Fehmi Lladrovci at his 1984 trial. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
1981-1989
Political Imprisonments & Co-existence
Fehmi Lladrovci at his 1984 trial. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Ferat Muja, a former Trepça miner, during his 1982 trial. He was sentenced to death after killing Danilo Milinčić, whom his family claimed had attacked him with a hoe. The Yugoslav authorities characterized the case as a politically motivated and ‘irredentist’ act, while the defense considered it an act of self-defense. To this day, the location of his grave remains unknown. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
A political trial in the 1980s. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
The judicial panel at a political trial in the 1980s. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
The 10th ‘Brotherhood and Unity’ gathering, Carralevë, 1984. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
The Martinović case, 1985. The incident involving Đorđe Martinović became one of the most controversial cases in Yugoslavia and was widely used in nationalist propaganda, deepening tensions between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
A demonstrator is silenced after chanting ‘Kosovo Republic!’, Prishtina, 1987. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Slobodan Milošević in Fushë Kosovë, 1987. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Crowds gathered for Slobodan Milošević’s arrival in Fushë Kosovë, April 24, 1987. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Miners’ meeting at the ‘Boro and Ramiz’ Palace of Youth, main hall, February 1988. Photo: Hazir Reka.
Miners on Trepça’s tenth level, where the temperature remained above 40°C. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Trepça miners leaving the mine’s main entrance, Stantërg, 1988. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
The Trepça miners’ march, November 17, 1988. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Rrahman Morina during the Trepça miners’ strike, February 1989. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Husamedin Azemi at the meeting to revoke Kosovo’s autonomy, Prishtina, 1989. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Citizens and members of Kosovo’s Albanian intellectual elite awaiting the arrival of Mother Teresa, who was denied entry by the Milošević regime, Bishtazhin, Gjakovë, 1989. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Citizens and members of Kosovo’s Albanian intellectual elite awaiting the arrival of Mother Teresa, who was denied entry by the Milošević regime, Bishtazhin, Gjakovë, 1989. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Ibrahim Rugova after the first LDK assembly, 1989. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Ibrahim Rugova after the first LDK assembly, 1989. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.