Jusuf Mehonjić

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Jusuf Mehonjić/Mehonja during his time as an Ottoman soldier

Jusuf Mehonjić (1883-1926) was an Albanian leader of the Kachak Movement and a member of the Committee of Kosovo from Šahovici.[1][2]

He fought in the

Kachak movements chetas (armed bands) (çetë) in the lower Sandžak area, including Novi Pazar, Rožaje, Sjenica, Kolašin and Bihor.[3] Other leaders included Husein Boshko, Feriz Sallku and Rek Bisheva.[5][6] His units mostly attacked Serbs, both soldiers and gendarmes, as well as civilians, traders and peasants.[4]

In 1924, Mehonjić/Mehonja was framed for organizing the murder of Boško Bošković, the chief of Kolašin county, despite him being in

Rovca, a rival tribe to his own.[1]

He was a member of the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo,[6] and according to Professor Matija Murko of Prague, Mehonjic was also a writer of poetry, writing and singing about the battles and skirmishes he had fought. These songs were confiscated by Yugoslav authorities.[8] Mehonja died in 1926. He is buried in Albania next to his wife Naze.[3] According to one source he was betrayed and killed by his concealer and that Yugoslav Intelligence Service was involved in his death.[4]

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  6. ^ a b Neziri, Zymer Ujkan (2020). Lahutarët e Sanxhakut të Pazarit të R. Instituti Albanologjik, Prishtinë. p. 69.
  7. . A wave of violence was unleashed against Muslims in the early 1920s. Three thousand extrajudicial murders were chronicled in 1924 in eastern Herzegovina alone, 600 of them during the massacre of two villages, Sahovici and Pavino Polje.
  8. ^ Neziri, Zymer Ujkan (2020). Lahutarët e Sanxhakut të Pazarit të R. Instituti Albanologjik, Prishtinë. p. 158.