{"id":3358,"date":"2025-10-01T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.k-clients.com\/museum-events\/diskutim-28-vjetori-i-protestave-studentore-te-1-tetorit-1997\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:32:24","slug":"diskutim-28-vjetori-i-protestave-studentore-te-1-tetorit-1997","status":"publish","type":"museum_events","link":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/museum-events\/diskutim-28-vjetori-i-protestave-studentore-te-1-tetorit-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion \u2013 28th Anniversary of the Student Protests of October 1, 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 1, 2025, Reporting House commemorated the 28th anniversary of the Student Protests of October 1, 1997 \u2013 one of the most significant acts of civic resistance in Kosovo\u2019s recent history.<\/p>\n<p>In an open panel discussion, attendees heard firsthand accounts from key organizers and participants of the protests \u2013 Bujar Dugolli, Driton Laj\u00e7i, Mihane Salihu-Bala, and Remzie Shahini-Hoxha \u2013 who shared their experiences with the planning, challenges, and determination that defined that generation of students.<\/p>\n<p>The 1997 protest was a response to years of systemic oppression and the exclusion of Albanians from public education, which forced thousands of young people to study in makeshift private spaces. The protest marked a turning point \u2014 from passive resistance to open, peaceful defiance \u2014 as students took to the streets, demanding access to education in their own language and the return of occupied university facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The event at Reporting House served as a powerful reminder of the transformative potential of student movements and the importance of preserving collective memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 1, 2025, Reporting House commemorated the 28th anniversary of the Student Protests of October 1, 1997 \u2013 one of the most significant acts of civic resistance in Kosovo\u2019s recent history. In an open panel discussion, attendees heard firsthand accounts from key organizers and participants of the protests \u2013 Bujar Dugolli, Driton Laj\u00e7i, Mihane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3356,"template":"","class_list":["post-3358","museum_events","type-museum_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum_events\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/museum_events"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum_events\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum_events\/3358\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}