Bedri bej Ipeku

Bedri bej Ipeku (or Bedri Pejani) (1885-1946) was an Albanian politician of the 19th and 20th century.

Pejani was born in the city of İpek (now Peć) on 10 October 1885 and at 27 became a signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence.^[1] Elected at the first Albanian senate, he represented Kosovo at the Conference of Versailles in 1919.^[1]

In 1920 he became editor in-chief of Populli, a newspaper based in Shkoder, and in the 1921-1923 period he was head of the People's Party and member of the Albanian Parliament. He fled Albania and joined Konare in 1924, when Zog of Albania came to power and was condemned to death in absentia by Zogu's regime, which subsequently amnestied him.^[1]

Assisted by the German emissary of the III Reich, Franz von Schweiger, and along with Xhafer Deva, Pejani created in 1943 the Second League of Prizren in order to protect Greater Albania, which, created in May 1941, was now in danger, because of political vacuum. Pejani was the responsible for the cleansing of 20,000 Serbs in the Peja region in April 1944. Two years later, in 1946, Pejani was captured, imprisoned, and executed by the Yugoslav police.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Robert Elsie (2004). Historical dictionary of Kosova. Scarecrow Press. p. 137-138. ISBN 978-0-8108-5309-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=Fnbw1wsacSAC&pg=PA137.

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Name	Pejani, Bedri bej
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Date of birth	1885
Place of birth	Pejë
Date of death	1946
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Bedri bej Ipeku

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