Kosovo’s ex-Mine Director Recalls 1989 Strike: I Thought We Were All Going To Die
In 1988, Burhan Kavaja became the main director of the Trepça flotation mine. Just one year later, he and his colleagues organized one of the biggest miners' strikes in the history of modern Europe—the Trepça miners' hunger strike. The strike, which many consider to be the beginning of the end of Kosovo under Serbian rule, is documented in the Reporting House, which Kavaja visited on January 15, reflecting on his own memories of the event.
