What the late President Rugova said about Adem Demacin

News of the death of the symbol of freedom resistance, Adam Demach, was announced yesterday. It is widely known that his relationship with President Rugova had not been so good, with the first person constantly attacking the late president for his pacifist approach. However, on May 18, 1990, when Demach had visited the Association of Kosovo Writers after his release, Rugova had received him with very warm words, writes Periscope.

Dear and honoured Adam Demach, I welcome you to the Association of Kosovo Writers. Let me start this word with the motto of your famous novel “Blood Snakes”, one of the best-known Albanian novels: ” Not here who are brave enough to pull a finger, but there are brave men with the hand of reconciliation”.

I'm starting with this motto, because it's a universal formula, out of the writer's spirit, for peace and understanding between people. So Demach is a writer of Albanian and human harmony, a great humanist. We say so because the writer wanted his work to remove and eliminate an evil of his people blood feud. Likewise, the novel's brilliant vision is being experienced today, when, both in Greek and Illyrian antiquity, Albanians are pardoning blood, quenching blood snakes and becoming reconciliations.

Today, tell everyone, we've become the characters of your novel ? of reconciliation and harmony. This is only among the ancient peoples who can forgive and not forget, and cannot retaliate. Today on this day of joy for all Albanian writers, I will not talk about the 30-year-old Tuaya prisons. All of this I am calling human and intellectual resistance, which only true writers know and maintain, who maintain political and human beliefs besides the work. Your fate is the fate of a part of Albanian writers and Albanian literature. You didn't just feel about the political beliefs that Bolschevism declared hostile, even though you were among the first and the youngest to write in Albanian, why you were a good writer with rare literary skills and deep humanistic beliefs for your people and others. Totalitarian power always fears good and capable writers.

Let me, Your Honor Adam, close this word with our great desire to maintain your health and give us some masterpiece, because you are still in your manhood, you are still with the sun, as our old writer Peter Bogdan classified it.

Thank you for taking the time to be with us in body and soul, because with spirit and deed you've always been with us.

(“Renaissance”, Pristina, 19. V.1990)

From Ibrahim Rugovas' book “Independence and Democracy”, 1991, prepared by Faruk Tasholli