Mavzida Läkuz

Mavzida Läkuz (born 4 Vintyr 1536) is a Kyrzbekistani diplomat and politician. She serves as Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan since Quartyr 1584.

Early life

Mavzida Läkuz was born in Kaygyz, Qënderi Commonwealth (today Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan). She was born in a mixed family: her father, Enver Läko, was an Arberian merchant, while her mother Zemphira Laysankuz, an ethnic Kyrzbek, came from a family which was said to descent from one of the oldest Kyrzbek tribes. Her family was relatively opulent, and although his father came from an Arberian family of Akhadic faith, she studied in a prestigious private school owned by the Arberian Ostrid Church.

Education

Läkuz moved to Lebrazhd in 1553, where she started her studies of Law and Administration in the National University of Lebrazhd.

Besides her native Kyrzbek and Arberian languages, Läkuz speaks fluently Ashked, Angirisian, Florinthian, and Lanlian.

Early political career

The year Läkuz moved to Lebrazhd was a year of changes, with the abolition of the Qënderi Commonwealth and the proclamation of the Kingdom of Arberë late that year, following the Royal decrees of 1553 imposed by King Kreshnik II, which suspended the federal parliament and the autonomous councils. In early 1554, she joined the Kyrzbek Democratic Party, a revolutionary left-wing nationalist political party.

The Kyrzbek Democratic Party was an illegal political party, which aimed to the abolition of the Arberian monarchy through a revolutionary movement, and well-known for its support of assassination and terrorism as a political weapon.

Terror activity

On Vintyr 1556, the then 20-year old university student and revolutionary shot and killed Akil Pagarusha, a former Arberian military officer and Governor of Mysëqytet. Pagarusha was notorious for brutal suppression of peasant unrest in the province he governed, and he had been declared "an enemy of the people" by several Kyrzbek insurgent groups. Läkuz allegedly volunteered to kill him, in order to prove her revolutionary commitment to the cause. She stalked Pagarusha for several days, and finally got her chance nearby the Ostrid cathedral in the town of Ozmakhya. She fired several shots from her gun, and hit Pagarusha six times, who died five minutes later.

Läkuz was immediately captured by the Arberian police, and taken to Qënderë the next day. Little more was heard of the case until 22 Alvan 1557, when a social democratic newspaper from Ersyrë published a letter from Läkuz, describing the abuse and torture she had suffered since her arrest -beaten with fists, whips, and boots, burned with a lit cigarette on bare skin and stripped naked. Läkuz's story became an immediate sensation in the Arberian monarchy and beyond. Though few supported Kyrzbek Democratic Party's terrorist methods, many Arberian liberals were outraged by this appalling cruelty, specially to an attractive woman of at least partial Arberian descent. The Arberian Social Democratic Party openly condemned the Qënderë authorities, while the assassination of Pagarusha was praised by Kyrzbek nationalist and revolutionary political parties.

On Quartyr 1557, Läkuz was tried and convicted of Pagarusha's murder by an Arberian military court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. For the next decade, Läkuz was kept in a military prison in Agym, southeastern Kyrzbekistan (then Kingdom of Arberë). She will be released during the 1568 revolution, and her criminal records were officially erased by an amnesty issued by the revolutionary government only a few weeks after the proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan.

Kyrzbekistani revolution

Following her release in 1568, Läkuz became one of the most prominent members of the Kyrzbek Democratic Party. In 1569, she was elected to the Constituent Assembly as a candidate of the Revolutionary Coalition, a left-wing coalition formed by the Workers People's Party, the Kyrzbek Democratic Party, the Socialist Party, the Arberian Social Democratic Party and other leftist organizations.

Läkuz, however, would resign only a few months later, in order to start a career as diplomat.

Diplomatic career

She served as a diplomatic assistant on the Kyrzbekistani embassy in Soyabar from 1569 to 1570.

Incident in Soyabar

In early 1570, it surfaced her terrorist records in the Soyabarian media, when a Handwerpenstad newspaper republished a decade old article from a Mestran newspaper describing her assassination of Pagarusha and her trial in 1557.

At a special dinner in the Kyrzbekistani embassy, Läkuz reportedly reenacted her assassination of Governor Pagarusha for the meeting's guests, including Count Xaveer De Crommelynck, a prominent official in the Soyabarian government.

Ambassador in Kvaenna

Mazida Läkuz was appointed Kyrzbakistani ambassador in the Kingdom of Adwest in 1570, a position she served for nine years.

In 1579, she was appointed High Representative for Kvaenna by the Kyrzbekistan governor.

President Aygöl Zamambekuz appointed Läkuz ambassador in the Kingdom of Goldecia. The Goldecian government, however, rejected her as ambasador because her past inclusion in a terririst list by the Kingdom of Arbëria as consequence of Pagarusha's assassination. The decision of the Goldecian government caused outrage and criticism by the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, and cooled relations between Goldecia and Kyrzbekistan.

Near East Treaty Organization

From 1580 to 1582, Läkuz served as Kyrzbekistani representative to the Near East Treaty Organization, a military alliance which includes Kyrzbekistan and other Near East nations.

Political career

In 1583, Läkuz was appointed Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs.

On Quartyr 1584, Chairman of the People's Council Damir Kazbekuz appointed Läkuz as Commissar for Foreign Affairs, following a reshuffle of the federal government after the Kyrzbek Labour Party decided to abandon their coalition with the Socialist People's Party in the federal government.

She has been a member of the Socialist People's Party since 1571. She was elected a member of the Executive Central Committee of the Socialist People's Party in 1584.

Personal life

Mavzida Läkuz is not married and has no children.

Honors and awards

• Honorary Doctorate in Law and Administration by the Federal University of Qëndere (Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan, 1569).
• Honorary Doctorate in International Relations by the Federal University of Ayduramazan (Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan, 1579).
• Order of Honour for the Motherland (Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan, 1580).
• Medal of Friendship with the Severyan People (Severyan Democratic People's Republic, 1582).
• Medal of Amazat Aydur - for her great personal contribution to strengthening regional security, peace and stability and her service to the Kyrzbekistan Democratic Republic (Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan, 1583).
• Honorary Doctorate in Diplomacy from Kombash Women's University (Democratic Republic of Kyrzbekistan, 1583).