Kiço Mustaqi

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Kiço Mustaqi (born March 22, 1938 in Peca, Delvina district , † January 23, 2019 in Tirana ) was an Albanian general and politician of the Party of Labor of Albania .

biography

Mustaqi grew up in poor conditions in a small village in southern Albania. After finishing school in Kuçova , he entered the service of the armed forces ( Forcat e Armatosura të Shqipërisë ) and completed an officer training there . He served in Tropoja , Vau-Deja and Tirana , among others .

In 1974 he was elected a member of the People's Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) for the first time and belonged to it from the eighth to the 12th legislative period in 1992.

In the mid- 1980s he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and 1st Deputy Minister for Defense.

At the 9th party congress of the PPSh in November 1986 he became a candidate for the Politburo of the PPSh and finally rose to become a member of the Politburo in July 1990, to which he was a member until June 1991.

On July 9, 1990, he succeeded Prokop Murra as defense minister in the government of Prime Minister Adil Çarçani and was a member of this until February 22, 1991 and the successor government of Fatos Nano until May 12, 1991. During this time, in the wake of political events and the emerging collapse of communism, he tried to tie the military to the political leadership more closely in order to preserve the power of the PPSh. However, after the emergence of unrest in February 1991, the democratic opposition demanded that he be replaced by a civilian politician and that Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , Foreign Minister Reiz Malile and Justice Minister Enver Halili be dismissed .

"Merita e tij më e madhe është se Shqipëria gjatë kohës së ndryshimit nga dictaturë në demokraci nuk pati gjakderdhje."

"His greatest achievement is that there was no bloodshed in Albania at the time of the transition from dictatorship to democracy."

- E. Resuli : Gazeta Dita

After his retirement in 1994 he emigrated to Greece, where he had unsuccessfully applied for asylum and worked as a guard in Athens for 16 years .

In June 1996, he was tried in absentia in a court in Tirana for inciting a military coup at the Tirana Military Academy on February 22, 1991. Co-defendants were Commander Arseni Stroka and the then Political Commissar of the Military Academy, Ksenofon Coni. The defendants, who went into hiding after the collapse of communism, were charged with ordering soldiers residing at the military academy to put down rioting after the fall of a statue of Enver Hoxha in Tirana on February 20, 1991. Three people were killed and 37 others were injured. He was also accused of corruption and espionage . On July 19, 1996, he was finally sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Mustaqi later described the condemnation as ridiculous because, as the ruler, he could not have carried out a coup d'etat against himself.

In 2010 he returned to Albania and subsequently lived in Tirana.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gëzim Loka: Kiço Mustaqi, profili i një pushtetari idealist që do të na mungojë… In: Gazeta Telegraf. January 25, 2019, Retrieved February 9, 2019 (Albanian).
  2. ↑ a b c d e E. Resuli: Kiço Mustaqi, ish-ministri që punoi 16 vjet roje objekti në Athinë. In: Gazeta Drita. January 24, 2019, Retrieved February 9, 2019 (Albanian).
  3. ↑ Albania Political Control (April 1992)
  4. ↑ Elez Biberaj: Albania's economic reform dilemma. In: THE WORLD TODAY (October 1987)
  5. ↑ Miranda Vickers, James Pettifer: Albania: from anarchy to a Balkan identity. 1997, ISBN 1-85065-279-1 , p. 296. (books.google.de)
  6. ↑ 3 3rd Çarçani Cabinet ( Memento of November 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Albanian Defense Ministers
  8. ↑ Ministers of Defense of Albania (1953–1991) ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.coldwar.hu
  9. ↑ Albania Political Control (April 1992)
  10. ^ New Opposition Paper Appears in Albania. In: The New York Times. February 11, 1991. (nytimes.com)
  11. ↑ Today starts legal process against protagonists of military coup. In: ATA News. June 24, 1996. (hri.org)
  12. ^ JF Brown: The OMRI annual survey of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Open Media Research Institute, 1996, ISBN 1-56324-924-3 , p. 145. (books.google.de)
  13. ↑ ALBANIAN COMMUNIST ERA OFFICIALS SENTENCED FOR 1991 SHOOTING. In: Omri Daily Digest. July 23, 1996, accessed July 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Mustaqi, Kiço
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian officer, politician (PPSh), MP and Minister of Defense of Albania
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Peca, Delvina district
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2019
Place of death Tirana