Adam Demaschi buried today

Today it is buried the man who had most given Kosovo to living people.

He had spent 28 years in prison for the Albanian cause, and just as many years since his release.

Adem Demac, the winner of the Sakharov Peace Prize, was released from prison on April 21st 1990, at the time when Slobodan Milosevic's power was being installed throughout the former Yugoslavia.

After being released, Demach had spoken of Kosovo as the next fittest prison, rather than it was for nearly three decades.

“Since April 21st 1990, I am in the largest prison known to mankind's history, in a prison called Kosovo, where the hegemonic-terrorist regime has stripped more than two million Albanians of all freedoms and fundamental human and national rights”

He was sentenced three times in three different court processes because he committed himself to uniting Kosovo with Albania, opposed Albanians' departure for Turkey, and fought for people's rights for self-rule.

Many times during the trialal processes, Demach courageously also took responsibility for his actions. He has not hesitated once to voice his judgment court stand against the Yugoslav regime.

At one of the Demac court hearings, he had already warned Yugoslavia's partition and Kosovo's defeat.

“If Serbia will continue with this policy towards Albanians, one day Serbia will become the cause of the defeat of the entire Yugoslavia and eventually remain without Kosovo. That's it.

Thus, Demach was quoted in the book “Amem Demaci, unauthorized biography”, author Shkelzen Gashi.

His 28 years within prison walls, Demach has been deprived of whatever privilege other prisoners have had. Full of 15 years, he has not met his children -- the Abytare of Albania.

On visits to his home by numerous visitors, Demachi still had his mouth full of words that serve democracy and freedom.

The man can be deceived, imprisoned, killed, when the idea is not. The idea should be the point on which you rely because individuals may err, may be imprisoned, may die...”

Kosovo's “Hero, which this year has turned 82 years, remains the most valuable figure given its patriotic, political and intellectual activity.

Demaci after the prison was committed to joining Albania, had once mentioned a Balkan confederation known as the Balkans. Shortly before the end of the war, he had become the political representative of the Kosovo Liberation Army. He had rejected the signing of the Rambouilles Agreement and then left the representation KLA.

The Kosovo government has recognised its contribution and decided to share a minister's salary.

Demach died at 82.