Gent Cakaj recalls start of Kosovo war

He said that while young, his experiences are strong today.

Cakaj shows that he remembers so many things that it is impossible to confess all of them.

The new, age-old “at the start of the war in Kosovo, only 8 years old, is my experience still strong today. I remember many things, impossible to discuss and confess.

The first bomb that fell on the Serbian forces' barracks in Pristina.

I remember a huge wound that took the shape of the mushroom, and experienced a very strange feeling, a mixture of fear from the beginning of the war but also enthusiasm from NATO intervention that brought hope.

I remember, of course, the long nights at the border like refugees, the separation of families, the boring days in a village of already northern Macedonia, near Struga called Kaliash.

I was a refugee there along with my sisters and mother, and my father was left in Pristina, and I remember those sad days where the absence of the other members of the family was seen more than the presence of other members of the family, and it is certainly worth remembering that the return to the border with Kosovo, where the first confrontation with American troops, the soldiers of the United States and armed to the teeth, not only gave us the sense of liberation but also the security and care of”, Cakay said in the News.