Adem Demaqi, the well known ethnic Albanian political dissident, recipient of Sacharov's award for freedom of thought, currently the Human Rights Committee president in Pristina and the editor-in-chief of the magazine Zeri, started a hunger strike on May 24 in the building of the "Rilindja" newspaper. Four days later, in an interview to VREME, Demaqi tried to explain why he would go to the end