With homage and honors at his monument, in the center of Peja, is marked today the 23rd anniversary of the heroic fall of the national martyr Ahmet Gjikolli from Peja, who fell on May 7, 1999, in the battle of Cabrati in defense of the city of Gjakova.

Ahmeti's family, friends and comrades-in-arms have remembered and honored his heroic deed, through all the battles of the Dukagjini plain until his last battle in Çabrat, where he fell heroically in the face of the Serbian occupying forces.

Although today on this anniversary, politicians and institutional representatives were absent, it was Ahmeti's comrades-in-arms of the war and of the ideal, those who stood by mother Shema and the Gjikolli family.

Tributes and honors have also been paid by senior police officers from the Peja Regional Police.

Tributes were also paid to his grave, in the cemetery complex of the Martyrs of the Nation, in the cemetery of the city of Peja and at the site of the fall in Gjakova.

Ahmet Gjikolli has been a distinguished soldier in the Kosovo Liberation Army since the first days of the war, enlisting and serving in the III Operational Zone of Dukagjini, under the command of Ramush Haradinaj, (former Prime Minister of Kosovo and President of AAK).

According to the military Hekuran Hoda, Ahmeti would fall in the field of honor with the words, 'Freedom or death'.

Ahmeti directly in action was under the command of Commander Agron Kryeziu.

Ahmet Gjikolli was initially buried in Çabrat, while a few days after the liberation of Kosovo and Peja, on July 3, 1999, he was reburied with high military honors in the Martyrs' Cemetery complex in Peja.

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