Kurti meets with representatives of former Kosovo political prisoners association

Also present at the meeting were Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu and Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Hajrula Ceku.

At this meeting, Prime Minister Kurti and representatives of the Society remembered the organisation of the 1981 demonstrations, the meeting with the Yugoslav regime, and the historic turn our people had made in that year.

“U discussed the Society's challenges and requirements, possible forms of support for its functioning and empowering, as well as for the care and institutional responsibility for maintaining collective memory through the institution's establishment of former convicts and political persecutors”.

The April 1 and 2nd demonstrations are the most massive demonstrations of 1981. Protests were preceded in the class of students on March 4th and then demonstrations on March 11th and 26th 1981. To buy the famous, in front of the Ministry of Culture today, was speaking at the Hydavit Hyseni megaf, which was approaching four years of illegality in that world, along with Kadri Batusha, Ahmet Blace and Remzije Limani.

Various political prisoners also took to heart Jakup Krasniqi, who on April 1, 1981, was also among the organisers and participants of the demonstration, and is now being held in custody at The Hague”.

In 1981, 9 demonstrators were killed, 15 people were injured, hundreds were arrested and imprisoned, and they were punished and sentenced to many years in political prison. They began as spontaneous protests by students for dignified conditions and equal treatment, soon they also received support from workers and all the people, who together sought freedom, justice, rights, Republic of Vetevendosje.