Democratic Party (DP) has paid tributes this Monday, in honor of Azem Shpend Hajdari, the leader of the student movement in 1990–1991 that led to the fall of communism in Albania, in front of the monument erected for his memory.

In the tributes 24 years after Hajdari's killing was present also Former Prime Minister and Head of DP, Sali Berisha, who declared that Azem Hajdari went down in history and dared to lead a powerful protest for regime change.

"Azem Hajdari entered the history of our nation as the Albanian who, with a courageous group of students, did more than anyone else for the freedom of Albania and Albanians. In December 1990, Albania remained the only ex-communist country in Europe under the 46-year Stalinist dictatorship and in complete monism. 

Their most extraordinary sacrifices for human freedom and national dignity were met with the most ferocious oppression. Any act of opposition to the regime or dissidence was equivalent to opening the prison doors or opening the grave due to the total intolerance of the regime. 

In these circumstances, Azem Hajdari dared to go out in a powerful protest with the students, to put himself in an epic way at the head of this movement, which in a period of time brought the regime to its knees and the establishment of political pluralism in Albania", underlined Berisha.

Nevertheless, Hajdari began receiving death threats from the beginning of his involvement in the student protests. 

On March 22, 1991, he received a package containing a severed rooster head and a letter written in blood: "Azem Hajdari, you are sentenced to death."