nr. 29 / 13 gusht 2002

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WHY THERE WON'T BE A NEW GENERATION FOR KOSOVA

Jetmir Halil born the 1st of December 1981 a citizen of Peje until May 1999.It is said the Halil family fled Peje in May 1999 to Macedonia as the family feared for their safety.It is believed by members of the town of Peje that jetmirs father Ibrahim who was a member of the LDK killed a man from the Dendreu family, as we understand it Ibrahim was left with no choice but to carry out the killing.the man from the Dendreu family was a spy for the Serbs and LDK wanted him killed.The LDK threatened Ibrahims own life and also that of his family if he did not carry out the execution.Ibrahim carried out the task set for him by the LDK, but was then at risk from the Serbs and the KLA, it also led to a blood feud with the remaining members of the Dendreu family so he fled with his family to Macedonia to avoid the laws of the canon of the mountains that becomes so mighty where the law fails and there is no power of state and would lead to members of the Dendreu family to kill any member of the Halil family on sight and also to avoid the threats of the political organisations, the family were believed to have stayed with distant relatives in Macedonia.No one seems to know where they ended up or even if they are alive today.Friends of the Halil family have not heard anymore from them and are sure that they were killed or they would have been in touch by now.The Halil family are still sought after by the Dendreu family and political organisations.This is just another story of a small Kosova family along with the thousands of similar stories.Kosovans are still unable to return home as they are still sought after on a regular basis for their desertion, crimes or loyalties to political organisations of either the LDK, KLA or Serbs.

Flori Slatina

Alban Preka, victim and accuse

He is a young Albanian, just like many other his anticommunist friends, of the same age. He is an innocent victim of the extremist red gangs, the fascist anarchy, and also a heavy accusation to this state that is day by day increasing the political terror against democrats. His name is Alban Pjetër Preka. His parents, Pjetër and Luke Preka come to our journal as political persecuted since the time of Enver Hoxha, as well as activists to build up the democracy in Albania, although they have suffered violence, threats and continuous political discrimination.

Alban Preka, as a young boy, with a vision for a democratic Albania, was admitted in 2000 as a member of the Youth Forum of the DP in Shkodra. He was distinguished in many anticommunist protests, hitting so the eye of the gangs guided by hidden segments of the security of this violent state. This democrat was particularly distinguished for defending the votes of the candidate of the DP, Valentin Palaj, in the area nr. 4, in the parliamentary elections of June 24, 2001, for the communists had planned to steal the votes with tanks, guns and police violence, the same way they did in the South of Albania. The democrat deputy Valentin Palaj could be sent in the Albanian Parliament only facing the violence and banal pressures. But the communists transformed in socialists, sons of their fathers, put in their target of revenge all those who supported the DP. Over 100 of democrat commissioners of that time were arrested; hundreds of others suffered physical violence, filling up the hospitals, until these days when the red lists of the communists encircle the names of people just like animals. They kill, deceive and steal until forcing the democrat Alban Preka to leave Albania, after suffering so much violence. He left in the hope to escape from firing! There are many cases like this, and all those are accusations to this state, unworthy to be called like this.

Albert Vataj

Flutur Shabaj pays for her sacred ideal

The revenge of the beast of the new communists, who usurped the power in 1997 have no principles. All the democrats have been and are being condemned, neither the women are spared. They’re not just victims of attacks, beating and insults, but also being kidnapped and forced to make the prostitutes by the ways of Europe. Albania has become a country of mafia, a second Sicily. Our journal has made public and will keep on doing these dangerous facts, although our journalists have been shot, as it was the case of our subeditor, Vasel Gilaj, one month ago. In a few words, the democratic ideals in Albania are being condemned even with death, by the anarchists on power. This happened to the well-known democrat of Malësi e Madhe, the northern region of Albania, Flutur Shabaj, born on June 21, 1981. She was brought up in a family of anticommunists. Her grandfather, as a nationalist and anticommunist, fought against the establishment of the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, since the founding of the Albanian Communist Party. Her uncle, Marash Shabaj, has been condemned twice of political imprisonment. Her father, Lulash Shabaj, has been condemned and tortured as a Christian, for the support given to the religion and the cult objects. Flutur Shabaj was a victim of the repressions by the dark forces with political support. After 1997, the abovementioned democrat, although facing the pressures, was distinguished for a democratic spirit and ideal, for her efforts to do something, to put an end to the violence, discrimination and terror in Albania, but had to face these same factors. On July 2, 2001, just a few days after the parliamentary votes were stolen by the communists, openly contested by the opposition, the family of this democrat has faced violence. The goal of those gangs, led by politicians, was to kidnap Flutur Shabaj, obviously to take revenge on her family and to send her somewhere for prostitution. She was beaten along with her father and other members of her family, and only by chance she escaped the kidnapping. There have been other efforts like that, so she was forced to go abroad, in the ways of hope, like many others. In this way she was forced to stop her work in the movement for democracy.

Sokol Pepushaj

The broken peace of Balkans

The confusion and the insecurity of life for the people of the Balkans is still one of the most discussed questions in the tables of the European politicians. The peoples of the Balkans in general, but particularly the Albanian people in Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro etc., during these last ten years have left their homes to go toward European countries and beyond, just to save their life and that of their families. The insecurity of life in the communities of these three countries has opened conflicts even within those communities.

We want to publish the case of Lulzim Veli Dervishaj, born on January 25, 1972, married, with two children, inhabitant of the village Miratovs in the municipality of Presheva. His brother, Mustafa Dervishaj was ill-treated, and because of the violence he suffered, he died in the Serb prisons.

In these circumstances, Lulzim Dervishaj, ex-soldier of the UÇPMB, from September 24, until April 2001, leaves his military responsibility, as scared to be caught by the Serbs. He went in a European country along with his family. His dissertation from the military responsibility for the liberation of those municipalities of Albanian nationality, caused Lulzim Dervishaj to have the insecurity of life even by his own friends, who will surely fire him and his family, as soon as he returns there, considered a traitor to his military responsibility.

We feel to ask if there will ever be peace in the Balkans if this comes even within the communities…

Bukurije Hysenukaj

The troubled Prizren

The Serbs have always followed the politic of destroying everything and submitting the innocent people of Kosovo. The criminal Slobodan Milosevic, in addition to the massacres, killing thousands of Albanians, could also penetrate and put within the Albanians a politic of destroying. In Prizren, for example, you can still meet and experience moments of sadness when you come to know that the Albanian from Prizren, Bashkim Bejtja, or even Besnik Limani, and many others are sought to be fired, as spies of the Serbs against the KLA. But how much based are these accusations? Could it be that even within the Albanian community happen evil deeds and some political or terrorist organization wants the Albanians destroyed?

The Albanians of Kosovo have always showed to be tolerant even in the former Yugoslav Federation, when Milosevic sent the tanks against them. The father of the Kosovar, Bashkim Bejtja was a teacher of the Albanian language. He was sought by the Serbs, just like many others, to be arrested, or maybe killed. As they couldn’t find him, they burned up his house. His son, Bashkim, had left Prizren, terrorized. He was in the lists of the KLA, for the war in Kosovo needed people, but he had left. This was enough to make this Albanian part of the list of those considered “traitors”, and sought to face the law of war. There are many cases like this in Prizren, and they need the maturity of the Albanians, to be solved, for all the Kosovars are heroes who struggled with the antihuman beast, the regime of Milosevic.

Zog Hysenaj

The freedom and hope are killed

Since 1997 on, the state mafia has killed the hopes and the liberty to the simple Albanians and all the anticommunist democrats. Over 4500 innocent Albanians, over 200 of policemen as well as dozens of politicians and activists of the opposition, have been killed; the votes of the local elections of October 1, 2000 and those of the parliamentary elections of June 24, 2001 have been stolen. Many Albanians have disappeared. Such is the case of Gëzim Dedë Steri. This good Albanian, this young democrat, who had gained the respect and the confidence of his friends since he was a student, following democratic visions and activities, since 1997 is disappeared, and nothing is known about him, either he is fired by some gangs or if he is hidden somewhere. At that time, when the communists were doing their Bolshevik revolution to put down the democratic power, in the spring of 1997, in Shkodra, the city of the Albanian anticommunism, a gang politically supported, shot on this guy and his father, Dedë Llesh Steri. Dedë was wounded, while his son, Gëzim Steri has disappeared. There are many cases like this, as a “gift” from the dictators, who keep on exercising violence and discrimination on the political oppositors.

Zef Nika

Those who “performed” the war in Kosovo, shouldn’t destroy the peace

Since 1999, when the blessed Albanian area, the martyr Kosovo gained the liberty dreamed of for centuries, we as a journal have not only visited Kosovo several times, but it was also the subject of our articles. Unfortunately we have often been forced to write more about the troubled peace of the Kosovars, than about their dreamed liberty. And the missing liberty is still being dreamed today, when Kosovo is not only self governed, but when even the United Nations exercise their continuous care on it. This means that “Someone” in Kosovo is interested that in this beautiful Albanian area might never be liberty and peace, for which were made great sacrifices during the centuries. It is even more unbelievable that the liberty of Kosovo is troubled by those who performed the war to gain these days of independence, missing for so long. Their name is meaningful and familiar, the KLA (Kosovo’s Liberation Army), which did really perform the war, but is unable to perform peace. Probably the Marxist reminiscences of some military leaders of the KLA, still trouble them, in order to makethe liberty might be not of all the Kosovars, but, just like the communists in Albania, only to those who considered it personal, while the rest is persecuted and deprived of everything. These cases are numerous, unfortunately, but I want to bring here one of them. This was told to me by the inhabitants, when I was in the municipality of Skënderaj. This was significant to me because it had to do with a young Kosovar, who had made the effort to care for Kosovo since the beginning, with the energy of the young age. The Serb criminals had cut off his dream, putting enmity between him and his friends of KLA. This young Kosovar is Durim Rexha from Skënderaj of Kosovo. He was born on February 4, 1981, and is just 21 years old, and when he joined the KLA, he was just 17 years old. In 1998, when the KLA came in the troubled sky of Kosovo, Durim Rexha was on of the first of his age to join it. He was assigned along with some of his friends to make life unsupportable to the Serbs in the municipality of Skënderaj, exercising violence and terror on them, for these Serbs were collaborators with the state. One day the young Durim Rexha was arrested by the Serb Police, and with e typical military Serb judgment at the center of the municipality of Skënderaj, condemned him with indefinite prison, with the accusation of exercising violence and terror on the Serb inhabitants of Kosovo. The criminal Serbs, who had invaded Kosovo, might have forced him, during the investigations, to tell the members of the group (KLA), his collaborators. And the group was totally eliminated after this, while Durim was set free after some time. But now he was accused by the same KLA, as a traitor of the KLA and of Kosovo, and the condemnation was with death. During the years of war, Durim was forced to stay hidden somewhere, waiting the liberation of Kosovo, hoping to make everything clear after that, and if he had done a mistake, to be forgiven, justifying the “betrayal” by his young age, although his parents couldn’t believe Durim had betrayed, but this was just made up by certain groups of the KLA, who had collaborated with the Serbs. In the municipality of Skënderaj, even today come groups of the KLA (not wearing the military uniform as some times ago), who want the “traitor” Durim, whom they want to arrest and condemn as a traitor of the Kosovo and the KLA. This decision is in charge until they (those eternal “soldiers” of the KLA), are alive. Durim fortunately is not in Kosovo, to be condemned and fired just like many of his friends, but it’s enough for him missing Kosovo, for this beautiful country needs of its’ sons, although they might have made any mistake.The main responsibility for this is of the Albanian of Kosovo, although the KFOR forces are trying to do their job…

Ndue Bacaj

The Albanians leave their country just like in dictatorship times

No matter there are over 10 years Albania has gained the liberty of the pluralist ideologies, this is practically just written, for the communists, back on power since 1997, keep on persecuting their political opposites, who are forced to leave their country, in order to save their lives and that of their families. One of the most touched areas, by this forced exodus, is the area symbol of anticommunism, Malësi e Madhe. One of those poor emigrants is Artur Sahit Curaj. He was born on January 11, 1978, in the village Zagora in the municipality of Shkrel in M. Madhe. Mr. Artur is one of those young active guys in the propaganda for the Democratic Party. He became oe of the most distinguished members of the D. Party. His activity was particularly known during 1997 when the communists were coming back on power with violence, burning up and destroying the Institutions of the Democratic State. With their return Artur Curaj kept on his anticommunist activity, and during the elections he was a commissioner of the voting commissions, in the local elections in 2000, as well as in those parliamentary in 2001. While exercising his activity as a commissioner, Mr. Artur was threat many times by the secret police of the socialist state. He was threatened not only morally byt even physically, being beaten and ill-treated many times, continuously asking him to leave aside his anticommunist convictions otherwise they would kill him, just like many of the “sons” of Sali Berisha. During the parliamentary elections in the area nr. 2, on June 24, 2001 he was a commissioner and the candidate of the Union for Victory, but with the power of the guns and threats, the police ill-treated the democrat commissioner Artur Curaj, as he didn’t permit them to change the results of the voting, and this caused to him the arrest, but because for his fortune, with God’s help, he escaped the police and left Albania definitely, to go in another country to survive.

Vasel Gilaj