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The
“Java” newspaper in Pristina and the attitudes harming the nation
Ismail Kadare
admits that scientists and intellectuals are morally compelled, as well as a
mission to the nation, to explain how it happened that a dialect dominated in
a language. It is normal that one of the dialects dominated. It could have
been the northern dialect, as well as the southern. The Albanian dictatorial
politics obviously wanted the southern dialect, for the reasons we know, because
of their almost instinctive enmity toward the northern culture of the
northern Albanians, mostly Catholics. After twelve editions, I notice the
public commitment of the journalists’ staff of “Java” newspaper, had the
first results, as far as the two cultural challenges is concerned - the
Kosovo’s Identity and the Albanian Language Standard Revision - (everything
else is just nothing). These last days, an association was funded in
Pristina, with the goal to defend the “literary language”. No matter how common
and romantic such an initiative might look, the fact that an association is
needed to defend the “literary language” proves that the “literary language”
is very weak, needs protection, because it cannot stand itself. If the
“literary language” was defined on scientific and democratic principles, it
needed no protection, by anyone. Its’ success could have been the best
defense. Secondly, Kadare can’t help but answering
the question: What happened to the standard of the Albanian language in 1972.
I also notice that in every interview he gives, he is always more open and
clear in his pronouncement that - “there really were mistakes and injustice
toward the richness of Gegërishte, but those
mistakes are not incorrigible” (“Interview in RTK, May ’02). This public
acknowledgement by Kadare of the mistake, was also
wrapped by despise toward those who moot this question and want to argue. The
power of the arguments published by “Java” doesn’t allow anyone to be
indifferent. An attitude is needed for these arguments. The contest hits the
foundations of the Albanian society of after World War II and makes the
entire Albanian social and cultural building tremble. The questions and
contests in this newspaper are public and dressed with arguments that make
readers doubt. An attitude is therefore needed toward this challenge.
Considering this, let me identify some public attitudes I could notice within
the Albanian culture. I want to personalize these public attitudes, naming
their distinct bearers through the journal “Shqipëria
Etnike”, as this helps on describing the situation.
An approach is therefore needed toward the cold fact that the “Java”
newspaper exists with all its challenge and provocation. The first approach
is - Indifference. This approach is better represented by Idriz
Ajeti, as one of the builders of the standard of
’72, keeping silent and avoiding a public approach toward this existence. The
second approach is - Guard. Guardsmen, protectors of the “literary language”
and the standard of ’72. This approach is better represented by Isa Bajqinca. Touched as well as offended by the initiative
of this newspaper which dared touching one of the “great successes of the
Albanian culture”, with the courage, even the “impertinence” to contest and
doubt of all what the “fathers on the nation achieved with great effort and
sweat after centuries of sacrifices”. Feeling in danger for him and the
language, he undertakes the initiative to found an association to defend the
“literary language”. The same foundation of the association is a crucial
argument that proves how frail that standard has been, so that only a
periodic newspaper can contest and endanger it. The other approach is that of
the silent actions, in a shadow. This approach could better be represented by
Rexhep Ismajli. As one of
the only linguistics I know, who at least understands what “Java” is asking
and its’ target, dares not to speak and react publicly either in favor or
not. He keeps silent, away from the sunlight, thinking he’s doing a work none
did before, somewhere outside. He vegetates scientifically preparing vain
seminaries about the language, speaking and writing about all but the only
intellectual and civil challenge - the revision of the standard of ’72. The
last approach is that of Kadare. In this approach,
represented by one of the persons whose words usually make tremble the
Albanian culture especially that of Kosovo, we should stop a little longer.
As one of the protagonists of the Congress on Orthography of ’72, as well as
a signatory of all the documents of that Congress, this writer has noticed he
could no more keep silent hiding the mistakes made in the Congress. He would
have never said anything about, but he started on this and so has to make his
position clear. There’s a little story behind this public pronunciation of Kadare about the revision of the standard decided in ’72.
In the famous magazine “The Economist”, where we two are casual protagonists,
I, playing the part of the one who appeals the revision of the standard of
’72, and he playing the role of Isa Bajqinca - the
protector, as defined by the author of the article - is enraged at the idea
of the revision of the Albanian language standard. Let me bring the original
of this: “Ismail Kadare,
Albania’s
best-known writer, who was recently in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, for a
pan-Albanian book fair, is enraged at the idea that the matter should be
re-examined. Like Hoxha, he hails from Gjirokastër - and co-signed the language standardization
agreement in 1972. Even to mention the subject, he says, is “a dirty
provocation” prompted by Serbian propagandists to divide the Albanians”. This
is what Kadare said on January 8, 2000 in “The
Economist”, in its article “The great ethnic-Albanian taboo”. He was holding
the same position of Isa Bajqinca and friends are
holding today. Yet, as a writer who survived Enver Hoxha and his dictatorship, this man has a special sense
of understanding where the wind blows and the position to be taken in new
situations. In the anniversary of the OC (Orthography Congress) the last
year, in an interview with the editor of radio Deutsche Welle,
as well as gazetter of “Java”, Mimoza
Cika, for the first time after thirty years, Kadare admits openly the mistakes done in ’72, deeply
re-examining his previous approach. In this interview, this writer becomes
the first and only protagonist until now, amongst those of ’72, who opens the
question of re-examination of the Albanian language standardization, with his
pronouncement. Let’s bring back some distinct thoughts from this interview:
-The mistakes in the Congress were committed because a group of Stalinist
scientists and linguists, there were such, unfortunately, tried as much as
they could to influence in any way, to underestimate the lexicon, the
richness of the vocabulary of one of the two main dialects, the Gegërishte. Almost underhand, they made as if to forget,
as if it escaped to them, as if they didn’t notice, leaving out of the
vocabulary, composed immediately after the Orthography Congress, a great part
of the language richness. - Thirty years have passed and there are things to
correct. Along with the reproach of these things there was to be reproached
even that small-minded side, for they tried in any way to disparage the
richness, especially that of the northern Catholic writers. Along with that
correction, which I think is the basic correction to be made, there can be
re-examined some of the rules decided somehow incorrectly. - It is a moral
obligation of the scientists and intellectuals, as well as their mission for
the Albanian people, to make clear how did it occur that a dialect dominated
the entire language. It is normal to be one of the dialects. It could have
been that of the north, as well as that of the south. The Albanian
dictatorial politics wanted in any way to be the southern dialect, for the
motives we know, because of their almost instinctive enmity against the
northern Albanians’ culture, especially the Catholic one - the Communist
Party wanted to have its’ domination, take the glory as the one who made the
Unified Albanian Language, what is not true, for the unified language is
never made by a political regime, a party or a dictatorship. Yet it took the
patronage and everyone accepted this fraud. In Congress were made many
mistakes as under the influence of the regime. With this pronunciation, Kadare became the only protagonist of ’72 as well as the
only one of those who subscribed, to make a public pronunciation about
re-examining and correcting the decisions of 1972. This makes honor to him,
first of all. Lastly in KRT, Kadare declares once
more openly that the decisions of the Congress of ’72 should be re-examined.
He says: “Yes, there were mistakes and it was an injustice for the richness
of Gegërishte, yet those mistakes are not
incorrigible.” It is to be noticed that his man is re-designing and
re-examining his approach and decisions, evolving little by little and slowly
in time. But how can we explain that Kadare, even
shouting at those who claimed this question, on the other hand approves and
supports all their requests? This is really hard to understand by a normal
person, who cannot know what it means to live with Enver,
in his State, in his dictatorship, and to be his writer. It is hard to
understand this tactic of Kadare, who: “supports -
even shouting at”. Let me remind you of a book of this writer, that shows
explicitly such an absurd approach for a normal person that “supports - even
shouting at”. In the book “Migjeni, interrupted
tornado”, Kadare claims against the greatest modern
writers of the century, and amongst them even against the writer of the
century, Kafka, and when asked after many years how this writing was to be
explained, he gives one of the most strange answers in the history of the
Albanian letters - yes, by criticizing and accusing I kept alive the idea
that they existed! I know it’s hard to explain to new generations how can a
responsible man make such statements, but Kadare
cannot be understood without understanding and knowing Enver,
his State, and his dictatorship. In other words, cannot understand Kadare away from Enver. They
have motivated, inspired and modeled each-other, but this we’ll treat another
time. Let’s go back to that monumental change of thesis this writer does when
accusing those who engage in re-examining the standardization as -
disruptive. But, if there were mistakes in ’72, and there was injustice
toward Gegërishte, and if this is said and accepted
openly, this public engagement for re-examination cannot be explained as a
disruptive tendency, rather a unification tendency. The engagement to
re-examine the decisions taken in ’72 is an engagement to change our language
and make it fuller and normal. Those who decided to leave an entire dialect
out of the Albanian language standardization, leaving out three million of
Albanians who have Gegërishte as their
mother-tongue, considering them strangers within their mother-tongue
language, are the true - Disruptive. They have damaged the Albanian language,
they have weakened its power and strength, and they have flattened its shape
and its richness. That’s why I say this monumental change of thesis by Kadare cannot be explained away from Enver
and the knowing of that dictatorship, the consequences that dictatorship
caused to people, their mentality and character. How to explain the fact that
the most famous Albanian refugee - Ismail Kadare -
speaks and tells of on new Albanian refugees? The refugee speaks and tells
the refugees - don’t leave, where are you going? How to explain that the
preferred of dictatorship, the writer of the court, and friend of the
dictator, is the one who denies everything, just as if none in Albania has a
sound memory and a clear sight? How to explain the fact that this writer
tells of and criticizes Kafka, motivating this as trying to prove he exists?
But, I think, this cannot be understood away from Enver.
Kadare away from Enver is
an enigma. They cannot be explained away from each-other. But this is to be
treated the next time.
Migjen Kelmendi
Chief-editor of “Java”
newspaper, Pristina
Democrats’
lives threatened
 Fran Shkambi, former chairman of the “Students’ Independent
Union” in Shkodra, was graduated as lawyer in the
Justice Faculty of the University “Luigj Gurakuqi”. He had right-winged convictions and was member
of the Albanian Democratic Party and secretary of the Youth Forum of the
Democratic Party, section nr.4, no matter the continuous persecutions. His
father was arrested and condemned twice during the communist regime, for
political motives, yet he could impress in his son the sense of love for the
nation and prosperity.
During the studies at the University, he was distinguished as
an activist and protector of the students’ rights. This is why in 2002 he was
elected by the students of the University “Luigj Gurakuqi” as Chairman of the Students’ Independent Union
in Shkodra. The SIU of Shkodra
was at that time a tool in the hands of politics and parties used the
students for their goals. As soon as he was in charge and chose his staff, he
began his work to clean the Students’ Independent Union from the influence of
the political parties. Through media and meetings with the university’s
supervisor, he reports the venality of corrupted professors, with the
evidence he had. As distinguished for his strong and fast actions, the head
of the Informative Service was authorized by the Government to offer him
money, so that he might give up his position as chairman of the SIU. Because
of his firm position and his deep and unwavering convictions to work to the
end to defend the legitimate rights of the students, he faces the contrast
and persecution by the Government and the Police. As he was famous and
supported by the students, the Informative Service sees him as a potential
risk as well as a serious menace to the Government. This is why a terrorizing
screenplay was prepared against him.
Threatening phone-calls were received time after time,
commanding him to give up; otherwise his life would be in danger. While
coming out from a work-meeting of the Headship of SIU, on January 26, 2003,
two young people waiting for him outside, attack him violently. Some times later, on February 2, 2003, while going back
home, he escapes miraculously an incident by a car without number plate,
driven by a masked person.
After graduating he looks for a job in some institutions.
After beginning the competition, he was arbitrarily cast out, saying: “You
will find a job when the right-winged will come on power; Ask Berisha for a job” etc. The Youth Forum of the Democratic
Party names him General Secretary of the Youth Forum, section nr.4. After a
propagation activity during the parliamentary elections, the story of menaces
comes back on him, even more dangerous and frequent. The family of Fran Shkambi was menaced with words like: “Your brother won’t
celebrate his birthday for he will have no time to reach at it. Your father
is old, he walks slowly and we’ll run him over…” etc. In these conditions,
without a job, and having his family continuously in danger because of hit political activity, he decided to leave to other Europe countries, believing his life and his family
will be safer.
He hopes the Albanian people will know how to decide for
himself and will soon cast out from power the sons of Enver
Hoxha, corrupted even more than their fathers,
bloodsuckers of the Albanian people for 50 years.
The staff of our journal wishes this courageous guy with a
democratic spirit to prosper, and never forget his country, for Albania needs
people like him.
Vasel Gilaj
A
century on the target of death
  The “Mother Theresa” Airport
hosts and accompanies hundreds of people, diplomats, and tourists, emigrants
coming back after many years, missing their country where they’re born and
grew up. Everyone can be nostalgic for these people when they leave, for they
might see each-other no more. Long journeys, different people, customs,
countries might make this people vanish forever.
The traveler we accompanied toward America is
somewhat different from others. She is a woman from Kelmendi.
When talking with people, she says: “I’m surprised I’m alive!” Though she’s
over 60 years old, she is like a man because of her life full of sufferings.
She is Gjyste Mitaj, also
called Ruka from Kelmendi
of Malësi e Madhe. It
might be unique in the history of this Albanian area that for over 60 years,
all the males of a family, like that of Gjyste Mitaj, have been shot or murdered perfidiously for
political motives. When you ask her about this, Gjyste
answers:
-For God’s sake we were not extinct. Only one male of my
family escaped death in 1945. He is Mac Luca from Vukli,
my uncle’s son, while all the others were killed by the communist
dictatorship. Mac too could have been shot, but he was a young child.
You cannot ask her so long for there was a very tragic and
distressing history. On January 1945 the communist brigades of Mehmet Shehu were at the head of the ill-famed maneuvers of
human cleansing in Kelmend. Her father, Rrok Zef Rapuka
was unexpectedly arrested, tied hands and legs and thrown down from a rock in
the place called Sheu i Noriut.
The communist beasts were not satisfied yet, so they massacre the dead body
of the victim. Her uncle, Lucë Gjon
Rapuka, was shot, her grandfather, Zef Gjon Rapuka
was condemned with 30 years of imprisonment and died in the terrible prisons
of dictatorship, because of the tortures. The other uncle, Ndue Gjon Rapuka,
was arrested and condemned 101 years of politic imprisonment. He died after
16 horrible years in those prisons where violence was even greater than in
the prisons of Hitler, and his family knows nothing about his tomb. The
cousin, Maç Lucë Rapuka, the only male member of her family left alive by
the communists, was imprisoned when still a child. Gjyste
Mitaj (Rapuka) was an
orphan since 11 years old and was grown up by her 60 years old grandmother,
without any male in the family.
Thinking of all this Calvary
of persecutions, imprisonments, shots, unimaginable poverty, you can’t help
but asking:
-How strong is man?
The human cleansing brigades were not filled up with the fact
they killed of an entire family, they robbed all what they had and set on
fire all the houses of the family Rapuka, while Gjyste and her grandmother live in an oaten shelter built
up by their charitable neighbors. This noble woman didn’t escape tragedies
even after she was married. Her husband loses his leg in an incident and the
State doesn’t give an opportunity to be cured in the hospitals. She grew up
nine children in great poverty.
This article is going to be a chronicle of painful stories.
On May 24, 1996, when the Cem River
was furious because of the melted snow from the mountains of Kelmend, her son, Genc Mitaj, was found drowned in tragic circumstances.
After eight years, this woman is leaving Albania,
leaving behind a mountain of tombs, all shot and dead in cruelty.
Where is she going to?
Eight year later, her other son, Ardian
Mitaj, was murdered in the far America.
There were 14 years since his mother had parted from him. He had left through
the mountains of Kelmend, along with his brother, Nikë Mitaj. They departed when
very young. They had left their mother, father, sisters and brothers, to
escape that communist hell that was devouring them one by one. Gjyste is now a grandmother, while her grandsons and
granddaughters were growing up. Yet the gun followed the 32 years old
grandson of Rapukaj, even in America, to
send him to the famine grave.
How much does the heart of this mountaineer mother support!
She did never experience the love of her parents, whom she neither knew. Even
when she could rejoice, she is burying the fruit of her womb. She sees how
her sons were tortured; she sees pain, death and horror. She leaves today her
birth-country, where she miraculously escaped death. She leaves with the hope
her heart will find rest someday.
Alban
Perdeleci
Albania
full of crimes
 Mhill Zefi, born on May 25, 1976, is one of the victims of this
criminal State, which killed and used violence on numerous innocent people,
making Albania as if it
was Iraq.
He was continuously menaced as a democrat, even because anarchist groups are
looking every day for his brother, Fran Zefi, born
on March 10, 1978, well-known as an activist of the Democratic Party, who
left Albania years ago, as his life was in serious danger. Mhill is on the target to be killed, likewise many
others. The father of his mother, Martin Toma, was
condemned with three years of imprisonment, by injunction nr.232, of May 12,
1950, of the Military Court of Tirana, for giving shelter and furnishing the
fugitive, according to article 4/4 of the law 372. The cousin of the democrat
Mhill Zefi, Ardjan Bungaja was wounded,
while the other cousin, Ndoc Bungaja
was killed. His cousin, Nikolin Lera
was wounded, while his other cousin, Vangjel Lera, faced violence and death threats. All these people
are of the same kin, though with different surnames. The Party of Labour, during the dictatorship of Enver
Hoxha, mixed all up changing surnames, with the
goal to separate people as much as possible through the years. This is a
theme we’ll be writing for in the future. We appeal toward this so-called
State is to stop his criminal hand on innocent people.
Vasel Gilaj
For
an Albania
free from dictatorship
 The democrat Aldo
Rrok Guri, born in Shkodra, the bastion town of anticommunism, on December
17, 1979, is a member and activist of the Democratic Party since 1991,
certified by the document nr. 10/4 of this political party. As he did so much
giving his contribute for a State without violence and human injustice, also
as a commissioner in the elections of the DP, he was seriously menaced to
death. Aldo Guri was distinguished in the political
anticommunist protests, like those of January 14, 1990, June 16, 1990,
December 13, 1990 and April 2, 1991. As a member and activist of the
Anticommunist Political Association “13 Dhjetori
1990”, officially evidenced by this association, with protocol nr.996, his
life was in serious danger because of the communists. He was mistreated in
the protests of April 2, 1991. In the beginning of the democratic processes
in Albania,
in 1990, he helped in the reopening of the Catholic Church. In 1997, during
that dark year when the gangs of the party on power usurped the power with
guns and violence, installing dictatorship, he gave a great contribution for
the safeguard of the institutions of the State. The dark forces of the
Security of the State mistreated him. This State is linked to anarchist
groups. Aldo Guri was hospitalized in Shkodra to be cured from December 19, 2003 until
December20, 2003 with the diagnose Comotio Cerebri; because of the barbaric violence he suffered by
people still unidentified by the Order organs.
This guy you see in the picture we’ve published,
endured as much as he could, until the day he didn’t see any hope to escape
death, and so left his country.
Denada Kraja
The
sisters Raiçeviq facing political and ethnic
discrimination
 The national minorities in Albania are
continuously discriminated. The Greek pair claimed an earnest treatment for
the minority in the South, what often caused relationships between Albania and Greece to aggravate. None less
problems were in North Albania, where a
little community of Serbs and Montenegrins lives.
Nikoll Raiçeviq,
a well-known weight-lifter in Albania,
was never given the opportunity by the Albanian State,
during his splendid career, to represent the country in international events.
The Albanian State was afraid he would escape
toward western countries. As democracy knocked in the beginning of 1990, Nikoll Raiçeviq gave a great
contribution on installing democracy in this communist State, so closed for
the occident, and with an unseen physical an
psychological terror used on people, especially on those called minorities.
On April 2, 1991, over sixty thousand protested against the stolen votes by Ramiz Alia, in front of the Comitee
of the PL building in Shkodra, where the red junta
shot dead four people, Arben Broci,
Bujar Bishanaku, Nazmi Kryeziu and Besnik Ceka, as well as
wounding 163 people and using violence on many others, even women and
children. Nikoll Raiçeviq
and his two daughters, Emiljana and Branka, little children in that time, were there in the
protests. Even those two little children were beaten likewise many others,
learning so the sense of fear. That same dark day, there were women that
aborted their babies because of the violence and terror experienced.
These two sisters, now in occidental countries, went through
many troubles risking their lives in Albania
until the end of 2003 when they left Albania forever. This was the
country that persecuted their parents and relatives, that attempted to take
away their own lives.
According to a
official document nr.11/8 of the Democratic Party in Shkodra,
Emiljana Raiçeviq is an
activist of this party since July 3, 1998, as well as a member since July 20,
2000, and the number of her document as a member is 113532.
Emiljana was distinguished for a
political contribution, as an activist in all the processes and protests
organized by the Democratic Party and its Youth Forum, against violence,
human injustice, communism and dictatorship, as one of the cruelest in world.
As involved in such movements, leading the protests of 1996 an on, with good
purposes for her life and all the Albanians in general, she became a target
of the anarchy to be eliminated. As chairman of the Youth Forum of DP, in
1996, she faced many challenges during her activity. Her hardest moment was
during the local elections of June 24, 2001, when she was a commissioner,
facing even death. During those elections, when the SP manipulated the votes
through explosive, the rubber sticks of the police, beats and violence, even through political imprisonments or elimination without
any trace of the democrats. The two sisters, Emiljana
and Branka, distinguished for refusing
manipulations, faced psychological threats and physical violence. Branka obviously was beside her sister and her friends of
the same ideal for a free Albania.
She was a member of the Youth Forum of the DP and later became member of the
party, with her document number 113533. Even today she is estimated and her place
is missing her. There are numerous cases when young people leave this country
as the only way to escape death, likewise these to
sisters, what is a great problem for the Albanian society. The political,
ethnic, racial and religious discrimination is still a phenomenon of the
Albanian dark reality. This phenomenon keeps Albania
far from the way toward Europe.
Sokol Pepushaj
Life
is not safe in Tirana
 Tirana is
overpopulated in these last years and had many problems, while the life of
people was in danger and menaced. Those on power today are the sons of their
communist fathers, who imprisoned, interned and shot without a process for
political motives. One of the democrats seriously in danger was Arben Nikoll Pjetra, born in Puka, on August
30, 1976, living in Tirana until the day he was forced to leave the
metropolis, for it was impossible for him to stay in Albania
because he became a target of the anarchist forces of this fascist State. Who
is Arben Pjetra?
Referring to the document nr.995 of the Anticommunist Political Association
“13 Dhjetori 1990”, we found he was present in all
the anticommunist political protests. On January 14, 1990, when the bust of
Stalin was pulled down, Arben Pjetra
was beaten by forces of the security of the state. He was arrested without a
motivation and was set free after five days suffering tortures. Medical
intervention was needed to save his life. There are numerous cases when
people in Albania
have died because of tortures. This happened in Korça,
where the victim was exhumed and police violence was proved to be the cause
of death, but also in Lezha, Kurbin,
and Tirana etc. Arben Pjetra,
as an activist of the Youth Forum of the Albanian Democratic Party, (his
document number is 03529), kept the secret of numbers many times as in
war-time, even if he would be shot by these governors, who are fascists, who
have killed about 6000 Albanians only in these last seven years. His
grandfather, Çun Pjetra,
was imprisoned and tortures by the politics of the satrap Enver
Hoxha, from 1955 until 1976, when he died in that
hell of prison. Arben’s father, Nikoll
Pjetra, was imprisoned for many years, was
persecuted and politically and socially discriminated. He was in prison from
1965 until 1970. All that kin was persecuted until 1980, when Nikoll Pjetra was again
imprisoned by the communists to get out only in 1990, when the foundations of
communism were trembling in the old Europe and an era of changes had started
in the East Europe. The serious danger for
the life of anticommunist families is always permanent. On January 10, 1997,
the house of Arben Pjetra
was burned up and they had to rent a house, for everything was burned and
there were no victims only for God’s sake. That was a dark day accusing this
State that goes from bad to worse. Arben Pjetra suffered violence by unknown people who attempted
to kill him. Based on the reliable source we have, he was cured in hospital
from January 16, 1997 until January 20, 1997. Arben
Pjetra and his relatives had their lives in danger
until the day they left Albania.
Albert
Vataj
Torture
consequences in Kosovo
 The people of
Kosovo experienced an unseen tragedy till the day of the military
intervention of America.
Today, when years passed since the end of the conflict and the criminal of
humanity, Slobodan Milosevic is giving account to the Tribunal of Hague, all
over Kosovo there are model examples of inhuman crimes. Many are missing,
without address, many have been buried in massive sepulchers, and others have
lost their memory. There’s a case when a good Albanian loving freedom, who
became a mental handicap was Kol Pjetër Dakaj, born in Rugova, municipality
of Llugaj
in Pristina. This loss of memory was first of all a consequence of the
conflict, crime of a mad man called Slobodan Milosevic. On September 10, 1998
the village Rugova was totally involved in
conflict. There were victims, violence, rape, tortures. Because of the
tortures, Kol Dakaj
became a mental handicap. Kola’s father, Pjetër Ded Dekaj, though enrolled in
the KLA, was a collaborator of the Serb army. The Kosovo Liberation Army had
much loss of people as well as military means. An inspection occurred from
the military command and three people were found dead after that. Those three
people were Pjetër Ded Dakaj, Kujtim Prek Vukaj and Nik Sokol Prek
Vulaj, murdered by KLA on February 8, 1999. Those
were three other victims joining the Calvary
of the Kosovo crimes, which might need many years to be revealed. Numerous
families whom KLA calls traitors have experienced and are still experiencing
unseen violence, likewise the family of Kol Dakaj from Rugova, who might be
paying the consequences of his father’s deeds, now killed. He was terrorized
until he became a mental handicap.
Prelë Milani
Complex of conflicts
A
complex of conflicts in Albania
is taking away innocent lives every day and night, this because the law is
powerless in front of the Canon of Lek Dukagjini, of 600 years ago.
During
the disorders of 1997, the dark year in the Albanian history, when armed
gangs led by the Socialist Party, still on power, opened the dump and spread
all the guns by the people. On June 5, 1997, Besim Burgaj killed with a gun, the son of Vehbi
Duka. Since that day none of the family knows
anything about where Besim might be, or anything
else about him. He leaves his family in a blood-feud, according to the old
Albanian customs, as well as in a deep psychological crisis. Since that day,
this family was forced to live shut in. The brother, Sabri
Burgaj, had to look out from the avenger. The
little son of Sabri, since three to seven years old
went through all the stresses of the living shut in, until June 2001 when he
could leave Albania.
This child, named Jasmini, went through
psychological crisis, and could be cured as he had to live shut in. Sabri Burgaj with his wife and
three children, though innocents, on that June 2001 were forced to leave
toward occidental countries to find a safe place for them and a hospital to
cure their son, Jasmini. It wasn’t what they
expected even where they went, their dreams were cut in half for his wife and
the three children were sent back to Albania on September 2003.
Everything got worse. After their return in Albania, where there is no law,
murder is always near and violence follows the innocent day and night, the
two little daughters, Samina and Gerta were taken hostage. As the mother could have a
contact with the kidnappers, she went to take her two daughters back. Lirija was raped and then set free without giving back
her daughters. The same day she was raped, Sabri’s
father was killed. 48 hours later the two girls were set free thanks to the
intercession of the National Council of Reconciliation. The son, Jasmini was in serious danger. The brother of Lirije was forced to help his sister to leave Albania, even
though he too was in danger for sheltering her. The evil wasn’t over yet. In
April 2004, Sabri and his son, Jasmini,
were sent back in Albania,
while threats toward him and his son increased. They found shelter wherever
they could, for the State doesn’t offer them protection in these cases. The
same way was followed by Agim, the little brother
of Sabri, along with his engaged, and none knows
where they are since 2001. All we want to emphasize is that the State is
guilty and responsible for all these things that keep Albania away
from the European family.
Dritan Berisha
Love resulting in tragedy
 Despite the fact that parents didn’t agree, the love between Elona Fikaj, born on November
19, 1986, from Ura e Shtrenjtë
of Postrriba, in North Albania,
a Catholic, and Kujtim Shaqir
Sykaj, born in 1973, led them in marriage. Her
father and brothers look for her everywhere wanting her dead because she bore
a child from a Muslim father, while she is Catholic, and her parents think
she dishonored the family, so only death can pay it up. Elona
left, hiding by a relative of her in the village Boks
near the village she was born. She stayed one year hiding, while her husband,
Kujtim Sykaj, left Albania,
hiding in Kosovo, fearing for his life. When Elona
was 8 months pregnant (March-April, 2002) reported to the police she was
menaced to be killed by her parents. The police, instead of acting, insults
her saying it was her fault. Her mother informs her that her father and
brothers had found out where she was hiding, so she was forced to leave Albania and emigrate as a clandestine in Great Britain.
She did this sacrifice to protect her child. She hopes her child will come to
know his father as soon as possible. Elona doesn’t fell safe. If she goes back to Albania, her life might no be safe, for her father and brothers might kill her.
This happens only in Albania
where the mentality of various areas didn’t join the development of the
civilization of our society.
Zef Nika
Basic human rights disregarded
 The democratic processes in these last 14 years in Albania were
filled with anarchy and insecurity. Violence and disregarded basic human
rights were evident, included even the report of the US Department, many of
the most important points of it we’ve published in our newspaper. This guy,
Luan Hysni Plozha, born
on May 24, 1979, faced injustice and death threats since young. He was born
and grew up in the city of Shkodra, the most problematic
city, where almost every day, innocent people end their lives in cemetery,
because of murders. Luan Plozha was brought up in
one of the oldest families of good traditions in this city. He was instructed
to love life, peace and his country. In 1996, Luan Plozha
was member of the Youth Forum of the Socialist Party. Despite all this, he was
often psychologically and physically threatened. Terrorist groups sent him
letters menacing even his family. He was also mulcted, a very used method
this in Shkodra, a phenomenon that caused many
people to close their business and others murdered. Luan Plozha
was also taken a hostage, while his house was shot with machine-gun bullets.
Feeling so unsafe, this guy chose the hard way of emigration.
M.Kurtulaj
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