Jakup Krasniqi's son: Today my father is in prison for choosing the freedom of a people, not his freedom!

Krasniqi in the post writes 'Cause he chose the freedom of a people, not their freedom; he chose the fight against the Serbian genocide, not the silence against him; he chose Kosovo state, not ever under Serbia again, he notes, Periscope.

Rather than enjoying Grandpa's role with his nieces, he is getting older in a cell every day, away from his country.

Full Posting:

Today, my father is in prison for 15 years.

Because he chose the freedom of a people, not their freedom;
He chose the fight against the Serbian genocide, not silence;
He chose Kosovo state, not ever under Serbia.

Rather than enjoying Grandpa's role with his nieces, he is getting older in a cell every day, far from home.

So today, still 74 years of age, you are enduring injustice.

Dad, even though you couldn't enjoy your youth or old age,

You enjoyed free Kosovo, which you gave so much.

From Yugoslavia's prisons to The Hague cells.

Jakup Krasniqi was arrested, and on April 4th 1981 was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the fascist system of Yugoslavia, which was led by the same genocide policies of today's Serbia.

In his retrial, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison because he said: “I am not Yugoslav, I am Albanian.

However, he kept 10 years, 3 months, and 19 days in prison to be released on July 23, 1991.

About three decades later, it is back in shackles.

Not from Belgrade.

Not from the UDB.

Not by Serbs.

But of those who vowed to bring international justice.

Those who were silent about the massacres of Serbia, but rushed to open files for the rescuers.

Jakup Krasniqi, today at 74, continues to be held in custody, not for what he did, but for what he represents: the glorious history of a people whose massacres have not yet found justice, and the freedom of a oppressed and suffering people who had been forgotten by the Western world for centuries.

Exhausted by years, burdened with age, but never old:

It is living evidence that freedom is neither forgiven nor won by word, but by prison, by rifle, and by life.

He is the disgrace of a world judging the victim while caressing the criminal.

It is a symbol of what Belgrade policy advocates would like to settle: the fair fight of a people!

Life has shown us that at times it is unfair and cruel. This is best witnessed by the life of Jakup Krasniqi, who closed in the cold cells of the two different systems:

Once from Yugoslav uniforms, today from international ties.

Once because he sought the voice of freedom, today because it became the voice of freedom!

So I naturally ask: Are we free?

If this isn't historical injustice, then what is it?

How long will we remain as spectators, while the most powerful voices of liberation are held in prison by a justice serving Serbia's narrator?

The weight of the bonds of Jakup Krasniqi, held for the past 15 years, did not destroy him, but will destroy the future of our Republic, formed by the same two hands that still hold the shackles of injustice!

It's not a call for mercy, it's a call for justice!

And if Kosovo is still an independent, sovereign and democratic state, it should not be silent.

Because today he is, tomorrow may be our historic destiny for being imprisoned!

Fifteen years in total prison.

Fifteen years in two different worlds.

But both with the same purpose - to silence the voice of freedom!

But he did not keep silent. And you won't be silent.

And if we have a little conscience, a little dignity and a little historical memory, we should not be silenced.

Freedom is not complete until the last deliverers are free.

Kosovo will not be quiet until justice does not recognise the KLA as what it was: the army of a people seeking freedom.

History does not forget.

And the nations that forget disappear!
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