Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo

Dr. Ibrahim Rugova (1944-2006)

Ibrahim Rugova was conceived on December 2, 1944 in the town named Cerrcë, in the region of Istog. On January 10, 1945 the Yugoslav communists shot his dad Ukë and granddad Rrustë Rugova, who had been popular contender against Chetnik groups who were entering into Kosovo amid World War II.

Ibrahim Rugova completed primary school in Istog and optional school in Peja in 1967. He graduated frame the Faculty of Philosophy - Department of Albanian Language and Literature in Prishtina. Amid the scholastic year 1976-77 he remained in Paris, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, under the supervision of prof. Roland Barthes, where he went to his insightful advantages in the investigation of writing with an emphasis on scholarly hypothesis. He safeguarded his doctorate thesis in the field of writing at the University of Prishtina, in 1984. In 1996 Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was chosen journalist of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosovo. Toward the starting he was proofreader of the understudy daily paper "Bota e Re" (New World) and of the logical diary "Dituria" (Knowledge) (1971-72), which were distributed in Prishtina. A while he worked for the bulletin "Fjala" (The Word). At that point, for almost two decades, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova directed his own particular logical exercises at the Institute of Albanology as writing scientist. For a period he was boss editorial manager of the magazine "Gjurmime Albanalogjike" (Albanological Tracking) of this Institute. With artistic inventiveness he was locked in from the mid sixties.

Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, in 1988, was chosen administrator of the Kosovo Writers' Association, which turned into a capable center of the Albanian development, which tested the Serbian and Yugoslav socialist run in Kosovo.

As an acclaimed scholarly who offered voice to this scholarly and political development Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was chosen on December 23, 1989, from the establishing, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo, the principal political gathering in Kosovo which specifically tested the decision Communist administration. DLK, under the initiative of Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, rapidly turned into the main political power in Kosova, assembling the majority of the general population around him. In participation with other Albanian political powers in Kosovo and with the Assembly of Kosovo of that time, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova and the DLK finished up the lawful system for the regulation of the freedom of Kosovo. The Declaration of Independence (2 July 1990), revelation of the Republic of Kosovo and endorsement of its constitution (7 September 1990), the national choice for the autonomy and power of Kosovo, held in late September 1991, was the prelude for the principal multiparty decisions for the Assembly of Kosovo, hung on May 24, 1992. Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was chosen President of the Republic of Kosovo. Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was reelected President of the Republic of Kosovo in the decisions held in March 1998.

Under the authority of Dr. Ibrahim Rugova the DLK won the lion's share of votes in the main nearby globally supported races in post-war Kosovo in October 2000, the principal national races in 2001 and the second neighborhood races in 2002. DLK additionally won the national decisions in 2004.

Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was chosen President of Kosovo in March 2002 and was reelected in 2004

Dr. Ibrahim Rugova passed away on 21 January 2006 in Prishtina and was covered in Sunny Hill with the most elevated respects of the general population Kosovo.

At the demise commemoration of Ibrahim Rugova, on January 21, 2007, the President of Kosovo, Dr. Fatmir Sejdiu, granted the authentic President of Kosovo with the Order "Legend of Kosovo", the most astounding qualification in our nation given to Kosovar and Albanian chronicled figures that have done "demonstrations of mettle for the opportunity and autonomy of Kosovo."

The people of Kosovo remember him as father of nation, leader and hero of the national heroes of Kosovo.

Universal honors and titles of Ibrahim Rugova

- In 1995, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was granted the peace grant Paul Litzer Foundation in Denmark.

- In 1996, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was pronounced Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) of the University of Paris VIII, Sorbonne, France.

- In 1998, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was granted the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize.

- In 1999, Dr. Rugova took the Peace Prize of the city Mynster, Germany, and was pronounced privileged subject of the Italian urban communities: Venice, Milan and Brescia.

- In 2000, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova got the prize for tranquility of the Democratic Union of Catalonia "Manuel Carrasco of Formiguerra" in Barcelona, Spain.

- In 2004 Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was granted the European Award, Honorary Senator of the container European Foundation Coudenhove-Kalergi.

- He was additionally regarded from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (USA), "Companion of the United States of America."

- In 2004, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was pronounced Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) of the University of Tirana.