The World - News from April 6, 1989

The president of Yugoslavia’s troubled Kosovo province, Remzi Kolgeci, resigned in a purge stemming from an outbreak of rioting by ethnic Albanian extremists, officials said. Kolgeci has been criticized for leniency toward ethnic Albanian separatists who staged strikes and participated in unrest during the past four months to protest constitutional changes that returned more control over the province to the Serbian republic. Yugoslavia’s media reported that officials in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina accepted Kolgeci’s resignation and named Bajram Seljami as acting president of the province.