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The price of freedom and life
 Anarchist groups of the former red dictatorship,
changed in socialists, are making hard the life of people who aspire freedom and human rights. Even in the Albanian Parliament,
they are kicking and punching, braking chairs and even destroying the
computers’ system. But the worst part is the violence and the open revenge
through wild acts of terror, making long and hard the way of Albania toward Europe.
The guy you see in the picture, called Antonio Martini, born on January 24,
1966, is a serious accusation. His life and his family’s is a painful
tragedy. He was a businessman, but on March 30, 2004, some criminal groups
ask him 20.000 Euros. He had a physiotherapy clinic in “Rogner”
Hotel in Tirana. Threats were made through anonymous phone calls. As he saw
that many businessmen who didn’t pay were kidnapped and violated, or shot,
Antonio Martini was forced to leave for Germany in July 2004. So he
closed his business in order to save his life. After more than two years,
thinking the situation in Albania
was improved, on August 3, 2006, he came back in his country with the good
purpose to restart his business. But threats awaited him again. The sum
requested now was larger, until 50.000 Euro. Even this time there were
threats through anonymous phone calls. The threat was that if he didn’t pay,
his wife and children would be kidnapped. He is a good father and husband. He
is the father of four children. According to some reliable source we have,
Antonio reported this through his lawyer. His phone is surveyed, but he is
obligated to live hidden, because his life and his family are in serious
danger.
Vasel Gilaj
Artur Vashja
Prostitution is breaking the image of Albania
Tuesday, on June 13, 2006, Luljeta Rrukaj while looking after the flock in the village Dedaj of Malësi e Madhe,
was taken forcedly by three people and since then she disappeared and none
knows about her bad destiny.
According to our sources, it is supposed that Luljeta
Rrukaj was kidnapped to be used for prostitution.
Cases of kidnapping Albanian women occurred even in other Albanian
cities, like in Fier, where a citizen born in 1966,
kidnapped a woman for prostitution purposes for more than two years in a
western European country. A group of traffickers from Lezha
had kidnapped two women and sent them forcedly in western European countries
to use them as prostitutes.
This bad plague of the Albanian society is still existing and
unpunished by the State. It’s impossible to imagine how could be kidnapped a
woman in the daylight by three unidentified people and that none might know
about her destiny.
Prostitution is a bad consequence for the image of Albania in the international sight and for the
ongoing of negotiations of Albania
with the EU.
Flore Malocaj
Jozefin Gilaj
Edison Shahini’s life
menaced
 Anarchy is present in Albania. News are
filled every day with black chronicles. Eight hours had to fight 300 police
officers against a criminal in Elbasan who had
killed two women, until he was shot dead by the police snipers, four days
ago. Albania
is the country of terror, as the opposition is serving every day more the
dreams of anarchists who keep it off the road to integration in the
European family. One of the Albanian intellectuals
whose life is seriously in danger, is Edison Shtjefen
Shahini, born on August 30, 1979. He graduated with
very good results in the Academy
of Arts where he
studied painting. After he finished university he not only was unemployed but
his life was menaced until he was forced to leave Albania. Even these days, though
he is not here, his family receives menaces in order to tell where he is
residing. This truth is linked to his activity as a young man with dreams and
visions to influence in order that this country might be integrated in the
Euro-Atlantic structures, likewise other countries. Since the third year of
the secondary school he was an activist of the Anticommunist Association “13 Dhjetori
1990”.
Based on the document nr. 1034 of the protocol of this Albanian-wide
association, his father, Shtjefen Shahini was active in the protests of January 14, 1990 to
pull down the but of Stalin, in June 16 during the
funeral of Pellumb Pellumbi,
shot dead by the police, now martyr of democracy, in the powerful protest of
December 13, 1990, when the bust of Enver Hoxha was pulled down, and in the protest of April 2,
1991, against the votes stolen by Ramiz Alia and
his clan, when four people were shot dead. It should be ke
that because this family had paid dearly its convictions. Edisons’s
grandfather was imprisoned from 1946 until 1952. Even on September 14, 1998,
during the funeral of the eagle of the Albanian democracy and freedom, Azem Hajdari, killed at the
center of Tirana, Edison Shahini was arrested and
violated for two days and was kept in the prison cells out of any law, but
also out of any reason. Before the elections of 2000, he was mistreated by
unknown people, as he didn’t agree to manipulate the votes of DP, as an
observer of this political force, now menaced by anarchist forces who even in
Parliament are stopping constitutional reforms, only because they want to
keep Albania in this state, unsafe. On May 18, 2003, he was beaten with
barbarity by two police and one military officer, at the middle of the city.
This was testified for the journal by N. Marku, P. Gjini and Z. Ndreaj, who said
they saved his life carrying him home. Still today the family of this young
man is menaced every day. Extremist groups want to eliminate him physically, that’s
why he left toward occidental countries, maybe for no return, as death is the
only thing awaiting him here.
Rifat Ymeri
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