Kosovo was burning in flames: A Vlora flag came to Prekaz (Historia)

Sabit Syla, who today heads the Pristina History Institute, tells of the course of the show and the reason for participation.

 I was invited to that television show just after a demonstration we students at the History School in support of the Jasar family's liberation fight. . We haven't been aware that we were going to do it for the fact that all that happened was the Jashar family war and it wasn't even 10 days and I was invited by some people exactly being part of it as seen in the video Professor Mojkom Zeqo and some others in support of the Jashar family's right shows that it was not just students but Albanian people not only in Albania but throughout Albanian lands. And it happened exactly what the flag was sent by just one student representing the goodwill of Vlora even the majority of the Albanian people who are one country, we are a nation”, He says.

On the other hand, he relates about the illegal journey of the time to bring the flag to Drenica.

Taking such a burden, taking the national flag at the time was not easy. This show was then broadcast by Belgrade's television radio calling me terrorist on the other side, and there were some bad attempts that some things were in Tirana at the time, but I don't believe it was done anymore because a flag was removed at the Yugoslav Embassy and for the sake of truth, I didn't remove it. But there was someone else, despite all the voices, the one who took Vlora's flag even pulled the flag from the Yugoslav Embassy in Tirana, didn't do it, I did this thing that was seen through the video and sent it through the very form as it was then known illegal in Drenica”, He said it.

By confessing the events of that time, he also tells details about the meetings he had with members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

 “Posa immediately got the flag I knew I would continue the fight for Kosovo and have managed to go with a group of students and we met in Krume with some of the friendly leaders of the General Staff of the Kosovo Liberation Army where, among them, Hashim Thaci, Rexhep Selimi, the elder commander, but who has not crossed the border with us, Professor Nuri Bexhet and other students from Drenica who have really made a huge contribution to the war for the liberation of Kosovo... has also been with us from the people who have given part of the war groups before Kosovo's army and the main hacker who was also responsible for the border that we used to have been known at the time of war... We arrived at the main headquarters of Drenica's operating area in Licoc”, He says it.

Even the message that this flag would reach the Jashares Tower had left to others for fear that he could not get there alive.

I also left one of the amate to someone in the group there that if I could just kill the flag somebody else would take it, the important thing was for the flag to come to Drenica. I did the same thing when I came to Drenica where a soldier of The young KLA was also my uncle's son, Mustaf Syla, left the other trust with him. But if he'd been killed, so that's what's going to get everybody else's flag up just so that the flag could be raised where it meant”, Next with confession.

On the most important day of the newest country in Europe, Syla succeeded in his hard work. He delivered the flag to Rifat Jashar, a flag that continues to wave in these towers.

 I had the first meeting that I had even had the flag was with Abbed Reghe (Sandocani), and then with the “Yelli unit 98” where I was working that time and we discussed how to do it and raise the flag at that moment in July 1998, or we talked to November of that year, but they didn't agree there knowing that the difficult situation would be over that if I had to raise it to protect it. The mission and the purpose of those who had prepared this and ours was also said in videos on the true liberation of Kosovo. Concretically on the Day of Kosovo Independence at 11:00 we have fulfilled our trust in the Jashari” family, He stresses.

Sabit Syla has studied at the University of Tirana, where she has completed her master and doctorate studies in the direction of History.

His confession to KosovoPress comes on the 14th anniversary of Kosovo's citizenship.