When Albania is desolated, the government rejoices

$Description: D:\gazeta\Shqipëria Etnike\internet\she23\amazona frangaj.jpg$ Shkodra and Malësia e Madhe, the two areas symbol of anticommunism in Albania, which are being desolated by the youth, the energy of the today’s dark brought in by the new communists since 1997, and of the violent future prepared by those on power, with their Mafioso-communist leading ways. The methods of physical and psychological ill-treats, the violence and threats have strained the democrats to leave their fatherland and go throughout the streets of the world.

In this writing I want to remember the symbol of the democratic anticommunist youth, the unforgettable Amazona Luigj Frangaj, who had this undesired bad “destiny” while in the finest period, while making dreams of a happy future in her country. Those dreams were cut by the socialist state, forcing her to leave the country she loved. Amazona Luigj Frangaj was born on October 7, 1982 in Shkodra, in a family from Malësia, to whom the communists had denied their countryside (for they were form Hot of Malësi, close to the border) making them go through all the Calvary of the communist persecution since 1945, when Prelë Frangaj, Amazona’s uncle was imprisoned for political motives. There were imprisoned also her first cousin Mark Nikoll Frangaj as well as her uncles Zef Tol Cuku and Gjeto Tol Cuku, who had participated in the anticommunist insurrection along with their uncle Prek Cali. During those difficult years, Amazona’s family was expropriated and was interned in the villages of Lushnja as enemies of the communism. In 1998 Luigj Frangaj, Amazona’s father was jailed by the communist regime for political motives, and was released only with the beginning of the political pluralism and the coming of the democracy. Obviously this family joined the Democratic Party as one of the most active in the anticommunist meetings and protests of 1990-1992, and even after the return of the communists on power on 1997. Apart from Luigj and Mare, Amazona’s father and mother, who were members of the DP since 1991, as well as the other members of this family, even Amazona was growing. After 1997 she was on of the spotlighted younger propagating the alternatives of the Democratic Party, and also criticizing the communist authorities. She was admitted in the Youth Forum of the Democratic Party, and later on as a member of the DP. During those years (1997-2001) Amazona stood out for the activity and participation in the anticommunist protests and activities organized by the DP in Shkodra. During the elections of October 2000 she was an overseer in the voting centers of the city. After that, the communist authorities started their vengeance, with their fascist methods, with violence and psychological or physical ill-treatments. Mrs. Amazona experienced this terror on November 16 to 19, 2000. In addition to the physical and psychological violence, she experienced the violence of the criminals of the state who jailed her in the police prisons on those days. When she was set free she was menaced as being this only the beginning…, and this would be the destiny of her father, Luigj who was jailed on November 24-25, 2000. After that, Amazona had to suspend her studies in the secondary school, following them in secret from December 2000 till February 2001. The watchful communist discovered her hiding home, so Mrs. Amazona was forced to leave her country, to save her life, going in a foreign country…

By: Albert Vataj

Shan Sokoli

The escape without return of Qazim Hasani from Prizren!

$Description: D:\gazeta\Shqipëria Etnike\internet\she23\qazim.jpg$ They lived like everyone else, in almost normal conditions in “Bajram Curri” road of the historical town of Prizren. Shyqyri Hasani along with his wife Bafte had raised in great difficulties their two children Qazim, born on October 16, 1976, and their daughter Bukurie, who were educated with the patriotism and love for their country and birthplace Kosova, which was suffering for many years under the Serb bloodthirsty regime. Along with the joy of raising their children starts the later on tragedy for the whole family Hasani… Bukuria, Qazim’s sister, who was really beautiful, falls in love with a Serb of the Drashkoviq family from Mitrovica. After the marriage of Bukuria, on May of 1997, some kosovar Albanians stop Qazim on the street and calling him “traitor” of Kosovo, insult and hit him barbarously, so that he can hardly go back home. His father Shyqyri counsels him not to give report and stay away from the Albanians! One month later a police van comes to their home and maltreats all the family with the excuse of checking for guns. Under the menaces to death by radical Albanian groups and armed Serb policeman, the father of Qazim becomes a member of the DLK. Only one month following this incident the police, unable to find the father capture his son Qazim keeping him for three days in the police cells where he is barbarously ill-treated, and is set free only after promising to serve them. After curing the wounds for two months, Qazim too becomes a member of the DLK and starts the distribution of tracts from this organization toward KLA. In one case Qazim and a friend of him are arrested and sent to the nearest police station, where interviewed by the officers of the UDB (the Serb secret service). Here Qazim knows the accusations against him and his father, as wanted and people of great danger for the Serb constitutional order! Under the physical violence and the psychological pressures, Qazim found his only way of escape the cooperation with the secret service, giving names and concrete details for the fighters and the fighting actions of the KLA. The KLA members knew Qazim’s confessions also, and ill-treated Qazim’s mother Bafte who lived in solitude, and turned upturned the house while he was in prison. With her husband in the mountains, the son in prison, and the daughter with the “Serb” in Mitrovica, Baftja spent her days in solitude and fear for the other members of the family. This was the situation of the family of Shyqyri Hasani. All menaced, all in danger by the Serbs as well as by the Albanians. Qazim was more in danger for his life. Tens of Albanians named by Qazim in the conditions of psychological pressure and the desire to live, were executed by the Serb secret service. His name was already in the list of the traitors of Kosova, and the slightest condemnation was a bullet on his head. There were no attenuating circumstances for the collaborators of the enemy. They are in the lists of execution and are sought-after all over the world. In these circumstances, with his life in danger, the “deserter” Qazim Shyqyri Hasani from Prizren leaves definitely his birthplace and locates somewhere in a western country where the state works and the life is sheltered by law. Since then his family has no information and no address of the location of Qazim. His two parents Shyqyri and Baftja who live in Prizren and the sister Bukuria, who feels more responsible for the escape of her brother and the tragedy of the family Hasani, they all wait with the hope that he might be “alive” and might be in touch with each-other. “Just to know him alive, no matter if he can never come back in our beloved Kosova. Oh God, for how long?” two tear drops fall on the burnt face of the mother Bafte… And the tragedy goes on… How long?

By: Rifat Ymeri

Malësia e Madhe the Albanian region which is getting deserted

If the civilized democratic world wants original marks of the communist cannibalism, in the Bolshevik dictionary known as the class struggle, they can be found fresh wherever in Albania. The sons of the communists back on power go on with this hunt of sorceresses toward all the democrats, and have perfectioned it to the degree that it is known only when it strikes on your backside. This mortal strikes are experienced moreover the northern and most anticommunist region of Albania, Malësi e Madhe, which every day escorts their sons and daughters toward somewhere out of the country, with the only intention to save their life from the danger of the state.

The names of the Malësor and Albanians who had this bad destiny are thousands, but I want to mention the democrat Mr. Gjokë Kol Pëllumbaj who was born in the village Lepush (of the municipality of Klemend) of Malësi e Madhe in 1959. his family felt the heaviness of the dictatorship since the very first years of the setting up of the communist dictatorship. This dictatorship expropriated the family Pëllumbaj, interned, jailed and fired them. The son of this family, Gjoka, could follow the studies and finish the secondary school, and this school was not a little thing to this deep region of the mountains. He could hardly find a job for a while, but the “vigilant” eye of the Party (the Communist) discerns this and dismisses him. The difficulties of Mr. Gjokë Pëllumbaj grow after he is married with Marije Ndue Lelçaj (Pëllumbaj after the marriage) coming from an anticommunist and persecuted family. Marija’s father, Ndue Lelçaj had been many years a political prisoner. In the beginning of 1990, Mr. Lekë Kol Maçaj (Pëllumbaj), Mr. Gjoka’s brother escapes from Albania. Gjokë is no discouraged by those prosecutions, which added in his heart the hatred toward the communist dictatorship. From the beginning of the democratic and anticommunist developments he and his wife, Mrs. Marije Pëlumbaj join the first democrats and become members of the Democratic Party since its foundation in Malësi e Madhe. Mr. Gjokë is pointed up as an active participant in all the peaceful protests for the pushing down of the communist dictatorship. He was also pointed up in the defense of the democratic state during 1997 when the social-communist bands had set it on fire. Under the democratic government (1992-1997) Mr. Gjokë worked as an economist in the Police Station of Malësi e Madhe, and during this time he came to live in the center of the region, in Koplik where even her wife Marija found a job. After 1997 this democrat is dismissed and threat to pay back his anticommunism very dearly along with his wife. Mr. Gjokë was not discouraged even after this, but worked in the defense of the alternatives of the DP and the right wing runners, being at the head of the elections campaigns. In Malësi e Madhe have generally won the democratic options, which have “disturbed” the sleep of the socialist rulers who have lastingly used violence and terror toward these families, “experienced” also by Mr. Gjokë himself and his family, under threats and ill-treatments, found jobless lacking bread, with no rights and in danger of death for him and his family, facing the threats and maltreatment of the Police and the militants of the socialist state. Obviously to save his life and that of his wife, Mr. Gjokë felt forced to leave to somewhere in foreign countries… For how long we’ll go this way?

By: Ndue Bacaj, Vasel Gilaj

In Skenderaj of Kosovo

Some time passed since the last time we were in the municipality of Skenderaj in Kosovo, or in Strebeq, as the inhabitants call it. We met many friends who were sheltered in Albania during the war, and all of them besides the respect for the mother state and that American and English they spoke well even for the politics of the democratic west to make of Kosovo a modern state with rights as all the other populace. However the kosovars have their souls injured. They still have the pains of the wounds of war, and even the peacekeepers have difficulties to keep the constancy and make things plane. There is a long time needed to find the killed, the buried in the massive burials. A long time is needed to free the prisoners and to have the criminals arrested for crimes against humanity. There’s a tragically fact of a family in the municipality of Skenderaj. Preng Noka, born on February 25, 1974, who joined the Kosova’s Liberation Army, had lost his father Nikolla, since the beginning of the war, and his burial is not yet found even these days. Evidently this man might be in a massive burial. Gjovalin, his brother had left Kosova toward the west since before the war started. Thus, Preng Noka had decided to give the most in the Kosovar Army for the liberation of Kosovo and may be to payback the murder of his father. As a messenger he had a very secret, important and trustworthy task, but also dangerous. Before the war was over in Kosovo, some important leaders of the KLA engaged Preng Noka with an important task in a Serb military camp. The war demands sacrifices, when the person admits these, if not there is to be found someone else. Preng Noka had not agreed to do that task. No one knows the motives. Perhaps he was afraid to be killed, or didn’t want to kill others, although Serbs, enemies of him and his people of Kosovo. After that, some people of KLA have menaced him to death, saying him that he was a catholic as well as the Serbs. His own friends induce him to leave the army. Thus he goes home where he lived with his mother Gjela, while one night of May 2000, a group of people (eight or nine) broke his gate, hit him, and used violence on him and menace to fire him. Everything turns upside-down braking those few things and destroying all the familiar documents. He was told to leave Kosovo otherwise he would be killed. Some criminal organizations are prepared to kill as hired killers. Those people spoke Serbian. His mother had talked with them, but the truth about them is unknown, for in Kosovo there are many criminal organizations. In these circumstances this kosovar has left toward the west countries, to save his life, and his name (according to our certain sources) is still in the black lists to be fired. There are many cases like this in Kosova. In the other editions of “Shqipëria Etnike” we’ll make public other cases.

By: Sokol Pepushaj

The tragedy of the family Zyberi in Kosovo

$Description: D:\gazeta\Shqipëria Etnike\internet\she23\gjokë pëllumbaj.jpg$ A lot of things can be written in the pages of the newspapers, about the genocide the Serbs used on the Albanian people of Kosova.

The terror, murders, violations and devastations have been experienced by a population living in its own land, who sought freedom, its language, school, its flag and independence, denied by a dictatorial fake state.

One of those thousands and thousands people of different ages was even Çlirim Zyberi the young and handsome guy, filled with youth dreams, born in Presheva on April 5, 1984. His father Abdullah and his mother Zuke made great efforts to raise him as an excellent and hard workingman. The same was for his brother Hajri and his sister Merita, who are older than Çlirim.

After a terror used by the Serb forces, along with many other inhabitants of different ages, there were found dead and annihilated the two parents Abdullah and Zuke, in the suburbs of Presheva. Hajri, the older brother vanished, for he was fighting on the mountains with the KLA, but even Çlirim, since 2000 and on is not known his residence. As well as thousands of other families, the family Zyberi was destroyed by the violence. Just in silence, no matter the involvement to establish peace, stability of autonomy by the multinational forces, giving a bad knock to the Serb repression, yet are many the “wounds” and the “wounded” who seek for the needed help, to be in touch with the families and their relatives, for whom even today are not known either alive or dead, or either they live somewhere missing the broken up contact with their families, etc., etc.

By: Bujar Ferhati