Zihni Buzo

Zihni Jusuf Buzo (1912–2006) was an Albanian Australian civil engineer.

Biography Zihni Jusuf Buzo was born (1912) in the neighbourhood of Murat Çelepia in Berat, Albania. During the 1990s, Buzo was involved in lobbying activities and participated in Albanian community delegations where he met Australia's Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and raised the issue of Kosovo and its Albanian population multiple times. His granddaughter is Eva Buzo, an Australian human rights lawyer and long–distance swimmer who was the first woman to swim from Lecce, Italy to Vlorë, Albania in honour of her grandfather.

In the 1991 Australia Day Honours, Buzo's contribution toward the community was recognised in Australia and he was awarded the Order of Australia medal. Buzo died in July 2006.

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