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nr. 80 / 31 gusht 2005

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Albania is a country ruled by anarchy

The families persecuted by the communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, are still today victims of violence and threats of death. One of them is Marije Bosha, who was arrested in 1997, and mistreated by the communists. The chain of unrighteousness is long. In 1983 Marije was interned along with her family for five years in Seman of Fier. This family also suffered political imprisonment and cruel tortures. Marije, Paulin, Gjovalin, Pjerin, Terezina and Jolanda have suffered political imprisonment for the simple reason they opposed the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha and Ramiz Alia, the two terrible beasts of the Albanian history. Terezina Bosha bore a child, Stiljan, in the political prison in Belsh of Elbasan in 1980. On April 2, 1991, during the peaceful protest against the system of Ramiz Alia, where Arben Broci, Bujar Bishanaku, Nazmi Kryeziu and Besnik Ceka were shot dead, and other 163 innocent people were wounded, Suela Bosha was one of the wounded and mistreated. Later on she was honored by the Albanian President. Marije’s brother, Gjovalin Zefi suffered hard consequences as one of the most active people in pulling down the bust of Enver Hoxha in December 13, 1990. He was tortured and imprisoned, and in Elbasan he had an abscess. Later on, on May 29, 1997, he was killed in the center of Shkodra, just like his uncle. The life of Marije Bosha today is menaced, as anarchy rules. Every day almost three people are killed.

Fatime Kulli

 

Old enmities cause victims in the Albanian society

Almost every day there’s a crime in Albania, because of old enmities. Anton Malaj is a victim of such an enmity. Two former soldiers of the boarder troupes want and try to kill him. This is related to the fact that on September 11, 1985, Anton Malaj, Qezar Sula and Alfred Jaho, soldiers of the Military Unit 30-11, in Vrinë of Durrës, desert and try to escape in Yugoslavia through the village Aliaj of Shkodra, after the night-fall. They could reach the boarder and near the Shkodra’s Lake they were detected by the boarder units. These boarder units opened fire without warning. Qezar Sula was wounded and caught by these Albanian units, while Anton Malaj and Alfred Jaho respond with fire, as they were provided with 25 grenades. They were able to leave Albania in anyway. During that fight of 20 years ago, two soldiers of the Albanian boarder unit were wounded, and they want to kill Anton, according to the Canon of the mountains. This last one was condemned 25 years of imprisonment at that time, accused for high betrayal, what was abolished one and a half years after the fall of the Berlin’s Wall. The Albanian State, as the most unrighteous and unable in the world, has institutionalized even the medieval laws of the Canon. Today Anton Malaj lives hiding fearing death. Even the Albanian President, Alfred Moisiu is engaged in activities of reconciliation, what gives little hopes for possible chances to eliminate such wounds.

Albert Vataj

 

Again unsafe in Albania

The house of Hysen Gosturani, in Gosturan of Tropoja, was shaken by a big projectile, where Chinese letters were identified, according to the Albanian Police. According to the investigatory group no victims were registered after the explosion, while investigation is focused on enmity. Gangs are back in Albania today and revenge makes people’s life unsafe. These last days, Vjollca Bizi and her two children, Idvin and Kleidis were shot with machinegun near their house in Perash of Shkodra, city in North Albania. For God’s sake they escaped death as the bullets didn’t hit the target. According to our sources, the motivation is related to the activity of Vjollca’s husband, Bardhyl Musa Bizi, as there was no report in the police, because it is often the police that give information. At the beginning of the democratic processes, her husband was active in pulling down the bust of Stalin on January 14, 1990, and that of Enver Hoxha on December 13, 1990, but also during 1997, when these same gangs forced him to leave Albania and go toward Greece along with his wife, their two children and his old mother, Shpresa Doçi. He came back in Albania after eight years and unknown people shot on his family. There’s strong relationship between gangs of the neighbor countries where there is also drug smuggling and other contraband. We came to know that this Albanian family can live neither in Albania, nor in Greece, but they have to get their lives safe in some other country.

Sokol Pepushaj

 

Pajtim Ujkaj leaves Albania because of death threats

Revenge keeps on over the former political persecuted, likewise everywhere in Albania, especially in Malësi e Madhe, as one of the most persecuted areas by the communist regime, because of their activity, mostly now when the socialists won again. The family Ujkaj from Koplik of Malësi e Madhe is one of those families well-known as one of the suffering families during the communist regime of Enver Hoxha. The same thing is happening to this family, especially to Mr. Hasan Ujkaj, during the parliamentary elections of this year in Albania, while Mr. Ujkaj was mistreated and menaced for his activity supporting the Democratic Party, by forces of the State’s Security and socialists thirsty for power who want to defend their corruptions at any cost. Such revenge doesn’t start here, but since 1951 when the family Ujkaj was considered as an enemy, what meant they were enemies of communism. They were persecuted for 50 years, until democracy came on Albania, supported vigorously by the family Ujkaj in Koplik of Malësi e Madhe. Hasan Ujkaj and Pajtim Ujkaj, father and son, were distinguished for their activity supporting the Democratic Party. Mr. Pajtim Ujkaj, born in 1976, participated in the anticommunist protests of 1990-1991, to pull down dictatorship with peaceful means. Almost all the family, obviously those who had the right age, became members of the Democratic Party. One of the most active people was Pajtim Ujkaj, who became member of the Democratic Party in 1995. After the return of the communists on power 1997, the family Ujkaj, especially Pajtim Ujkaj, was menaced. Communist agents have menaced and provoked him many times, even to eliminate him, making of Pajtim Ujkaj part of the list of people persecuted for their anticommunist convictions. On January 8 and 9, 2003, Pajtim Ujkaj was held at the police in the investigation offices for two days, yet menaces were not over. In autumn 2003, when the local elections were held, Pajtim Ujkaj and his relatives were still under violence, threats, mistreating. Unfortunately threats do not end here and in 2004, Pajtim Ujkaj was arrested again, but this time, as he could escape the nails of the social-communist revenge, he leaved Albania, trying to survive elsewhere. If he would stand in Albania, he would hardly have enjoyed his life.

Vasel Gilaj

 

Endless sufferings

One of many Albanians forced to leave the country is Berti Bame (Demaj), born in Shkodra on March 6, 1975. He was the bodyguard of the President of the Albanian Indipendent Syndicates from November 2001 until March 21, 2005, while his wife was a teacher so they built their new life together. Their sufferings become unbearable. Unknown people supported by the Albanian political mafia press on him to make him leave his work as a bodyguard of the President of the Albanian Indipendent Syndicates. They wanted at any cost that the President Kalaja might not be protected, so that they might press on him for his pronunciations and properties of the Albanian Indipendent Syndicates. In these circumstances, pressure was present every day, through attempted car incidents, phone-calls and various menaces. At the beginning they fired his wife, later on forced him to change his surname from Demaj to Bame, so that he might not be identified. In February 2005, maske people took him in hostage and although he was physically strong, they tied him hands and legs izolating him for almost two weeks. Than they have let him go menacing to kill him and his wife Enkeleida, and also his daughter Klea, if he didn’t leave his work. In these circumstances he brings his wife and daughter away from Shkodra, somewhere to an anknown place, while he leaves Albania, although he had reported many times to the police, but these last doesn’t assume to protect his life and family. In these conditions, his return in Albania doesn’ grant a safe life to this family.

Zef Nika