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Ibrahim Rugova, the pacifist leader of Kosovo's Albanians, was born in 1944. The years that followed were to shape his whole outlook on life.

Just after the war his father and grandfather were executed by Yugoslav communists who were recapturing the province from the then retreating Germans.

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Rugova grew up during years of harsh repression. Following the war, Kosovo was run by mostly Serb communists who ran the province on a tight leash.

Nevertheless Ibrahim Rugova was able to prosper and he eventually went to Paris where he studied linguistics at the Sorbonne.

He then became a professor of Albanian literature and a writer.

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Like almost every single other leader in the former Yugoslavia, Rugova was a member of its old communist party. He was expelled after joining others in demanding changes to Serbia's constitution.

Building a political movement

With the formal end of one party rule in Serbia Rugova was elected to head the first non-communist party in Kosovo,