Altin Krasniqi, the son of the former speaker of the Kosovo Assembly and one of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Jakup Krasniqi, has remembered the fifth anniversary of his father's detention through an emotional post on social networks.
He described this period as years of pain, pride, and continued injustice.
"1,826 days of waiting. 1,826 days of pain and pride. Today marks five years that we have been waiting for justice, while my father, even today, in his old age, is sacrificing as he did then with dignity and strength," Krasniqi wrote.
He recalls that the Kosovo Liberation Army's war was not a choice, but a necessity for freedom.
"The KLA war was not born from the desire for war, but from the necessity for freedom. Kosovo Albanians for years sought denied justice, sometimes with protests and sometimes with slogans, but every time they demanded equality, they were oppressed even more," Jakup Krasniqi's son wrote.
In his post, Krasniqi emphasizes that for decades Albanians have faced massacres, expulsions, and imprisonment by the Serbian regime, while the Western world had forgotten their right to live with dignity.
"They demanded with weapons what had been denied to them with words for years. And they won freedom with much blood shed and with many sacrifices, it was not given away," Krasniqi wrote.
The son of the former KLA leader connects this memory with the current trials in The Hague, emphasizing that the right to freedom of an entire people is being judged there.
"In the cold, dark corridors of European justice, the right to freedom is being judged. It is not individuals who are being judged there, but the just and liberating struggle of a people who accepted that it was better to live a second in freedom than a life in slavery."
Finally, he raises direct questions about the standards of justice being applied to former KLA members.
"Is this justice by European standards? Is it justice when you are held for 5 years in detention? Is it justice to equate the victim with the aggressor? No! This is not justice. It is a continuation of historical injustice against Albanians," wrote Altin Krasniqi. /Telegrafi/
