“Dole spoke out in the middle of Pristina, denouncing state depression”, Latifi recalls the senator's visit in 1990

Latifi says Dole's visit showed Kosovo Albanians that they are not lonely and that who was present remembers the joy of that day.

Here's Latif's full post:

It was 1990. A year earlier, Serbia had lifted Kosovo's autonomy in 1974. During the winter of that year, the streets of Kosovo were bloodied by dozens of Albanians killed by police who were ordered to crush their demonstrations violently. Thousands of thousands of workers had been driven out of their jobs. A massive poisoning of students in Kosovo schools had occurred in the meantime. Of course, as one of the forms of terrorisation of Albanians by the Milosevic regime. Serbia, in front of other Yugoslav republics and in front of the world, had put the state terror system on the Albanian people in Kosovo. And no one had reacted, except Albania, whose voice no one had long heard, all because of it. So great collective despair had fallen upon us. We did not want to submit, but we were afraid that we would have no one on our side. How many times this had happened to us throughout history

In August of that year, a light of hope warmed our hearts. A delegation of American senators had come to Pristina, leading Bob Dolin. Only those who have lived that time appreciate the great joy of that day. It was the joy of feeling that we were not alone and abandoned in the face of Serbian terror. That day we began to believe that the world had begun to learn about our suffering. Bob Dol spoke openly in the middle of Pristina, denouncing the state depression. We have lived long with his appearance and words of August 1990. Our faith in America is rooted in those words. The internationalisation of the Kosovo issue begins with them.

The greatest friends of a people are those who are close to him in his worst hours. Bob Dolly is part of the Kosovo category of such friends. As such he will remain the eternal monument to our historical memory.