Land of forgotten heroes

(In memory of UCMPB's first witness, Fatmir Ibishi)

Under the circumstances of occupation, after the Kosovo war, increasing the influence of national liberation ideas, propagand by domestic circles, as well as the need for self-defense from Serbian state terror, made it necessary to organise Albanian national movements on the foundations of the right to release and union with Kosovo. The formation of this cell was thus laid as an urgent need, according to the example and programme of the Kosovo Liberation Army, of a political-military organisation such as UCMPB, secreted in the beginning, which would unite the homelands of this three. This determination was particularly pushed forward by former veterans who had been at war in Kosovo, to rescram the path to armed war in eastern Kosovo as well.

This movement was with a similar national idea, like that of the Kosovo war, which makes this war a continuation of travel and national liberation effort. The movement had its characteristics, aiming to fulfill the political aspirations of that Albanian population remaining outside the borders of Kosovo. The scale of nationalism was characterized by mutual sentiment, as members of the same nation, which at the end of the 20th century were suffering from captivity and not liberation. National liberation ideology developed in social life, its core constituted the fight against national oppression, with ideas arguing the natural human right of this Albanian population to be free and independent nationally as part of the Albanian trunk. These ideas, widespread in and out of this population, were included in the minds of ordinary people, which helped to form Albanian populations around the common national consciousness, which epitomized the will of the entire population, the conscience of Presevo, Bujanoc and Medvedja.

Civil victims echoed pain in eastern Kosovo and aroused indignation in the Albanian population, and at the same time the degree of uncertainty increased from day to day, as Serbian power from one settlement to another did terrorise the civilian population.

Fatmir Ibishi from the village of Uglare of Gjilan, returns from west to his homeland and immediately locks on the KLA guerrilla units to the Karadaku Operative Zone at Zegoci's point at the 171 Brigade “Kadri Zeka”. At the beginning of the UCMPM war, Fatmir was among the first since UCMPB's public appearance in the village of Dobros. After settling in this village, Fatmir Ibishi was among the first three teams to be established. Fatmir was commander of the Second Team that was founded in this village on January 27, 2000.

Conchuli's Grika Klicura linking the Republic of Kosovo with Serbia is one of the most strategic points in Eastern Kosovo. Days and more were exercised psychic and physical violence against the Albanians of eastern Kosovo in the police work in Koncul. It was Commander Fatmir Ibish on February 26th of 2000, about 23rd, with a group of co-wars from two UCMP members on the ground at the first bend at the entrance of Koncul village, from the Bujanoc-Gylan direction, where they attacked the police jeep in which there were four Serb police officers, among them, and participating officers in all wars in the former Yugoslavia. In clashes between UCMPB soldiers and Serbian police and paramilitaries, Fatmir Ibishi had the fortune of being the first witness UCHB's. Fellow fighters couldn't even pull his corpse back, as large Serb forces arrived. After the commander's murder, Serbian police take the commander's body, send it to the Roma cemetery in Bujanoc. Thanks to internationals putting pressure on the Serbian side, after a month the commander's remains return to his homeland in Kosovo.

In his name, UCMPB's 111 Brigade 111 was founded “Fatmir Ibishi”, who was appointed to honour the witness and hero of this liberation war.