Kimet Fetahu
Albanian academic and activist
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Kimet Fetahu (Macedonian: Кимет Фетаху) is an Albanian academic and minority rights activist.[1]
Life
Fetahu was born in 1955 in Trebisht in the Gollobordë region of Albania and completed studies in Albania and China.[2] He has served as director of the non-governmental organization Center for Ethnic Studies.[3][4] He has also been a university professor in Tirana.[5] Fetahu is president of the ethnic Macedonian association "Mir" (meaning peace),[6] which he founded in 1991 under its first name "Bratstvo" (meaning brotherhood).[3][7]
Fetahu has made exaggerated estimates about the size of minority groups in Albania forming 35% of the total population.[7] He has also stated that Macedonians in Albania number between 100,000 and 130,000.[5]
In 2022, the Macedonian Alliance for European Integration officially proposed Fetahu for President of Albania.[2]
