In the village of Prekaz i Ep\u00ebrm in Drenica, during the macabre three-day attack by the Serbian military and paramilitary forces against the Jashari family, fell martyr the commander-in-chief Adem Jashari (1955-1998), founder of the Kosova Liberation Army, legendary fighter and commander, hero of the Liberation War of the people of Kosova. He was born in Prekaz, Drenica. He graduated from technical high school. He took part in the demonstrations of 1981. Until 1989, he remained illegal, distributing tracts and pamphlets calling for war. In 1989, he participated in demonstrations with his brother, Hamza. In 1990, he organized the first armed groups, creating connections with people all over Kosova. In 1991, Adem Jashari and a group of friends went outside Kosova, where they trained militarily. After they returned to Kosova, they created armed groups and started actions against the Serbian police in Sk\u00ebnderaj, Gllogoc, Mitrovica, etc. The Serbian police tracked down Adem Jashari on 30.12.1991 surrounded his house, where he was together with his two brothers, Rifat and Hamza. They refused to surrender, broke the cordon and fled, injuring several policemen. This event rallied the entire region of Drenica, and for 7 years the Serbs couldn’t enter there. On March 2, 1998, numerous Serbian military-police forces, accompanied by tanks, armored cars and artillery, surrounded Adem’s house. Of the 30 family members, 22 were in the house that night. They fought as a single body for three days and three nights, until they were all killed (21 people between the ages of 9 and 74), except for one little girl, who hid in her dead mother’s bosom. In Prekaz, near the tower of Adem Jashari transformed into a museum, lies the plot of their graves, which has become a place of eternal homage. Adem Jashari has been declared a Legendary Commander. (In the photo: Adem Jashari)<\/i> <\/p>\n
Text:<\/strong> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1064-1065. <\/p>\n Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Haxhiislami M., personal archive <\/p>\n Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the village of Prekaz i Ep\u00ebrm in Drenica, during the macabre three-day attack by the Serbian military and paramilitary forces against the Jashari family, fell martyr the commander-in-chief Adem Jashari (1955-1998), founder of the Kosova Liberation Army, legendary fighter and commander, hero of the Liberation War of the people of Kosova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8960,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions\/8960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}