugova was born on December 2, 1944, in Crnica near Istog (a town in the western part of Kosovo).
		Rugova's decline was sealed up with the Serbian attack on Drenica (a small town in the central part of Kosovo) in February 1998.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=519 (2257 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Profile: Ibrahim Rugova (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ibrahim Rugova, the winner of the Kosovo elections, has made a spectacular political comeback just 18 months after his eclipse by the military commanders of the anti-Serbian uprising.
		Ibrahim Rugova was born in western Kosovo in 1944, the son of a shopkeeper who was executed after the war by the advancing Yugoslav communists.
		Mr Rugova became drawn into politics in 1989 when he was elected head of the Kosovo writers' union, which became a breeding ground for opposition to the Serbian authorities.
	news.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /1/hi/world/europe/998755.stm (568 words)

	Kosova independence leader Ibrahim Rugova dead at 61 \| World War 4 Report
		Ibrahim Rugova represented one of the few principled voices in the wars that tore apart Yugoslavia in the 1990's.
		A graduate in linguistics at the Sorbonne in Paris, Rugova was a writer and professor of Albanian literature in his native Kosova when Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic revoked the province's constitutionally-protected autonomy in 1989, precipitating a wave of strikes and protests.
		Rugova formed the Democratic League of Kosova (LDK), with an initial goal of restoring autonomous rule within a federal Yugoslavia.
	www.ww4report.com /node/1521 (961 words)

	Kosovo searches for Rugova successor as talks loom - Boston.com
		Rugova, icon of the ethnic Albanian drive to win independence from Serbia, died on Saturday, January 21, 2006, a source close to his office said.
		Rugova, 61, was diagnosed with lung cancer in September 2005 and had been undergoing treatment at his residence in Pristina.
		Rugova's death on Saturday of lung cancer left the 90 percent Albanian majority leaderless on the eve of direct talks with Belgrade to decide whether Kosovo becomes independent or remains part of Serbia, as Belgrade insists.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/01/21/kosovo_president_rugova_dies_kosovo_tv (517 words)

	Ibrahim Rugova \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Rugova, meanwhile, remained in Pristina, where he regularly spoke to any western reporters who made the trek down to Kosovo to visit him at his tiny offices.
		Rugova was born in the village of Cerrce in Kosovo.
		Rugova, who had been put under house arrest in Pristina after the outbreak of the bombing, appeared to criticise the bombardment.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Kosovo/Story/0,,1692825,00.html (822 words)

	Bildt Comments: Ibrahim Rugova
		With the loss of Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo loses the one person that at critical times could unite and moderate its otherwise very divided political scene.
		During the years when Kosovo was ruled by Serbia, it was Ibrahim Rugova that become the symbol for the peaceful struggle of the people of Kosovo for their rights.
		It was when Milosevic revoked the autonomy of Kosovo that the writer Ibrahim Rugova emerged as the unofficial leader of the province.
	bildt.blogspot.com /2006/01/ibrahim-rugova.html (478 words)

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		Rugova and representatives of the rebel army set aside their political differences and attended the February peace negotiations.
		Rugova was voted "president" during 1992 shadow government elections – deemed illegal by Belgrade –; for the self-declared Republic of Kosovo, which foreign governments do not recognize.
		Rugova at first refused to recognize the KLA and has scorned the rebel group and its violent methods.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/who.htm (3751 words)

	Ibrahim Rugova - Comment - Times Online (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ibrahim Rugova was born in a small village in the Istog area of Kosovo in 1944.
		Rugova finished his secondary schooling in the town of Peja, graduating in 1967 before moving on to the University of Pristina, where he was a student in the Faculty of Philosophy’s Department of Albanian Studies until 1971.
		Rugova at times showed an inflexibility which perhaps came from his training in literary theory, but most of those who met him found he possessed a personal, quirky charm, represented not only in his red scarf but also in his passion for geology.
	www.timesonline.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /article/0,,60-2005339,00.html (1167 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Profile: Ibrahim Rugova
		Mr Rugova was born in western Kosovo in 1944, the son of a shopkeeper who was executed after World War II by the advancing Yugoslav Communists.
		Ibrahim Rugova campaigned on a pledge to push ahead with demands for full independence from Serbia; members of Kosovo's legislative assembly believed him and voted him into office.
		Just a day after the vote, Mr Rugova declared that his first priority as the leader of the victorious party would be to press as fast as possible for sovereignty, and then attend to the economic reconstruction of a province still shattered by war.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4198256.stm (716 words)

	The short, unhappy return of Ibrahim Rugova - Salon
		Rugova and his allies are refusing to participate in the U.N.-backed transitional council unless they get more seats than the other key political forces in Kosovo, particularly the KLA and the rival LBD party.
		There, Rugova agreed that his LDK party, the KLA, the LBD party and two independent journalists would each get two seats in a provisional government that would govern until elections are held, and that would be led by 30-year-old KLA leader Hashim Thaci as prime minister.
		Now Rugova's party is demanding that his LDK party get a third seat, and has boycotted international talks to form a Kosovo provisional government until he gets it.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/1999/07/16/rugova/index.html (559 words)

	Salon Feature \| The short, unhappy return of Ibrahim Rugova
		Rugova's family was being held under house arrest by Serbian forces when he was made to meet with Milosevic, but Kosovo Albanians felt betrayed and humiliated by the footage of their leader broadcast worldwide, at a time when they overwhelmingly supported the NATO air strikes as the only way to escape Belgrade's oppressive rule.
		Rugova did not even admit the KLA existed until months into the low-intensity conflict, when uniformed KLA soldiers were clearly visible in the hills and villages.
		When U.S. envoy Christopher Hill took Rugova for a drive around the country in late 1998 after a short-lived cease-fire was declared, it was Rugova's first visit to the Kosovo countryside in years.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/1999/07/16/rugova/print.html (1218 words)

	CBS News \| Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova Dies at 61
		Rugova, who came to embody ethnic Albanians' struggle for independence from Serbia, was diagnosed with lung cancer last September.
		Rugova had been at the forefront of ethnic Albanian demand for independence from Serbia since the early 1990s, when he started leading a nonviolent movement against the policies of Slobodan Milosevic, then president of Yugoslavia.
		Rugova had not been expected to attend, but it was not immediately clear whether the meeting would go ahead as planned.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/21/ap/world/mainD8F92A2G0.shtml (388 words)

	An Insult to Gandhi - by Nebojsa Malic
		The reason for this was the death of Ibrahim Rugova, longtime leader of the separatist-minded Kosovo Albanians and "president" of the province under the occupation constitution.
		The notion of Rugova as a "man of peace deeply committed to the ideals of nonviolence" was deliberately crafted by public-relations handlers the Kosovo Albanians hired in the early 1990s.
		Not a few reports commenting on Rugova's death mentioned that "he was dubbed 'the Balkans Gandhi.'" Aside from that fact that this moniker is pure PR fabrication, rather than an actual view attributable to an observer, such a comparison is a vicious insult to Gandhi.
	www.antiwar.com /malic/?articleid=8436 (1030 words)

	Will Ibrahim Rugova’s Death Affect the Future of Nonviolent Change in Kosovo?
		A Sorbonne-educated intellectual, Rugova became the foremost leader of Kosovo when Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic abolished the province’s autonomy in the late 1980s—the opening move in Milosevic’s drive to carve a Greater Serbia out of a disintegrating Yugoslavia.
		In shadow elections in 1990 Rugova was elected president of a parallel Albanian government of Kosovo.
		While Rugova’s legacy is a powerful one, developments in Kosovo have for some time taken on momentum without his guidance.
	www.washington-report.org /archives/April_2006/0604048.html (893 words)

	BBC News \| Kosovo \| Ibrahim Rugova: Pacifist at the crossroads (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nevertheless Ibrahim Rugova was able to prosper and he eventually went to Paris where he studied linguistics at the Sorbonne.
		Rugova was elected president in semi-underground elections while a "government-in-exile" shuttled between Germany, Switzerland, Albania and Macedonia.
		Albanians who had followed Rugova through the difficult years of repression and harassment were shocked that the 1995 accord, which ended the war in Bosnia, did not deal with Kosovo.
	news.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /1/hi/special_report/1998/kosovo/110821.stm (799 words)

	zhugolli: Dr.Ibrahim Rugova
		Ibrahim RUGOVA was born in Crnce, Kosovo near the end of World War II.
		Rugova's father and grandfather were executed by Yugoslav communists for their involvement on the side of the Germans in the war, though Rugova himself claimed that they were Partisans.
		Rugova held a hard line throughout the 1990s, rejecting any form of negotiation with Serbia's authorities (other than on outright independence of Kosovo) although he did renege on that at least twice.
	zhugolli.twoday.net /topics/Dr.Ibrahim+Rugova (1191 words)

	Kosovar President Ibrahim Rugova Dies - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rugova's spokesman, Muhamet Hamiti, said the president died shortly before midday in his residence in the region's capital, Pristina.
		Rugova, a chain-smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in September 2005.
		Rugova had been at the forefront of ethnic Albanian demands for independence from Serbia since the early 1990s, when he led a nonviolent movement against the policies of Slobodan Milosevic, the then president of Yugoslavia.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2006/01/96cc80c5-8dfb-45aa-8e85-01a56b3e7242.html (519 words)

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