I am honoured to speak again at this year academy. Is this academy with which is marked epopee of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which honour the founder of the Kosovo Liberation Army, initiator and lion-hearted of Liberation War, Adem Jashari; which honour national martyrs who sacrificed their lives for freedom and independence Kosovo; which honour members of the Kosovo Liberation Army - the fallen liberators and living liberators in Kosovo. At this academy already organized every year.
Qualification of liberator is the most beautiful qualification more significant, with greater value than any other quality, which may merit one person. With that are qualified those who understand life as a struggle and sacrifice for his people.
For these reasons we all should feel perpetual and immeasurable obligation to Adem Jashari and his family, that for freedom and independence of Kosovo gave not only one, two, three or four men, father, mother and woman, but also boys, girls, children, who would grow to become the parents of many other births; obligation to the martyrs who died independent free Kosovo; obligation to the liberators, who took up arms aware that from weapon may die in the war that they did.
As always when talking about the war of the KLA and in the academy, as every time I talk about martyrs and as I do in this academy, as always when talking about magnificent made of Adem Jashari and his family as well as historical this academy, I cannot speak without the extraordinary dedication and mental sense which is restrained my adoration for their extraordinary and foresight heroism.
Why sense commitment? Because all aware they went in the way of sacrifice, the sacrifice that our children can grow up happy, that our young people can live safely in their homeland, that our elders can spend their elderly in calm and without humiliation!
Why mental? Because they understood, when we, the others, we didn’t want to understand, that policy without action for a people oppressed and repressed as was Albanian people in Kosovo, is deception of the people.
They had understood that victory, in the end, is not only for the fittest, the less invaders, but that makes him courageous and righteous war. They knew and believed, that the several thousand who defend the right to live free in their own land, are stronger than the hundreds of thousands who make occupation war.
They understood that advices of foreign consultants should be relied less than is liked to believe, because early on they often advise considering its own interests and not yours. For this reason our liberators were not willing to accept the advice of the major European countries, which were against any resistance in Kosovo. How can this be called honest lesson given by those states that have all the history of wars: defence wars, liberation wars, especially colonial and occupation wars?
They had learned better than the rest of us that lesson the great European thinkers had formulated centuries ago: it is a sin to oppress others, but it is a sin to endure oppression.
They, our liberators, they knew, also, that the major European states who advised us peace, endurance of violence, always had neglected peoples that for their freedom had not done much except that they were praying and talking!
All that they have done for his people, we are obliged to do the thing that belongs to us, that in the memory of the people, namely in its history, to give the deserved place, which has not yet given. And, will be given to the historical site, which in our most recent history only belongs to them, when we made clear to us that for every serious country, history textbooks state are very serious issue, in which there should allowed improvisations that are so evident in our historical texts. The decision of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology that the first hour of instruction in all schools in Kosovo on March 5 Epopee should address the issues of KLA and fall of legendary bravest, Adem Jashari, shows that things are changing for the better in this view.
All that they have done for his people obliges us to preserve the ideals and values that are grown and from which they are inspired them to take up arms and fight for freedom and independence: to preserve those ideals and values of those who are trying to get the border between Kosovo and Albania to do make it higher rather than wanting to completely levelled; to keep the nation unit from those who would like to make from the Albanian nation two various nations, to preserve the unified national literary language as the national value most of those who would like to share bilingual literary dialect, to preserve those ideals and values and behaviours of a series of impugned and unacceptable actions about which I do not want to speak here.
In ancient Greece, at the time of Homer, in honour of fallen war hero was unlit bonfire. And, around that fire were walking companions, friends and fans; walking and throwing in the fire things that they wanted most: someone horse, someone slave, someone themselves. From colleagues and friends of our fallen heroes in war we cannot ask for much more. Still less can we ask so much from others. We don’t need to throw those we love in fire. But never forget: freedom and independence is an act of their foresight and heroism.
Let me conclude this sentence.
Let honour tonight proudly Adem Jashari, all the fallen of his historical family, martyrs of the nation pronouncing sentence that will forever be marked in Albanian history: their names and their heroism will live while will Albanian nation live, and that means forever.