Pristina, April 18, 2023
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, paid tribute at the complex of the martyrs’ and heroes’ cemeteries in the village of Marec of the Municipality of Pristina, marking the 24th anniversary of the heroic fall of 27 heroes and the killing of 16 martyrs.
Prime Minister Kurti said that it is about a battle of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which brought terror to the Serbian enemy forces, who then in the village of Makoc, vented their anger from the loss of this battle on innocent and defenseless civilians.
He said that as institutions of the Republic, as representative politicians, as citizens of this country, we are forever grateful and thankful, but we also express our commitment to institutional memories and commemorations, but also to the commitment to justice for victims and punishment for criminals.
From Marec, the prime minister paid tribute in Makoc, in the biggest massacre in the municipality of Pristina, where between April 19 and 23, a total of 115 civilians, children and old people, were killed, which is another evidence of the genocide of Serbia, which tried to exterminate the Albanian people from their ancestral lands.
Together with Prime Minister Kurti, the Minister of Health/at the same time the head of the center of the Vetëvendosje Movement in Prishtina, Arben Vitia, the Deputy Minister of Defense, Shemsi Syla, assembly members of the Vetëvendosje Movement in the Municipal Assembly of Prishtina and other activists were also present.
Glory to all the martyrs and fallen for the country’s freedom!
The full statement of the Prime Minister after the tributes in Marec:
Today, we are here in Marec, in the Municipality of Pristina, where a glorious battle took place in April 1999, in which 27 heroes fell heroically and 16 martyrs were killed.
Glory to all of them!
It is about a battle of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which brought terror to the Serbian enemy forces, who then in the village of Makoc, vented their anger from the loss of this battle on innocent and defenseless civilians.
From Marec I will go to Makoc, where between April 19 and 23, a total of 115 civilians were killed, from babies to elderly people close to 100 years old.
In other words, it is another testimony of the genocide of Serbia, which tried to exterminate the Albanian people from their ancestral lands.
We, as institutions of the Republic, as representative politicians, as citizens of this country, are forever thankful and grateful, but we also express our commitment to institutional memories and commemorations, but also to the commitment to justice for the victims and punishment for the criminals.
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