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It’s the middle of June 1999 in Kosovo.
The #war just ended.
The Albanian people are celebrating and welcoming the NATO troops who put an end to the genocide they suffered.

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Very rare footage of Adem Jashari.
Middle of January 1993, Tirana, 🇦🇱:

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An Albanian woman dining with her dead husband and four children, who were killed in the Kosovo war by Serbs in 1999.

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An Albanian refugee family who returns home after the war and just learns that their son/brother has been massacred by the Serbian military.
June 1999, Kosovo:

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The moment when the people tore down the statue of Enver Hoxha. The day the dictatorship in Albania fell.
20 February, 1991, #Tirana:

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An Albanian girl and a British soldier, shortly after the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, after NATO had intervened.

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The "Heroinat" (heroines) Memorial consists of 20,000 medals, each one representing an Albanian woman raped by the Serbian military during the Kosovo War.

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A KLA (UÇK) soldier defusing a landmine after a Red Cross doctor was killed by one (white car) in Drenica, 🇽🇰, Oct. 1998:

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BREAKING NEWS: Albania’s Ex-President Ilir Meta arrested on Corruption Charges, money-laundering and non-declaration of assets.
He resisted the authority of the state.

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The tears of a UÇK soldier over the loss of his commanders.
Nov. 12, 1998, Reti, Rahovec, Kosovo:

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"Is there a better day than today to die for your homeland?" -Fehmi Lladrovci-, on his last day.

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The survivors of the Jashari family return to their homes after the battle of Prekaz.

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"Run for your life".
A sweater of an Albanian boy, found together with his body in a mass grave in northern Serbia.

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The "Adem Jashari Memorial Complex" in Prekaz will be transformed into a "cultural landscape" that "tells the history of Kosovo’s resistance through the lens of the Drenica Valley".

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Occupied Prishtina, 🇽🇰 1981 (mass protests for independence) vs. independent Prishtina, 🇽🇰 2024:

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04.05.2024, Gjakovë, Kosovo:
A statue of Gjergj Kastrioti - Skënderbeu was unveiled.

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“There is nothing more precious than life, only freedom is more precious.
Therefore we will give our lives for freedom.”
-Ilaz Kodra (03.05.1966 – 30.04.1999)

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Photos of the mass grave of Batajnica where Serbia tried to hide the murder of 744 Albanian civilians.
The Serbian regime had transported the bodies over 300 kilometres.

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The "Heroinat" (heroines) Memorial: It consists of 20,000 medals, each one representing an Albanian woman raped by the Serbian military during the Kosovo War.

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A KLA (UÇK) soldier defusing a landmine after a Red Cross doctor was killed by one (white car) in Drenica, 🇽🇰, 1999.
According to the FSK, 92,000 explosive landmines have been defused so far.
117 dead & 468 injured Albanians were the result of Serbian explosives.