Jashari

After many Kosovars living abroad were prevented from returning home for their summer holidays last year due to the pandemic, this summer has seen an unprecedented influx.

The Association of Journalists of Kosovo, AJK, said in a press release that it was concerned by news that police on Thursday detained a team a reporters from the state broadcaster RTK in Zubin Potok in the Serb-run north of the country while they were shooting.

Drita Hajdari told BIRN on Thursday that Kosovo's Special Prosecution Office has opened a preliminary investigation into Serbian police special forces' attack on the Jashari family compound in Prekaz from March 5-7, 1998, in which guerrilla commander Adem Jashari and 58 of his relatives were killed.

Kosovo Security Force troops paraded at a commemoration in Pristina on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the death in 1998 of Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari and honour the wartime actions of the guerrilla force.

The Special Prosecution said on Wednesday that it has charged a woman identified only by the initials F.Z. with organising and participating in a terrorist group, and a male Kosovo citizen, Fitim Llavdrovci, with terror offences.

F.Z. is one of 110 Kosovo citizens who were repatriated from Syria in April.

Kosovo started its three days of commemorations for KLA commander Adem Jashari and the army which fought against Serbian forces in the 1998-99 conflict with a parade of the Kosovo Security Force.

Twenty years after Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari was killed in a gun battle, a feature film is to be made about his life - and it has already caused controversy in Serbia.

Events to mark the 20th anniversary of the killing of Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari and his family culminated in a ‘Night of Fires’ at the Jashari memorial complex in Prekaz.

Thousands of people gathered in the village of Prekaz in Drenica region visiting the memorial of Adem Jashari and his family to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of a man whose "defiant stand against Serb police and military helped inspire Kosovo's war for independence".

Officials held a series of events to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killing of Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari, saying that it marked “the beginning of the end” of Serbia’s rule.