Mahmut Bakalli
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Mahmut Bakalli (Đakovica, January 19, 1936 – April 14, 2006 in Priština) was a Kosovo Albanian politician.
Bakalli led the Communist Party in Kosovo during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but resigned after disagreeing with the way protests by ethnic Albanian students were handled. He then spent two years under house arrest, before being allowed to work in a research institution, but was forced out when Slobodan Milošević increased Serbian control over Kosovo in the late 1980s.
In 2002, Bakalli was the first witness to testify at The Hague International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the trial of Milošević.
He died of throat cancer at the age of 70.
