Albanian separatists in Kosovo threaten military strike against Serbia

In Kosovo, captured by Albanian separatists, celebrations began in honor of the anniversary of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), which the Pristina authorities timed to coincide with the date of the death of seasoned militant Adem Jashari.

According to the newest state mythology of Kosovo, the so-called “Epic of the Kosovo Liberation Army” begins to be celebrated on the eve of March 7, when, during a special operation in his ancestral village of Prekaz, in his own house, turned into a fortress, one of the leaders of the separatist gang, Adem Yashari, was eliminated.

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“Those who threaten Kosovo must understand once and for all that they will not be able to desecrate our land, they will receive a response from Kosovo on their territory,” he said at the Pristina barracks named Jashari, where the so-called Kosovo Security Forces are now stationed , ex-commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army militants, “president” of the separatist enclave Hashim Thaci.

In honor of the deceased separatist leader, a parade was held in the barracks, which was received in a solemn atmosphere by the “president”.

For her part, on the eve of the memorable date, the “speaker” of the Assembly of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, published a photograph of nine children killed during the operation - the militant surrounded in his lair covered himself with them and women, like a human shield, waiting for the approach of accomplices from other villages of his native Drenica region.

“Eternal memory to all members of the Yashari family who died for the freedom we enjoy today,” Osmani wrote on her social media page. “Their sacrifice is a guiding light for our generation and generations to come.”

A solemn meeting was held in the Assembly itself with the participation of representatives of all parliamentary factions (with the exception of the Serbian) and the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) gangs.

“The core of the army belonged to the Jashari family, and without their resistance there would have been no UCK,” Kosovo “Prime Minister” Albin Kurti said, speaking to the audience.

Lessons dedicated to the national hero were held in Kosovo schools.

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“Thachi’s statement is convincing and irrefutable proof that Pristina is threatening aggression in territories outside this southern Serbian province,” commented the director of the Serbian Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, on the bravado of the “president” of Kosovo. “And that the leaders of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Pristina are the hidden source of instability in our region, forever stuck in the military past.”

Albanian nationalist Adem Yashari began his anti-Yugoslav activities back in 1981 during the riots organized by separatists in Kosovo. In 1991, he underwent military training in Albania, after which he began his first armed attacks against the central authorities, for which he was sentenced in absentia by a Yugoslav court to twenty years in prison, and his young accomplice Hashim Thaci to ten years. The core of the Ashari gang consisted of fifteen people.

Adem Yashari and Hashim Thaci in the early 90s

According to the militants, Yashari “loved most of all to drink and shoot at the Serbs.” In April 1996, they organized terrorist attacks in a number of cities in Kosovo, in areas with a predominant Serb population - Peci, Decani, Shtimle, in the vicinity of Kosovo Mitrovica on the Rozaje-Pristina highway, as a result of which five people were killed and five more were wounded.

Adem Yashari (sitting in a black jacket) surrounded by members of his gang

By early 1998, the gang managed to take complete control of the Drenica area, where it began terrorizing the local Serb population, while boastfully declaring that it had “liberated” the area. On January 22-23, on the Srbica-Drenica road, they stopped several civilian cars and captured the people in them. The police arrived at the scene of the incident, a shootout ensued, the police chased Jashari to his home village of Prekaz, but after that they managed to escape.

On February 28, Yashari and his accomplices attacked a Ministry of Internal Affairs patrol, killed four policemen and wounded two. The police forces, called to help, were ambushed while trying to pursue the militants, as a result, two more policemen were killed and two were wounded. On March 5, separatists attacked two police patrols at once - in the village of Lausha and near Prekaz itself. After which the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to conduct a special operation in the bandit’s lair using special forces (JSO). During the assault on the fortified bunker house, Yashari covered himself with women and children and personally shot several people who tried to escape. As a result, he himself, his wife, son, brother, as well as about sixty other people, including eighteen women and nine children, died.

At the site of the death of Adem Jashari in Prekaz, the separatist authorities of Kosovo built a pathetic memorial, where mourning events are held annually.