Ibrahim Rugova and the Failure of Non-violence
A national leader’s failure to keep the peace.
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7 min readMar 20, 2023
On January 26th, 2006, the father of a new nation died of lung cancer.
Ibrahim Rugova was born on December 2nd, 1944, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo (1). Although raised in difficult circumstances, Rugova became a college professor and literary critic.
