Career
Morina had a career as an agent of the Ministry of Interior of Yugoslavia, and later on as a party official in the League of Communists of Kosovo. He rose through the ranks and was in 1981 appointed as Kosovo"s interior minister, and held thereby the top law enforcement office in the province. In March the same year, in the wake of the 1981 riots in Kosovo, he called in the national police to quell the uprising, without informing or consulting the provincial government.
This act contributed to the resignation of Kosovan party boss Mahmut Bakalli, as the latter did not prove himself accountable enough in the eyes of the government in Belgrade.
Morina came to be seen as a pliant proxy of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević, although Milošević initially despised Morina. The Serbian leader once went to the Yugoslavian president Lazar Mojsov, furiously demanding Morina"s removal from the Kosovan government (and the rest of it).
Milošević even threatened to resign from his office as leader of the League of Communists of Serbia, if Morina was not ousted. In 1989 Morina resigned from Kosovo"s political structures during the miners" strike.
He died in 1990, at the age of 47, under suspicious circumstances in Pristina, while attending the constituent convention of the Kosovan branch of the Socialist Party of Serbia.
The official death cause was labelled a heart attack, but persistent rumors says he was actually poisoned at the convention.
