Fire Night held in Prekaz, KLA Age ends

Through the lighting of freedom flares, Adam Yasar and his family were reminded of the sacrifice of command. A large number of citizens participated in this traditional manifestation.

After the flares were lit, a artistic program is being held in Scytheright Square.

Entire popular performance “The KLA age” started on March 5th (day) and lasted until tonight (Saturday), when it ended with the “Fire Night”.

On March 5 it has been 25 years since the fall of the legendary commander, Adem Yasar, his family, and other Jashars. Every anniversary, however, Adam Yasar was made the most glorious in the history of our nation. With the act of bringing down the legendary commander, Adem Jashar, his family, and other Jashares, Kosovo had overcome fears by which it had opened the paths of freedom and the future. And not by chance, in Prekaz, in the Jasaran Quarter, the largest monument of the war for freedom, for independence and democracy, which these days and dates, exactly 5,6.7 March per year, had set up the attention of the entire Albanian nation, which had given Kosovo a lot for centuries and years.

From 1991 to 1998, Prekazi and Drenica had been surrounded by Serb paramilitary forces. The goal had been to kill the commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Adem Jashar and his family, to eliminate and suppress the resistance the Jashari family led by Adam and Hamza, who were making it to Slobodan Milosevic's regime.

On December 30, 1991, the first attack on the Yashhar family had been carried out. While the second attack by Serb paramilitary forces had been carried out in January, 1998. On January 22nd, Serbian forces had attacked the Jashar family, but even this battle, the children and women of the Jashar family had resisted. However, in this battle that had lasted about 30 minutes, Iliriana, daughter of Rifat Jashar and Selvetta, daughter of Hamza Yasar, remained wounded. After this attack, the Jashar family had become friends, friends of their countrymen to solidify them.

They had asked family head Jashar to draw women and children from there. But even women and children had made the decision to stay, saying that “if the boys were killed, we were not interested in living” and had decided to stay. They had stayed to show the world that Albanians go nowhere beyond their land and houses.

The third attack, which took place on March 5, 6 and 7, 1998, had claimed the lives of 55 people in the village of Prekaz, 22 of whom were close family members of Adem Jashar. This attack had survived only the Union, the son of Rifat, who had managed to leave the district between March 5th and had managed to escape the attack, as well as Besarta, Hamza's daughter, who had seen and experienced horrors until her family members were killed. The Jashar family story and its exhibits are located at the Kosovo Liberation Army Age Museum.