Kosovo’s Acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, has honored the memory of Fazli Greiçevci and Cen Dugolli, who were killed on August 17 at Pristina Prison. Greiçevci lost his life in 1964, while Dugolli was killed 34 years later, in 1998.

In his commemorative message, Kurti stressed that Greiçevci and Dugolli were killed by the same power, in the same place and on the same date, but in two different years separated by a period of 34 years. He said that both activists are remembered on the anniversaries of their deaths.

Fazli Greiçevci, born in 1935 in Sankoc, Drenas, was a teacher, poet and political activist in the Revolutionary Movement for the Unification of Albanians. At the Normal School in Pristina, he had been classmates with Rexhep Qosja, while he shared the same political ideals with Adem Demaçi.

During the early 1960s, Greiçevci worked as a teacher in several villages in Drenica. Alongside his work in education, he also wrote poetry, some of which was published in the magazines “Jeta e Re” and “Zani i Rinisë.”

At the end of the summer of 1963, in Pristina, a group of young political activists founded the underground organization Revolutionary Movement for the Unification of Albanians. The organization was led by Adem Demaçi, while Fazli Greiçevci was among its leading activists.

Yugoslav security authorities arrested more than 300 members of the organization in June 1964. Although he was not among those detained, Greiçevci turned himself in to the police. Beginning on August 3, 1964, he was subjected to torture for two weeks at Pristina Prison and died on August 17, 1964. He was killed under torture by the Serbian authorities.

Cen Dugolli was born on September 25, 1966. During the 1990s, he was active in the Ferizaj branch of the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms, in the humanitarian association “Mother Teresa,” and in the Independent Students’ Union at the Higher Technical School in Ferizaj.

Dugolli later joined the Kosovo Liberation Army, serving as a soldier in the Nerodime Operational Zone.

Serbian police arrested him on June 21, 1998, at his home in Ferizaj, where they also beat him in front of his family members. After his arrest, he was first taken to Gjilan Prison and was later transferred to Pristina Prison. There, he was tortured by the Serbian security and judicial authorities.

As a result of the torture, Dugolli fell into a coma on August 16. He was subsequently transported to Pristina Hospital, where he died on August 17, 1998.

Kurti paid tribute to Fazli Greiçevci, Cen Dugolli and all those who lost their lives to the violence of the Serbian regime while working for Kosovo’s freedom.

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