Today is the 24th anniversary of Enver Maloku's murder

Enver Maloku was the head of the Kosovo Information Centre, which was killed on January 11, 1999, at a time when the situation was heavily charged with war.

A few metres from his flat on the edge of a living block on the Sun's Coast, in the eyes of his wife and children, bombers killed Enver Maloku, who passed away a few minutes later at the Pristina hospital.

Enver Maloku was born in the village of Bradash in the Podujevo municipality on February 2, 1954. He was killed in Pristina on January 11th 1999. The primary school was conducted in Bradash and Bajcia, high school in Podujevo, and Albanian literature studies at the Pristina University Faculty of Philosophy. One time, he worked as an educator at Bradash elementary school, and since 1979 he worked on Pristina Television, the culture program. Enver Maloku, chief culture journalist at Pristina Television, before it was closed by the Serb conqueror in 1990, became the 90th main political journalist in Kosovo.

Initially, he worked as a journalist/rector, while from 1993 he was the leader of the Kosovo Information Centre, which, from the founding in 1991, performed the work of the national news agency. Maloku for nearly six years led the Centre for Information, which performed work not only on the Kosovo Information Plain, but also on the profile and promotion of national and critical political journalism. The blood of independent Kosovo, with democratic order and general resistance to Serbian occupation, is inconsistent for linking Maloku's writings at the Kosovo Information Centre or other Albanian interim newspapers and newspapers in Kosovo found it.

Maloku's work, his critical attitude towards currentity, but also the position at the head of an institution that was carrying the main burden of informing Serbian life, war and atrocities in Kosovo put him and his family ahead of a series of threats and risks. The first time, in July 1998, he missed the bullet of an unknown bomber waiting to kill him at the door of his apartment. The message was very clear: Enver Maloku's silence, the silence of journalism and the courage for free expression in Kosovo were required. With the credit of Maloku and his colleagues, the word was pronounced bold and inconsistent, and the institution he led worked as never before in the work of informing domestic and external opinion in times of fierce occupation and fierce war.

But on the afternoon of January 11, 1999, the bombers were now more numerous and, unfortunately, did not miss the target. A few metres from his flat on the edge of a living block on the Sun's Coast, in the eyes of his wife and children, bombers killed Enver Maloku, who passed away a few minutes later at the Pristina hospital. In comments from the time he was killed, it was rightly said that Enver Malokut's murder was the work of anti-Albanian districts aimed at hindering Albanian-language information, as well as the process of realising Kosovo's freedom and independence, writes the KP, transmetant Klankosova.tv.

On April 4th 2016, the president of the Republic of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, has decorated Enver Malokun with the Kosovo Order “Hero, for his contribution to Kosovo's freedom and independence.

Kosovo's historic president, Dr. Ibrahim Rugova for his contribution to Kosovo's statehood, has decorated Enver Malokun with the Order “The Golden Medal of Independence”.

Also, the president of the Republic of Albania, Bujar Nishani, has decorated Enver Malokun with the <x0th> Golden Order of Eagle”.

With initiative and under the auspices of President Rugova, to honour his event on 12 July 2005 in Pristina, at the site where he was killed, Enver Malokut has been erected a monument.

In honour of his unique event, many roads and schools in Kosovo bear the name “Enver Maloku”.