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Can Albania be integrated in the EU in these
conditions?
The medieval laws of the Canon haven’t changed yet in the
post-communist
Albania
.
Blood-feud, old and new malice are taking away human lives every day and
night. The tragic side that keeps
Albania
away from integration in
Euro-Atlantic structures is the fact that thousands of innocent people were
shot dead during these last 16 years in the name of the Canon, the law of the
15th century,
made by Lekë Dukagjini.
North Albania
is mostly hurt by this phenomenon. Even today in Shkodra,
an entire district is shut in, who are organized to defend themselves from
the gun of vengeance. This district is the place called “Livade”,
and the State has no power to neutralize the situation. One of these innocent
victims is Erion Jakup Rroji, born on July 23, 1982. We make public his birthday
to show the innocence of this young man, for the event for which the Canon
condemns him to death belong to the remote year 1962, as it is 20 years ago,
before he was born. In 1962, Hamit Rroji, his grandfather, while drunk, had a conflict with
Sami Trushi. Sami tried to knife him. The destiny
helped Hamit as the attacker stumbled falling on
his knife, what caused him death. Those who were present witnessed the
innocence of Hamit Rroji.
The years passed and with the fall of the communist dictatorship in 1990, the
Trushi family wanted to take revenge on the family Rroji. Jakup Rroji and his family had to live hidden. Erion Rroji is the one who
dares the most, forced to leave
Albania
, as the Canon established
he deserves the bullet. He is innocent not only because he was born 20 years
after the conflict, but even because his grandfather was innocent, as the
death of the person mentioned above was proved 45 years ago, and was considered
as a suicide during attempts to commit a murder, right against Erion’s grandfather. Revenge degenerated even to the
point that Olsa Rroji,
his sister, was shot with machine gun by “Rozafa”
Hotel, but fortunately the bullets didn’t hit the target. Maybe because many
people were passing by. Yet, the girl
had to leave her birth-country too. This is a very dark image of the Albanian
reality, what seems to have no chance of improvement, as long as blood-feud
stands as an institution, as the State acknowledges the reconciliation
associations, which deserve the good opinion indeed, because they could
reconcile people in conflict, what is published by media as success. But, can
Albania
go toward EU with such medieval phenomenon?!
Florë Malocaj
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