Abstract
The Kosovo National Protection Committee (KNPC), which was founded in Shkodra on May 1, 1918, was one of the most important organizations of Albanian political pluralism in the years 1918-1924. The Committee had a broad political, democratic and national program that would have played the role of the government for Kosovo and strongly represented its voice. With such a status, the Committee could play an important role in Albanian political life at that time. Hoping that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 would resolve the Albanian question, the leadership of the Committee sent successive memoranda and telegrams respecting the independence of Albania and reversing the injustices inflicted by the Great Powers on the Albanian people in 1913. During these years, the Committee established close relations with the Albanian governments. At first, it objected to the pro-Italian capitulation policy of the Durres government and condemned its actions. Later, when the patriots decided to convene a new national congress due to the international political circumstances and the danger of the disintegration of the country, they endorsed this initiative and praised it as a historic congress. They joined the decisions of the Lusnya Congress and participated as members of the resulting national government. If one recognizes the names of the members of this organization, one can say that the KNPC was one of the most important influences in the history of Albanian statehood in the years 1918-1924.
Highlights
IntroductionThese organizations were the forerunners of the establishment and founding of the “Kosovo National Protection Committee” in 19183
The First World War had brought distress to political balance amongst many countries as well as in the Balkans
The Kosovo National Protection Committee (KNPC), which was founded in Shkodra on May 1, 1918, was one of the most important organizations of Albanian political pluralism in the years 1918-1924
Summary
These organizations were the forerunners of the establishment and founding of the “Kosovo National Protection Committee” in 19183 During this period, Albanians of Kosovo operating inside Albania considered the international situation partly favorable for organizing a new liberation uprising in Kosovo. Some Albanian patriots with progressive and democratic views driven by the political circumstances of the time made efforts and demanded that their lands achieve national unification, and, at the same time, tried to oppose the divisive plans of their lands In this period, when Shkodra was placed under the international jurisdiction of the Great Powers, Hoxha Kadri, Bajram Fevziu, Sejfi Vllamasi, Sali Nivica would resume the legal work of the new Committee named “Kosovo National Protection Committee”.8
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