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People's Movement of Kosovo (LPK)

An underground Albanian political movement founded in 1982 as the People's Movement for the Republic of Kosovo (LPRK), when émigré groups merged after the killing of Jusuf and Bardhosh Gërvalla and Kadri Zeka. Based mainly in Switzerland and Germany, it maintained networks inside Kosovo. In the 1990s, renamed the LPK, it played an important role in creating, organizing and financing the KLA, according to academic studies.

Photographs

Bronze bust on a stone plinth in a square in front of the theatre building.
The bust of Jusuf Gërvalla in front of the city theatre in Peja. Photograph taken in August 2018.Photo: Shkurte ramushi · 2018-08-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources

  1. [1]James Pettifer. The Kosova Liberation Army: Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948–2001. Hurst Publishers, Londër, 2014-01. https://hurstpublishers.com/book/the-kosova-liberation-army-2/. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. [2]Tim Judah. Kosovo: War and Revenge. Yale University Press, 2000. https://books.google.com/books/about/Kosovo.html?id=TDmwQgAACAAJ. Accessed 2026-09-16.

Editorial status: Awaiting verificationDrafted from the cited sources; not yet fully reviewed by the editors.

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