Today, 25 years since the heroic fall of the Jashari family

2023-03-05 08:36:02Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Today, 25 years since the heroic fall of the Jashari family

 The broad attack that Serbia had undertaken in Drenica to wipe out the Kosovo Liberation Army had concentrated in Prekaz, the heart and head of the KLA, making it an iron siege.

Ajo që kishte ndodhur në fillimet e marsit të vitit 1998 ka qenë një dëshmi e gjallë për botën e qytetëruar dhe përgjegjësit e saj politik e diplomatik. Në të vërtetë kjo ngjarje aq e drejtpërdrejtë dhe aq e fuqishme për nga përmasat e saj të flijimit unikat, të qëndresës e të masakrimit, ka ngritur çështjen e Kosovës në krye të agjendës botërore. Kështu, në natën e 4 e 5 marsit të vitit 1998, Prekazi ishte rrethuar nga forcat e shumta ushtarake dhe policore. Kjo kishte lënë të kuptohej se atje do të kishte rrethim të hekurt.

Pikërisht, më 5 mars bëhen 25 vjet të rënies së komandantit legjendar, Adem Jasharit, familjes së tij dhe Jasharëve të tjerë. Mirëpo, çdo përvjetor Adem Jasharin e bënë më të lavdishëm në historinë e kombit tonë.

With the act of the fall of the legendary commander Adem Jashari, his family and other Jasharis, Kosovo had defeated the fear that had opened the paths of freedom and the future. And not by chance, in Prekaz, in the neighborhood of Jasharë, the biggest monument of the fight for freedom, for independence and democracy was erected, and these days and dates, precisely March 5, 6, 7, for every year, the attention of the entire Albanian nation returns from Prekazi, which had given a lot to Kosovo for centuries.

From 1991 to 1998, Prekazi and Drenica had been surrounded by Serbian paramilitary forces. The aim had been to kill the commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Adem Jashari and his family, in order to extinguish and suppress the resistance that the Jashari family led by Adem and Hamza were making to Slobodan Milosevic's regime.

On December 30, 1991, the first attack on the Jashari family took place. While the second attack was carried out by the Serbian paramilitary forces in January, 1998. On January 22, the Serbian forces attacked the Jashari family, but even this battle, the children and women of the Jashari family resisted. However, in this battle that lasted nearly 30 minutes, Iliriana, the daughter of Rifat Jashari, and Selvetja, the daughter of Hamëz Jashari, were injured. After this attack, friends and compatriots went to the Jashari family to show solidarity with them. They had asked the head of the family, Jashari, to withdraw the women and children from there. But the women and children had also made the decision to stay, saying that "if the boys are killed, we don't deserve to live" and had decided to stay.

The third attack, which took place on March 5, 6 and 7, 1998, took the lives of 55 people in the village of Prekaz, 22 of whom were close family members of Adem Jashari. Only Bashkimi, Rifat's son, survived this attack, who managed to leave the area between March 5-6 and managed to escape the attack, as well as Besarta, Hamza's daughter, who had seen and experienced the horror, while her family members were being killed.

The history of the Jashari family and its exhibits are located in the Museum of the Epic of the Liberation Army of Kosovo. On the 25th anniversary of the heroic fall of the legendary commander Adem Jashari, the Jashari family, the martyrs of the nation, as well as all those who fell for freedom, the Government of Kosovo on March 5, 6 and 7 will organize the popular manifestation "Epic of the Liberation Army of Kosovo".

Today, the tributes will begin in Prekaz, while the ceremony of aligning the squares of the KSF will take place in the "Adem Jashari" Barracks, in Pristina, starting at 12:00.

However, tomorrow the tributes will continue in Prekaz, then the Assembly of Kosovo will hold a solemn session, and in the afternoon the Memorial Academy will be held. Meanwhile, on March 7, the night of bonfires will take place in Prekaz, as well as an artistic program in Skenderaj Square.


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