IKosovo’s president, Vjosa Osmani, has defended Ibrahim Rugova’s figure, naming it the founding Father of the Republic.
It has said that neither years of occupation nor war nor post-war years can be torn away from its historic role in building the state of Kosovo.
In a Facebook response, she has called some of the claims related to Rugova’s figure slander.
To slander that Rugova had credit only until 1994 and to deny everything he did until 2006, it is a deliberate attempt to forge history.
Osmani has said that during five years of mandate as president, in hundreds of meetings with world leaders, they have only cited Rugova’s contribution to the construction of state and alliances.
They never mentioned any other leader, and that tells a lot about his role. Rugova built political resistance, organised Kosovo state institutions when they were banned, built the first cells of armed resistance, internationalised our issue, and, after the war, led Kosovo’s institutional representation on the road to independence. While the institutions for connection with Milosevic are low slander. Even lower are slanders against the First Lady of the State of Kosovo, Mrs. Fahen Rugova.: He’s written on Osman.
She has said Rugova had been repeatedly attacked by the Milosevic regime and was violently kidnapped by that regime, as she said, also testified by international witnesses.
His testimony at The Hague Tribunal for Serbian Crimes and the KLA’s fair fight is part of recorded history. Thus, history cannot be rewritten through the publications of racist slanderers, nor can the truth be replaced by their successive slanders. Accept this reality. This is his country in history and in the hearts of the people of Kosovo, and no denigration campaign can change it. /I did. tv