Fadil Hoxha, political activist of Kosova and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, participant and leader of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War in Kosova, Hero of the People (Yugoslavia) passed away in Prishtina. He was born in Gjakova, in 1916. In 1940, he completed the Normal School of Elbasan, where he was introduced to communist ideas for the first time. He was accepted into the ranks of the Shkodra Communist Group (1938). In 1939, he was sent to Kosova to establish relations with the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Kosova and Dukagjin Plain. After the fall of the Yugoslav Kingdom (April, 1941) and the union of Kosova with Albania, he returned to Kosova, where he worked as a teacher in Gjakova and became one of the most well-known organizers and leaders of the Anti-Fascist Movement. Until the middle of 1942, he performed the duties of secretary of the Country Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Gjakova and member of the Bureau of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Kosova. In September 1942, with the establishment of the “Zenel Hajdini” detachment, the first with Albanian partisans, he was appointed the political secretary and later became its commander. In October 1942, he was appointed as the commander of the Temporary Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia for Kosova, and later of the Main Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia for Kosova and Metohija. He remained in this position until the suppression of the Main Headquarters of Kosova and its transformation into an operational staff (September 1944), where he was appointed deputy commander. After the end of the Second World War, he performed important tasks for the management of the party organization and governmental bodies in Krahina, in the Republic of Serbia and in the Federation. At the beginning of 1945, by order of the Supreme Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, a Military Authority was established in Kosova, and Fadil Hoxha was assigned the duty of its deputy commander. Then he had important duties as the chairman of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Kosova and Metohija (11.07.1945–20.02.1953; 24.06.1967–07.05.1969), member of the Executive Council of Yugoslavia, member of the Bureau of the Committee provincial member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia for Kosova and Metohija, member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia for Serbia, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia for Serbia and member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The National Liberation Anti-fascist War Association, of which Fadil Hoxha was a member, officially supported the war of the Kosova Liberation Army. (In the photo: Fadil Hoxha )
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 959.
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