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The Albanians
in their troubled journey
 It is a time when the
laws of the State don’t work yet, a time considered appropriate for crimes.
The Albanians in this way feel unsafe and the journey of their life is
troubled. It was the time when the gangs had broken in the weapons’ depots
and dynamite exploded everywhere, as if it was Iraq. On June 13, 1997, some
people, used to penalize the shop owners and businessmen, came and asked the
money to Mr. Ndue Meshaj.
The conditions were that either he would give the money or they would kidnap
or even execute someone. That day, when those people entered the shop of Ndue Meshaj, he refused to give
them his money, so they kill him in his shop. His son, Artur
Ndue Meshaj, found out
who did kill his father and gets even the necessary material for the
Prosecution, but without any result, for the gangs had all the information on
him and his movements. On March 20, 2004, they wait him a few meters from his
house and kill him. Shkodra, the northern center,
was blooded; the family members were terrorized and menaced to stop following
the case of Ndue Meshaj.
The family Meshaj had other victims too. The son of
Ndue Meshaj, Ardian Meshaj, born on April
15, 1974, in Shkodra, was their target. According
to reliable sources we have, there were attempts to kill even Ardian, to send him to his father. But, God helped him.
Nevertheless, the fear of revenge made the killers of Ndue
Meshaj to try to kill as much as possible. One year
after the happening, in 1998, they killed the uncle of Ardian
Meshaj, the late Kolë Meshaj and his daughter, Fatjona
Meshaj. There were many attempts to kill Ardian Meshaj and his brothers Andi Meshaj and Artur Meshaj. The motive was
the blood-feud. No matter this, the family Meshaj,
those who are still alive, is in serious danger, while the State cannot
establish the authority. They’re nearer to death than life, that life that
only the one who gives it has the authority to take it, as it is God.
Albert Vataj
Fatbardh Hoxhiq, 38 years old, menaced by revenge
 Even though the Albanians
live in the 21st century, the medieval phenomenon of blood-feud
and revenge still keep people living shut in, and causing hundreds of
victims, mostly in the Northern Albania,
especially in Shkodra. This is happening to the 38
years old, Fatbardh Hoxhiq
and his family in Shkodra. But, how did this
tragedy start? It started on October 18, 2004, when people with guns entered
in the shop of the father of Fatbardh Hoxhiq, in order to get the money earned that day. Fatbardh Hoxhiq wasn’t there at
the moment, as he had to take the provisions for the next day. His father,
alone and terrorized, tried to defend the money and makes an attempt to take
the gun from the hands of one of the robbers, so one of them during the
fight, shoots killing his friend and wounding the father of Fatbardh Hoxhiq, leaving him
paralyzed still today. The tragedy goes on, for the family of the victim
wants to revenge on the family of Fatbardh. After
four months they place explosive causing him severe wounds. He was
hospitalized in the Regional Hospital of Shkodra
for several months, in very bad security conditions, because since October
18, 2004, Fatbardh and his family are shut in their
house, without any protection either by the police or the State, and without
any financial source to live. They’re sad and terrorized every single moment
of their life. They’ve asked the police many times to help them, but
unfortunately they had no protection. The police closed the door leaving this
family menaced by death. Fatbardh is the most
menaced as the person whom they want for revenge. Through this we want to get
the attention of people about the tragedy of the family Hoxhiq
in Shkodra, who cannot live in these conditions in Shkodra and even in Albania.
Vasel Gilaj
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