Two weeks after the start of the NATO bombings on March 24, 1999, Serbia's criminal campaigns for the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo by the local Albanians became harsher and intensified. Prime Minister Albin Kurti recalled that on April 7, 1999, armed police and military forces of Serbia attacked the village of Abri e Eperme in Drenas, targeting especially the Demaku and Xhemajli neighborhoods, where they encountered resistance from the soldiers of Brigade 111 "Adem Jashari" of Kosovo Liberation Army. "After several hours of fierce fighting in defense of civilians and their homeland, on April 7, 1999, Xhevat Demaku - 24 years old, along with his first cousin Bedri Demaku - 22 years old and their fellow soldier Imer Shala - 27, were martyred. year old from the village of Dobrevë. During these fights, Besim Vrellaku, Xheladin Xhemajli, Driton Rama and Rexhep Hoxha were injured," Kurti wrote on Facebook.

At noon on April 7, 1999, Serbian forces attacked the civilian residents in the tunnels between the villages of Çabiq and Açareve, where the only sister of the martyr Xhevat Demaku, Fatima, was killed by the shells, along with her four-year-old son Mirget Gashi, while her daughter Derenusha was seriously injured and in war conditions his hand was amputated. Emurllah Gashi, Zarife Gashi, Bledar Gashi, Shaban Gashi, Enver Gashi, Sead Gashi, Sofije Gashi, Zade Gashi and Servete Gashi were also killed there that day. On the same day, on April 7, 1999, near the village of Lybenić in Peja, a group of 13 soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army and five civilians from the surrounding villages fell into an ambush by the soldiers of Serbia. "From that day until today, which has been 25 years, this group of 18 people, martyrs and martyrs of the freedom of Kosovo, have been forcibly disappeared: Hazir Bezeraj, Januz Bezeraj, Muhamed Bezeraj, Abedin Shala, Jeton Shala, Nazmi Shala, Sejdi Shala, Selim Shala, Valdet Shala, Demë Shala, Kushtrim Shala, Agim Gjocaj, Arben Gjocaj, Lulëzim Gjocaj, Nazmi Gjocaj, Selvete Gjocaj, Sylë Gjocaj and Deli Bricori," said Kurti. He said that the state of Kosovo will not forget the martyrs and martyrs who fell during the war, for which they will demand justice until the end, for every case and for every crime committed by the state of Serbia in Kosovo.