The legendary commander Adem Jashari would be 69 years old today if he were alive.

He was born on November 28, 1955 in Prekaz of Skenderaj. He was the third son of Shaban and Zahide Jashari. He graduated from the technical secondary school in Skenderaj.

After the extinction of all the institutions of Kosovo in 1990, the idea to organize in a military aspect takes on a new dimension, from the LPK, which still did not act completely publicly. On November 3, 1991, a group of activists went to Albania to conduct appropriate military exercises and train for armed struggle.

The Serbian secret services track down the armed formation and the Serbian police learn to surround and capture it. On December 30, 1991, the Serbian police-military expedition took action to occupy the group. After this fight with the Serbian police forces, the entire group of Adem Jashari goes underground, until the beginning of the liberation war in Kosovo.

The intensification of the KLA's armed actions begins with the September 1997 attack on 12 police stations. From the armed actions against the police forces carried out by the KLA, after the increase of the systematic violence of the Serbian forces in Kosovo, it is passed to another phase, of the direct match with the Serbian forces, i.e. in battles, at the end of November 1997, when in Rezalle te Re fights with the numerous forces of the Serbian police.

In this battle, the path of the heavily armed convoy of the Serbian forces is cut off, which had carried out an attack on the village of Vojnik, where the day before, masked patrols of the Serbian police had been fired upon by one of the early fighters of the KLA. , Abedin Rexha – Sandokani.

In this battle, Adem Jashari and other fighters such as Mujë Krasniqi, Rexhep Selimi, Sylejman Selimi, Ilaz Kodra, Ilaz Dërguti etc. This is the first battle and victory of the KLA unit. This battle had a great impact on public opinion.

The Serbian police had already marked the house of the Jashars. On March 5, 1998, in the early hours, large forces of the Serbian police had mercy on Prekaz. A firing point, stationed early on at the location of the ammunition factory, which was close to the Jashars' house, was reinforced with heavy artillery. The reinforcements of the Serbian forces had also come from the direction of Klina, Mitrovica and Gllogovci. The attack on Jashar starts around six in the morning.

Almost all family members were at home. The attack on the Jashars and their heroic resistance lasted for three days: on March 5, 6 and 7, 1998. This heroic war, in the new history of Kosovo, is known as the Epic of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Important personalities have also expressed their opinions about the figure of Adem Jashari.

The first international administrator of Kosovo, Bernar Kushner, has stated that if there was a Nobel Prize for sacrifice for freedom, it would go to Adem Jashari and his family.

By the decision of the former president of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu, Adem Jashari has been honored with the title Hero of Kosovo. /KosovaPress/