Victims of the free votes

Albania and the Albanians still have in their memory astonishing events following the parliamentary elections of June 2001. The winner was obviously the politics of crime, the state of masks, the one who have their hand with blood. The communist state, the state of the sons of the persecutors, after the communist revolution of 1997, made of Albania a reserve of crime, corruption, trafficking and insecurity for the life and property, as killers of dreams and wishes. The socialist government, successor of the wildest dictatorship in Europe, is going on in a refined way persecuting its citizens. The victims of those antidemocratic expeditions are mostly those who have progressive ideas, who see the future of the country on in the lawful state, the justice as the philosophy of the democratic governing. The communist gaggle becomes wilder, and more bloodthirsty chiefly in the political areas, during elections, more than ever. They act directly on the free vote, using their power, as unconfident of their voters and on those who were willing to sacrifice for this element that makes democracy meaningful. To keep the position of the victorious, in the conditions of a disreputing loss, it gives way to the crime, as unable to have principles and discernment. The leading part of this political masquerade of the new communist area the masked people. That’s why there are many victims of “the state of masks”. Neither the policemen who try to do their job properly, are excluded from this violence, psychological pressure and threats of death. A typical event occurred in the voting center Nr. 58 in the 6-th area where the policemen Agron Mema and Albert Hoxha were in service. This was the area of Mr. Skënder Cota, the candidate of the Democratic Party, and of Mr. Maksut Balla, for the Socialist Party. Agron Mema was more exposed victim of the state of vampires as he came from a patriotic family with anticommunist ideas, with a sad persecution background and with a great engagement for the democratic movements. The two policemen are the victims of doing their job, between many names of the victims of terrible events filling the bloody diary of the elections of 2001. Albert Hoxha is killed and Agron Mema is injured while fighting the masked people who tried to take away the voting boxes. The state of crime had not enough and kept on by trying to hide the facts. This and the frequent “visits” of the police at the home of Agron Mema are the cause he felt forced to leave his home without any address. His family hasn’t yet any news bout him, who had to leave to save his life because he was doing his job. The situation in Agron’s family seems more tragic as his parents feel sad about him, while it is even harder for his brother Maliq, as his “hostility” to the new communist power is caused mainly by Maliq’s perseverance in the anticommunist movement. “My brother was forced to leave as his life was in danger” – said Maliq, Agron’s brother, for the “Shqipëria Etnike” journal. “What happened on the parliamentary elections of June 2001 turned out to be a disaster not only for Agro, our brother, but for all the democrats as well, who had to pay dearly the free vote and the protection of the free will of the people” – adds Maliq. This tragical destiny of the honest democrat people is an Albanian reality, the X-rays to this country that as soon as it comes out from a tunnel, enters another. One year later, the Albanians remember the victims while the politics of crime gets fatter and prepares to make new steps toward the psychological assimilation of the people making of them submitted slaves. The mothers cry for their killed sons. Agron Mema isn’t home today because he wanted to do his job protecting the will of the people, while the family of his colleague has one year missing him. Let these victims be an appeal to the Albanian political class, for the international factor and all those who want a European Albania, an Albania of each and every one.

Albert Vataj

The crime with political background

There is a proverb in the Bible that says: “When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; But when a wicked rules, the people groan.” In the post communist Albania, the people groan, for the wicked and the criminal rules. This was the case of the good Albanian man who gave so much for the democratic processes in Albania, the well-known democrat Rito Sinishtaj. He was many times the target to be fired by the communists who accidentally rule over Albania today. These dictators killed many democrats particularly during these last five years, as they are trying to cut off Leka Zogu, the heir of the Royal Throne, just because they fear his organization, also supported by the Democratic Party. Rito Sinishtaj, Gjek Malocaj as the chairman of a voting center along with the vice chairman Sander Malocaj and the observers Ded Malocaj and Fran Prelaj and a group of democrats had suffered pressures the night of June 23, 2001, when receiving the voting boxes for the elections of June 24, 2001 for the deputies in the Albanian Parliament. This was to make them vote for the socialist party, the communists, against the democratic party of Sali Berisha. The police of Shkodra didn’t let them in the voting center, as they didn’t obey to that request. This violent police was accused by the Democratic and the Democristian Party, who accused particularly the former vice director of the police of the District of Shkodra, Fran Noka. The condition although unconstitutional was: Either you vote for the socialist party, or you won’t vote, for this is the command. This wasn’t only the case of Trush, Velipoja, Vau i Dejës, Koplik, Korça, Tirana, but in the most of the electoral districts of the whole Albania.

These facts followed by violence and anarchy, make responsible this state who stole the votes with the power of tanks, this state who tortures, violates, arrests, kills or forces the political opposers to leave their country, just to save their life.

Vasel Gilaj

Kosovo, the shivering tragedy

The Kosovars, have suffered a lot more than many people in the world during their existence. You can believe this when you see what we saw, while we were sent by the “Shqipëria Etnike” journal in Hoqe-Mhallë of Prizren. You can feel pain, to much pain for the problems there, where the life is in danger above all, because of the conflicts which make valueless the human life. Kosovo has given many lives to live free. The case of Adrian Hasani is a shivering tragedy, even when you write it down to make it known to the world as an example of the bitter reality, of the antihuman model. He, as well as others, was many times violented by the Serb forces. As a younger, thinking that the Serbs could even kill him, he decides to leave Kosovo seeking the life that only God should take away just as He alone did give it. For his wonder, the Serbs search violently his house for illegal possesion of guns. What makes this more concerning is the fact that KLA forces were linked to that happening, who have also beaten the members of his family. This good Kosovar, respected still today, had his face fractured. His brother was almost killed because of the beats. The members of the KLA said to the Serbs to touch nothing in thet house as they wanted to come back the next day to take them away. But where did they want to take them, what was the reason?! This is still unknown, as well as many other thing in the martyr Kosovo. Adrian Hasani leaves Kosova, although with fractures, and after a difficult journey of two days arrives in Macedonia. By the half of December 1999, as he couldn’t be in touch with the family, he leavs for England, where he hoped to live. It is wondering the fact that still today, according to some sure information we have, Adrian Hasani is wanted to be killed, while his family has left somewhere toward West. Their house is empty today, destroyed, without anyone inside, lifeless. This family is a victim not only of the Serbs, but perhaps of certain mafious groups of the Albanians of Kosovo.

Flori Slatina

Albania, the country of the incomparable conflicts

The Albanians in general dislike conflicts, and even more the murders. You find out that they could manage to stop them, if you search the story, even when there were serious conflicts. It is to be estimated the last initiative of the Missionaries for the Reconciliation and Peace in the northern area of Albania, Malësi e Madhe, where the goal is to restrict the blood feud only to the killer. This seems to be difficult for the moment, but most of the people agree with this. The North Albania has more problems with this, than the South, for the simple reason of the strong proud personality of them. Today in Shkodra alone there are 530 families shut in because of blood feud. Many innocent women and the children, who had to go to school or play with their friends, are deprived of every human right. The picture illustrating this piece of writing shows an Albanian woman with three children, victim of the blood feud for many years. The woman you see is Luke Zefi and has no fault, yet a phone call in our editorial office the last night, makes us know that the house she was shut in, was robbed and burned up. The motive is thought to be the blood feud of some years ago. Her husband Bernard Zefi, from Beltoja, of Berdica in the region of Shkodra, born on 1965, had a conflict since many years ago, as the state is incompetent, after staying shut in for a few years, left Albania two years ago, to save his life, leaving his wife and the three children to their destiny. Thanks God they escaped from burning out in their house.

The serious problem of blood feud in Albania has a background of a life of sacrifices, sufferings and blood. The Missionaries for Reconciliation and Peace have interceded for reconciliation for the family of Bernard Zefi, but were not successful. Didn’t you even think about this category of people, you so called state, you who want their vote every time the elections come, who make the enmities enlarge every day? We say this because in the whole world, when someone kills, the state gives the capital punishment, while in Albania there isn’t death penalty even if someone killed one hundred of people, but there isn’t even the slightest effort to arrest the criminals. The police can always find the murdered but not the murderer. These are true facts that make Albania occupy the first place in the world because of the conflicts and blood feud.

Sokol Pepushaj

The war in Kosovo has brought destruction in the Albanian families

Our journal is interested on the families who were destroyed by the war in Kosovo, as it was bloody, separating the parents from their children, the husband from their wives, the brothers between each other.

In a report from Gjakova of the Italian journalist Luciano Berri, who had met the mother Dila Kroni, in her interview she had affirmed she had three sons, one in America and the other two had departed for Germany, while she thought one of them, Nik Kroni, born on April 5, 1968, was in England. She remembers that her sons left with the sons of the neighbours, as she fanatically preserves the picture of her son. Because we as parents are old we couldn’t depart with them. They departed with the sons of the neighbours as there were Kol Duka, Pjetër Kola and some others. Kol came back and was killed. She had no news from her son, but she thinks her son Tonin along with his wife Edlira and the son Romario are in England, according to some uncertain information she had.

This mother, having no news about her sons scattered in America, Germany and England, hopes they are fine, and she also hpes to see and join them as soon as possible.

Lonely and without support from anyone, she moves around in her house destroyed by the war, with tears in her eyes, with the pictures of the son. The situation i Kosovo is still unclear while none takes care of her and this poor mother is lonely in the hands of the destiny.

The murders in Kosovo go on while one year ago Gjergj Kroni was murdered. These murders are continuous because of terrorist elements who want to eliminate the youth and make situations of ethnic and religious conflicts between Albanians. This mother is every day waiting to see and join her sons as soon as possible.

Zef Nika