18 Facts About Azem Hajdari

Azem Hajdari then became a politician of the Democratic Party of Albania.

Azem Hajdari was a member of the Albanian parliament and the Chairman of the Defence Parliamentary Commission.

Azem Hajdari was shot to death in Tirana on September 12,1998 at age 35.

Azem Hajdari finished elementary school and high school in Bajram Curri.

Azem Hajdari was one of the main leaders of student demonstrations that brought the collapse of the Party of Labour of Albania in December 1990.

Azem Hajdari was, briefly, the first leader of the Democratic Party of Albania.

Azem Hajdari remained in that position until he was replaced in early 1991 by Sali Berisha, who later became Prime Minister of Albania.

In 1993 Azem Hajdari graduated on Philosophy Branch at the University of Tirana.

From 1995 to 1998, Azem Hajdari was the President of the KS Vllaznia Shkoder, the first sport club in Albania.

Azem Hajdari served as the President of the Albanian Federation of Martial arts.

Azem Hajdari began receiving death threats from the beginning of his involvement in the student protests.

On September 18,1997, Azem Hajdari fought with Gafur Mazreku, a Member of Parliament of the Prime Minister Fatos Nano's governing Socialist Party, in a dispute over a proposed increase in the added value tax.

Azem Hajdari was taken to a military hospital in grave condition.

Mazreku argued that he fired the shots in an act of revenge after Azem Hajdari verbally assaulted and punched him.

On September 12,1998, Azem Hajdari was shot and killed as he stepped out of the Democratic Party's office in Tirana with his two bodyguards, Besim Cera, who was killed, and Zenel Neza, who was seriously injured but survived.

Azem Hajdari was taken to the hospital by Besnik Docaj, a fellow Democrat.

Azem Hajdari was posthumously awarded a Martyr of Democracy award.

On October 2,1998, Azem Hajdari was posthumously awarded honorary citizenship of Tirana, and in 2007 he was decorated with the Skanderbeg's Order by president Bamir Topi.