With a minute of silence, the special session of the Assembly of Kosovo started in honor of academician Rexhep Qosja. Speaker Albulena Haxhiu said that the academician was a clear voice against oppression, injustice and efforts to deny national identity.
“He was a clear voice against oppression, against injustice and attempts to deny our national identity. His contribution also extends to the political processes at the end of the last century when Kosovo sought freedom and a republic. Rexhep Qosja put his intellectual authority at the service of this right by articulating Kosovo’s freedom as a historical right and a cause that required international confirmation“, said Haxhiu.
Deputy Prime Minister, at the same time Minister of Foreign Affairs Glauk Konjufca praised Rexhep Qosjan as the last Albanian renaissance.
“For us Albanians, Rexhep Qosja died. He was one of the most important intellectuals, writers and activists of our nation. Every creator is described by a supreme purposeful principle, which is the real driving force of his activity. But what was Qosja’s principle? His elan was national freedom. Therefore, everything he produced has the form of a fight against oppression, and war is a strategy. Its first foundation, the foundation layer, is consciousness and on top of that the edifice of the national state is safely built. In this sense, it was rightly said these days that it is the last renaissance”said Konjufca.
At the memorial ceremony, academician Rexhep Qosja was praised by other political figures.
“With the passing away of academician Rexhep Qosja, we not only lost a man of knowledge, we lost an institution of critical thinking. We lost a tribune of free speech and a conscience that refused to be silent”Bedri Hamza, head of PDK.
“The freedom and independence of the state that we enjoy today has deep roots in sacrifice, work and especially in powerful intellectuals of our nation, who did not give up and worked in the most difficult times of Yugoslavia and Serbia. This is confirmed and shown by the writer who will not die, academician Rexhep Qosja”, Besnik Tahiri, Head of the AAK parliamentary group.
“A powerful voice in the Albanian debate for more than half a century”, Jehona Lushaku, Head of the Parliamentary Group, LDK.
The Albanian academician, writer and literary critic Rexhep Qosja passed away on Thursday and according to his legacy he was buried in a private ceremony, but in honor of his life and work, Kosovo declared April 24 National Mourning Day.
