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The little Emanuel
and Vinko accuse
 Zita Gjuraj,
since the day she married Tomë Gjuraj,
didn’t have a quiet day. In that summer of 1990, she was a young girl with
beautiful dreams. But she tasted her human life for only a few weeks, for her
brother in law, Mark Gjuraj, escaped, braking the border. The family entered a painful life-way.
Her husband was death-threatened and tortured. He joined the democratic
forces, being distinguished in opposition, actively involved in the political
life. Zita was forced to live hidden, for the most
possible revenge was her kidnapping. She also had to change her hiding place,
somewhere further. The years ran hardly, dark, along with fear. She became
mother, twice. The joy as a parent now is a greater fear. The communist gangs
knew she was rising two children and searched for
their address at any cost. Maybe God helps her and she doesn’t fall in the
hands of criminals, who in many similar cases could even rape women, kill
children, but also kidnap and trade them for transplantation in Greece,
Turkey or Italy. The police of these states have often found cases like
these, but the responsible rarely have faced justice. Even when they faced
justice, sentences were not severe, with just a period of pre-detention
during investigation, or two-three and a half years of detention. Yet, about
80% of cases have not been discovered, and hundreds of children are lost
without a sign. According to our reliable sources and official witness of
leaders of the Democratic Party in Shkodër, especially
after 1997, when the state was usurped by social-communists, the dictators
who fired 4000 innocent Albanians in occasion of braking of arsenal, Zita Gjuraj is in serious
danger. Until July 4, 2001, the day her husband left Albania, she suffered
even the fear of his death, for he suffered violence many times in voting
centers, was arrested and mistreated in police station and had many
psychological pressure. But, after her husband left, Zita
had to leave even the shield of her father, where she hided. If she was
found, at any moment, the result was obvious. She went to some relatives of
her in mountains, on the other side of Shkodër. It
was very hard there. A mother deprived from every human right, risking the
life of her children and hers. It was difficult for her to explain her
children why their father wasn’t near them. The little Emanuel and Vinko are a living accuse for the time of human madness.
Their mother whipped and prayed the Lord for mercy,
the children were growing without parental care. But did the hardened hearts
of those who wanted their lives, as a revenge toward
their father, who left Albania, feel anything? No way! Those children
couldn’t even attend school, to have at least the education from what none
should deprive them. In fact, even today there are over 100 children in Shkodër, who do not attend school, because hiding from
the guns ready to shoot on them. They are living closed in a place called Livadhet, a suburban area near Kiras.
Emanuel and Vinko fortunately do not suffer this inhuman
injustice. They’re in the country of freedom and human rights, in America.
Nevertheless, Emanuel and Vinko accuse.
Albert Vataj
Many innocent
victims in the name of the Canon
 The situation of blood-feud in Albania
is very concerning, especially in the North where the Canon of Lekë Dukagjini has eclipsed the
laws. There are many murders, even macabre ones, even to women and children.
The worst thing is that revenge goes much more beyond the family forcing many
innocent people to live shut in, until a member of the family that has to
“pay” is killed. Today, in North Albania, this little country that aspires to
be integrated in the big European family, in the place called Livadhet, there are hundreds of families gathered and
living shut in, who cannot move out or even send their children to school,
for the bullet of revenge waits for them, according to the Canon. One of the
victims of blood-feud is Arben Zef
Ndoka. The citizen Ndrek Ndoja had killed Gjergj Llesh Ndoka, the uncle of Arben, in 1996. The two families fell in blood-feud. As
the killer was from the village Rrilë of Lezhë and the victim from the village Gjader
of Lezhë, the blood-feud didn’t go for a long time,
as it happens when the families in conflict live far away from one another.
Thus, Zef Llesh Ndoka avenged his murdered brother. In August 2007 he
killed two people, Ndrek Ndoja
and his brother. The blood-feud became huge. Now, one of the people mostly in
danger is Arben Zef Ndoka, who had to live hidden, even though he had no
guilt. His father had killed two people to take avenge his brother and
according to the Canon now blood had to be shed again, even innocent blood. Arben hides his wife and the two twins by his brother in
law in Lezhë. They live isolated with the fear that
sooner or later they would be killed. Many women and children have been
killed in similar situations, but the destiny and God was with this family,
about which we’re writing, even openly, illustrated with their picture, as
one of the cases that accuses the madness of medieval revenge. Since January
of this year, Arben Zef Ndoka left Albania, forever, as the only way to save his
life. He and his family are wanted by the avenger, though they don’t have the
littlest responsibility. This medieval phenomenon that during these last 18
years, since after the fall of the communist dictatorship, the wildest in the
world, has been spreading, risking thousands of innocent lives, as well as
the development of the Albanian society.
The Editorial
Office
A Calvary of
persecution
 Like no other country in the world,
Albania became an example of communist crimes. If anyone would cross the
border, because couldn’t suffer the persecution, then all the relatives was
considered “enemy” of the popular power. Thus, in the summer of 1990, Mark Gjuraj from Pentar of Dajç, (now the municipality of Dajç),
crosses the state border, leaving behind a long Calvary of sufferings for his
family. His brother, Tomë Luigj
Gjuraj, was provoked by the security of the
dictatorial state and threatened to detention or deportation. Therefore,
though with his life in danger, Tomë Gjuraj, in December 1990, with a group of
anti-communists, as they had nothing to lose but life already in danger,
founded the section of the Democratic Party in the village Pentar and organized people for an Albania without
dictatorship. A democrat member and activist like him,
became the target to be killed. Many of his friends indeed are buried now. On
April 2, 1991, in the center of the city the communists at the presence of
70.000 peaceful protesters, killed Arben Broci, Bujar Bishanaku, Nazmi Kryeziu and Besnik Ceka, and wounded 63 people and used violence on hundreds
others, using not only guns but tanks too. The democrat Tomë
Gjuraj also was selected to be killed, according to
the official testimony signed and sealed by the head of the Democratic Party
for Shkodër, the most persecuted town in Albania,
the city where the dictatorship had fired 63 innocent priests. This document
is in the files of this journal. A true aspirant of the values of democracy,
in all the voting processes, Tom was distinguished as an activist of the DP,
as a commissioner in the voting centers, defending the vote that was often
manipulated by socialist, who used violence and killed commissioners. Threats
were very serious, especially after 1997. Exactly on June 24, 1997,
monitoring on behalf of the DP in Pentar, defending
the sacred vote, as he didn’t want the offerings, he suffered physical
violence by representatives of the SP. Based on a document signed and sealed
by the head and the secretary of the DP in Shkodër,
and according to the evidence we gathered, on June 23, 2001, he was
mistreated and beastly beaten by supporters of the Socialist Party and the
police, by the voting center of Dajç, in the
campaign of the Democratic Party, whose member and activist was since its
foundation. The next day, on June 24, 2001, three police officers bruised and
eye and broke a tooth while beating him. The same day he was also arrested
and kept in the police station for a few hours. This wasn’t the worst of
cases. Many serious threats follow him continuously, until he couldn’t suffer
anymore, but find the way to leave the country where he aspired to establish
justice. This is the bitter truth of a democrat, who, likewise many others,
begun the very hard way of leaving his country, just to save his life.
Ndue Bacaj
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