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Jak Gjergji, target of terrorism
 Jak Gjergji and his family in the village of Beltoje of Shkodra went through great sorrow. According to the
Democratic Party, Jak Gjergji
invested much for installing democracy in Albania, and was its member since
the beginning of 1990, as well as leader of this party for Beltoje, a village about five kilometers from the
northern town of Shkodra. Jak
Gjergji was also elected by vote as a counselor of
the Commune of Beltoje and worked honestly with
great devotion, so that to enjoy the respect of the community. But he became
a target of the terrorist groups, who wanted to eliminate him physically. On
June 27, 2001, three days after the parliamentary elections of June 24, 2001,
his house was shot. Jak Gjegji
had become target of terrorism, because as a commissioner of the DP, didn’t
allow manipulation on the votes. These last days, on March 15, 2005, his
house was again target of bullets, though Jak Gjergji had already left Albania, maybe without return.
Freedom thus is killed while people and their lives have been left in the
hands of terrorism and death.
Albert
Vataj
State
of crime
 There are still
about three months until the day when the Albanians will have the elections.
The political situation is pretty hot. The barons of crime, as the American
Embassy called those who brought such a situation, are doing all they can to
make the appropriate environment to steal votes, just as they did these last
eight years. The democrats feel physically threatened. This guy you see in
the picture is Albert Balto Simoni,
born on November 2, 1985. He comes from a family who was persecuted by the
dictatorial communist regime, from a family engaged, since the beginning of
the democratic processes in Albania,
to build an Albania
free, without violence, corruption and injustice. He was also involved in the
protests against darkness, unemployment, corruption in Shkodra.
Therefore on February 17, 2004 he was mistreated by the police because of his
involvement in these protests. According to sources from the seat of the DP,
the other son of Balto Simoni,
Altin Simoni was
persecuted and faced violence several times.
Berdice e Madhe,
near Shkodra, is well-known as the most
anticommunist area, therefore a victim. Victim of such violence, while his
life was often in danger, is also Albert Simoni and
his family. This is the product of this criminal State, which is trying at
any cost, even killing people, political rivals, to keep the power.
Vasel Gilaj
Scandal
of the Albanian police in Rinas: An innocent
American arrested
 During the
Albanian kingdom, while Albania
was going through a deep crisis, to lack even bread, in the Parliament of
that time there was a very interesting suggestion. A deputy from north (from Mirdita, I suppose) made his suggestion with a tremendous
coolness: I suggest declaring war to America. It is a superpower in
the world. It will win the war and will occupy us. For a nation of 200
million of people (at the time), it won’t be a problem to feed other 800
thousand people, - said the deputy from Mirdita.
In that moment, the whole room of the Albanian Parliament
burst in clapping hands and the “wise” suggestion that would solve the
situation of the moment would be voted. In that very moment, another deputy
from south (I think he was from Gjirokastra) had a
doubt, though strange, it was possible, at least mathematically: I agree to
declare war to America,
as the colleague says, but war involves victory and only defeat. If we win
the war and occupy America,
how are we supposed to feed 200 million Americans if we’re not able to feed
800 thousand Albanians, - said the deputy from Gjirokastra?!
Maybe this was true, or maybe it was all cooked up, but its
moral was very clear: We have been, we are and will keep on being the country
of paradoxes. The history that I’m going to tell you, does really relate to
America (USA) and Albania,
but the center of it is an American-Albanian (more American than Albanian, as
he owns an American passport since 1996).
His name is Sokol Nikoll Nilaj; he was born on
July 5, 1970. He comes from a persecuted family, and some of his relatives
have been fired and suffered political condemnation during dictatorship.
Likewise many others, in August 1990, while the communist dictatorship in Albania was “flourishing”, Sokol
escapes through the border with Yugoslavia. The country of his
dreams, as well as for many Albanians today, was America, the universal bastion of
human freedom and rights.
After many efforts and requests, he obtained the political
asylum from the American
State. He goes there
and since 1991 he got the permanent residence permission, or the American
Green Card. In 1996, Sokol got the American
citizenship, and just like every other citizen of this State; he got the
passport of the USA.
Since that time, missing his relatives and his country, he visited Albania five
times as an American citizen. He did never, in all his life, have an Albanian
passport, for the circumstances of his life.
The unpleasant and strange adventure of Sokol
Nilaj starts o March 4,
2005. Even this time he left America
toward his birth-country, as an American citizen, to see his relatives he
missed so much. The airplane lands in Rinas, in the
airport with the most beautiful name in the world, that of Mother Therese,
the Albanian Saint. Without any explanation, Sokol
was arrested by the Police of Order in this airport. He was held for three
hours in the prison cells of the Police Department of Rinas.
Meanwhile police vehicles from Malësi e Madhe were arriving. They came, arrested him and brought
him in the prison cells of the Police Department of Koplik.
At the end they tell him the motive of his arrest. The motive
was simple, short and strange, yet not logical: Sokol,
you did not do the obligatory military service. With the American passport in
his pocket for nine years, and without ever obtaining the Albanian passport, Sokol says that he was a citizen of the USA. However
until March 11, 2005, the American citizen Sokol Nilaj tasted the “comfortable” conditions of the Albanian
prison cells. With the sentence Nr.19 of the Court of Shkodra,
he was set free because his time was over, and two months of imprisonment had
to be converted in a financial mulct “because of missing presence in the
Military Office of Malësi e Madhe”.
In the beginning we should admit that the top age for
military service in Albania
is 27 years old. When avoidance from this obligation occurs, this should be
followed by the Military Court,
after the report of the Mobilization Department near the Military
Prosecution. Firstly, the American-Albanian Sokol Nilaj, born on July 5, 1970, today is almost 35 years
old. Secondly, he had to receive a mandate from the Prosecution for his
arrest, or a verdict of the Court to sentence him in absence. He did never
receive such a document. The clear mistake of the police or even the Albanian
justice was the arrest of an American citizen, though with Albanian
nationality, yet an American citizen enjoying all the rights, having a passport
of the USA.
According to international procedures and conventions, at the moment of his
arrest, the Albanian authorities should have communicated this to the USA
Embassy in Tirana, or give Sokol Nilaj the possibility to communicate with this institution.
This is a well-known international right.
We are sure that the arrest of Nilaj
had some other reason. They knew he lived for 15 years in the USA, and had
an American passport. In a few words they knew they could get some money from
him, as they did. In a country like Albania, which can be called a country
without doors, where terrorists wanted in all the world have entered, and
still enter, an American was arrested, a citizen of a nation that sheds its
blood every day to defend the best values of democracy and freedom in the
world.
Not even one structure of the Albanian State
did have the courage to beg pardon to Sokol Nilaj, at least formally. This last one, an American
citizen living in Florida,
is determined to re-establish justice and his dignity. As soon as he will go
back in America, he will
report the Albanian State, that terrorized him unjustly, treating him
like a terrorist of Al-Qaeda, which have access in Albania without any inspection.
He did never have an Albanian passport, though the Defense Ministry wanted to
fulfill its plan of recruits, while the Ministry of Order or even the simple
police officers wanted to fulfill their plan of illegal profit.
Unfortunately, there are many cases like this, but Sokol
Nilaj is determined to go to the end asking for his
right trying to re-establish his dignity, even because he spent a lot of
money through the procedures to have his freedom back.
With such ministers, police chiefs or even simple police
officers, Albania can
easily declare war even to the USA. The war this time will end
in the real defeat of America.
This is the only way the Americans will be safe from the “drop of Dollar”,
joining the kingdom of the unconquerable “Albanian Lek”.
Blerti Delija
Albania: violence, terror, fear and unsafe life
 Violence, terror,
fear, unsafe life, Mafioso murders in the midday, as well as in the midnight,
in the little cities, likewise in the big ones, are some of the permanent
threats of this State since it came on power through guns on June 29, 1997.
The leader of the Albanian opposition Prof. Dr. Sali
Berisha, every day, as the elections draw near,
accuses with facts the State that is bringing the Albanian people toward the
precipice. “The Days of Hope” of the Albanian opposition, the slogan of these
elections to come, is making clear all the evil of those on power, who work
only for themselves, the Mafias’ clans and terrorist lines. Nevertheless, the
Albanian opposition today needs many of its activists, as the beastly
violence caused many of them to leave Albania, only to save their lives
and children. This is what Geg Pal Jakini had to do. He and his family do not live in Albania, although he linked his life to the
hope and efforts for a democratic Albania, where life and basic
human freedom is observed. Geg Jakini
is well-known in Albania as one of those who was present in the pulling down
of the bust of Stalin on January 14, 1990, at the funeral of the first martyr
of the Albanian democracy, Pëllumb Pëllumbi, on June 16, 1990, when he faced the violence of
the police of the former communist president Ramiz
Alia; he was also active in the pulling down of the bust of Enver Hoxha on December 13,
1990, and on April 2, 1991, protesting in front of the seat of the Committee
of the Party of Labor in Shkodra, against the
stealing of votes, where four people were shot, Arben
Broci, Bujar Bishanaku, Nazmi Kryeziu and Besnik Ceka, while 163 people of Shkodra
were wounded and many others faced violence, amongst whom was Geg, as one of those who was badly beaten during the
funeral of the democrat deputy Azem Hajdari, on September 14, 1998, when the police played
havoc on the present people. The wave of arrests for the happenings of
September 14 obliged him to leave Albania
toward Greece, in the city
of Nausa,
for five and a half months. As soon as he came in Albania, he faced again pressure,
terror and violence. He lived mostly hidden. On October 17, 2000, at 9
o’clock, there was an attempted attack to kill him at the seat of the Municipality of Vau i Dejes. The authors of this attempted attack were the
police officers of the State. The attempted attack meant to kill Geg Jakini, member of the
Municipality Council, elected by the votes of people, and his brother, Fran Jakini, leader of the Democratic Party in Vau i Dejes. A few hours later,
at 1430 of the same day, Geg and his
brother Fran were arrested. This last one was considered wanted! Could it be
more absurd than considering the leader of the DP, wanted?! The chief of
Mafiosi, Fatos Nano, as called by Sali Berisha, and even his
collaborators, the social-communist ministers, had often problems with the
Municipality of Vau i Dejes.
Manipulations on the local elections of October 1, 2000, paralyzed the Municipality of Vau i Dejes. There was great manipulation in the voting center
Nr.11 of Naraç. The right-winged of the Albanian
politics presented reliable evidence and a sentence of the High Court
commanded a repeat of voting in Naraç.
Nevertheless, the thief and criminal State didn’t accept the sentence. Geg Jakini at that time, after
the arrest stayed for three days in the prison-cells of the police, where he
faced violence and tortures. Though innocence was expected, the court
sentenced home arrest. In a further sentence the Prosecution of the District
of Shkodra, ceased the case against Geg, begging “pardon”, as they did in other cases. Yet,
the case of the leader of the DP, Fran Jakini, goes
on. The sentence for him was to pay a mulct. As the sentence of the High
Court to repeat voting was not being executed, thirteen councilors,
representative of the DP, on February 20, 2001, start a starving strike, to
die for justice, for the execution of a sentence of the Albanian High Court,
for this State didn’t consider even the same institution of the court. So,
what could happen to the other levels of justice?! The strike started in the
area of the Prefecture of Shkodra, in the office of
the Political Anticommunist Association “13 Dhjetori
1990” and the Association of the Former Political Persecuted, for the leader
of the Albanian anticommunists, Luigj Curri, member of the staff of our newspaper, took the
audacious decision that would bring consequences to his life, to provide for
the area for the strike. In this starving strike was present even Geg Jakini as a leader of the
strike, who organized his friends trying to raise their moral for justice.
The strike, as reflected by the Albanian press, and even the foreign media,
had many consequences. Five strikers were hospitalized and one of them died.
It was Mark Gjini, who died for the consequences of
the strike a few days after its end. That strike ended on February 28, 2001,
while the social-communists were forced to fulfill their request, fixing the
day of March 18, 2001, as the day of elections in the voting center Nr.11 in Naraç. Those elections were the proof of manipulations,
for on March 18, the DP won the elections. On March 27, 2001, the candidate
of the DP, Rrok Lorja,
already Mayor, received the office of Mayor from the Albanian Central
Commission of Elections. The former Mayor didn’t want to open the door and
give up the keys of the Municipality and start the procedures of consigning
the documentation. Geg Jakini,
vice President of the Municipality Council as well as member of the Council
of the District of Shkodra, took a right decision
yet dangerous for his life. He constituted a commission with the
administration of the Municipality, and in the presence of the President of
the Municipality Council, Myftar Baba, as well as
many other democrat activists, at 15 o’clock of March 27, 2001, opened
forcedly the door of the office of the Mayor, wishing a good job to the new
elected of the people. As a consequence of this legitimate victory,
illegitimate revenge follows. 12 hours later, on March 28, at 3 o’clock AM,
was registered the first terrorist act in the house and the bar of the vice
President of the Municipality Council and member of the Council of the
District, Geg Jakini. The
bar was used by the Democratic Party for meetings and decisions. The powerful
explosive destroyed the building and other objects around it. God did the
miracle to avoid victims.
Thus, one of the people who invested so much for the Albanian
democracy, one of those who paid so much having his life often in serious
danger, isn’t in Albania
today. This is a report for the politics which causes every day more to
increase conflicts, medieval revenge, violence and terror.
Sokol Pepushaj
Arben
Luke Gjuraj - the highly considered democrat from Shkodra…
 Albania is being
destroyed by forced emigration, especially after 1997, when the former
communists came back on power. With their politics of repression and threats
toward democrats’ lives, the Socialist Government forced many young activists
and supporters of the Democratic Party to leave Albania,
toward occidental countries and USA. It is terrible to renounce
to your country and family for a never return! One of those young people is Arben Luke Gjuraj, who had to
leave his country and his mother after the elections of 2001, for threatened
and mistreated by the secret structures of the Security of the State led by
the Socialist Party on power. Arben is remembered
every day by his democrat friends, members and leaders of the DP, his mother
and relatives, as it is a long time since he living far from Shkodra, his dear town he loved so much.
As an active participant in all the anticommunist protests in
Shkodra, one of the initiators for starting back
the activity of the Catholic Church in this town, as leader of many campaigns
for candidates of the DP, Arben Gjuraj
is highly considered for all this irreplaceable contribution for the
democratic processes in Albania.
There is no lack of desire for Arben to return in Shkodra, but the roughness of the Socialist Government
known no end. His mother and relatives are continuously provoked and menaced,
for this year political elections are to be held in Albania. The
former communists are afraid of Arben, for they’ve
known very well his role supporting the DP, as well as his ability in
challenging them.
Lastly, many sections and branches of the DP in Shkodra have celebrated the anniversary of foundation of
the Democratic Party and the name of Arben Luke Gjuraj, as one of its founders, was always present in
such celebrations. He was mentioned with respect and deep gratitude for his
role and contribution. When the name of Arben is
mentioned, it is rightly asked how it was possible that in 2005, in a
European country, threats of fascist type are still present, human rights and
freedom are violated and forced emigration increases. Yet, the inhuman
socialist governing goes on…
Edlira Kuka
Bledar Çulaj is in serious danger
 There is a young guy called Bledar Bashkim Çulaj,
whose life is in serious danger in Albania. The phenomenon of blood-feud
forced him to leave his country. His father, Bashkim Muç Çulaj, had several
problems in his life and family since April 10, 1998, when the citizen I.Xh.
wounded with a gun within the Pediatric Hospital of Shkodra, Doctor Kadri
Çulaj, Bashkim’s uncle. The daughter of I.Xh. was hospitalized at the hospital
and died because of a great hemorrhage. Yet, the father of that girl shot
seven bullets toward the Doctor opening a conflict with the whole family
Çulaj. Bledar Çulaj left Albania, his father, Bashkim now suffers from
schizophrenia, his family lives in Montenegro, his sister Nadina, who
graduated in the secondary school, is waiting to be admitted at the
University of Lund in Sweden, for Jurisprudence; meanwhile she lives in
anxiety for the destiny of her relatives which are now a target of medieval revenge.
The other sister, Arjeta is suffering from one and a half year with a psychic
trauma as isn’t able even to talk.
This is the tragedy of an Albanian
family, living nearer to death than life, while the State is defeated by the
Canon.
Zog Hysenaj
The bad destiny of Liliana Halili from
Peja
 Many
Albanians in Kosovo have become victims of violence and respression by Serbs.
Yet dhe destiny of girls was worse. The same was for the girl in the picture
near the article. Her name is Liliana Halili. She was born on May 5, 1975, in
Peja of Kosovo. The Serbs burned up her house four years ago and killed her
father, Zef Halili and her mother Marije Petrash. Yet, they had not enough
killing her parents and some of those Serbs raped her. From a good Kosovar girl,
with her wishes for life, she was faced a trauma and her life goes badly. She
was left alone, for Kosov doesn’t have yet organisms who care for the
rehabilitation of such victims. Liliana Halili found a possibility to leave
for Macedonia. According to some our reliable source, who don’t want to be
known as they fear consequences for their lives, this girl, found alone in
Macedonia, stressed, under the target of Mafia’s groups involved in girls’
trafficking, does her best to leave Macedonia, as she grew up in Kosovo with
good moral habits. She goes West. Her destiny is unknown now, yet it is very
dark, likewise for many other girls from Kosovo, victims of rape.
This
is another heavy wound for the life in Kosovo.
The
corresp. of “Shqipëria Etnike”
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