Twenty years from the heroic fall of the Yashars

The extensive attack Serbia had undertaken in Drenica to eliminate the Kosovo Liberation Army focused it on Prekaz, on the heart and head of the KLA, making it an iron siege.

What will happen early in March 1998 will be a living testimony to the civilized world and its political and diplomatic responsibilities. Indeed, this event so direct and so powerful for its size of the unique, resistance and slaughter sacrifice will raise the Kosovo issue at the top of the global agenda. Thus, on the night of March 4, 1998, Precasi is surrounded by numerous military and police forces. This suggests that there will be iron sieges.

It is on March 5, that 20 years of the fall of the legendary commander, Adam Yashhar, his family, and other Jashars take place. Every anniversary, however, Adam Yasar was made the most glorious in the history of our nation.

With the act of the fall of legendary commander Adem Jashar, his family and other Jashares, Kosovo defeated fear by what opened the paths of freedom and the future. And not by chance, in Prekaz, in the Jasaran Quarter, the largest monument of the war for freedom, for independence and democracy, which these days and dates -- exactly 5,6.7 March per year -- turned to the attention of the entire Albanian nation and returned from legendary Precasia, which centuries and years gave Kosovo much.

From 1991 to 1998, Prekazi and Drenica were surrounded by Serb paramilitary forces. The goal was to kill the commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Adem Jashar and his family, to eliminate and suppress the resistance the Yasar family led by Adam and Hamza were making to Slobodan Milosevic's regime.

On December 30, 1991, the first attack on the Jashar family is carried out. While the second attack by Serb paramilitary forces was carried out in January, 1998. On January 22nd, Serbian forces attacked the Jashar family, but even this battle, the children and women of the Jashar family resisted. However, in this nearly 30 - minute battle, Iliriana, daughter of Rifat Jashar and Selvetya, daughter of Hamza Yasar remain injured. After this attack, friends of the Yasar family came to him, friends of the nation to solidify them. They asked family head Yashhar to draw women and children from there. But even women and children had made the decision to stay, saying that “if the boys were killed, we didn't feel like living”. And decided to stay, stayed to show the world that Albanians don't go anywhere beyond their land and houses.

The third attack, which took place on March 5, 6, and March 7, 1998, claimed the lives of 55 people in the village of Prekaz, 22 of whom were close family members of Adem Yasar. This attack only survives the Union, the son of Rifat, who manages to leave the suburb between March 5th and escapes the attack, as well as Besarta, Hamza's daughter, who saw and experienced horror until her family members were killed.

The Jashar family story and its exhibits are located at the Kosovo Liberation Army Age Museum.

In the 20th anniversary of the heroic fall of Legendary Commander Adem Jashar, the Jashar family, the martyrs of the nation, as well as all who fall for freedom, the Government of Kosovo on 5, 6 and 7 March organises the popular manifestation “The era of the Kosovo Liberation Army”.

In addition, Kosovo's Assembly will hold its solemn session today on the 20th anniversary of the KLA's Age on Monday, with the only milestone for marking this anniversary.