Stateless No More – Kosova is Independent

As of Sunday 17th February 2008 I am not stateless anymore I have a state called The Republic of Kosova. I am 33 years old and the independence to me means all my life, since I was in the kindergarten I knew that I wasn’t wanted in the country at that time called Yugoslavia. Than shortly I wasn’t allowed to education in my own language, my very well educated parents were expelled from their jobs just because they were Albanians.

Due to hard living condition and no future whatsoever I left for UK, which made me feel a normal human being which I didn’t had that feeling in my own country. While living in UK I never felt unwanted and I thank UK government and citizens for accepting me in the best possible way. UK offered me respect and the opportunity for me to be the only financial source for my family back home. UK made it possible for me to keep my familiy's moral alive and their physical existence.

And then the war started in Kosovo with more than 10, 000 dead and more than 1 million expelled from their homes. This was the most difficult time of my life, not knowing where my parents, relatives and friends are, and not having a country of origin.

However, due to the international community intervention in bombing Serbia we all came back in Kosova after the 1999 war, and started from the scratch, building houses, building lives, healing wounds and building our country.

After the entire struggle in my life I am glad I was part of this process and I will continue to contribute for my country. Not many people in the world have or had the opportunity to be part of the creation of their statehood. Suffering was worthwhile and now it is up to us what country we want to be. From now on we have to work even harder and create a state that every single citizen will feel wanted, important, we need to bring back the sense of belonging to everyone. As an Albanian is my duty to be responsible for all non-Albanians that live in Kosova.


We in Kosova celebrated for three days after the declaration of independence, and I'm proud that we celebrated with dignity and lots of love for freedom. This demonstrated once more that we wanted so badly to be free.

I will conclude with the saying "Don't treat others the way you don't want to be treated."