Agim Bahtiri: I'm looking for Kurti Fund to build houses in the north

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and the political structure, family of the victims, as well as many citizens, have remembered today during a memorial academy in Mitrovica, night terror between February 3rd and 4th of 2000 in the north of this city, with armed Serb groups killing 10 Albanians, injured 25, while violently expelled from their properties about 12 thousand other Albanians.

Kurti said the morning of February 4th, 20 years ago, he found residents of Mitrovica in a state of war.

According to him, the state of Kosovo owes many to these families who paid the price of freedom even after the liberation, and who are simultaneously living evidence that the wounds continue to remain open.

The “in Mitrovica even after the end of the war, has not ended the war, because no fighting and various attacks have stopped. The morning of February 4th, 20 years ago, he found Mitrovica residents in a state of war, where we learned that 10 defenseless and innocent citizens were executed, and during that month over 1,000 and 500 families with about 12,000 residents were expelled from the northern part of the city We as a state of Kosovo and Republic institutions owe much to these families who have paid the price of freedom even after the liberation, and are also living evidence that our wounds remain open. We have to stay and stay close to these family members who are today in pain and grief because they are greatly remembered by their loved ones”, Kurt said.

Mitrovica Mayor Agim Bahtiri expressed confidence that Albanians would return to that part of the city in greater numbers than they were before.

He has asked the newly appointed prime minister to allocate a special fund for building houses in the north.

“I know that we are now in normalisation of the situation, and Albanians will return to the northern part in more numbers than they have been. I have here a special request for the prime minister to share a housing construction fund in the northern part and return to Albanians where they have lived for centuries. This is the fulfillment of the wishes of those who died”, Bahtiri stressed.