23 Years From the Battle of the Gradine Rock

Today, 23 years are filled by the battle fought at the Gradine Rock to prevent the penetrate of enemy forces on Berisha's plateau, where the General Staff was located The KLA, Military Hospital, Kosovo's Interim Government, Kosovo News Agency, Radio Free Kosovo, and about 100,000 residents through mountain passes. [...]
Today, 23 years are filled by the battle fought at the Gradine Rock to prevent the penetrate of enemy forces on Berisha's plateau, where the General Staff was located The KLA, Military Hospital, Kosovo's Interim Government, Kosovo News Agency, Radio Free Kosovo, and about 100,000 residents through mountain passes.
In this battle, exactly April 18, 1999, Islam Kastrati from Kishnerka, Haliim Bajraktari from Drenas, Mentor Morina from Bushati, Ramadan Bytyqi from Gjerica and Mentor Gashi from Lapusnika fell heroically.
The April 1999 wars on this side have been crucial not only for the courses of liberation war, but, above all, have been crucial to saving the lives of people who have been in these passes.
Likewise, the fighters who made the battle in April 1999 have been the living wall that has not allowed the army and Serbian police to penetrate the population.












