Today, November 17, marks an important date for students - The International Student Day.

This date commemorates November 17, 1939, when Nazi forces invaded the University of Prague, following student demonstrations against the occupation of Czechoslovakia, and executed without trial the nine leaders of the student demonstrations.

They also sent over 1,200 students to concentration camps, closed all universities and turned them into military barracks. Because of this unprecedented event, November 17 has been declared International Students' Day.

Thus, the same fate as the students of the University of Prague was experienced by the students of the University of Pristina during the then Milosevic regime, when the Albanian students were expelled from the University facilities and only the Serbian students were allowed inside.

The role of Kosovar students for the liberation of Kosovo from the Serbian occupier was undoubtedly great.

Let's remember the student protests of 1968, where among the slogans used by the students of the Higher Pedagogical School were the slogans "We want the University", "Kosovo Republic", "Long live the Albanian people", etc.

On March 11 and 26, 1961, student demonstrations broke out at the University of Pristina.

Also on October 1, 1997, a turning point in the history of Kosovo, when students, professors and citizens filled the streets of Pristina.