Rrahman Morina (Serbian: Рахман Морина, romanized: Rahman Morina; 1943 – 12 October 1990) was a Yugoslav police officer and communist politician. A Kosovo Albanian, he is remembered as being an opponent of Albanian separatism.
Early career
Morina had a career as an agent of the Ministry of Interior of SFR Yugoslavia, and later on as a party official in the League of Communists of Kosovo. He rose through the ranks and was in 1981 appointed as Kosovo's interior minister, and thereby held the top law enforcement office in the province. In March the same year, in the wake of the 1981 riots in Kosovo, he called in the national police to quell the uprising, without informing or consulting the provincial government. This act contributed to the resignation of Kosovan party boss Mahmut Bakalli, as the latter did not prove himself accountable enough in the eyes of the government in Belgrade.
Morina came to be seen as a loyalist of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević, although Milošević originally despised Morina. Years earlier, Milošević approached the Yugoslavian presidentLazar Mojsov, furiously demanding Morina's removal from the Kosovan government (and the rest of it). Milošević even threatened to resign from his office as leader of the League of Communists of Serbia, if Morina was not ousted. In 1989 Morina resigned from Kosovo's political structures during the miners' strike.
He died in 1990, at the age of 47, under suspicious circumstances in Pristina, while attending the constituent convention of the Kosovan branch of the Socialist Party of Serbia. The official death cause was labelled a heart attack, but persistent rumors says he was actually poisoned at the convention.
Personal life
He was married to Bratislava "Buba" Morina, a Serbianlawyer, government minister, and Commissioner for Refugees of Serbia.
References
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Bibliography
Raif Dizdarević, Od smrti Tita do smrti Jugoslavije (Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 2000)
Viktor Meier, Yugoslavia - A History of its Demise (London: Routledge, 1999)
