Two or three teachers were killed in the first school that was opened. I remember we went there with Fehmi Agani. It was somewhere in Dukagjin, I don’t remember which village, where they made a house available and immediately they killed them – the owner and two or three others, the teachers…Surely the names are somewhere. But I know that the first killings happened immediately. Because they tried to stop the momentum. They had no possibility to stop parallel education…There was an initiative and we once even held discussions in the faculties to try to return to the university. I remember that we went [to a meeting] in Mitrovica. It was that former leadership, together with Minir Dushi, I think, or I don’t know who it was, but without success. We knew that it was only a formality, just so it couldn’t be said that we hadn’t held talks.
Milajete Shala Mehmeti was born in 1952 in Mitrovica. She earned a degree from the Faculty of Technology at the University of Prishtina, conducted research at the University of Zagreb and the Military Academy of Zagreb, Croatia, and defended her PhD in 1991 at the Faculty in Mitrovica. She completed a specialization in corrosion at the Freiberg Academy in Germany and a further specialized program at the John Hopkins University in the United States. She has been a long-term faculty member at the Faculty of Technology in Mitrovica, where she has taught Electrochemistry until her retirement. Milajete Shala Mehmeti was active in the parallel education system, in the blood feud reconciliation campaign, and in the Women’s Forum of the LDK.