Life for local Albanians was harsh in this period as the new Yugoslav, predominantly Serbian administration engaged in extensive repressive measures against them.
Selman Kadria occasionally worked as a land worker for Krstić, who had become a wealthy landowner through his connections to the state apparatus.
[1] Whether Kadria's assassination of Krstić was part of a larger plan of the Albanian independence movement in Kosovo remains unknown.
[2] After the killings, the three men would meet in the mountainous location Çarrista e Januzajve and then would cross the Yugoslavia-Albania border outside the reach of the Yugoslav gendarmerie.
[1] The details of the act itself remain unclear, but what is known is that it took place at the banks of the Istok River possibly during a fishing activity and that Kadria used Krstić's own weapon to kill him.
[2] In oral history and songs, many versions of the final dialogue between the two have been produced which mainly focus on themes of revenge.
After some time in the mountains, Kadria contacted his mother's uncle Ramë Vuthi to assist him with crossing into Albania.
Ramë Vuthi was to provide him with a horse and supplies, but he betrayed Kadria and mortally wounded and surrendered him to the gendarmerie.
[1] In June 2019, Bekë Berisha, a representative in the Kosovan parliament, proposed to Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj that Kadria should be named Hero of Kosovo.
On July 12, 2019, The Hasanaj Family accepted the Hero of Kosovo award in Prishtina from President Hashim Thaçi.