Sucuri, Ljatif

Sucuri, Ljatif
(1915-1945)
   Yugoslavia. Civil rights activist. He was a prominent Gypsy in Kosovska-Mitrovica in Kosovo at the time of the occupation of the country by Albanian fascist forces during World War II. On several occasions, Sucuri intervened with the Albanian police chief to stop Gypsies from being killed. The police chief would tell the German authorities in Yugoslavia that there were no Gypsies in the town, only Muslims. At the end of the war, collaborators, trying to cover up their own activities, denounced him to the Partisans who took him away, without checking the allegations, and shot him.

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