Prek Cali was a major chieftain of the Kelmendi tribe and participated in a variety of battles, notably against Montenegrin forces but also against Yugoslav Partisans.
By the time the Albanian Civil War erupted in 1943, Cali sided with the anti-communist forces despite not formal political affiliation.
Prek Cali alongside Catholic priest Dom Ndre Zandeja banded together with other Albanian tribes from the Nikaj-Mërtur region and the Dukagjin highlands.
Cali would subsequently be arrested and killed some two months later, alongside Albanian Catholic priest Dom Ndre Zadeja by a communist trial.
[1] The defeat of the Kelmendi tribe at the hands of the communist forces led to a radical transformation of the region for the following half century, notably the breakup of the centuries-old Albanian tribal system that had preoccupied northern Albanian life since the 15th century as well as economic poverty in an already impoverished area in addition to many attempted escapes.