2 hours ago21 years after the war, he found himself in KFOR photo, Kosovo's touching confession
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)During the 1990s, while most of the world's children echoed with game laughter, Kosovo's children heard the terrible voices of war every day. One of them was the six-year-old boy from the Snipelax, Shaban Xani. The child's desire for [...] could not be discerned in Shaban's eyes at that time.
In Shaban's eyes at the time, a child's desire for butterflies in the sky could not be recognized, because his country's sky was filled by NATO bombing planes as a spark of hope for Kosovo's salvation.
It was August 1999 when Shaban had a different view. Dressed in a pink sweater, black pants, confused faces that cannot perceive how far people's destiny can go and face death, he left a mark on Kosovo's children's history.
It was precisely the photograph taken by KFOR soldiers that would restore his memory 21 years after what he had been through. As the days earlier on social networks - including our editing - this photograph was distributed, Shaban Xani decided that the first - time photographic narrative in his life should be shared with KultPlus.
When I looked at it for the first time in 21 years it was true, with the highest sincerity of the word “Sweet Bephasus”, unexpected and very emotional”, begins his 27-year-old boy confession from Skenderaj.
He has already grown up, on the basis of the pain that war has left in his family as in any other family, he has created a new life. As an excellent student at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Pristina during basic studies, he is already continuing with his studies on master title, while in his career he was a banker, accountant and manager.
The picture that sent her back in time caused her to become homesick as she could not believe her protagonist was himself.
I wondered how and from whom this pleasant surprise arrived while looking at the picture as if through a mist passing my thoughts over at that time”, Xani says.
His account of the photograph shows it with excitement as it thrills everyone who has traveled along the same roads throughout history.
I remember that today, it was August 1999, and I was with my grandfather at the time, and we were crossing the street there first and we stopped at the site where this type of armor was located (the juke thrown by tanks from the Serbian Army)”, says Shaban Xani.
It shows that there were KFOR soldiers in that country along with an Albanian translator, while the idea of photography that turned us into retrospective was also born.
“One of the soldiers offered me next to the tin cannon shell, one of the soldiers touched my cheeks and a hand extension conveyed with a smile as if a real victory” describes the student at the University of Pristina with emotion.
Of course, the weight of the cannonball, no matter why it was empty, was large to keep a six - year - old, so nearby soldiers helped him.
KFOR fighter approached and turned the ball round from the description to see the letters exactly, which I only knew were not in Albanian. Today when I saw the picture, we noticed that the letters are the type of writing known as cyric”, says Shaban Xani.
Wrapped in childhood innocence, Saban became a witness to what Kosovo has been through the shooting of photography by soldiers in question.
As for the entire Albanian population, the Serbian state had no pity either for the shift of Shaban Xani's family, the more they lived in the circle from which the national hero, Adem Jashar, had emerged.
Serbia's “Army was placed just where this photo was taken, and we were forced to leave our homes to villages leading around the mountains of Qyqavica, which we continued in the village of Beqiq, the municipality of Vushtrria”, Xani says.
He relates that from their home they moved to his aunt, land with two sisters, 10-year-old Adelena and Albin 9 years old, Grandma and Grandpa. His parents were doing noble work in the worst of the people.
“Mother was doing the nurse's work at the QKMF in Drenas, while the father was at the health battalion on Mt”, he says.
During the bitter memories of the war, the most difficult for Saban remain the shift from place to place because the unexpected were great.
I remember the case of a night of horror, I would say, we were in the mountain and close to me was Grandpa. The Serbian army was throwing cannons and grenades, and Grandpa covered me with body and even with kettle, so that I could not feel the big shake from the power of the weapons”, ends his confession Saban Xani.
Xan had the destiny of surviving war, being educated, and pursuing a quiet life, quite different from his busy childhood. However, Kosovo maintains on its land the pain of losing 1,064 children according to the Kosovo Centre of humanitarian law.
