KLA era begins, on 21st anniversary of the fall of heroes in Prekaz

What will happen in early March 1998 in Prekaz came only a few days after the fighting in Likoshan and Chirez, between KLA fighters and enemy forces.

The objective of the enemy forces was to kill Kosovo Liberation Army Commander Adem Jashari and his family, to eliminate and suppress the resistance the Yashari family led by Adma 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. In these wounded fighting remain Iliriana, daughter of Rifat Jashar and Selvetya, daughter of Hamza Jashar.

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 by March 5th and escapes the attack, as well as Besarta, Hamza's daughter, who saw and experienced horrors until her family members were killed.

On the 21st anniversary of the heroic fall of Legendary Commander Adem Jashari, the Jashar family, the martyrs of the nation, as well as all of the victims of freedom, the Government of Kosovo on 5, 6 and 7 March organises traditional manifestations of “The era of the Kosovo Liberation Army”.

These activities begin today with the military ceremony held at Kazerma “Adem Jashari” in Pristina.