29 Years of Freeding Adem Demach

After Demach was released, he immediately continued his political activity. He was arrested and sentenced three times, thus suffering 28 years in Yugoslavia's prisons.

On April 21, 1990, Adem Demach and many friends from Croatia's prisons were released. In his first interview a day or two after his release from prison for Slovenian television, without any expressions of hatred or revenge, Ademi tried to pave the way and paths for finding acceptable and favourable solutions for all who not only by word but also by deed were for freedom and equality in Balkan spaces.

During 1975, many arbitrary detentions were conducted in Kosovo, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vojvodina, among the Albanians of Macedonia and Montenegro, and numerous court processes were set up against people whom Serbian secret police considered dangerous and carriers of Yugoslavia's disciplinary forces. To that end, on October 6, 1975, Adem Demaci was imprisoned in Pristina for the third time.

In the devised process, following cruel investigations, they were sentenced, to false witnesses and ruthlessly, Adem Demaci, Rexhep Mala (the deceased), Skender Kastrati, and 16 others. The sentences were cut by 15 to 5 years.

Although not innocent at all, Ademi Demac, did not give up on the idea that Albanians have the right to be free and equal to all other Balkan peoples and to pronounce his sentence on him for 15 years, he received him with smiles.

Now he was quite clear that Yugoslavia had entered the path of its safe defeat.

In March 1990, in the infamous cabin of Stara Gradiska, where they stood firm, Adem Demach and thirty other Albanians, now fourteen years, for the first time, police authorities allowed International Red Cross officials to enter.

Then they allowed some journalists to enter. To all the journalists with whom he had the chance to meet, Adem Demach told them that Mr. Milosevic, with his policy, works for the defeat of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia had already been involved in decomposing fever. Demach tried to cause such decomposition to develop gradually, peacefully and without bloodshed. From the perspective and circumstances of that time it seemed possible.

On April 21, 1990, Adem Demach and many friends from Croatia's prisons were released. In his first interview a day or two after his release from prison for Slovenian television, without any expressions of hatred or revenge, Ademi tried to pave the way and paths for finding acceptable and favourable solutions for all who not only by word but also by deed were for freedom and equality in Balkan spaces.

At a meeting in Ljubljana, ahead of a large audience, Demac, he did not hesitate to express himself against the wartime variant for resolving non-compliance with Serbia.

Otherwise, Adem Demach suffered 28 years in Yugoslavia's prisons, the symbol of national resistance.

His name is Nelson Mandela of Europe. Adem Demaci led the Council for Human Rights and Freedoms (KMDLNJ) from 1990 to 1995. In 1991 it was honoured by the European Parliament at the Sakharov Award. During the 1998/1999 period, when meetings were held in Ramboullet for Kosovo's future, he was the KLA's political spokesman. He was chairman of the Kosovo Writers' League (2005-2007).