Kuk\u00ebs, November 09, 2017 – The President of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Tha\u00e7i, today, at the Kuk\u00ebs Palace of Culture has decorated the citizens of Kuk\u00ebs with the \u201cOrder of Freedom\u201d medal.<\/p>\n
President Tha\u00e7i said that he is in Kukes to express the great gratitude to all the citizens of Kuk\u00ebs, who with incomparable generosity and nobleness sheltered about 500 thousand brothers and sisters from Kosovo, displaced violently during the war years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the most critical period of the Kosovo Albanians, the new Kuk\u00ebs, the small Kuk\u00ebs in appearance became the big Kuk\u00ebs, open, loving and deeply generous and noble\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
President Tha\u00e7i said that the fair war of the Kosovo Liberation Army and NATO\u2019s successes made the anti-Albanian politics of Belgrade even wilder, which began ethnic cleansing through murders, prosecutions, deportations and genocide.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey forced the unarmed population, women, men, elderly and children to leave their homes toward Macedonia and Albania. In Kuk\u00ebs, about half a million deported people settled down. Thanks to the solidarity, love and pure patriotic feeling, the deported Kosovars, in Kuk\u00ebs, found the warmth of the Albanian hearth and patiently waited for the end of the war\u201d, added President Tha\u00e7i.<\/p>\n
The Head of State said that after a long history of struggle for freedom, Kosovo had finally established the most important political and military organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army, the most successful guerrilla of the century which went to fulfill the ideal and the dream of freedom.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first time, Kosovo achieved to be an actor in the international arena at the Rambouillet Conference. For the first time Kosovo had on its side strong international friends, the world of democratic values. It was precisely this political advancement of Kosovo that managed to produce the international document by which the democratic world engaged the most powerful alliance of the globe, NATO, to intervene militarily over Serbian military and police targets\u201d, said President Tha\u00e7i.<\/p>\n
President Tha\u00e7i have said that the inhabitants of Kuk\u00ebs and those of Lum\u00eb in general, are a common part of Kosovo\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
He said that they also experienced what their brothers and sisters from Kosovo were experiencing.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring 1998-1999, Kuk\u00ebs became the basis of the KLA. The city of Kuk\u00ebs experienced the shelling of the Serbian army. Many people of Kuk\u00ebs joined the Kosovo Liberation Army, just like the ones of Hasi and Tropoja\u201d, said President Tha\u00e7i.
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\nThe Head of State said that Kuk\u00ebs and Prizren had the political, historical and geographical fate of unrighteous state border division for a century. But in this division and isolation, according to President Tha\u00e7i, through Radio Kuk\u00ebs there was found a form of communication between Kosovo and Albania.<\/p>\n
\u201cKosovo\u2019s forbidden history was broadcasted on Radio Kuk\u00ebs\u201d, he stressed. <\/p>\n
Whereas, the Mayor of Kuk\u00ebs, Bashkim Shehu, said that this is a marked day for the inhabitants of Kuk\u00ebs because of the high values and sensibility they have shown in the war years in Kosovo.<\/p>\n
\u201cTha\u00e7i was in Kuk\u00ebs as a war leader, as a warrior of freedom, but today has come as the President of Kosovo to show us that Kosovo and Kosovars do not forget us\u201d, said Shehu.<\/p>\n
Seeking the support of the two Albanian governments, Shehu has proposed to create the \u201cMuseum of Remembrance\u201d, to remember the difficult days the Kosovars and the people of Kuk\u00ebs have spent together.<\/p>\n
In a sign of gratitude for the generosity of the people of Kuk\u00ebs, President Tha\u00e7i has awarded the \u201cOrder of Freedom\u201d medal for the citizens of Kuk\u00ebs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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