Bahri Fazliu

Bahri Fazliu (1971–1998) was a Kosovo Albanian poet, publicist, and nationalist.

Biography
Bahri Fazliu was born in the village of Llaushë near Podujevo, Kosovo, at the time in Yugoslavia. He was the younger brother of Fahri Fazliu, PMK member who lost his life in a shoot-out with Yugoslav police on November 2, 1989, in "Kodra e Diellit" neighborhood in Prishtina.

Bahri was one of the founders of NMLK (Lëvizja Kombëtare për Çlirimin e Kosovës, LKÇK), and its leader after the imprisonment of Avni Klinaku. NMLK was a revolutionary movement, and a constant criticizer of Democratic League of Kosovo and Ibrahim Rugova's Gandhism.

He was the chief editor of the newspaper Çlirimi (English: Liberation), which would be secretly delivered inside Kosovo every three months. On May 7, 1998, he got involved in a skirmish with the Yugoslav Army in an area called Bjeshka e Bogiqes, in the vicinity of Plav, a Montenegrin town at the border between Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo (then Serbia, Yugoslavia), eventually getting killed. This was 4 days before the official agreement between NMLK and newly-active Kosovo Liberation Army, that would result in NMLK officially joining KLA.

Legacy
There are streets in nowadays Kosovo which bear his name. He would later receive the title "Hero of Kosovo" ("Hero i Kosovës").

Publications

 * Kundër mistifikimit, për të vërtetën (English: Against mystification, for the truth), Çlirimi, Prishtina, 2000.