Xheladin Hana, a Kosovo liberation activist, teacher, and journalist, was killed by the Yugoslav secret service (UDBA). He was born in Gjakovë in 1918. He completed high school in Shkodër and the Teacher Training College in Elbasan. He participated in the Albanian youth democratic movement and became a member of the Communist Group of Shkodra. After 1941, he was sent to Kosovo as a teacher in Elshan and Kijevë and was tasked by the Albanian Communist Party to organize the National Liberation Antifascist Movement there. In 1942, he was imprisoned in Prizren. After his release, he joined the partisan unit “Bajram Curri,” operating in the Gjakova Highlands. He was one of the drafters of the documents of the Bujan Conference (1943). After the war, he worked as a journalist on the radio and, for a period of time, as a teacher at the high school in Prishtina, then as the director of the newspaper “Rilindja” (“Renaissance”) (1947). He was involved in gathering various archival data on the Yugoslav genocide against Albanians. He was killed as an informer and nationalist. (In the photo: Xheladin Hana)
Text: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Kosovo – Vol. I , Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina, 2018, page 593–594.
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