Authored by Qazrim Berisha, October 5, 2020 At: 17:42. Translated by Petrit Latifi.

I managed to obtain a small number of issues of this newspaper from my friends, because all of mine were burned down along with my house during the Kosovo war. I had worked for two years in a row on the feuilleton about the murdered Albanian soldiers who came in coffins from the former Yugoslav Army, all with the same false diagnosis “committed suicide”.

ALSO A BIG UNCLOSED WOUND OF OURS THAT DEMANDS JUSTICE
It is almost 40 years since the cycle of murders of our sons in the Yugoslav Army began and did not close for a decade (1981-1991). 20 years of silence from the then communist leadership of Kosovo and 20 years from the current leadership of Kosovo, meaning 40 years no one dealt with these macabre murders.

No less than 120 Albanian soldiers were returned to their coffins with the well-thought-out diagnosis of the Yugoslav military that these Albanian soldiers “committed suicide”. These were Albanian boys from Kosovo who had gone into military service in a criminal Yugoslav army that killed his own soldiers, just because they were Albanians. I think that the killing of an innocent soldier and the killing of a prisoner is the greatest sin that is considered a crime against humanity, because they do not have the power to defend themselves from their bloodthirsty superiors.

The killings of Albanian soldiers should not have been kept silent, at least now that Kosovo is a state. Which of our Governments has dealt with this crime that was committed against our sons for twenty years now? They were young, before they turned twenty, before they had even touched a razor, they were returned to us in coffins with bullets in their bodies, with the banal diagnosis of ‘committed suicide’.

The killings of Albanian soldiers took place in all Yugoslav Republics: in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Serbia, in Montenegro, in Macedonia and in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

Now, after the Independence of Kosovo, we have good relations with some former Yugoslav Republics that will enable us to investigate these murders, due to their good will. The staging of the military courts for the punishment of Albanian soldiers for “Nationalist and terrorist acts” as they were led should also be traced.

Due to my good will, before the war, I started the column “Albanian soldiers killed in the Yugoslav Army” in two of our newspapers that were published at that time, “Fjala jonë” and another newspaper, “Gazeta e re shqiptare”, which I started to publish even though for me the red light was still on for the publication of these cases.

In the visits to the families of the soldiers killed in all parts of Kosovo, in most cases I was accompanied by my brother, professor Selimi Berisha, Martyr of the Nation, on the 20th anniversary of the fall he was also declared Hero of Kosovo.

In all those families that we visited to collect the stories of the relatives of the killed soldiers, they had a great indescribable pain, which often burst into tears, unable to restrain myself from writing down those stories.

For the murder of these Albanian soldiers, guilt did not make one orphan. Neither can the officials of the People’s Defense sector of the Municipal Assemblies where the soldiers came from be freed from guilt, because their sealed envelope with the characteristics of the soldier and his family, often became a nightmare for them.. In those defense sectors, there remained heartless Udba officials who went out into the field to collect notes that the soldier in question belonged to a nationalist family and sent them in sealed envelopes to Yugoslav military barracks.

All these killed Albanian soldiers came from patriotic families. With the beginning of the 1981 demonstrations, which were followed by the participants of the demonstrations, the same year saw the beginning of the hunt by the Yugoslav military superiors for the murder of our soldiers until the end of 1991, when Albanian youth did not respond to the call for military service. This is where the cycle of murders of our soldiers in the A(P)J also stopped.

In the rest of the article, the names of 120 soldiers killed in the Yugoslav army (1981-1991) will be given

1. Besim (Xhemë) Bajraktari, from Junik, Deçan
2. Sami (Ali) Gashi from Prishtina
3. Asllan (Ukë) Gashi from Suhareka
4. Halil (Habib) Hajrullahu from Banulla, Lipjan
5. Shaban (Sadik) Prushi from Zylfaj, Gjakova
6. Qerim (Abdurrahman) Aliu from Kumanovo
7. Nazmi (Avdullah) Muja from Gradica, Drenas
8. Latif (Mehmet) Zeqiri from Kaçanolli, Mitrovica
9. Rasim (Ramadan) Zeka from Metergovci, Podujevo
10. Halil (Halim) Binaku from Gllareva e Drenasit
11. Shefqet (Avdyl) Prekazi from Prekazi e Drenasit
12. Yzeir (Rrustem) Sadiku from Rahovica e Presheva
13. Sami (Shani) Krasniqi from Buçe e Sharrit
14. Ismet (Muharrem) Bojku from Deçan i Deçan
15. Hasan (Telat) Sezairi from Gostivar
16. Mustafa (Ramadan) Hoxha from Bellanica e Suhareka
17. Adem (Binak) Osmanaj from Turbohovci e Istogu
18. Mustafa (Arif) Pantina from Gllareva e Kline
19. Enver (Selman) Elezi from Skopje
20. Murat (Muharrem) Isufi from Haraçina e Skopje
21. Naser (Shaqir) Gash inga Kopiliqi i Poshtem of Skënderaj
22. Agron (Haxhi) Ferizi from Kodralia e Deçan
23. Beqir Sahiti from Stublla e Viti
24. Ejup (Fejzë) Sahiti from Papazi i Ferizaj
25. Mujë (Rexhep)Maqaj from the village of Bregu i Zi of Lipjan.
26. Rexhep (Ismet) Blakaj from Jabllanica in Peja
27. Enver Hasi from Poroj in Tetovo
28. Inajet (Fuad) Istrefi from Veleshta in Struga
29. Erdogan (Alajdin) Morina from Prizren
30. Mustafa (Mumin) Ramadani from Bozofci in Tetovo
31. Aziz (Sadik) Kelmendi from Karaçica ​​in Lipjan in the settlement in Arbanë in Prizren
32. Qani (Muharrem) Shabani from Rahovec
33. Ramush Shala from Rufci in Lipjan
34. Tafil (Zahir) Hyseni from Lumbardhi (Velikoreka) in Podujevo
35. Abedin (Selman) Bala from Korrotica in Drenas
36. Fadil (Xhafer) Gashi from Doberdol in Podujevo
37. Haki (Rexhep) Shatri from Tomoc in Istog
38. Fadil (Selim) Berdynaj from Radavci of Peja
39. Sami (Daut) Shaban from Zaskok of Ferizaj
40. Raif (Adem ) Isufi from Kotor of Skenderaj
41. Besim (Hashim) Fazliu from Prishtina
42. Bedri (Nimon) Bajgora from Vushtrri
43. Ibrahim (Isuf) Kastrati from Turjaka of Rahovec
44. Miftar (Sylë) Tali from Babaj of Boka of Gjakova
45. Naser (Xhafer) Gashi from Orrobërda of Istog
46. Naim (Ramadan) Ajgeri
47. Osman (Hajdar) Ismajli from Gërbavci of Medvegja
48. Afrim (Muhamet) Lushtaku from Prekazi of Skenderaj
49. Qamil (Ramadan) Thaçi from Demjan of Gjakova
50. Enver (Shaban) Ramadani from Broja of Skenderaj
51. Xhavit (Alush) Berisha from Prugoci in Prishtina
52. Isuf Krasniqi from Globar in Drenas
53. Halim (Shaqir) Lita from Klina
54. Jetullah (Haxhi) Desku from Siceva in Klina
55. Hamit (Jahë) Haxhiu from Batushë in Gjakova
56. Enver (Salih) Maksutaj from Orrebërda in Istog
57. Xhevdet (Hajredin) Aruçi from Rezalla in Skenderaj
58. Izet (Sadri) Bushi from Pustenik in Kaçanik
59. Vahedin (Xhemshit) Hajrizi from Kuklibeg in Dragash
60. Rrustem Bejta from Prekazi in Skenderaj
61. Fatmir (Adem) Tafaj from Grejkoci in Suhareka
62. Zenun Lushaj from Gjonaj in Has in Prizren
63. Agim (Salih) Gllareva from Vërboc in Drenas
64. Setar (Mustafa) Ramadan from Osek Hilë of Gjakova
65. Ali (Nazif) Sahiti from Komogllava of Ferizaj
66. Fahrush (Emrush) Emini from Zhitija of Viti
67. Tahir (Azem) Gashi from Verbovci of Drenas
68. Afrim (Bahtir) Hyseni from Lumbardhi of Podujevo
69. Ali (Sinan) Rrustemi from Reznik of Vushtrri
70. Florim (Adem) Kosumi from Tuxheci of Kamenica
71. Haki (Din) Morina from Gllareva of Klina
72. Lulzim (Faik) Rexhepi from Zabeli of Upper Drenas
73. Muhamet (Raif) Biçkaj from Hogosht of Kamenica
74. Muharrem (Mehmet) Robeli from Laqiç of Kamenica
75. Mumin (Hafiz) Shkodra from Sadovina of the Circassians Viti
76. Rexhep (Zijadin) Ahmeti from Dobratini in Podujevo
77. Samedin (Fazli) Krasniqi from Tërpeza in Drenas
78. Selmon (Shpend) Metaj from Shushica in Istogu
79. Raif (J.) Miftari from Medvegja
80. Fatmir (Nezir) Krasniqi from Prishtina
81. Rexhep (Zijadin) Ahmeti from Tërpeza in Drenas
82. Sefer (Mustafë) Ramadan from Osek Hilë in Gjakova
83. Skender (D.) Kryeziu from Capar in Prizren
84. Ejup (S.) Bedrolli from Çallapek in Lipjan
85. Burim (Sherif) Behrami from Mitrovica
86. Ejup (Esat) Gashi from Bardhi i madh in Fushë Kosovë
87. Vesel (D.) Duraku from Demjan in Gjakova
88. Ali (Nazif) Sahiti from Komogllava of Ferizaj
89. Rasim (R.) Istrefi from Kovaçica ​​of Mitrovica
90. Xhevdet (Z.) Musliukaj of Mitrovica
91. Afrim Zylfiu of Kumanovo
92. Elez Halipi from Vrapçishta of Gostivar
93. Fadil Salihu from Livoq i pëzim of Gjilan
94. Halim Gashi from Akllapi of Lipjan
95. Ilaz Fazliu from Polatica of Tetovo
96. Ilmi Popaj from Bellacërka of Rahovec
97. Mirsad Çekic of Peja
98. Muharrem Muharremi from Vshati i Vjetër of Ferizaj
99. Nexhmedin Osmani…
100. Numan Rexhepi of Tetovo
101. Shaip Behrami from Pakashtica of Podujeva
102. Sherif Kashtanjeva from Nerodimja of Ferizaj
103. Shukri Kelani of Pristina
104. Xhevdet Pomak from Brod in Dragash
105. Xhiman Alia from Skrobishta in Prizren
106. Abedin (Sabit) Krasniqi from Bardhi i vogel in Fushë Kosovë
107. Gëzim (Sefer) Hasan from Strofci in Vushtrri
108. Sefer (Bislim) Çukovci from Cërnilla in Ferizaj
     
     P.S. I ask the families of the soldiers killed in A (P)J, if any soldiers killed are missing from this list, to contact me so that we can complete the list so that no one is left out of this list. My mobile: 044 167 143

Reference

https://www.botasot.info/historia-lajme/1392320/vrasjet-e-ushtareve-shqipare-ne-armaten-jugosllave-1981-1991/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3v1jtCXplawlqD5ID9rFov4SAP_PFIHiNAL1ppDUw4EKiaaZb7scyLKqQ_aem_abWR8DbTeJCiZKahqOf3TA