nr. 100 / 17 janar 2007

Montenegro: Why did Ðon Junçaj leave his birthplace?!

The question of dictatorship in Montenegro was and is like a conviction. Dictatorship, therefore, even after many murders, violence, clear break of human rights, revenge, improved nothing in its structure. The Albanians in Montenegro are the most touched. Maybe because they’re identified with the Albanians of Kosovo.

Don Martin Junçaj, born on September 16, 1979, in Bozhaj of Tuz, in Montenegro, became victim of this terror that would take his life, if he wouldn’t go west.

In 1999, when the Balkans’ sanguinary, Slobodan Milosevic, begun a military attack on Kosovo, outlining the darkest massacre in the history of this region, Don Junçaj was asked to join the army to fight against the people of Kosovo. He was young, only 20, from a catholic family, persecuted by the dictatorial regime, while his grandfather, Nua Vuksan Junçaj was a political prisoner from 1949 until 1953. He didn’t know what the gun or the war was, but he knew that the Bible said he shouldn’t kill anybody, he only knew he came from a family that had tasted the violence. Therefore, he didn’t join the army to kill innocent people, and he left his birthplace. His friends, who were caught by the Serbs because the didn’t join the army, were fired by the regime of Belgrade. For many of them none knows even where their tomb is, because they’re lost, without address. But he had the chance to leave.

The young guy knew very well what revenge was. His uncles, had to leave Tuz many years ago. Only Martin, his father, lived in Montenegro and his son, Don Junçaj, became a target of revenge against this tribe, aiming even his physical elimination.

Even as a catholic believer, Don Junçaj was in the target of terrorism, which is powerful still nowadays in the segment Kosovo - Montenegro - Albania - Macedonia. Islamic terrorist groups have menaced his through phone calls and anonymous letters in October 1999, a few time before he left his country of birth.

Reliable sources let us know that he is wanted still today and his life is still in danger. The bad thing is that terrorism has ground for dogmas of an ideological elite, reflected even in the destroying of the cross of Bushat, in the nearby country of Albania.

There are many of those in danger from the phenomenon of terrorism.

Florë Malocaj

Artur Vashja

How the Legality Party Chairman sold the NMD for its own Interests?

Ekrem Spahia Should Resign!

During the 2005 Parliamentary election, Sali Berisha spent a great deal of time criticizing the National Movement for Development (NMD) as agents of the Socialist Party. He criticized them because he feared them. He knew everything about them. He knew that the NMD’s supporters are the families that were politically persecuted. He knew that the NMD has a great deal of support from the Diaspora, especially from the New York Albanian community, where the NMD organized fundraisings and has its largest branch, excluding the headquarters in Tirana. Both Dashamir Shehu and Ekrem Spahia visited the New York branch, where they met with the leadership of this branch, the community, and traveled to Washington in an effort to garnish support for their newly formed political force.

However, the NMD, which consisted of the small rightwing political parties, such as the National Front, Legality, Conservatives, the Politically Persecuted, etc., lots badly. I supported the NMD, especially the Legality Party, and their efforts to change the political spectrum in Albania. I believed then, and I still believe, that they, the NMD, had a good program, a good mission, a great platform and would have brought a better future for Albania. Therefore, believing the above, I worked wholeheartedly to make a difference.

The question is how did Berisha have so much information at his disposal about the NMD? I have found out that the leader of my party, the Legality Party, Ekrem Spahia, and some of his friends, such as Ahment Hoti and Hakik Mena, from the New York branch, had worked behind the sciences to destroy this Movement, especially its New York branch, by providing sensitive information to Berisha, which he then used to attack the NMD.

In May 2006, I held a meeting at the offices of the Legality Party in Tirana, where a group of women from all over Albania had come to meet here to discuss the situation of the young girls and young women, who were involved in politics, and who were being harmed by their opponents, and the government’s failure to protect them. What I accidently found in his office shocked me. I found a file that I was not supposed to see. In this file, I observed the following: the address of the New York NMD, their telephone number, handwritten notes taken by Mr. Hoti and Mr. Mena, photographs of their meetings, and instructions given by Mr. Spahia to these two on how to destroy the New York NMD and the NMD of Albania. I saw a letter signed by Arjan Borici, Skender Shkurti, Niko Kirka, where Berisha is equated to Hoxha, Alia, and Nano as someone who had persecuted the Albania people. This letter had been mailed from New York to Mr. Spahia in Albania. Finally, I saw a letter, where it was written that “Berisha has requested and authorized the destruction of the NMD as a forced that he considers a real and immanent threat.†What I saw scared me, infuriated me, and baffled me.

No wonder that when the delegation from the New York NMD came to Albania, neither Mr. Spahia nor any representatives of the Albanian NMD or their media, awaited them at the Airport. Spahia made sure that their arrival from USA would not make any waives.

Following Berisha “victory†Spahia is the only one from the NMD to be offered a position by Berisha. He is been serving Berisha surreptitiously since the 1990’s. He is not loyal to the Legality or NMD. He is loyal to his employer, Berisha. Therefore, he should resign from the Legality and the NMD before he cause more harm to us all.

Irma Gjerga, Chairwoman

Women’s Division