Today marks 20 years since the public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Mujë Krasniqi, Daut Haradinaj and Rexhep Selimi, on November 28, 1997, in Llaushë in Skenderaj, at the funeral of the teacher Halit Geci, appeared for the first time before the public opinion as members of the KLA.
This exit was preceded by the first frontal fighting between the KLA and the Serbian police, directed by the legendary commander, Adem Jashari.
On November 25, 1997, the forces of the Kosovo Liberation Army led by the legendary commander, Adem Jashari, attacked the police forces in Vojnik i Skenderaj, which retreated, leaving dead and wounded.
The next day, November 26, a punitive expedition with 10 cars and other motorized vehicles headed to these villages, where the KLA attacked them again and after four hours of fierce fighting, the police forces retreated, leaving behind dead and wounded. dead
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In the retreat, the Serbian forces, enraged by the blows given to them by the KLA, began to shoot mercilessly at everyone they saw, and in the village of Llaushë they killed the teacher Halit Geci at the door of the school, who was buried with a great ceremony on November 28, 1997.
In this funeral ceremony, attended by tens of thousands of citizens from all over Kosovo, the first public appearance of the KLA took place.
