“My chest is numb, blood filled” Emin Kelmendi in the face of UDB violence

Emin Kelmendi, the former political prisoner, has shared his terrible experience from the 1981 demonstrations.

He has recalled how, at the age of 15, he first understood the injustice and discrimination of the then Yugoslav system.

Kelmendi, who was engaged in the 81st demonstrations, describes the moment when, during the protests, he joined the student group and faced police violence.

He claims that after a tear attack, when he felt a sudden pain in the chest, he had thought he was from smoking gases, only to discover later that he was seriously injured.

The police line up on the road and someone activated a truck and left without anybody and then went down and fired. News came that someone was injured there, news that I was told was that Salih Abazi, a workmate, was killed. Then I thought we'd spread out and meet again tomorrow at the same place at work. Then I felt my chest numb, but I thought it was a gas manifest that threw them out like a smokeer. I didn't even fall down anything but hold my chest because I had a handshake. Those nearby said that he was hurt or injured even when I heard them and looked at my hand was filled with blood. I started to lose my power, and they caught me, and there was a tall man with a plis with the glass, and he told them to bring it to us, they sent me home and they're telling him to call the doctor, but I had surgery at the hospital”, he confessed at Debat Plus.

Thereafter, he was transported to a hospital, where he received medical help.