Former Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës (KLA) fighter, Shqipe Krasniqi, stated that she has never seen Kosovo as united and vocal as it is today.
She emphasized that on Independence Day, people did not gather merely to celebrate, but to honor the sacrifices of the nation, noting that the protest is the voice of those who are no longer alive.
“I have seen humiliated families, mothers quietly weeping, students persecuted just for being Albanian. I have seen women sending their sons to war with broken hearts but heads held high. They did not enter history with titles, but history would not exist without them. Silence is surrender, and this people do not know how to surrender. Like many Albanian girls and women, I took up arms and went to the front—not because I loved war, but because I loved freedom. Our homes were burned and our villages emptied. One thing did not burn and will never extinguish, and that is the spirit of this people,” Krasniqi said.
