There was a group of students from Podujeva who, it was said, had disarmed a police patrol. They were brought to [the prison in] Lipjan… One day, we saw that those students were also being brought out to walk. There was Jetish Rekaliu, who had been a teacher to some of the students who were now walking through the yard. We, from behind the prison bars and windows, started calling out to them by name, giving them moral support. Some of the students smiled back, some might’ve said something, I couldn’t hear it. Then one of the guards, an Albanian, lined [the other guards] up and said, ‘I’m going to give each of you a stick.’ He handed them each a baton. The teachers’ reaction, especially Jetish [Rekaliu]’s, was furious. He grabbed the prison bars and shouted at the guard: ‘You idiot! You lowlife! How dare you beat children in front of us?’
Agim Paçarizi was born in 1955 in Dragobil, Malisheva. He graduated in History from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Prishtina in 1979. He worked as a history teacher in Rahovec. A participant in the 1981 student demonstrations, Paçarizi was arrested and detained in Lipjan. Upon his release, he sought political asylum in Switzerland where he still currently lives.