Mustafa Koka, a teacher and activist of the anti-communist movement, was killed at the Lumbardh river near Prizren (Kosovo). He was born in the village of Kokaj in Gjilan, in 1931. In November 1944, at the age of 17, he joined the partisan units of the Albanian brigades and settled in Tirana. At the end of 1947, he returned to Kosovo and started working as a teacher. He worked in Uglar, Lubishte and Remnik. Since the OZNA ( Information Service of the RSF of Yugoslavia) was monitoring his activities, in June 1951 he went to the mountain and joined Hasan Remnik’s group. For a while he stayed hidden in the village of Lubishtë in Vitia, then in the villages of Rahovicë and Strezoc in Preshevë. In the fall of 1951, he decided to flee to Albania. In 1951, crossing the Lumbardh river in Prizren, they were ambushed by Serbian forces, in which case the entire group of Hasan Ali was killed, including Mustafa Koka, along with his wife. After the murder, their bodies are exposed in Viti and Gjilan. His grave is unknown. (In the photo: Mustafa Koka)
Text: The encyclopedic dictionary of Kosovo – Vol. I , Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina, 2018, page 813–814.
Photo: © https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustaf%C3%AB_Koka
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