On February 21, 1945, in the village of Tërstenik in Drenica, Shaban Polluzha, one of the most famous commanders of Kosovo during the Second World War, was killed.
Shaban Polluzha came from a family with average economic status. Shabani was not educated, but as a young man he was involved in political life, which was imposed on him by the circumstances and injustices of the occupying regimes.
He faced the Bulgarians and Austrians during the First World War and the regime of the former bourgeois Yugoslavia. During the Yugoslav kingdom, he was involved in political life, president and deputy. He often confronted the circles of the anti-popular regime and for a while he was forced to go underground in Albania.
During the Second World War he was the commander of a part of the front in Montenegro, Kollashin and Sanjak of the New Market. He was a member of the Council of Islihat (peacemaking court) and with the proposal of Miftar Bajraktar, he was appointed chairman of Islihat in Drenica. Shaban Polluzha also had political tactics.
With political strategy, he had made some formal and deceptive connection with the communist circles, but in reality he never accepted this ideology as an ideology that would solve the Albanian issue. For this, the parish and the organizational council of the Assembly of Skenderaj proposed him as the commander of the Drenica Brigade.
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It is well known that after the capitulation of fascist Italy (September 1943) the Supreme Headquarters of the UNÇJ increased its military activity in Kosovo and in other Albanian countries and until November 1944 (but even earlier) in these areas, units of numerous units of UNÇJ, starting from detachments, aradhets, battalions and up to brigades.
Although these partisan formations were formed in the Albanian territory, they were not formed for the benefit of the Albanians. In the second half of 19, while the allied forces (American-British-Russian...) advanced on all fronts of the war against the Hitlerite army, Tito will use these circumstances to fight the Albanian national defense forces. and the reoccupation of Kosovo, in order to realize its goals more easily, the Yugoslav leadership, at the beginning of January 44, ordered the mobilization of the "Kosmet brigades" to send them to the so-called Sremit Front in Serbia.
Although the center of Albanian resistance in the second half of December 1944-January 1945 was concentrated in Drenica, the "Operative Headquarters of Kosmet" ordered Shaban Polluzha to leave Drenica and head towards Podujeva, to join the VII Brigade , which was marching for Serbia.
The headquarters of the Drenica Brigade will condition its departure from Kosovo with the cessation of killings and looting of the civilian population by the Yugoslav army, but after the failure of the submission of Shaban Polluzha on January 25, large-scale military operations for the destruction of the Brigade of his.
The 24th, 26th, 44th, 46th, 52nd divisions of Serbia participated in these anti-Albanian operations. The 41st and 50th divisions of Macedonia, the group of brigades of Montenegro (the 2st Boka brigade and the XNUMXth brigade) XNUMX and the special units of the OZN led by Spasoje Gjakovic.
At the time when the Yugoslav forces were carrying out the bloodiest operations in Drenica, on February 8, 1945, the supreme commander of the UNČJ Tito by special order no. 31 established military administration in Kosovo. Tito took this decision on February 7, 1945 in Belgrade, in a meeting with the Serbian military: Savo Dërlević, Gjuro Medenica and Kërsto Filipović. With this order, all power in Kosovo will pass to a certain group of Serbian-Montenegrin soldiers, who will exercise political, executive and judicial power.
This military machine in Kosovo, taking all the measures allegedly to "cleanse" the land of the "remnants of fascism" and "counter-revolutionaries" mercilessly killed and massacred thousands of Albanians all over Kosovo. In this fierce military campaign on February 21/22, 1945, the uprising of Drenica was extinguished with blood, after the murder of the popular tribunes Shaban Polluzha and Mehmet Gradica in the Dvorani towers in Tërstenik.
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In 2009, Shaban Polluzha was decorated with the "Hero of Kosovo" medal by former president Fatmir Sejdiu.
Meanwhile, today a memorial academy is held for the hero and commander Shaban Polluzha and his liberation war for Kosovo and the Albanian lands./ksp/
