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Safe
from bullets in 1986 at the border, but not from revenge
 Albania is the exemplar
country of crimes during the wild communist dictatorship. Since 1945 until
1990 have been executed 5037 men and 450 women. In the political prisons
suffered long condemnations 26788 men and 7367 women. In those prisons died
988 men and 7 women. But dictatorship was so unparalleled, and statistics
show that 1215 men and 38 women suffered political condemnations only amongst
foreigners. In a few words, there’s no place in the world where such a
criminal pattern could be found. Death was first of all for those who
“betrayed” the socialist country, while attempting to cross the boarder toward countries of freedom. The entire Albanian boarder was defended by soldiers ordered to open fire
without advice against whosoever would try to cross that boarder. Thousands
of Albanians were shot and have neither a tomb. Very few could come out safe
from the bullets. One of those was Enrrik Ndue Shabani, born on December
1st, 1965. He was a young guy when on August 12, 1986, decided to
cross the boarder near the village of Zogaj, because he didn’t
agree with the dictatorial regime. After he got a police boat, only God knows
how he could go to Montenegro,
in the ex-Yugoslavia, and afterwards in the USA. It caused great noise. Even
the Central Committee of the Party of Labor was shocked. His father, Ndue Shabani, was interned with
his family in the village Dush, with the verdict
nr. 16, of December 22, 1986, of the Central Commission of Internment and
Expulsion, since December 22, 1986 until June 22, 1989, with political
motivation. Our journal holds in its archives an attestation of the General
Director of Administration, lieutenant-colonel Plator
Bilibashi, of 1994, that proves this. Another
official document of the mayor of Rrethina, in the
District of Shkodra, Ali Çoku,
says that Enrrik Shabani,
resident in Hot i Ri, had always been persecuted by
dictatorship, as his grandfather Frano Zef Lekaj was an officer during
the regime of the King Ahmet Zogu.
He declares that Prel Zef
Lekaj and Zef Prel Lekaj, Fran’s brother and
nephew, escaped during this dictatorial regime, going in the United States.
Injustice is proved by the
declaration of the former communist prosecutor, Rrapi
Mino, of October 2, 1987, nr. 1755/1, as an answer to a complain from relatives of Enrrik
Shabani, about the denial of pension. The document
says: “…the minimal pension for you is rightly based on the law nr. 4171, of
September 13, 1966, article 60/a and b, on “Social
Security of the P.S.R. of Albania”,
because you were interned for subversive activity, the escape of your son,
the traitor Enrrik Shabani”.
This was the answer of the Albanian General Prosecutor Rrapi
Mino, to the complain of Enrrik’s
father, Ndue Shabani in Dush-Gomsiqe, Vau Dejës, Shkodër. The attestation
nr. 23/10, of October 23, 1998, signed by the Director of the Police of the
State, lieutenant-colonel Albert Pilo, admits that
“Enrrik Shabani… was
wanted by the criminal police of Shkodër, for the
activity considered illegal (for agitation and propaganda) in 1985-1987…”. It
is really strange! We have in our files all these declarations of the
authorities of police, prosecution etc., etc. The paradox is that Enrrik Shabani is threatened
even today in the post-communist Albania. In this Albania where,
unfortunately, even during the elections of February 18, the Socialist Party,
the successor of the Party of Labor, could manipulate voting, even through reprisal “winning” de jure all the big cities
like Tirana, Durrës, Korçë,
Vlorë, Fier etc.
There are many indeed like
the subject of this article. And this will go on not only as long as
dictators will keep on doing moral and have the power, but until the
Albanians will decide not to accept injustice and seek integration in the
civilized Europe.
Jetmir Delaj
Florë Malocaj
The
Calvary of persecution of the family Cepa
Is Albania a
safe country?! Is the Albanian
State the guarantor of
human freedom and rights, social and economical
equality?! Although it is part of all the international organizations, signed
all the documents that proceed from democratic countries and having lastly
signed the agreement of Stabilization-Association with the European
Community, it is a paradox to think that in this country everyone is free,
has equal chances and is protected by the immunity of constitutional
obligations that hold responsible the State respecting and practicing them.
The politics establishes the law. The politics in Albania is Mafia. Rich people who
penetrate in politics and place the veto on everything and on everybody’s
destiny. In the Albanian politics, coming out from the garniture of the
kitchen of Enver Hoxha’s
dictatorship, are involved not only people deeply compromised with crime,
with penal precession, but also by people who committed murder personally.
Absurd! While civilized countries want to make more perfect the lives of
their citizens, the only salvation in Albania is emigration. This
choice determined by the impossibility of living with persecution, physical
and psychological violence, elimination, forced many Albanians like Enea Cepa, to leave their
country and everything done with hard work. The Calvary of persecution of the
family Cepa seems like the troublesome walk to Golgotha. Enea himself and
his wife are living witnesses of this Albanian absurd, this monstrosity that
became a system, over which the people of the old politics want to keep their
positions. Just the way dictators did during all the time they ruled. The
family Cepa had to pay dearly its religious and
political convictions, the adhering in the Association of the former
Political Persecuted, the contribution in the democratic movement and leading
forums of the Democratic Party since their creation. This almost pathologic
revenge of the communists and former communists against the family Cepa started since 1946-1960 when the regime of Enver Hoxha confiscated their
property of 25
hectares and 500 fruit trees in the village Opar of Korça. This Calvary would continue with the imprisonment for
agitation and propaganda against the regime of Enver
Hoxha, of Enea Cepa’s father and his brothers, Renato and Dhimitraq, in the summer of 1985. The same suffered the
family of Suela, Enea Cepa’s wife. Her grandfather died in the communist
prison-cells because of tortures he suffered by the torturers of the Security
of the State. Having not enough, they were also denied their universal right
of education. After the political changes, this family became one of the most
impassioned sustainers of democracy and the Democratic Party, since the
protest of December 12, 1990, when communism was dying. In this protest Enea and his brother Renato, and their parents Dhionis and Kostace were beaten
by the special forces of Ramiz Alia, worthy
successor of Enver Hoxha.
On February 20, 1991, during the protests organized in Korça,
Enea was beaten with gun-stock on his head, what
caused heavy wounds. The victory of the Democratic Party in the elections of
March 22, 1992, was a great victory, a renascence for the family Cepa, who paid dearly during the communist dictatorship
as the wildest in Europe. Yet, this freedom
would be temporarily, for the Bolshevik phalanges would remodel their
struggle by dressing it with the mantel of democracy. On July 1st,
1997, Enea Cepa and his
wife, Suela, received death threats and were
ill-treated in their district in Korça by the death
squads of Fatos Nano, son of a former leader during
Enver Hoxha’s regime. In
the night of December 8, 2000, two masked officials of the special forces and
an exponent of the Albanian Intelligence Service, violated the privacy of the
family Cepa, braking in their house with the excuse
of a routine checking for guns. In the midnight of December 10-11, 2000, two
members of NIS
escorted Enea Cepa’s wife
pretending to get her home. On their walk they pressed on menacing her to
leave the Democratic Party and her political support for it. They also took
miss Suela Cepa nearby
the Workers’ Rest House, in Korça, where they
molested her ending this barbarity by raping her. They left then the woman,
who got back home with a taxi passing by occasionally.
This is the tragic destiny
of a couple, of a family, of an anticommunist dynasty. In these conditions
when neither life, nor privacy, property or anything
else is assured, their only choice was to leave the country where they were
born, they loved and put their lives in danger to make it a heaven for their
children. This is the Calvary of Enea Cepa, his wife Suela and their
family. This is the Albanian Golgotha. Even today, although the Albanian
politics makes efforts to offer a virtual reality for the foreigners, the
reality is the one with such tragic stories, witnessing clearly that none is
safe. You’re threatened in every moment. The State of the gangs of politics,
the State of the Al Capone in the country which Enver
Hoxha called “A rock at the Adriatic’s coast”, the
country which the today’s authorities call the State of right and equity, the
State of law. How much like that is true, is shown by the tragic destiny of
its devoted citizens, by the foreign organizations in Albania, is told by
reports and negative evaluations that flagellate the Albanian State.
This is Albania.
Esmeralda
Delija
Veronikë Pepushaj
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