Pristina has marked Martyrs' Day. Many citizens, families of martyrs and state officials paid tribute. The Minister of Defense said that the Kosovo army is being built always having as its foundation the KLA. During the last war, 68 martyrs from the Municipality of Pristina fell in armed confrontation with Serbian forces.
Pristina's Martyrs' Day was marked with homages to the cemeteries and monuments of martyrs and a blood donation campaign.
After paying tribute to the statue of hero Zahir Pajaziti and the martyrs' cemetery, the acting president, Albulena Haxhiu, said that with the armed resistance, the martyrs did not only make a military contribution to the liberation of Kosovo.
"It was also a moral contribution because they raised the hope that our country could have freedom, could be liberated and could be independent. They even served as an inspiration for many young men and women to join the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army," said Haxhiu.
The Minister of Defense, Ejup Maqedonci, who during the war had a leading role in the KLA, in the territory that includes the Municipality of Pristina, also paid tribute. He expressed the importance of continuing to build the army on the values inherited from the war.
"Our army is being built always having as its basis, its foundations, the Kosovo Liberation Army, the blood shed for freedom, the sacrifice of entire generations for the freedom of our country. Strengthening the army, arming the army, developing the army is always done by referring to a past that is very glorious, which is the glorious past of the Kosovo Liberation Army," said the Macedonian.
The Mayor of Pristina, Përparim Rama, along with members of his cabinet, also paid tribute.
"We try to exalt this great battle, the great war that our heroes, our martyrs, have fought and the great sacrifice that they have made, not only in Pristina, but in all parts of Kosovo and beyond," Rama emphasized.
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Meanwhile, the president of the Association of Martyrs' Families, Naser Pacolli, emphasized the importance of the continuous commemoration of all those who fell for freedom.
"Today is a special day, but it is also a proud one, because the martyrs may have lived a short life, but they left behind many works," said Pacolli.
During the last war, 68 martyrs from the Municipality of Pristina fell in armed confrontation with Serbian forces.
