Talk:Azem Vllasi

Birth place

What is Beqaj? Google didn't return any useful info. According to google results, he was born in Rubovc. Any ideas on this? --dcabrilo 14:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Beqe Beqaj was indicted by the Hague War Crimes Tribunal in 2004 for allegedly intimidating witnesses who were supposed to testify against Kosovo's (then) prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj. He was represented by Azem Vllasi. He was released after serving a few months - suspended sentence.

Rubovc is a village in the township of Dardana (formerly known as Kamenica e Kosoves).

surname

• (cur) (last) 23:30, 27 June 2006 Ferick (Talk | contribs | block) (Vlasi is not Albanian)
• (cur) (last) 00:51, 28 June 2006 Joy (Talk | contribs | block) m (Reverted edits by Ferick (talk) to last version by Neurillon)
• (cur) (last) 15:43, 28 June 2006 Ferick (Talk | contribs | block) (Again,Vlasi is not an Albanian name and this man is Albanian.What's your problem?)

His name was frequently misspelled Vlasi in former Yugoslavia and it's useful to note this so that people can find him under the other name he was referred to, too. Google search returns 675 hits for the right spelling and 791 for the wrong one, that nicely explains the need to connect the two. --Joy [shallot] 14:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Fudged timeline

The article currently reads "and replaced by appointees of Slobodan Milošević, the leader of the League of Communists of Serbia at the time." in reference to Vllasi's presidency of presdidency of provinical committee.

I very much doubt that.

First, League of Communists of Kosovo and League of Communists of Serbia were still separate branches at the time, and the consolidation never took place until after March 1989. After Jashari came Kolcegi on whom little is known, except he must have been aligned to the Anti-Bureaucratic Revolutions, but his own more prominent replacement was Rrahman Morina from January 1989 while still LC Kosovo. So not only was Milošević not even placed to appoiont Morina, but there is a fat chance he would have done because he and Morina hated the sight of each other, to the point that Milošević threatened to quit the LC Serbia after the two branches merged. Claiming Milošević appopinted Morina is for the birds. --Vrhunski (talk) 23:22, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

The word "appointee" was inaccurate. The anti-bureaucratic revolution wasn't literal. --Joy (talk) 13:27, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Well it's patently obviously you don't know what you're talking about "not literal". The ABR in Kosovo involved 70,000 multi-ethnic protestors including Albanian and began November 1988. Vllasi and Jashari were pressured to resign, and not because of some "phantom" revolt. --Vrhunski (talk) 22:24, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Wait, you're here to advocate for a Milošević POV?

Some reliable source citations would be needed to make this not be a glaring WP:ARBMAC violation. --Joy (talk) 22:53, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

I cannot perform an ARBMAC violation as I am not touching the articles. I am shocked you even question such a well-known event. ARBs happened across four entities and the article even says this, even if slanted toward western talking points, which is what "reliable sources" tends to mean. Where you're concerned however, Kosovo's street protests were covered in Tanjug, and internationally, (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/11/20/serbs-rally-in-belgrade-over-kosovo/18a54f28-6f6b-4c2d-9907-0db69d9532c8/?utm_source=chatgpt.com), but I am not implying changes to that article. I came to say that it is very unlikely Jashari's replacements were appointed by Serbia's top brass in view of the dynamics. That was all. --Vrhunski (talk) 23:43, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Ah yes, the "I'm wasting everyone's time with conspiracy theories but I'm only doing it on Talk!" defense. --Joy (talk) 10:37, 23 June 2026 (UTC)