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Conflicts
that warn for victims
The property conflict has lastly
registered many innocent victims. The Law 7501, a debatable law, is taking
away human lives every day. Yet, recently, the Prime Minister Berisha defended the law as the best possible and was
very severe with the local authorities who speculated with their authority
usurping many properties for themselves or profiting economically, and also
causing conflicts to grow. No matter the Government started an urgent
commission for the properties, yet there are many conflicts. The highest
number of victims was registered in North Albania, where people make the law
as they want.
In this article we want to talk about a conflict for the land, in the village
of Drisht, in Postrribë,
that warns for victims. The citizen Shendet Bahçja, born on January 28, 1973, and his relatives, are
in very serious danger. The cause of this conflict is the land. The Law 7501
has given the land to this citizen, making him the proprietor, but the
citizen next door, Maliq Curri,
does not agree with that. The conflict between the two families degenerated
into pressure and violence. There’s no law to defend from the primitive
pressure a piece of ground given according to the law, when someone makes up
his mind to take it forcedly without considering the law. Because of the
pressure and violence, the family Bahçja couldn’t
dare to use this piece of land, otherwise there’s a bullet waiting for them.
On May 15, 2007, Brahim Halil
Bahçja, the brother of Shendet,
while defending himself, wounded with a hoe Maliq Curri, for this last one went to the land and found him
sowing some pepper so he attempted to kill him. For self-defense, he hit Curri with the tool. The wounded didn’t report this to
the police, probably feeling guilty and wanting to revenge according to the
laws of the medieval Canon, the very powerful and authoritative laws of this
Canon. Now, according to the tradition, the family Bahçja
has to pay with a human life the wound caused, although for self-defense. The
family Curri wants to revenge. Since that dark day
of may 15, 2007, Brahim
and Shendet Bahçja with
their families live hidden. They have already presented the problem to the
Association of the Missionaries of Peace and Reconciliation of Albania, that with the official document with protocol
number 171 - we have this document in our editorial office - declares the
conflict and its impossibility until now to resolve the problem. They told us
they were doing their best, but the family Curri
doesn’t want to reconcile. Thus, this conflict might bring to victims.
Arben Cubaj
Victim
of Mafia’s scenes
Though he invested for a democratic
Albania, free and without violence, he became a victim of violence and
injustice. Renato Nogaj was a young boy in the
beginning of the democratic processes, by the beginning of 1990, when he
joined the protesters against the dictatorship symbols and ideology in Shkodër. He was born on April 27, 1968, in a family that
was despised and mistreated by communism, and he grew up with a heart full of
hate for dictatorship. Renato Nogaj was at the head
of the anticommunist protest to pull down the b ust
of Stalin on
January 14, 1990, as well as in that of Enver Hoxha on December 13, 1990. As a young guy, 22 years old,
he was beaten with barbarity by the police of Ramiz
Alia, which also killed people, as it happened with the martyr of democracy, Pëllumb Pëllumbi, whose funeral
on June 16, 1990, turned into protest with public slogans against Ramiz Alia, Nexhmije Hoxha and all the Political Bureau of the PL. Then it
came the April 2, 1991, when the youth of Shkodra
burned up the building of the Committee of PL in Shkodër,
while protesting for the votes stolen by the communist police and the
violence on those in opposition with the regime. In that day 63 people were
wounded, hundreds were beaten and ill-treated and in the middle of the city
were shot dead Arben Broci,
Bujar Bishanaku, Nazmi Kryeziu and Besnik Ceka. Renato Nogaj was one of those who suffered violence by the
police on his frail body that aspired only for freedom. Since then he became
part of the black list to be killed, like many have been killed until now. On
September 14, 1998, in the funeral of Azem Hajdari, the martyr of freedom and democracy in Albania,
the deputy shot at the center of Tirana, Renato Nogaj,
who was amongst those participating in the funeral, was beaten with rubber
sticks by the police. After he was restored, and was hidden for sometime, then menaces started through phone-calls and
anonymous letters. As he saw many of his friends being killed, he found the
way to go in Italy. There he was in good conditions, but those who wanted to
eliminate him, found him even there. But they found him with a family, his
wife and two children. A few times ago in Italy, he escaped miraculously to a
murder attempt. Somebody placed explosive in his car which blew up and was
burned, but Renato wasn’t in it, luckily. According to the Italian police,
the explosive was placed in a bottle. Even in Italy his life and his family
were in danger. The screenplay of Mafia seems to be accurately composed and
this family is in the target to be eliminated.
Vasel Gilaj
A
53 years old mother in serious danger
She is 53 years old and has three
children living and working in Greece from years. A few days ago, with tears
in her eyes, she declared for the “Shqipëria Etnike” newspaper that she wants to sell her house and
that her life is threatened so that she can never return to the city she
loved so much. “I was also in America, but I didn’t think about staying
there”, says Drita Nezir Alija. Her situation is really tragic. This because of a very known businessman in all North Albania. Drita Alija happened to be the
sister in law of the failed businessman Petrit Zenuni, thus she suffered many pressure and life threats.
Zenuni had borrowed huge sums of money,
that he couldn’t give back after his bankrupt, so he disappeared. The
part of his business was taken by the banks where he got credit, but the
individual moneylenders want their money. Thus, they want to
take forcedly the house of Drita in Shkodër. Drita and her sister, Liljana, the wife of the failed businessman, had
inherited a house from their father. She was at peace with herself until now,
as she lived and worked in Corfu of Greece, along with her two daughters,
while her son was now living regularly in America. Yet, those ho want to take her house because of the debts of her
brother in law, Zenuni, could find her even there.
They make menacing phone-calls and send people, paid from Albania, to chase
her. As she felt the danger of physical elimination, she said that she called
the police of Shkodra, from Corfu, and the police
asked her to return in Albania, and she did come. She made her report and
asked for protection from the state that couldn’t even protect the
Albanian-American businessman Kosta Trebicka, now dead, the key witness who testified clearly
the corrupted affair of the Chinese armament with false labels, between the
American Company “AEY” and the Albanian one “MEIKO”. Even after her report,
she noticed people around her house, so she couldn’t even stay there. As long
as she stayed in Shkoder she had to stay hidden. Even her sister, Liljana Zenuni, is a year that
is hiding. Drita’s house was also broken in, though
she reported. She, therefore, feels in serious danger, that’s why she weeps
when she says that there’s no way out, for now they know where she lived in
Greece and in Shkoder she has this feeling of being killed if she returns.
Rifat Ymeri
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