The young man who avenged the legendary commander of Adam Yashhar

Just two months after the fall of Adem Jashar, the legendary commander of the KLA, in Mitrovica fired a rifle that echoed from far and wide at the borders of Kosovo.

Following the shots heard early on the morning of May 6, 1998, near the bus station in Mitrovica, three Serb policemen were killed.

The city woke up with a sigh of police vehicles. Few were learning what had happened, and few were thinking that the action against the Serbian police had taken place by a young Mitrovica boy, who came from the Prekazi of Adem Jashar.

Kastriot, brother of witness Artim Jashari, reports about Kosova Preis that he has been very active about the national issue even before the war.

“has been young, but very close to the fate of the country. After two years of stay in Sweden, in 1995 it has returned from there, abandoning luxurious life to be close to its people and Kosovo, without which it could not live”, Kastriot says.

According to him, Artim was particularly prominent during student protests in 1997, and singles out one case when one of the reports of the October 1st popular protest he was distributing had put outside the windows of a local north of town, even though he had noticed that Serb police were sitting inside.

Soon he had been arrested and severely mistreated at the police station.

He added that the brother, who was a student of English and the Xethetaro-Meterurgical faculty, after the battle in Prekaz on March 5, 1998, had fallen with the legendary commander Adem Jashar and many other cousins and warriors, had become very angry.

The Precasi battle “, Artimi has changed. Very often he used the word revenge, and now all in the family realized that he was preparing something”, said the Witness's brother, Kastriot.

He indicated that earlier, on the very night he had taken up the action on May 6, 1998, his mother had arranged for the gun holder, since he had complained of killing his arm.

Kastriot recalls that before leaving for action, he had been greeted with his family, embraced and held up his son, Andrew, while Mother had repeated his refrain, which he often used that “wants Andrew, but for Kosovo's freedom he would also give 100 Andrewa”.

According to him, he was later extinct in the dark of the night, about 24: 00 p.m., and later heard the shooting.

On that occasion, he had left three Serb police officers dead, while a few minutes later he had even passed away, from a bullet that had hit”, Kastriot relates.

Three days later, after the police had released the corpse, the Mitrovicas had been buried with awe by the horror of legend that Adem Jashar's war continued in Mitrovica, which at the time was thundering over the violence of the invaders.
Meanwhile, in respect and honour for the witness, the square bearing his name is built near the bus station in Mitrovica.