Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the murder of prominent national question activists Jusuf e Bardhosh Gërvalla and Kadri Zeka.
January 17, 1982 is the day on which the brothers Jusuf and Bardhosh Gërvalla and Kadri Zeka were killed in an assassination attempt.
Although 43 years have passed, this day is forever alive and mourns not only the families, but also a number of people who were spiritually and organizationally connected to the activists.
The murder of the two brothers Gërvalla and Kadri Zeka occurred in Untergrupenbach, Germany. German state authorities have announced that unknown assassins have killed three Yugoslavs and that this is a new high point in the secret war in which Yugoslav security forces and opponents of power are fighting against each other.
After the exile of the Croats, the government of Belgrade declared a bloody war on the Albanians coming from Kosovo. The attack occurred when the driver of the car (BMW 316, registration number: HN CY 353) took the car out of the garage and drove backwards towards the intersection.
In snowy weather, the car stopped somewhere in the first 40 meters because a person was shooting from a construction site on the right from a distance of three meters. On top of that, she was chased by another person and approached to prove to her that she had achieved her goal.
Neighbors, fearful of the crises, see two men running away. The car stopped as Bardhoshi had his foot on the accelerator. As a result, the car continued driving until it collided with a garage.
During this time, the driver died while the engine was turned off following the collision. At the scene of the incident, police found the driver of the car, Bardhosh Gërvalla, 31 years old, dead, hit by six bullets, Kadri Zeka, killed by two gunshot wounds to the body, and Jusuf Gërvalla, 36 years old, also seriously injured by two bullet shots.
Der Spiegel (January 25, 1982) writes about the motive for the crime that the rapid identification of the victims also clarified their motive and political direction: “Yugoslavs in exile, who were of Albanian nationality, from the province of Kosovo in the south.” the Balkan state and “all three activists against the government of Belgrade”. There were also notes for the perpetrators of the murder.
At the crime scene, Jusuf Gërvalla, who later died, whispered to the police: “It was the UDB.”
All three men had been shot twelve times with 7.65 caliber pistols, ten shots going through the heart, lungs and throat. A police officer on site said: “The whole thing looked like an execution.”
It was the secret service’s method, as the Stuttgart sniper and police instructor Siegfried Hübner said: four shots were to be fired, “three to pin the victim down when he is still standing, i.e. to knock him down and make him unable to defend himself.” and then the necessary and deadly fourth replay occurs.”
The period and the assassination were the climax of the Yugoslav secret service’s feuds with the regime’s opponents in the outside world in those years./eo
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