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nr. 69 / 21 dhjetor 2004

alukit

 

Those who pulled down the bust of the dictator Enver Hoxha, where persecuted

14 years and eight days passed since the great anticommunist protest of December 13, 1990, when in the city of Shkodra, a stronghold of anticommunism, the bust of the communist dictator, Enver Hoxha, was pulled down. Even today, after many years, many heroes who risked their life for a free Albania, without dictatorship, are forced to leave it in order to save their life and families, as the communist revenge followed them as a deadly shadow. The well-known anticommunist Helidon Ndoc Palushani, born on August 17, 1972, member and activist of the Anticommunist Political Association “13 Dhjetori 1990”, along with his father Ndoc Loro Palushani, born on april 22, 1944, though they aspired for freedom and democracy, this became impossible to be realized beyond the patriotic spirit and the Albanian sensitiveness. They left since January 2000. At the beginning of the democratic processes Helidon Palushani gave his contribution for the religion, and at the first mass he was beside the priest who celebrated the mass surrounded by the guns of the communists, placed in strategic points of Shkodra, waiting for a command, fortunately not given by Ramiz Alia. Violence on people was tough however, and Helidon Palushani experienced it. This good Albanian had experienced such violence even on September 14, 1998, at the funeral of the democrat deputy, Azem Hajdari, shot in Tirana by the red dictators. Menaces toward him were frequent until he chose to leave as the only way of salvation.

Lekë Pepushaj

 

The tragic destiny of the kosovar Adrian Plumbini

In Peja of Kosovo, near the train station, was born Adrian Ermenogjildo Plumbini, on September 27, 1981. He was grown up and educated in a family of traditions. During the conflict, his family was facing to attacks, that of Serbs who were doing a massacre over the Albanians of Kosovo, but also that of Islamic terrorist groups who menaced to eliminate him if he didn’t leave the land of his parents. There we know that Adrian Plumbini was a good Christian believer and had good relationships with everyone. Yet, the desire to live his life was obviously greater in him and in 1998 his father had to send him in Macedonia, where his uncle would help him go somewhere in the western countries. Today, after all these years, even though he might want to see his country, he can’t for the situation is still in terror, fear and violence. Peja has several problems and his return cannot have any other destiny but that of a victim.

Albert Vataj

 

Mafiosi terrorized by free elections

-The outcome of dictatorship cannot offer peace, security and democracy-

The man fears to lose what he considers as the most precious thing. There’s nothing more precious than power for the corrupted socialists. Losing a scepter gained honestly is a natural part of the political game. Being thrown out with ceremony from the illegal power is terrible for them. It’s not only about losing unmerited privileges, neither losing the army of the servile, not just the drying of tears of touched congressmen, or the humiliating mock of the perfidious. No! The terror of Mafiosi is the enormous measure of their wrongdoings, accusation made by the heart of every simple Albanian, the earthquake that is trying to open the coffers of their dirty money, the laugh of history with the shame of the socialists on power.

     Though they feign as naive and seemingly convinced in their future victory, the socialist Mafiosi are totally convinced they’ve failed in all areas. Their greatest fear is him, whom they considered the less: people. There is nothing more shocking than the invisible hate of people. Even for a smile not given, man is often worried. Even when is late in a meeting he tries to find an excuse, but what it is to bring a people at the soil of desperation and hopeless grief?!

     When dictators are avoided even by their most faithful people, everyone looks like a killer. Enver Hoxha became a monster even for his own people, who were closer to him, when he noticed they did not fear him. The unity is always frail in crime, where people get together to rip out others. There reigns the fear they might rip out even each other. If Enver Hoxha had lived some more years, he would have started to kill even his won children. Fear overcomes love in dictators. In the harmony build up on injustice, the battle within the similar is very tough. Where moral and human love reigns, every contradiction is overcome without many consequences; otherwise the world would have been overcome by evil.

     The socialist Mafiosi are seriously scared by the silence of the people, by that despising difference that accumulates great rancor. They would prefer people to complain. They would prefer to have a possibility to check the degree of his angry and impatience, of his discontentment and revenge. The man cries out when he thinks someone is listening and will answer. When he is hopeless and his evilness is measured, he keeps silent and waits for the day when he will totally separate in a democratic way from them whom he counted even the teeth of wolf. This day is bringing near the honest and free elections. In the camp of jackals a great differentiation has started. Unity is replaced with confusion; solidarity with separation; faithfulness with a knife in the back; harmony with the hag hunt; collective merit with the need of sacrifices and kamikazes. The people, as the direct victim, are asking for honest and free elections more than the opposition.

     Trapped by the snare built to steal the votes to the people, the corrupted socialists are behaving like victims, as if the unwillingness of people to vote was the cause they didn’t win even more votes, as if the opposition was the true sinner, because it complains that socialists are able to get eight deputies from a village and because they get half of the deputies through the court.

     Even though they complain, they defame and invent different accusations and cry out not to miss the old positions of stealing votes, they are still convinced that they are lost and the people doesn’t vote them, even if they promise (likewise their ancestors) to make it really eat with a gold spoon.

     Only a power that has lost security in the loving-kindness of people attacks this one. Hunger and terror are the last weapons used by the dragon that has closed the spring depriving people from water. Could it be that before they lose sureness, the socialists fallen in deep desperation want to bring back the old syndrome of fear to force people not to react at least when they will steal the votes to them. The socialists are looking like the gang who jumps into a precipice when he sees the avalanche coming down toward him from the mountain. It is hard to imagine the instincts developed in man during agony. The socialist Mafiosi used every dirty capital inherited by dictatorship, to build that situation of fear and terror, which helped them to win the elections by 99,99%, as well as fill the institutions with incriminated unable people, converted in strict executants of the blind political commands given by the “Bosses of Dollar”, like:

-Pressure and inhuman racketeering toward those who care about the elections’ infrastructure.

-Try to buy the commissions or infiltrate their people, with the only price, to keep and recycle their monopoles.

     This happens when people is so angry. This is the painful Albanian reality, making it the poorest and the most unsafe country of the Western Europe by these sinners who forgot they’re Albanians too, but didn’t forget they administrate the richness of this country. Such a terrible view was even the elections of the last days in the Commune of Dushku.

Arian Uruçi - Lawyer

Trainer for elections’ questions in the District of Shkodra

 

Through the labyrinths of life in Kosovo

The situation in Kosovo is still in chaotic even after the presence and administration of international forces of UNMIK. Unsafe life is the leitmotiv of many social strata, ethnics and religions. Conflicts for ethnic, race or religious motives, especially these last ones, are still hard.

     One of the victims of these conflicts is Mirash Sufi. On October 4, 2003, Mirash Sufi came back in Kosovo, repatriated from Great Britain. After almost three weeks, on October 16, 2003, Mirash Sufi was killed by Islamic terrorist groups. The only fault of Mirash was to be a Catholic. This phenomenon is very concerning and there have been many cases like this of Mirash Sufi.

     These condemnable phenomenons occur in a Kosovo of 94% of population made of Muslims and only 6% Catholics. Even after 5 years of administration by international forces, Kosovo cannot separate from such scenes and events that greatly damage its image in the world. Either Muslims or Christians, we all have one God, but it appears like certain terrorist groups in Kosovo either didn’t understand or do not want to listen to the Word of God. Until then, there will still be victims like Mirash Sufi, in Kosovo.

The correspond. of “Shqipëria Etnike

 

Forced emigration, an unhealed wound for Albanians

It is almost “common” now for our journal to treat from time to time the terrible problem of clandestine emigration, rightly called by true Albanians “the unhealed wound that bleeds pure Albanian blood”. This blood goes to the old Europe and world, to give those youth and strength, but this unfortunately is weakening our country. If this emigration was mostly of aged people, it would be easier, but unfortunately this forced clandestine emigration has touched mostly the young ages, the energy for today and tomorrow, for the future of a country that is seeking to join Europe, to whom it belongs. If this emigration was just for economical purposes, the hope for a soon return of Albanians in their country would be great, but this emigration unfortunately has another face, that political. This because the Socialist Party back on power since 1997, is clearly showing the symptoms of her mother, the Party of Labor (Communist) of E.Hoxha, that gives the opposition the alternative either to join it and deny the democratic aspirations, what means to overlook the human rights and freedom, considered sacred by Europe and the world, or will have to face the terrible machine of the Socialist State that menaces, mistreats, deprives from property, work and rights, imprisons or even kills. Found to face this situation the young democrats have only one way to chose, their departure without return from Albania, though they had so many dreams about its European future.

     Continuing with these sensibility-causing writings, we “chose” this time the young democrat Fatbardh Gëzim Çokaj, from Gruemirë. Facing menaces and mistreats from structures of the police and secret services of SIS, he had to leave his country about one month after the local elections of October 12, 2003. We knew a little bit about this brave young democrat, but when we were present in a meeting of the branch of the DP in Malësi e Madhe, we came to know that Fatbardh Çokaj, born on April 13, 1984, had been part of the structures of the Youth Forum of the Democratic Party, where he had done a great propagating work with his fellow friends, supporting the Democratic Party and its alternatives. Since then he had hit the eye of the structures of the police and the Socialist State.

     As he grew up, he became a member of the DP on October 2003. This young guy was very happy for the alternatives offered by the DP. The young Fatbardh Çokaj became on of the strongest man propagating against the SP as well as one of the strongest supporters of the alternatives of the DP during the local elections of October 2003 in Gruemirë. He had authority not only on people of his age, but also on older people too. This propagation hit the eye of the socialist structures, which started menacing through phone-calls and open menaces, saying that if the candidate of the SP would lose in Gruemirë, he would respond with his own life. He was often insulted, called “a dog of the DP to whom they would cut his tongue for ever”. He faced physical mistreatment, yet he kept silent, for he was so proud that he did never say he was mistreated. The campaign was always going for better for the candidate of the DP and the defeat of the SP candidate was almost secure. This made furious the structures of the police and the agents of SIS. They didn’t let the young Fatbardh Çokaj stay even at his home, or with his friends, menacing and mistreating him openly. After the victory of the candidate of the DP for mayor of the Commune of Gruemirë he was forced to leave Albania. His departure was forced at any cost for he had to save his life and take away troubles from his parents who had menaces too, because of their democrat son. As we came to know the “story” of this democrat from Malësi, we remembered the slogans used by the government with the occidental countries, while Albanians faced every kind of violence. This reminded us of many other young people whole life is menaced and freedom and rights are violated every day, though it is said that law protects these, but the law is just an unconsidered piece of paper…

     Unconsidered is also for the Albanians, as well as for the free independent media. Such a flagrant case is that of the journalist, editor, deputy as well as chairman of the Albanian Democristian Party, Mr. Nikollë Lesi, while the Supreme Court, instead of protecting him, asks the Parliament to remove his immunity and start prosecuting him, what meant send him in prison…

     We ask ourselves, the national and international opinion, how can the rights and freedom of simple people be protected if the rights of those with immunity are overlooked. This phenomenon unfortunately is increasing day by day, while people keep silent saying “away from my house, away from me”. We decided to publish the picture of this young guy, to make people more sensible about what we wrote…

Ndue Bacaj

 

Menaced democrats forced to leave Albania

Violence, repression and revenge continue against the persecuted families, even in 2004, no matter Albania supports the democratic processes since 1990. One of them is Shpëtim Deli Haxhija, 33 years old, from Koplik. Likewise many others, Shpëtim, coming from a family, were persecuted for 50 years by the communist dictatorial regime of E.Hoxha. In 1946 the family Haxhija was involved in the armed rise of Postrriba against the installation of dictatorship in Albania. His uncle, Adem Haxhija was arrested and dies because of tortures after 6 months. It is clear the treatment this family had by the communist regime in Albania. Their house was burned and they were sent away to do the hardest works and deprived of school. As soon as the democratic processes begun in Albania, Shpëtim Deli Haxhija becomes member of the Democratic Party, to help on its spread. Shpëtim is involved along with his brothers in all the protests organized by the Democratic Party in 1990-1992. Going on with his activity for almost 15 years, this family had an economical growth with the known activity L.r.a. (limited responsibility society) “London”. But after the return of the communists on power in 1997, persecution started back on Shpëtim and his family, through menaces and mistreatments. In order to make this family serve them, they also attacked their business through heavy bills. Pressure increases toward Shpëtim and his family especially during the elections of October 2000, June 24, 2001 and those of October 12, 2003, when Shpëtim Haxhija was going back home and was arrested by some people who took him in the police vehicle menacing him. His arrest resulted to be with a particular purpose by the state for revenge by the forces of the security of the state, which wanted to keep the power of violence and corruption. Pressure unfortunately increased lastly not only toward Shpëtim, but also toward his wife, Zamira Haxhija. Shpëtim increased his activity now that we are close to the elections of 2005, even though he is continuously menaced and in serious danger. They cannot survive in Albania in these conditions, but have to find their destiny somewhere abroad.

Vasel Gilaj