Gnjilane
Gjilan (Albanian: Gjilan or Gjilani) is an urban settlement and the administrative center of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the southeastern part of Kosovo and Metohija. It is the seat of the Kosovo Pomoravlje administrative district. According to the 2024 census, it had a population of 53,279. Gjilan is situated in the Kosovo Pomoravlje region and is connected to Pristina, Uroševac, Kosovo Kamenica, Preševo, and Bujanovac.
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Albanian terrorists impaled him on a stake on May 1, 1985. The truth was hidden for 15 years. Glas is the first to publish the complete “sequence of events” about Đorđe Martinović. When he became known to the world public, the first report was published on May 4, 1985, in Politika. It read: “An employee of the JNA Home in Gnjilane, Đorđe Martinović, was impaled on a stake on May 1 on his field, Jaruga, two kilometers from Gnjilane. This atrocity was committed by Albanian terrorists.”
That news broke like a bolt from the blue in the then-tense reality of Kosovo and Yugoslavia. Today it can freely be said that it was the initial spark for many later events in Kosovo and Metohija and throughout Yugoslavia—and, in a way, even for the famous Eighth Session a year and a half later.
On the occasion of the news of Đorđe Martinović’s death, the editorial board of Glasnik is publishing details that have never been revealed before—details that largely shed light on the truth that had until now been hidden from the public.