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nr. 53 / 23 dhjetor 2003

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Revealed the message of Saddam to the kamikaze

      The world seems to take back its previous shape with the arrest of the chief terrorist, the one who was an idol to many. Humanity could understand that their impression of terrorists was nothing.

      “The Strong one of the Globe” was less courageous than a mouse that goes eve through fire, when followed by a cat. You would feel sorry if you didn’t hear about Saddam Hussein. He surrendered as a “brave” man, with the hands lifted up, as a poor man with a long beard and unclean, in his comfort in a whole opened under ground beside a wooden house near Tikrit, about 180 km northeast Baghdad.

      If it didn’t happen this way, and if he died in that mouse whole, he would have been an idol to his fans for many centuries afterwards. Books would have been written for him, even more than those written about Osama Bin Laden, whom is as brave and firm as Saddam was.

      Nevertheless, these phenomenons do not fascinate us, but are a subject for analysis about today and tomorrow. It is also a fact that Saddam was strongly present in the Albanian opinion, even too much.

      The complex character of Saddam had an impact on a growing dim psychology of some psychopathic. If the dictator, “the brave” Saddam, was able to terrorize millions of people, kill up to five thousand curds in Iraq, within a single day, he valued his life, forgiven by the Americans, declaring openly that he will give account about his crimes only as a prisoner of war.

      There’s another thing we want to underline. The terrorists that became myths have a “talent” in their counts. They appeal to others to sacrifice themselves, while their behavior is completely different. This fact, we suppose, is a good lesson for all the terrorists. If Saddam Hussein wouldn’t have acted like this, they wouldn’t believe it.

      Even the worst person can sometimes give messages… No matter, as it is said that: “Only God gives the life and He alone should take it”.

Editorial by Sokol Pepushaj

Why did Zeqir Shabaj leave Shkodra? Where are he and his family now and did they come to know anything about their son, Ervis Zeqir Shabaj, born on January 14, 1986?

In the Street “Ndocaj”, a few meters behind the building of the former ill-famed Committee of the PLA, in the district “Kongresi i Permetit”, there is a deserted house. A rusty locket, locked for a long time and the putrefied leafs witness a sorrowful departure of the family once living there. Just two years ago life was normal in this house. There lived a normal life Zeqir Shabaj, head of the family, and his wife Nexhmije with their children Ervis and Emirjeta. They had left their village in Postrriba a few years ago, to come and live in this simple house near the center of the city of Shkodra. Our curiosity as journalists made us try to know anything about the destiny of the owners of the deserted house. Their neighbor Ismail Hoxha told us that the problems for this family started on January 17, 2002. It was a cold winter night and the moon was hidden behind some black clouds and the strong wind banged on the truck driven by Xheladin Shabaj, 30 years old, brother of Zeqir and the uncle of Ervis and Emirjeta. While driving toward Shkodra, somewhere by the corners of Torovica, three armed and masked people stopped the truck and forced the two brothers to come out. Contradiction was fatal to Xheladin Shabaj. Dozens of bullets shot him dead on the icy cold road. The lights of another car coming in that direction saved Zeqir from the bullets of the masked people. Zeqir proceeded toward Shkodra with his dead brother. Unfortunately this was not the end of the tragedy, for the next day, the only son of Zeqir, Ervis Shabaj, born on January 14, 1986, vanishes. Just a few days after the funeral of the brother of Zeqir, threatening letters are coming to stop him from reporting the killers of Xheladin. Anonymous life threatening phone-calls become unbearable for the family Shabaj. And in the morning of January 28, 2002 this locket was seen on the door of their house. This is the end of the distressful story, Ismail Hoxha told us about the family Shabaj. A distressing tragedy at the beginning of the new century! Fear from the masked people in a country, like ours, without a state, makes people leave each other. Ervis Shabaj is looking for his parents while they are looking for their missing son, the dear Ervis, who might never come back in his beloved birth country. The killers are ready to take his life away, for Ervis is the son of Zeqir who knows the killers of his brother Xheladin… and the tragedy goes on… but how far?!

Albert Vataj

 

Every day worse

      The situation in Albania is growing every day harder, especially after the local elections of October 12, 2003, when the Socialist Party manipulated them. Tirana, Durrës, Korça and Shkodra were the most affected and numerous incidents were reported. Two days after the elections, on October 14, 2003, around the 22: 30, in the district “Perlat Rexhepi” in Shkodra, near the house of the citizen Gaspër Mirashi, explodes a quantity of explosive, damaging the frontal façade of the house and destroying completely the store at the court. The raiders “escaped” in unknown direction as usually, while the police arrived late, as usually. The couple Mirashi were monitories of the Democratic Party in the voting centers No. 305, near the School “Branko Kadia” and No. 320 near the Woodland School. A few days later two terrorists were arrested in Perash who were to use delayed action mines distance controlled by cell phones. The pressures on the activists of the DP are various in these last days.

Vasel Gilaj

The democrats leave

       The communists seem to have a final goal, make the democrats leave Albania, if are not able to shot them, so that they might have it easier to  sit on the chairs of stealing, organized crime and trafficking. The wellknown democrat Fatmir Muhamet Bajraku, after  many violations and pressures to be killed, is forced to leave his country for since the foundation of the DP he echoed a pure democracy, for human freedom. The democrat Bajraku risked his life seriously on June 29, 1997 when the fascist gangs of Fatos Nano pushed down the democratic power. On June 30, 1997, in the evening, around the 2130-2200 the police arrested and tortured him in his home, in the presence of his wife and family. For three days he experienced the political prison, where he suffered violence and threats to be killed if he doesn’t lay aside his right wing political convictions. The threats went on with anonymous letters under the door, terrorizing his wife and the children. On February 22, 2002, while Fatmir was coming back to Shkodra from Tirana, masked police men have beaten him without any reason and have told him that all the democrats of doctor Berisha will be shot. On December 12, 1999 along with the democrat Musa Shega, at about 1930, went like a shot, and this last one was heavily wounded. Fatmir and Musa had the bar-restaurant “Flamuri” (the flag) in Shtoj i Ri, that was blown up.

By: Xhemal Berisha