Adem Demaçi, one of the foremost anti-Serb communist occupation dissidents of Kosovo and winner of the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov Prize, has requested all files of communism from the time of former Yugoslavia to be opened.

“All files should immediately be opened. Those who are in decision making positions should not be there because it is known that they had cooperated with the occupier. Yugoslavia is one of the most repressive and wild regimes that Albanians have ever experienced,” stated Demaçi for the Prishtina daily newspaper Express. Adem Demaçi has suffered 28 years years in prison during the time of former Yugoslavia and Serbia.

 

The 73- year old activist stated that thousands of Albanians were murdered, persecuted, put in prison and forced to leave their properties with the order of Ali Shukriu, Fadil Hoxha, Kolë Shiroka, Sinan Hasani and some other Kosovar Albanian communist representatives.

For Demaçi, from 1945 to 1990, Yugoslavia for Albanians was one of the most repressive and wild regimes. Without any hesitation, he calls all of those who worked and contributed in supporting that regime as collaborationists. According to him, those people who were involved in the regime and today work in the Kosovo institutions should immediately be dismissed from their positions.