Kimet Fetahu
Kimet Fetahu (Macedonian: Кимет Фетаху) is an Albanian academic and minority rights activist.[1]
Life
[edit]Fetahu was born in 1955 in Trebisht in the Gollobordë region of Albania and completed studies in Albania and China.[2] He has served as director of the non-governmental organization Center for Ethnic Studies.[3][4] He has also been a university professor in Tirana.[5] Fetahu is president of the ethnic Macedonian association "Mir" (meaning peace),[6] which he founded in 1991 under its first name "Bratstvo" (meaning brotherhood).[3][7]
Fetahu has made exaggerated estimates about the size of minority groups in Albania forming 35% of the total population.[7] He has also stated that Macedonians in Albania number between 100,000 and 130,000.[5]
In 2022, the Macedonian Alliance for European Integration officially proposed Fetahu for President of Albania.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Letopis na Makedonskata akademija na naukite i umetnostite. Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2005. p. 127.
- ^ a b "Pakica maqedonase propozon një emër për president". MCN TV. 5 May 2022.
- ^ a b "Sterjovski: Macedonian President of Albania, why not?". Sloboden Pečat. 2022.
- ^ "ALBANIAN POLICE FORCIBLY EVICT EGYPTIAN FAMILY". European Roma Rights Centre. 11 March 2005.
- ^ a b Milčo Balevski (1998). Albanija denes: 1990-1997 : sovremeni demokratski preobrazbi, reformi i kontroverzi. Matica. pp. 264, 272. ISBN 9789989480188.
- ^ Makedonija, Issues 477-488. Maticata. 1993. p. 33.
- ^ a b "Albania: State of the Nation 2003" (PDF). Tirana/Brussels: International Crisis Group. 11 March 2003. p. 11.
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