nr. 39 / 4 shkurt 2003
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Who
cursed the Albanians saying: “May you depart…”? Our forerunners used to
curse a person, a family saying: “May you depart”, which meant departing from
home, from the country they’re born… Today, although living in the 21st
century we Albanians not only have to depart, but it is being the only safe
way to save the life, seriously in danger by the today’s state. For all the
honest, Albanian patriots indeed the life is unsafe, but this is more evident
for those democrats in particular who have always been the constant opponents
of communism and socialism, even if it has come through guns, like that of
the dark year 1997. The today’s socialist-communist state, in addition to a
half century criminal experience, is getting the experience of international
Mafia and terrorism. This is a reason of concern for The same miserable “destiny” was set aside for the
early democrat and the unwavering anticommunist, Mr. Gjekë
Lekë Smakaj, remembered
(though not present) in the 12th anniversary of the Democratic
Party of Malësi e Madhe,
celebrated in Koplik on January 10, 2003. But who
was this democrat missing this anniversary? The democrat Gjekë
Lekë Smakaj was born in Koplik on Sokol Pepushaj UNMIK
“kneeling down” because of the crimes in Kosovo Since the blessed day of
1999, when Kosovo was set free by the Serb colonizers, the Albanians, pray
the Lord and dream of building up a free democratic state, which might make
possible to all the inhabitants of Kosovo to live in, no matter the race,
nationality, religion or political convictions. Unfortunately an invisible
hand is causing victims every day, shedding the pure blood of the innocent
inhabitants of Kosovo, in opposition to the aspirations they have. This
criminal hand is not being stopped, despite the incessant work of UNMIK and
other security organs, but is having fearing growth. The most significant
case of a new wave of crimes and persecutions, whose target are the Albanians
considered “traitors” of Kosovo and collaborators of Serbs, as well as
political opponents of the political forces coming out from Marxist segments
of KLA, is the murder of Tahir Zema
(leader of KLA) along with his son and his cousin. These murders are always
followed by the “card” signed: “Death to the traitors of KLA”. When UNMIK
tried to arrest criminal elements, or those considered as such, just like
magically hundreds of thousands of citizens of Kosovo have raised protesting
against UNMIK and the security forces, as if they were arresting “glorious”
members of KLA, which has caused not little problem to the true mission of
these international organisms for the security in Kosovo. These cases have been
published by our journal every time we visited Kosovo, in order to make
sensible the national and international opinion, to stop this cancer that is
consuming Kosovo’s frail body. To me as a journalist was important a poor
Kosovar who had left his country by July 2000, right because wanted by
extremist Kosovar groups acting under the sign of KLA. This poor man is Bekim Lekaj, born on May 1,
1979 in Morin of Gjakova. His relatives told us the
story of him and his family, which was reduced to nothing… Nothing because
his house in Morin was blown up, his father and mother were massacred, for
KLA thought they were collaborators of Serbs. The fact they relied upon was
that Bekim’s mother was of Goran
origin, and the Gorans are known as very close to
Serbs. Bekim’s brother had left to unknown address;
maybe he wasn’t any longer alive as the groups of KLA were not seeking him
anymore… Bekim Lekaj
instead was still sought and Bekim’s relatives
could also get a picture of him delivered by those extremist groups using the
sign of KLA, to find him. We are going to publish this picture, hiding the
“identity” of those who gave it to us; otherwise they too would be in serious
danger by those extremist groups. Though it seems unbelievable, since 1998,
with the first organization of the groups of KLA, the young Bekim Lekaj who had joined
those groups, leaders had doubts on him, and he was often provoked and
insulted with the words: “You dirty Goran, don’t
spy us to the Serbs otherwise we’ll cut your tongue, we’ll hang you, etc.
till the day he was forced to leave those groups of KLA. The true ferocity
begun after that, with persecutions inducing him to leave Kosovo, as we
mentioned above. Their relatives and neighbors cried every day upon this
almost destroyed family, as they noticed the last member of the family Lekaj, was still wanted to be killed. Groups of KLA moved
in the darkness of the night checking the area, threatening the neighbors to
tell them if Bekim was to come anytime back in
Kosovo. We were told there was hope for Bekim Lekaj to be alive somewhere. They believed this because
he was still wanted by those military groups, and because of the pictures of
him delivered in order to catch him so that his destiny… is obvious. They
hoped this could never happen… Even we as journalists wish that the life of
this young Kosovar might never fall in the hands of those criminals, whatever
their sign might be… Ndue Bacaj Emigration
and misery, constant traveling companions of Albanians Albania is obviously the
most unlucky country of Europe, having its’ sons and daughters spread (though
unwillingly), over the world as the littlies of the raven. Those emigrations
started early since the Roman…, Slav and over all the Ottoman occupations,
but even after the establishment of the communist system (1944-1990). The emigrations
went on yet after the pluralism, but now they were of simply economical
character. After the return of the neo communists, socialists, on power,
through the Bolshevik revolution of 1997, they brought with them the
emigration of political character. This emigration, for life or death, as the
people says, belongs mostly to the democratic part of population and the
youth in particular, the energy of the country. A tragic part of this is even
Mrs. Mirela Bejto Zekaj (Selgjekaj), born in Koplik (Malësi e Madhe) on November 30, 1983, in a family of early
anticommunist traditions inherited to
this young highlander girl. She had supported the Democratic Party and the
right wing forces in general, following the example of her parents. The
activity of the young Mirela had started since she
was a pupil, growing with her and the alternatives of the DP who fought in
opposition to the forces of darkness and nightmare of the neo communists,
those who murdered on September 12, 1998, the leader of Democracy, the hero
of pluralism, the idol of the democratic youth, Mr. Azem
Hajdari. The anger involved young and old people in
Malësi e Madhe, who
organized many protests, in particular that in the center of Koplik with the initiative of the students of the
secondary school of Koplik led by the member of the
Youth Forum of the DP Mirela Zekaj
(Selgjekaj). This protest took place the day after
the murder of Azem Hajdari,
as it is on September 13, 1998. The main slogans held by the protesters were Down Communism, The socialist rulers are
criminals, Azem Hajdari
is alive, Azem! We’ll avenge you, etc. It was
odd the fact that the police didn’t stop the protest, yet they were
observing, and as soon as the protest was over, some of them were arrested.
One of those was Mrs. Mirela, who was not only
beaten, but also physically and psychologically tortured. She was told the
slogan she was bearing was the most contrasting, as it was Down Communism. She was in the first
line holding that slogan and they had the picture of her taken by the secret
agents. After the tortures they obviously had to set her free, but in an
“original” communist way. After pulling her from the building of the police
department by the road, beating and insulting her in public. The threats were
at their ace on October 2, 2000, the day after the local elections, as she
with some friends had come to know the “design” of the Socialist Party to
steal the votes to the democrat candidates. Mrs. Mirela
reported this design, which would turn the victory in favor of the socialist
candidates, to the Democratic Party and the right wing allies. The communists on power couldn’t “forgive” anymore Mirela, so the fury of threats took place, with insults,
“anonymous” phone calls. The family had hide this young from the vigilant
eyes of the Socialists, in order to save her from possible incidents, causing
her to live hidden, until the day she couldn’t suffer it anymore and her
parents Bejto and Lirije
were forced to pay thousands of dollars to make her leave from the Airport of
Rinas illegally. This “service” and the dollars
were administered by corrupted members of the Socialist state administration.
That bad day for this family was December 25, 2001, the day the parents were
separated from Mirela. Since that day there were
neither phone calls nor letters. It was the doubt that the letters sent by Mirela to her parents were destroyed by the agents of SIS
(as it was the practice of the former security of the state), after read.
Along with those letters it is destroyed little by little the life of this
unlucky family, whose only “guilt” is they want no kind of communism, either
old or new. Albert
Vataj Albanian
youth in the talons of anarchy There is impossible to have
laws and state when it is governed by groups of gangs, thieves, smugglers.
When the mayor of Tirana, Edi Rama is explicitly accused in press conferences
by the opposition, as the head of cleaning the money in Balkans on behalf of
Osama Bin Laden, none can say the life of people, especially of those in
political opposition is protected. It is highly in danger. The young Pllumb Dokaj from Malësi e Madhe, born on October
30, 1982, like many young democrats have been violated and threatened to
death. In the parliamentary elections of June 24, 2001, when the communists
used guns and explosive upon the free vote, Pllumb Dokaj was mistreated and on June 26, 2001, two days after
the elections he was arrested and tortured for political motives in the
prison cells for 23 days. The day of arrest his house was violated motivated
by an “inspection” braking and destroying the household. This violation took
place by midnight. This was likewise that used by Serbs in the Kosovar
families in Slobodan Milosevic times, and this takes place in Albania too.
Even today this young guy is in the lists of death, as the state of anarchy,
through the police that takes out the gun without any motivation and takes
you to the guillotine. The true face of the state is shown in the murder
of Gazmir Tahirllari from
Korça. He had died because beastly beaten by the
police, and this was proved only after his exhumation. Denada Kraja Kosovo
in trouble There are numerous cases of
Albanians having their lives threatened. On August 22, 2000, unknown and
masked people have assailed with bombs the house of Gazmend
Ismajli in the village Beguncë
in the municipality of Vitë. 80% of the house was
damaged, while he found a house in Pristine. Yet he is not calm even there,
as the entire Kosovo is troubled indeed. On July 3, 2002, thus in Bregu i Diellit (Sun Shore), 5th
block, 6th entry, No. 12 in Pristine, to Gazmend
Ismajli and Shpresa Ismajli was thrown a grenade in the house. Experts
noticed that the house was totally damaged. Reliable sources from UNMIK
report that such things are organized to eliminate the members of this
family, whose life is nearer to death than life in Kosovo. There is another trail followed while is thought
terror might have a foundation, as Gazmend Ismajli is married to a woman of Serb nationality. After
the end of war in Kosovo, unknown people have killed her mother Marta Tunajeviç on May 7, 2000, and her body was found some
days later on the fields. To Shpresa Ismajli was killed the mother and she too is sought to be
killed with her family. Everest
Ymeraj Brekoci
menaced In Kosovo, this incomparable
tragedy, there are different ways where life is seriously in danger. The
systematic expulsions of Kosovars from their ethnic land, but even the
conflicts amongst themselves, have given a possibility to terrorism to get
dangerous “material”. The mentality, the ground, the poverty and the missing
of culture have caused Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia to be bases of Al Qaeda.
In the village Brekoc of Gjakova,
the night of Christmas, Prekë Staka
and Marije Staka have
been used violence upon in their house. The violence was inhuman, mostly for Marije who is crippled. The terrorists are unknown even
today. Those men had menaced to burn their house up, so that neither their
rests would ever be found, as these were Christians. After the little sum of
money they had was taken away by those terrorists and the violence they
suffered, the terrorists wanted to know the address of their son Vasel Staka with his wife and
children, for they wanted to shoot Vasel and his
family at all costs. The parents have suffered everything without telling
anything. Since that day those old people are forced to leave their house and
live hidden to a cousin of them. Vasel Staka is so sought to be killed by terrorists. This was
evident in many Kosovars even during the war. Though they have been received
very well in Albania, there have been cases when they have come of the car
when they’ve seen a cross in it. These actions have not been given importance
at that time, for it was 1998, but the things have a different form now. Zog Hysenaj Fear
of revenge His name is Sherif Zog Hasaj.
He was born on December 17, 1966, in the village Golem, the municipality Rrethina, about 3 km far from the city of Shkodra. He has committed no crime, yet he is forced to
leave his country, because of the Canon of the mountains, that is being the
power of the law in these last ten difficult years fed also by the lack of
function of the structures of the state. A momentous argue in the bar of Fadil Zog Hasaj,
Sherif’s brother is the beginning of numerous
conflicts between the families Hasaj and Çuni, followed by wounding of both pairs and resulting in
the death of a member of the family of Gjergj. The
conflict started on January 2001, while the two brothers Fadil
and Sherif Hasaj were
wounded by guns. Sherif had a muscle cut because of
the bullet in the right knee, and after receiving the first aid in the
hospital of the city, for security motives had to be treated at home. This is
not the end of the story yet. On January 20, 2002, Fadil
Hasaj takes revenge wounding the citizen Gjergj Çuni, who dies later
leaving open the hard shadow of enmity between these families. Since that day
the entire family Hasaj is forced to live shut in.
No results have come out from the efforts of the missionaries of peace, as
they took the initiative to set free the children and the innocent members.
In these conditions when the gun of the avenger is ready to shot on him or
other members of his family, Sherif found out a way
to escape, leave Albania, to go where the freedom and life is guaranteed.
There are hundreds of cases like this of Sherif Zog Hasaj in the north Albania.
The fear of death, in a total lack of law makes many Albanians leave their
birthplace. This is a painful and tragic reality in the beginning of the new
century. Rifat Ymeri Leaves
Albania for insecurity of life The democrat Gjystina Ndoc Marashi is one of the courageous women who invested a lot
for the human rights and liberties in the city of Shkodra.
She was born on October 5, 1965 in Shkodra. Gjystina participated in many anticommunist protests
since the beginning of the movements to change the wildest communist politics
ever experienced by the human race in the world. This is the reason she was
persecuted by the security of the communist state agents as her life and that
of her family was in constant danger. We can remember the civil war exploded
in 1997 (provoked by the irresponsible politics of the communist blood in
Albania), after which the power was taken again by guns. The life of
democrats was in serious danger and Gjystina leaves
Albania along with her son Ledjo Vaid Spahija, born on December
25, 1986. Someone says she went in America, in the state of the dreams of
world democracy, in the mightiest state defending the human rights. Her
husband, Ledjo’s father, Vaid
Spahija, is thought dead, but his death is unveiled
as none knows the circumstances he left, where and how??? Gjystina
Marashi, a respectful woman in society is member of
the association “Shkëndia e Lirisë”
(Spark of Liberty) founded on January 14, 1990. She will be remembered as a
mighty woman who fought with her whole being against the communist wild
beast. And now she is now migrating as the raven’s littlies, looking for the
identity, lost by the lack of seriousness of the actual Albanian state, while
the discrimination still goes on toward democrats. That’s why they’re
obligated to run around the world. This is the destiny of Gjystina
Marashi, the democrat woman. May God help them! Vasel Gilaj |