Xhafer Deva, political activist, member of the government during the German occupation, was born in Mitrovica. He was educated in Istanbul and in Vienna, where he graduated as a forest engineer. In 1943, he was one of the main initiators of the creation of the “Second League of Prizren” organization (September, 1943), later its chairman. In November 1943, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of Rexhep Mitrovica. Organizer of the massacre of February 4, 1944, in Tirana. After the end of the war, he took refuge in Austria, Egypt, etc., and, finally, settled in California (USA), where he dealt with the organization of anti-communist emigration, especially of Albanians from Kosova living in America. In 1996, he recreated the organization “The Second League of Prizren”. He passed away in the USA. (In the photo: Xhafer Deva)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – 1 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 456.
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