AFA "Rugova" – Peja

Shtupeq, Rugovӫ, in June 10, 2023, "Bjeshka" restaurant

Book titles

1. Rugova: the uprising and massacres in 1918-1919. Proceedings of the scientific symposium "100-year anniversary of the uprising and massacres of Montenegro and Serbia in Shtupeq and other places of Rugov, born in 1919, Pej, on February 15, 2019. The authors are 17 well-known Albanian researchers from the faculties and our institutes: Shkodra, Tirana, Elbasani, Girokastra, Tetova, Skopje, Pristina, as well as from Ulqin, Gucia, Nikajt and Mirdita, project of the Rugov's Intellectual Club, drafter and editor responsible for Prof. Dr. Zymer Ujkan Neziri, publisher "Ali Hadri" Institute of History, editor-in-chief prof. dr. Teuta Shala-Peli, Pristina, 2022.

2. Serbian cruelty against Albanians in Kosovo: Rugova and Plava e Gucia in the book, monograph, author Acad. prof. dr. Hakif Bajrami, Prishtinë, "Lena", Prishtinë, 2023, prepared for the press by the Intellectual Club of Rugov, under the care of prof. dr. Ali Muriqi, prof. dr. Luan Tetajt and Eng. Agim K. Lajcit.
   Sponsor: "Ali Hadri" Institute of History and Rugov's Club of Intellectuals. About 200 guests were present from Shkodra, Bajram Curri, Plava, Gucia, Tregovishta, Pazari i Ri, Skopje, Medvegja, Prishtina, Drenica, Llapusha, Rrafshi i Dukagjini, mӫrgata, etc. Among them, there were university professors: Teuta Shala-Peli, Jusuf Telaku, Rexhep Doīi, Limon Rushiti, Hakif Bajrami, Haki Kasumi, Nazim Qehaja, Shemsedin Dreshaj, Qerim Lita, Arben Arifi, Jeton Kelmendi, Dardan S. Lajīi. There were also the descendants of the members of the 1918-19 Rugova Staff: Mehmet Shabani, Ker Sadria and Bek Hyseni, the Rugova generations of the '68 demonstrations of Isa Demaj '81 of Ali Lajī, as well as the Kosovo Liberation Army, with the commander of brigade 136 "Rugova", Salih B. Lajīi.
   In this event, held on the anniversary of the Albanian League of Prizren, there were also two deputies of the Assembly of Kosovo, Gani Krasniqi and Shemsedin Dreshaj; general Hysen Dreshaj and colonel Ismet Ibishi; the two former presidents of Pej, Ali Lajīi and dr. Ali Berisha; activists: Binak Ulaj, Dashamir Uruqi, Adem Salihaj, Salih Lukaj, Naser Salihaj, Brahim Dreshaj, Avdi Shkreli; war doctors dr. Mustafӫ Loxha and dr. Brahim Rexhaj, Mulla Sadria, Muhamet Mahmutaj; Rexhep Dedushaj, Xhevdet Spahia, Erodita Qorkadiu, Bajram Mulosmanaj with friends, Qerim Lajīi, Gjenis Shaqirović, Rexhep Abazi; Pallbearers: the family of Sylӫ Mehmet, Haxhӫ and Selim Nikҫi, Metӫ Mavraj, Agim and Sefedin Lajҫi, Xhevdet C. Kelmendi. There were also other intellectuals: teachers, doctors, lawyers, economists, engineers, etc.
   The artistic program of the famous AFA ensemble "Rugova", directed by Vesel Nikīi, was watched with interest. For those present, we donated about 200 copies of these two books. And, they paid their respects in Shtupek, in front of the commemorative plaques of the 1,000 fighters and victims of 1918-19, in the 14 streets of Rugova, massacred or burned alive, especially in Han i Isufi, by the forces of Serbia and Mali Black, who in documents of the time, presented in Paris, in 1919, capture the staggering figure: 844 martyrs, from 1 to 101 years old.