Krushe e Madhe, 17 June, 2024
On the anniversary of the birth of Professor Ukshin Hoti, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, visited the Massacre Museum in Krushë e Madhe. He remembered the 22 martyrs and 155 martyrs who were killed by genocidal Serbia, as he recalled 64 people from Krusha who are still missing to this day, among whom 14 are from the Ashkali community.
With the witnesses of the Krusha e Madhe massacre, they commemorated one of the cruelest massacres committed by the Serbian state apparatus on Albanian civilians. Between March 25-27, 1999, in Krushë e Madhe, Serbian forces killed 155 civilians. Among the killed are 7 children and 5 women, one of them pregnant. Over 700 houses were burned, including religious and cultural institutions, and the property of the villagers was destroyed. During the war, 64 citizens of Krusha were forcibly disappeared, including Professor Ukshin Hoti after his release from prison.
The residents of Krusha spoke about the two crematoriums in Krushë e Madhe. In the first crematorium of which there are still traces of it, 19 innocent Albanian civilians were burned, while in the second crematorium in the house of Nezir Duraku’s family, Serbian paramilitary forces burned over 40 innocent Albanian civilians. The latter was visited on June 23, 1999, and since then the Foreign Minister of Great Britain, Robin Cook.
During his stay in Krushë e Madhe, the prime minister also wrote in the book of memories of the Massacre Museum in Krushë e Madhe.
Complete manuscript:
“The Massacre Museum in Krushë e Madhe is the institutionalization of our collective memory and evidence of the monstrous crimes of genocidal Serbia as well as evidence that the Republic of Kosovo has both grieved and does not forget. 64 people from Krusha are still missing! Glory to 22 martyrs and 155 martyrs of the nation from Krusha e Madhe”.
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