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Her husband was martyred, the KLA soldier kept her promise and raised her children alone

"I was hugging my son to protect him from sadness, my mother-in-law was burying her 32-year-old son two meters away," the chilling story of Xhyhere, wife of martyr Selver Maçkaj.

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