A Premature Obituary.(journalist Baton Haxhiu)

American Journalism Review,  June, 1999  by S.R.

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The editor pulled an obituary that ran April 1 in London's Independent out of his shirt pocket and passed it around the table at the Restaurant Arbi in Tetovo, Macedonia, a hangout for exiled Kosovar elite in the town of 300,000. "You see, I was dead for nine days," Baton Haxhiu said with a chuckle, as he went back to his lunch of grilled meat.

The report noted that Haxhiu, "one of the most prominent and respected of Albanian journalists in Kosovo," had been murdered by Serbian security forces. NATO made the announcement March 29. The editor of Koha Ditore, ...

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