From i_spaho at hotmail.com Mon Apr 3 11:15:34 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 08:15:34 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Daily Balkan News Message-ID: <20000403151534.99950.qmail@hotmail.com> >NEWS SUMMARY >www.balkan-info.com > > >Dateline: Brussels >Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) >30/03/00 > >USD 2.4 BILLION PLEDGED FOR BALKAN RECONSTRUCTION >Officials of the World Bank and the European Commission, co-sponsors of the >Balkans donors conference, announced on 30 March a USD 2.4 billion aid >grant >for short-term reconstruction projects in South-eastern Europe, AFP >reported. "The results have significantly exceeded our expectations," AFP >quoted Bodo Hombach, the co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for >South-eastern Europe. The aid money, pledged by approximately 80 countries >and organisations, will be used to finance reconstruction projects >throughout the Balkan region. > > >Dateline: Stockholm >Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) >30/03/00 > >ROBERTSON: WITHOUT DONOR MONEY KOSOVO MISSION MAY FAIL >NATO Secretary-General George Robertson on 30 March warned that the >civilian >administration in Kosovo needs financial support, or NATO will not attain >its objectives in the province, AFP reported. "It?s for the international >community to make the decision as to whether they want it to succeed and >whether they?re willing to back up fine words with sufficient financial >resources," AFP quoted Robertson. The Secretary-General was in Stockholm >for meetings with Swedish defence officials. > > > >Dateline: Washington >Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) >30/03/00 > >U.S. DISPATCHES ELITE TROOPS TO KOSOVO, WEAPONRY TO MACEDONIA >Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon announced that the U.S. would deploy >additional reconnaissance troops to Kosovo and tanks and heavy artillery to >Macedonia, AFP reported. The 125 elite troops will be used to "provide >more >eyes and ears" in Kosovo and the armour and artillery "will provide more >force protection assets?and serve as a deterrent to any mischief that might >take place along the borders of Macedonia," Bacon said, according to AFP. >The measures come amid increased border tensions in the Presevo Valley >between Serbs and ethnic Albanians. > > >Dateline: Washington >Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) >30/03/00 > >U.S. WARNS ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS >U.S. State Department spokesman James Foley issued a stern warning to >Albanian militias in Kosovo saying that peacekeepers would not tolerate >violence in the province, AFP reported. In the 30 March remarks Foley >stated that the U.S. was "disappointed" that former KLA chief Hashim Thaci >failed to live up to a recent pledge that the militias "would disarm, would >shed their uniforms" and "refrain from violence," AFP quoted. Foley noted >that peacekeepers had intervened in the past against the militias and would >do so again, according to the wire service. Earlier in the month U.S. >troops raided bases belonging to ethnic Albanian insurgents, seizing >ammunition crates and uniforms. > > >Dateline: Belgrade >Source: Agence France Presse (AFP) >30/03/00 > >MITROVICA SERB LEADER CALLS FOR RETURN OF 5,000 REFUGEES >Mitrovica Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic on 30 March called on the EU to >support the return to Kosovo of 5,000 Serbs who left after the arrival of >NATO peacekeepers last year, AFP reported. According to Ivanovic, the >repatriation programme should begin this May and will return Kosovar Serbs >to 15 villages located in north-west Kosovo. "I asked the EU mission to >help this action, to assure the means and to help the reconstruction of >houses, because they have all been burned down," AFP quoted Ivanovic. "It >will also be a test for the Albanians, because if they do not accept this >plan, everybody will understand that they want a Kosovo without Serbs, an >ethnically-pure Kosovo," he continued. > > > > >Dateline: Paris >Source: Associated Press (AP) >30/03/00 > >FRENCH COLONEL ACCUSED OF LEAKING INFORMATION IS REASSIGNED >French Colonel Jean-Michel Mechain has been reassigned to a new post >following accusations that he divulged classified information about French >peacekeepers in Kosovo, AP reported. The 30 March announcement by the >French Defence Ministry comes in the wake of Mechain being placed under >formal investigation last week and spending 48 hours in jail before being >freed by a judge, according to the wire service. Mechain allegedly leaked >information to journalists indicating tension between French peacekeepers >and U.N. administrator for Kosovo Bernard Koucher, who they perceived to be >anti-Serb and pro-Albanian. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Sat Apr 8 20:33:01 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:33:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] 'albania blues' Message-ID: CINEMA: PARLA ANCORA PUGLIESE CON 'ALBANIA BLUES' (ANSA) - BARI, 6 APR - Il cinema italiano parla ancora pugliese. Dopo ''Liberate i pesci'', ''La Capagira'' e ''Tutto l'amore che c'e''', arriva dal tacco d'Italia un altro film. Sara' presentato stasera, in prima nazionale, ''Albania blues'', diretto da Nico Cirasola, alla sua terza esperienza dopo le pellicole ''Odore di pioggia'' ('90) e ''Da do da'' ('95). ''Albania blues'' e' un film tutto pugliese girato nelle campagne brindisine di Ostuni e Fasano, e in quelle della Murgia barese. Il cast e' composto dallo stesso Cirasola che ha accanto un gruppo di amici tra i quali Frank Lino, Toto' Onnis, Valentina Chico, Chantal Ughi. Il film non presenta il solito ritratto bozzettistico e folkloristico della Puglia: con un po' di ironia si parla anche di guerre, emigrazione, viaggi e fughe. Il protagonista Fefe', un antennista, che per anni ha catturato i sogni dal cielo per portarli in tutte le case, un giorno, per una spiacevole coincidenza, scappa di casa e, mentre solo in prossimita' del mare pensa alle sue avventure, assiste allo sbarco di un gruppo di albanesi. Dopo questo incontro, con ''mafiosetti e profughi'', la vita di Fefe' avra' una svolta. Il film e' prodotto dalla Mediterranea film e distribuito dalla AB film. (ANSA). 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From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu Subject: [balkans] Ron Brown Fellowship Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 10:30:13 -0400 Size: 5330 URL: From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Sun Apr 9 23:59:43 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 23:59:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] albanian.com Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 23:48:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Etrit Bardhi Subject: [Web-design] Re: [Prishtina-l] Marre ------------------------------------ **** Web Design Discussion List **** ------------------------------------ Please be aware that the albanian.com server was not hacked, rather a security hole that exists in Network Solutions (the company that hosts all the domain names) was used to re-direct all traffic to another site. This is a well known hole, read the following article published in the very well-respected Slashdot Web Site: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/09/063223.shtml There were indications that Network Solutions was being sued for not fixing this security hole... Btw, this is the lowest form of "hacking" someone's site, and is considered as a very dirty campaign by those who do it, thus causing more disgust towards the perpetrators. Someone suggests that Albanians should do the same thing to Serbian sites, but I think that it will only do us more harm. Once again, the albanian.com server was not hacked, however due to the nature of how the internet works, for all the domain name servers to propagate the correct information from Network Solutions, it will take additionally 2 to 3 more days... :-( Etrit. From pulab at gusun.georgetown.edu Wed Apr 12 13:04:42 2000 From: pulab at gusun.georgetown.edu (Besnik Pula) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:04:42 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] grante nga Fondacioni Soros-Shqiperi Message-ID: NJOFTIM I FONDACIONIT SOROS Projekt ne mbeshtetje te punes kerkimore - shkencore te te rinjve shqiptare qe studiojne jashte shtetit. Fondacioni Shoqeria e Hapur per Shqiperine (Soros) njofton fillimin e nje programi te ri ne mbeshtetje te punes kerkimore-shkencore te te rinjve shqiptare qe studiojne jashte shtetit. Projekti eshte koncetuar ne dhenie grantesh per te rinjte qe aktualisht jane duke u shkolluar jashte shtetit ne nivel universitar apo pasuniversitar dhe qe temat e tyre te diplomave/gradave shkenocre jane te orientuara me tematike nga Shqiperia. Prioritetet do te kene aplikantet qe: - jane 35 vje? e poshte - jane duke perfunduar studimet universitare apo duke vazhduar studimet pasuniversitare (Master's; PhD etj) ne universitete te huaja me reputacion - temat e mbrojtjtes se diplomave apo gradave shkencore jane te orientuara ne realitetin shqiptar dhe paraqesin nej rendesi te ve?ante per vendin tone - preferohen kandidate qe kane nje bashkpunim me ndonje institucion shqiptar. - aplikanteve fitues u lind e drejta e marrjes se nje granti qe do te mbeshtese shpenzimet e udhetimit per ne Shqiperi si dhe shpenzime te tjera te domosdoshme per kryerjen e hulumtimeve gjate periudhes qe do te jene prezente ne Shqiperi si psh. transporti i brendeshem, akomodim dhe dietat per udhetim brenda vendit, fotokpjime, literatura ndihmese, etj. Aplikantet e interesuar duhet te dorzojne ne sekretarine e fondacionit Soros dokumentacionin e meposhtem: - Curruculmn Vitae - Nje dokument regjistrimi ku te vertetohet lloji i studimeve dhe koha e zgjatejes se tyre. - Nje dokument qe te provoje miratimin e temes/grades shkencore nga institucioni perkates. - Nje permbledhje prej 500 fjalesh te temes/grades shkencore. - Dy rekomandime nga profesoret e universitetit/institucionit ku aplikanti ndjek studimet. - Kohezgjatja dhe buxheti i detajuar i shpenzimeve te nevojitura per kryerjen e hulumtimeve ne Shiperi. Afati per aplikim mbetet i hapur. Shqyrtimi i aplikimeve do te behet nje here ne dy muaj. Personat e interesuar do te marrin pergjigje per alpikimet e tyre brenda 10 javeve. Fondacioni Soros Programi per mbeshtetjen e arsimimit te larte Rruga Pjeter Bogdani, Pallati 23/1 Tirane - Albania From besnik at alb-net.com Thu Apr 13 23:42:13 2000 From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:42:13 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Talk on Kosova at Harvard Law School In-Reply-To: <20000414032125.5338.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: The Spring 2000 Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher Colloquium Series Presents? ?Reflections On The Legal Status of Kosovo One Year After NATO's Intervention? Talk given by Agron Alibali, LL.M., Visiting Researcher Tuesday April 18, 2000 12:30 PM 2:00 PM LILC 211 Under the leadership of the UN, the international community is currently engaged in an unprecedented effort of institution-building, reconciliation, reconstruction and establishment of rule of law in the former Yugoslav province of Kosovo. The presentation will analyze these efforts in view of Kosovo's legal status as an autonomous province, and by taking into account the future trends in the region. Will Kosovo under Bernard Kouchner, "now closer to Brussels than most EU candidates," [D. Moisi, Financial Times, 4,10,2000], become the driving force to pull the entire region of Southeastern Europe toward an integrated and enlarged Europe? Lunch will be served at 12:30 PM Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Graduate Program From elita-kombetare-owner at egroups.com Sat Apr 15 07:55:44 2000 From: elita-kombetare-owner at egroups.com (elita-kombetare Moderator) Date: 15 Apr 2000 11:55:44 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Invitation to join elita-kombetare Message-ID: <955799744.11431@egroups.com> Hello, This is an invitation to join the elita-kombetare group, an email group that I moderate at eGroups, a free, easy-to-use email group service. 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If you feel this has happened, please notify us at abuse at egroups.com From besnik at alb-net.com Fri Apr 14 10:42:23 2000 From: besnik at alb-net.com (Besnik Pula) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:42:23 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] 2000 ASN Convention Program In-Reply-To: Message-ID: There are a variety of panels on Albania and Kosova in this year's ASN convention, which started yesterday and goes on until tomorrow. To see the program look at the ASN web site at http://picce.uno.edu/ASN/index.html -Besnik From i_spaho at hotmail.com Sun Apr 16 16:48:45 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:48:45 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Good News Message-ID: <20000416204845.74019.qmail@hotmail.com> This excerpt is taken from Shusterman's latest newsletter. One big applaud to the 9th Circuit for shaking the ground of the infamous 1996 law! Let's hope this is just the beginning ... Irma >* Detention: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the >INS may not detain aliens for more than a "reasonable" time past the >statutory 90-day removal period. The court decided the case on statutory >rather than constitutional grounds. Two other appeals courts, one in >Denver and the other in New Orleans have approved the INS's indefinite >detention policy. The 9th Circuit's decision, which could potentially >affect thousands of detained persons, is expected to be resolved by the >Supreme Court. > > >* Expungements: The BIA, in Matter of Roldan, held that an expunged >criminal conviction could be the basis for a person's deportation. See > > http://shusterman.com/apr99.html#8 > >On March 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral >arguments in the Roldan case, and from the questions that were posed to the >attorneys, it appears that Matter of Roldan may soon be history! >5. Unlawful Presence: INS Moves Closer To Reality > >Prior to the passage of the 1996 immigration law, if a person who was >unlawfully in the U.S. (because he entered the U.S. without inspection, >overstayed or violated his status) qualified for permanent residence, he >had to consular process. That is, he could not adjust his status in the >U.S. He instead had to return to his native country and apply for an >immigrant visa abroad unless he qualified for adjustment of status under an >exception (e.g., some immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, 245(I), 245(k)) >to the general rule. > >The 1996 law introduced the term "unlawfully present" to the lexicon which >already included "illegal", "deportable", "excludable", and "unauthorized". > Aliens who were "unlawfully present" in the U.S. starting on April 1, >1997 >for a certain period of time were to be subject to a number of bars of >inadmissibility if they subsequently departed the U.S. Those who were >unlawfully present in the U.S. for a period of 180 days were subject to >3-year bars to returning to the U.S. Others who had accumulated one year >of unlawful presence were subject to 10-year bars. Still others were >subject to lifetime bars. > >I remember one congressman who had supported the 1996 law predicting that >before the first 180-day period ended in late September 1997, we would see >the largest voluntary departure of illegal aliens from the U.S. in our >country's history. Of course, nothing like this ever occurred. > >Instead, for the past three years, the INS and the American Immigration >Lawyers Association (AILA) have been engaged in discussions as to what >constitutes "unlawful presence" in the U.S. The INS initially took a very >hard line position, but over the years has shown increasing flexibility >given the fact that the law is poorly-drafted and the consequences of >unlawful presence are so severe. > >For example, the law states that for certain periods of time after a person >has applied for an "extension of status" or a "change of status", he does >not accumulate unlawful presence for the purpose of the 3-year bar. The >period of unlawful presence is "tolled" for 120 days. However since the >law does not use the words "adjustment of status", the INS initially held >that time spent by a legal nonimmigrant waiting for his application for >adjustment of status to be adjudicated (which always exceeds 120 days) was >considered to be unlawful presence! Later, the INS reversed its position >and held that Congress used the words "change of status" generically to >include applications for "adjustment of status". > >On March 3, 2000, in two separate field memos signed by Michael A. Pearson, >the INS Deputy Executive Associate Commissioner, Immigration Services >Division, the agency has taken another welcome step closer to reality. > >The first memo deals with applications for an extension or change of >status. The memo states that > >"Although legislative history is silent regarding the intent of the 120-day >tolling period, an inference may be drawn that Congress expected the >Service to adjudicate the petitions within such a time frame. However, due >to unprecedented workload, in many instances the Service has been unable to >adjudicate a timely filed application for E/S (extension of status) or C/S >(change of status) within the 120-day period envisioned by Congress." > >Later, in the memo, the INS holds that if a persons submits a timely >application for an extension or change of status, and the INS fails to >adjudicate the application for 180 days or even for over one year, the >person does not accumulate any unlawful presence in the U.S., and if they >depart the U.S. before their application is adjudicated, they are not >subject to the 3/10 year bars. > >Of course, as the genie in the movie "Aladdin" would say, this rule is >subject to a couple of "provisos": (1) The person must not have been >employed in the U.S. without permission; and (2) The application must be >"non-frivolous". The problem with these provisos is that they are decided >after the fact, after you leave the U.S. while your application for an >extension or change of status is pending and apply for a visa abroad. > >For example, the memo states that > >"To be considered non-frivolous, the application must have an arguable >basis in law and fact and must not have been filed for an improper purpose. >If the consular officer finds that the alien qualifies for a visa in the >same category as the visa classification that was sought in the abandoned >E/S or C/S application, the consular officer may presume that the E/S or >C/S application is not frivolous." > >What is an "arguable basis in law and fact" and what is an "improper >purpose"? Reasonable people may disagree. However, a visa denial by a >consular officer can not be appealed. Although the Pearson memo is a giant >step forward, there is no way to guarantee that when you leave the U.S. >while your application is pending that a consular officer will deny your >visa application on the grounds that your extension/change of status >application was frivolous. You, or your client, is in the unenviable >position of depending on the kindness of strangers. > >The complete text of the Pearson memo can be found at > > http://shusterman.com/up-eos.html > >The second Pearson memo eliminates the 120-day limitation discussed above >for purposes of section 222(g)of the 1996 law, the provision that provides >that if a person overstays his period of authorized stay in the U.S., his >visa is automatically void, and he must return to his country if he wishes >to obtain a new visa. To read the complete text of this second memo, see > > http://shusterman.com/222g-ins.html > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From ipilika at wellesley.edu Sat Apr 15 22:32:26 2000 From: ipilika at wellesley.edu (Iris Pilika) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:32:26 -0500 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] BBC: 'Serb Hackers' on Rampage Message-ID: BBC World Service Friday, 14 April, 2000, 01:24 GMT 02:24 UK 'Serb hackers' on the rampage More than 50 websites have been taken over by what is suspected to be a group of Serb hackers. The websites - which included such high-profile names as Manchester United and Adidas - were stripped of their content, and branded with the image of a double-headed eagle, with the words "Kosovo is Serbia". Many of the sites were Yugoslav, Bosnian and Croatian. The Kosovo Albanian newspaper Koha Ditore and the Albanian site Kosovapress were also among those hacked. In another development, the website of the Serbian Ministry of Information reported that it and other Yugoslav sites had been taken over. It said "American-Albanian propagandists" had forged the entire English version of its site on Wednesday. "In a planned and malicious action, regularly registered Yugoslav sites were taken over on the central server of an American firm involved in the registration of the internet domains," it added. "Numerous sites of the Yugoslav providers, political parties and firms were attacked in a synchronised manner," it said. Chance discovery Most of the companies in the "Kosovo is Serbia" attack have since reclaimed their websites. Manchester United believes the culprits were "cyber-squatters", who register internet sites in the names of celebrities or well-known companies, and then try to sell them back again. An internet company which monitors domain names, WebDNS, spotted that the hacking was part of a sustained campaign. Alex Jeffreys, the technical director of WebDNS, said he noticed that several high-profile web-sites were being hacked on Monday. "I almost stumbled over it by chance, when I noticed that a number of large company domain names had changed ownership," he told News Online. As he began checking details of some of the thousands of websites being supported by the server Webprovider Inc, he discovered more than 50 sites that had been hacked from the same address. The hacked websites had all been registered with Network Solutions, the world's largest register. Mr Jeffreys said it appeared that the hackers had changed the contact details in Network Solutions' database on Sunday night. The contact addresses were at first transferred to a Yugoslav address, and then on Monday night to an Albanian address. "It seems that the Network Solutions database is quite open for hacking, rather than it being one company in particular," he said. How the hackers worked It is impossible to say exactly who the hackers are, or how they managed to breach databases that should be secure. However, Mr Jeffreys said they probably sent spoof e-mails to Network Solutions, pretending to be from the company concerned, and requesting a change of address. The requests for a modification are sent by an automatic e-mail form. Although Network Solutions was not available for comment, a message on their answer machine said that "if you are making a registrar name change or contact modifications request" there would be delays while they "carefully review your request for change". From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Mon Apr 17 14:40:37 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:40:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Special Report on Kosova Horror: Rape victims' babies pay the price of war Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Sunday April 16, 2000 The Observer Rape victims' babies pay the price of war Kosovo: special report Up to 20,000 women were raped during the Kosovan carnage. Now the victims are bearing children fathered by their Serb tormentors. In this harrowing dispatch, Helen Smith reports on the awful fate awaiting the offspring of conflict He was a healthy little boy and Mirvetahad produced him. But birth, the fifth in her short lifetime, had not brought joy,only dread. As he was pulled from her loins, as the nurses at Kosovo'sBritish-administered university hospital handed her the baby, as the young Albanian mother took the child, she prepared to do the deed. She cradled him to her chest, she looked into her boy's eyes, she stroked his face and she snapped his neck. They say it was a fairly clean business. Mirveta had used her bare hands. It is said that, in tears, she handed her baby back to the nurses, holding his snapped, limp neck. In Pristina, in her psychiatric detention cell, she has been weeping ever since. 'Who knows? She may have looked into the baby's face and seen the eyes of the Serb who raped her.' The words are uttered coolly, undramatically, by Sevdije Ahmeti almost as a matter of course. Ahmeti, tirelesshuman rights activist, mother and member of Kosovo's transitional government, does not want me or anyone to sensationalise this poor woman's plight. 'She is a victim too. She is just 20 years old and cannot read or write. She has been abandoned by her husband. Psychologically raped a second time.' She reels off Mirveta's details from a thick, yellow notepad. 'She is repenting, of course, but the attitude that she is a cold-blooded murderer is wrong. Who knows what this poor girl has been through? Who knows why she didn't abort? 'There were marks, signs of bites and bruises over her body, her intimate parts. We want to protect her; we will try to get her a new lawyer.' This is what Ahmeti does: she speaks for the estimated 20,000 women now carrying Kosovo's dark secret. The innumerable women who were raped, and impregnated, abandoned by family and friends. The women outcasts violated, tortured and left for dead; the 'touched' women, who have now heaped shame on the houses of their husbands. The women who see the war every day, in their minds, in their bodies, through their rape-babies. It is Friday morning and there are snowflakes splattering the window panes of the Centre for Protection of Women and Children which Ahmeti set up in 1993. Women trudge up the hill on which the centre stands, daintily side-stepping the litter and carrion birds that defile so much of the province. Sometimes, when they are feeling strong, they step inside. Sometimes, if Ahmeti is lucky, a woman will even tell her story. Sofar, 76 women, mostly young and beautiful, the daughters of eminent Kosovars and village elders (women targeted by the Serbs) have been mustered enough courage to enter the centre. For everyone who had come there, Ahmeti said you could count at least a hundred more. They are just the tip of the iceberg; the very few who have managed to break the 'metallic silence' that surrounds the issue of being 'touched'. For rape is not a word that Kosovar women ever use. This is not Bosnia; there is no cosmopolitan Sarajevo. There is only provincial Pristina. In the villages and hamlets, where the Yugoslav police, military and Serb paramilitaries evidently ran amok, rape has yet to enter their ancient lexicon. 'These are simple women, women who have been degraded, disgraced, and will carry this trauma like a bullet for the rest of their lives,' Ahmeti murmurs, chain-smoking. 'Raped women all over the world find it hard to speak, here they can hardly do it at all. 'They rarely tell each other... we've had cases of suicide, the lunacy of women losing all access to their children if it gets out.' Mirveta, the pretty infanticidal mother, is no exception. She is typical of the selection process pursued by the perpetrators, according to a Human Rights Watch report released last month. As they tried to ethnically cleanseKosovo, paramilitaries - often aided by masked Serb neighbours - systematically searched villages for girls of prime, child-bearing age. It was about power and control, humiliation and revenge. And what better way to damage the enemy's morale than to hit at his family? 'Our society is a traditional one where Albanian men are brought up to see themselves as breadwinners and protectors,' Ahmeti points out. 'Once you touch the woman, you touch the honour of the family and you provoke the man to react. The Serbs knew this. Belgrade had, for years, put out propaganda that the only thing Albanian women could do was produce like mice. So daughters were gang-raped in front of their fathers, wives in front of their husbands, nieces in front of their uncles, mothers in front of their children, just to dehumanise, just to degrade.' It is estimated by the World Health Organisation and the US-based Centre for Disease Control that as many as 20,000 Kosovar women (4.4 per cent of the population) were raped in the two years prior to Nato's forces entering the benighted territory. Numbers to match Bosnia, if not more. But unlike Bosnia, where international organisations were located throughout the war, the province was on its own. If, as Human Rights Watch argues, politicians did not exploit the fate of the women (which would have been a way of drumming up support for the Nato bombing campaign), aid organisations also played it down. 'I think there was a deliberate policy to keep it quiet. We knew, in such a patriarchal society, where the perception of rape is so medieval, that it would probably cause a lot of social distress,' said Gamilla Backman, an adviser on violence prevention at the World Health Organisation. 'Making revelations just to shake mentalities might have had the opposite effect and made life even more difficult for victims brave enough to speak. 'The international community has got cynical about rape. Time has shown, with the women of Bosnia, how very little talking can achieve.' By the time the province was liberated, hundreds of women who had been plucked from columns of refugees as they tried to flee the Serb onslaught were discovered wandering the hills, often disoriented, drugged, half-naked and half-crazed. 'There was always so much focus on the refugees who managed to get out and so little on the people who stayed inside - the 700,000 of them who suffered the real trauma,' said Ahmeti. How many of these women then found themselves pregnant will remain a mystery. How many gave birth is almost impossible to determine because of taboo. Local humanitarian groups, including the Red Cross, have estimated that 100 rape-babies were born in January alone. Innumerable others almost certainly came into the world on bathroom floors and kitchen tables, behind the high-walled homes of family clans who have vowed never to speak. 'Only God knows,' said Professor Skender Boshnjaku, Kosovo's leading neuropsychiatrist, who specialises in women's illness, 'how many have been born in secret. I know of children who are being brought up by their grandmothers, women who want to protect their daughters. These babies will know a lot of hate, they will not have a lot of love.' The issue of babies 'born of violence' is not a subject Kosovars find easy to address. Boshnjaku concentrates on his shoes when the conversation veers in the direction of the rape-babies. Did he think I would be able to talk to some of the victims? No, he said flatly. Albanian women did not talk about themselves. They did not talk about their feelings. They used language economically, usually to convey the essentials of their primitive lives. They were 'the property of men, to be bought, sold and betrothed before birth'. They are 'sacks to be filled,' he says, citing the Kanun, the medieval war-and-peace code of behaviour still adhered to in these parts. 'Ours was a society built on generations of hate. There are older Albanians who speak Serbian, but generally there was very little interaction between our people and the Serbs. And now,' he said, waving his hands desperately, 'there are these babies.' Even Ahmeti, who hails from a family of open-minded, well-travelled intellectuals, finds the phenomenon of Albanian-Serb progeny un-comfortable. Some women will accept them, some will nurture them begrudgingly, some will reject them. But, she said, they will not be dumped inorphanages and they will not be left in baskets and boxes on the streets. 'They are innocent children, they are notto blame,' she said. 'People, here, will take them into their homes and married women will be able to cover up. Our hope is that they grow up without the guilt of their mothers.' The local authorities are about to start a television campaign appealing for prospective parents. 'It concerns me greatly that some are calling them "children of shame".' But rape, I am told on my first night in Pristina, is worse than death. To be an Albanian who gives birth to a child sired by a Serb is to be sentenced to a living hell. Pedric, who told me this, is young and worldly. 'If I were normal, I would keep the kid, accept my wife. But in Kosovo, in our culture, death is better than rape. I could not accept my wife. She would be dirty, evil, the castle of the enemy,' he booms. 'A lot of women have been very sensible. They have kept quiet about it, they have given birth at home and, if they are even more sensible, they do what that woman (Mirveta) did last month. They kill their scum-babies.' Agron Krasniqi, a gynaecologist at Pristina's University Hospital, is also at the table. 'All of us, we were conducting abortions around the clock,' he said. 'Only a few weeks ago we had a woman whocame to the hospital and said she was raped and could we help. She was six months pregnant. There are so many women like that...Women who couldn't physically make the journeys to hospitals and private clinics because they couldn't afford it or didn't dare tell their husbands. In this instance, there was nothing we could do. It was a terrible business, as terrible as the abandoned babies we've also got at the hospital.' Abandoned babies? 'Yes, we've got eight new-born babies and a roomful in the paediatric ward. There are boys as well. In our culture, boys are usually never abandoned. It is fair to say most are the product of rape.' No one wants to talk about the abandoned babies; no one wants to associate them with rape. But there they are, on the second floor of the Pristina clinic in an airy room off a chamber lined with incubators. Babies less than eight weeks old lie in little plastic cases, the others in blue-and-white check-cloth cots. The doctors have given them names which they have written in blue ink on plasters they have stuck to their beds. 'They have nothing. The least we can do for their dignity is give them names,' said Enser, the neo-natalist. 'We try to cradle them, hug them whenever we can, because we now know how important the first six months are in a baby's life. Before we didn't do it, and you could see the difference.' Did the mothers ever return to claim them? 'Never,' he said. 'And we don't really have any idea who they are because they usually come alone, very early, around 5am so no one will see them and then they give us false names. An American woman, a midwife, came theother day. She wanted to adopt Teuta, our oldest one, but the authorities don't want any to go abroad, they want them to stay here.' In the paediatric wing, there are 12 more abandoned children, all between six and 18 months. They are kept for most of the day in a small room, playing on plastic tricycles, lying on mattresses, sitting on nurses' laps. Some are dark, some blond, some obviously Slavic with give-away high cheekbones and broad faces. When we open the door they come rushing out, tugging at the hems of our skirts, jumping up and down, beseeching to be held. 'They are lovely children,' said the nurse, apologising for her insistence that in the room, at least, we do not take any pictures. 'There are other rape-babies, you know, in other hospitals. There are some in Prizren and some in Pec.'Around Pec, Serb paramilitaries and the Yugoslav army appear to have acted with wanton abandon, raping women in barracks, public buildings and private homes. It is in Pec that the UN-sponsored International Rescue Committee has established the Women's Wellness Centre, one of only two international organisations in Kosovo specialising exclusively in violence against women. The centre has taken a holistic approach in its attempt to attract victims. And since opening six months ago it has run classes in English, sewing and art. But getting these same women to tell their stories is another matter. 'We have a lot of cases of domestic violence, which is prevalent in this culture,' said Jeanne Ward, an American psychotherapist who has worked on similar programmes in New York. 'But so far absolutely no rape cases, although a great many women are suffering from depression, isolation, nightmares, flashbacks, all the symptoms of such trauma. Confidentiality is a big problem here and the social stigma is just so great. Kosovar women are afraid that if they are perceived to have been raped they will automatically be cut off from their families, children, everyone .' 'Let me tell you a story,' she said. 'I know of one woman who was raped and when it got out she was immediately dropped by her fianc?. The dishonour, he said, was just too much. Since she's been deflowered and is no longer seen as fit for marriage, her family have made her a prisoner. She is now a servant to the household.' The centre's Albanian director, Lumnije Decani, interrupted. 'Jeanne is right,' she said. 'It will take time, but I'm sure women will come. They want to, I know, they need to talk, which is why we are going to install 24-hour hotlines. You should go to Belegu.' 'And Lubeniq,' said the American. It was in Lubeniq that about 70 men were shot dead in the village square, after taking up arms to protect their women. They had heard about the mass rapes. And they were scared. Belegu lies in the middle of a plain and Lubeniq stands on a hill on the road that leads to it. They are both wretched places, polluted by violence and death. We stop at Lubeniq on the way to Belegu to find children playing around their relatives' graves. 'My daddy is in there,' said Mentor Ukshinaj, pointing to the mound of earth bearing a wooden stump and the name of Hajdar Ukshinaj. 'He died protecting my mummy. He died in front of me.' When we go to Belegu, the members of the first house, a fine stone building erected around a triangular courtyard, rush out to greet us. Beqir Zukaj, a proud man in a white felt cap who is the head of the extended family, did not mince his gestures. Outside his stone, high-walled house, he made thrusting movements and performed the charade of ripping off his wife's clothes. 'It didn't happen here,' he said. 'It happened in the big barn in the other end of the village.' Sevdije Hoxha was there and she remembered everything. Hundreds of people had converged on Belegu from other villages on the plain and when the Serbs began to encircle them they hid in the barn. We went to the barn and she showed us its big lime-coloured doors. 'They came, they separated the women from the men, they took all our documents and then they took away the young ones. They took them to the brick building here,' she said, pointing to the half-constructed red-brick villa next door. 'We had plastered some of the pretty ones with animal manure, to make them smell and look less nice, but they took them anyway. You could hear them scream, beg, shout. Many have never come back to their villages. They got on tractors, they went to Albania and from there, I think, they went abroad.' The ones who returned to Belegu are broken. 'Broken lives, broken hearts,' said Imer Zukaj, who spent years working in Switzerland. 'There is one young girl here. She is 17 years old. She was raped by six Serbs, who pinned her down, cut her breasts. Whenever I, or any man, greets her, which is when we go to her home, she jumps in the air and screams. She is not well. She is on medication. She doesn't speak. Nobody, you know, will marry her, her life is finished.' When I asked Ahmeti if I could meet some of the victims, she glared. Hers is the only organisation that has managed to reach out to women trapped in villages like Belegu; she is furious that more has not been done for them. After last month's infanticide, WHO initiated a programme to sensitise doctors and nurses dealing with women about to give birth - to spot those who might want to reject their babies. Other than that, Ahmeti said, psycho-social support has been minimal. The women are outcasts. Some are war widows and many have no work, no family, no one to turn to. There has been almost no attempt to socialise, reintegrate or resettle them with therapeutic counselling. Or to provide witness protection so they may eventually give evidence before the criminal tribunal at The Hague. 'This is a torn society and there are somany things that have to be done, but these women's needs have really never been addressed. Wherever you go in Kosovo you bump into victims, but these particular ones gain nothing from talking. You just rape their psyche a second time.' She is right, of course. In Kosovo, everyone at some stage has been a victim and you do not have to go far to bump into one. Seated in front of Ahmeti, interviewing her, is 29-year-old Luljeta Selimi, a journalist who trained as a gynaecologist (a profession never allowed to flourish under the Serbs). 'Please excuse my English. I used to speak it very well, but last April the Serbs arrested me helping a friend give birth. They kept me in water for nine hours, beat me until I fainted and then threw me on a rubbish dump. It was Gypsies who saved me and took me to Macedonia,' she said. 'You will never find these women. I have had to spend weeks in villages posing as a doctor, gaining their trust, staying at their homes.' Selimi, it turns out, has collected testimonies from 200 rape victims; each case documented in black notebooks and on cassette. 'I want the world to know what happened to my country, to these women. Thousands of women who now have nothing.' Over the course of the next week she brought me three victims; women who are young, educated and angry with the world. Angry that Nato did not intervene or send in ground troops earlier; that help has not been more forthcoming; that they have been left to drift, dependent on small kindnesses. They have come to me, because they could never have me go to them - it would raise too many suspicions. They are willing to talk because they want the world to know that they exist. They have lost their homes, they have lost their valuables (extorted by the rapists) but they are still the lucky ones. At least they have been spared becoming pregnant. 'They stopped our car as my husband, son and daughter were driving towards the Macedonian border on 22 March, two days before Nato intervened,' said the school-teacher from a hamlet south of Pristina. 'They were paramilitaries, some wore bandannas, some masks. 'They made us get out and walk over the hills and then _ and then they took me, they made me comb my hair and they did what they did. When my husband tried to stop them, they shot him dead. My children were there, watching.' The two other women were similarly stopped, one as she tried to flee across the Albanian border, the other as she hid with her family in the forest, hours after the Serbs had torched their village in the middle of Kosovo. Both were virgins before and both have avoided sex since. Both hardly leave their homes. And both have the saddest, most vacant eyes I have ever seen. 'So what do you think I should do?' asked the one with red-dyed hair, the one who was raped for hours in the forest. I looked at her and thought: 'Yes, what next?' Here I am, privy to the most painful event this woman will ever endure and I have no ready answer; no relief to proffer, only the ability to make her, and the children of war, 'exist'. Some names have been changed. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Mon Apr 17 19:49:00 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:49:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] hello folks Message-ID: miredita (ose mirembrema) te gjitheve, me duket sikur keto kohet e fundit kjo lista jone eshte bere shume stagnante... dhe nuk po e shfrytezojme tamam si liste diskutimi, kshuqe une po hedh per diskutim filmin "L'america" (topic eshte marre hua nga lista e alb-clubit)... ose cdo topic tjeter me interes dhe relevant per ne shqiptaret... mos u shqetesoni se mund te merrni shume e-mail ne dite sepse tek www.alb-net.com mund ti ndrroni options per kete liste dhe ti merrni mesazhet 1 here ne dite te grumbulluara ne nje e-mail. eriola. From i_spaho at hotmail.com Tue Apr 18 11:16:40 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:16:40 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Daily News Summary Message-ID: <20000418151640.57674.qmail@hotmail.com> > > >Dateline: The Hague >Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) >13/04/00 > >NATO COMMITTED TO ARRESTING WAR CRIMINALS: ROBERTSON >NATO Secretary-General George Robertson on 13 April met with Chief >Prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes tribunal Carla Del Ponte and declared >NATO?s support for the arrest of indicted war criminals, DPA reported. "We >will eventually get Karadzic, Mladic and Milosevic ... but they are on the >run. They will be caught. They should look very carefully at what happened >to Arkan in Belgrade, who never managed to make it to the justice of The >Hague, but faced the rough justice of the Balkans," Del Ponte said, quoted >by DPA. The tribunal prosecutor thanked Robertson for NATO?s recent arrest >of indicted Bosnian war criminal Momcilo Krajisnik but said the capture of >all indicted war criminals remains the objective, according to DPA. > > >Dateline: Belgrade >Source: Associated Press (AP) >13/04/00 > >OPPOSITION CALLS ON SERB CITIZENRY TO JOIN RALLY >Serb opposition leaders on 13 April called on the republic?s citizens to >join the 14 April anti-government demonstration in Belgrade, AP reported. >"We expect the rally to present a turning point and encourage the >opposition >to build up pressure on the regime," AP quoted Vladan Batic, a leader of >the >Alliance for Change. In order to minimise turnout at the rally, the >government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic warned of potential >"terrorist acts" at the demonstration, according to AP. "They are even >trying movie piracy. All that's left is that they start handing out >whiskey >and peanuts so that the people would stay in their homes," opposition >leader >Dragoljub Micunovic said, quoted by AP. TV Politika plans to broadcast >recent Hollywood hits to coincide with the demonstration. According to AP, >it is unlikely that the television station bought the rights to the movies. > > >Dateline: Belgrade >Source: Reuters >13/04/00 > >FOREIGN JOURNALISTS BARRED FROM SERBIA AHEAD OF RALLY >Four Japanese, one Canadian and one German journalist, as well as three >Spanish trade union officials, were turned back at the Belgrade airport on >13 April, one day before a major opposition rally, Reuters reported, citing >the Beta news agency. Earlier in the day, a journalist working for Reuters >was prevented from entering Serbia at the Croatian border. > > >Dateline: Pristina >Source: Associated Press (AP) >13/04/00 > >BALKAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL FOR RECONCILIATION >Prominent religious leaders from Kosovo and Bosnia opened a three-day tour >of religious sites Kosovo with a call for reconciliation in the Balkans, >AP >reported. "We commit ourselves to pursue more active co-operation as >religious leaders and among our communities. Together we support the >building of strong local, democratic organisations," AP quoted a statement >issued by the Inter-religious Council of Kosovo. Religious leaders from >the >Islamic, Orthodox Serb, Catholic and Jewish faiths are taking part in the >Kosovo tour. > > >Dateline: Washington, D.C. >Source: Associated Press (AP) >13/04/00 > >NATO ASKS FOR MORE KOSOVO PEACEKEEPERS >NATO has asked member countries for an additional 3,500 troops for its >Kosovo operations, but it is unlikely that more U.S. forces will go >according to Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon, AP reported. The 3,500 >troops would prove to be only a small increase in the size of the 39,000 >strong peacekeeping force, with most of the new arrivals replacing >battalions that are leaving. > > >Dateline: Belgrade >Source: Reuters >13/04/00 > >OPPOSITION PARTY FACES LAWSUIT ON EVE OF RALLY >The Serbian Renewal Movement, Serbia?s largest opposition party, received >word on the eve of a major opposition rally that it had been fined five >million dinars in a libel case dating back six years, according to Reuters, >citing Ivana Primovic, the Serbian Renewal Movement?s lawyer. The fine is >the equivalent of about USD $100,000 at the black market rate and USD >$400,000 at the official rate. "For six years this case had not moved and >then suddenly they call a hearing on 29 March to which they do not summon >us, and then the ruling arrives," Reuters quoted Primovic as saying. >Another opposition group, the Democratic Party, has also been sued and has >a >court date the day of the rally. > > >Dateline: Belgrade >Source: Associated Press (AP) >13/04/00 > >YUGOSLAVIA?S OFFICIAL WEB SITE HACKED >Hackers broke into and defaced the Internet site of Serbia?s Information >Ministry, along with several other web sites belonging to Serb companies >and >political parties, AP reported, citing the state-run Tanjug news agency. >The Information Ministry blamed "American and Albanian propagandists" and >likened the incidents to the NATO air campaign last year, vowing to >"undertake appropriate measures against those who committed such an act of >violence," quoted AP. Meanwhile, a group of Serb hackers claimed to have >successfully hacked into at least two Kosovo Albanian web sites. > > >Dateline: Belgrade >Source: Associated Press (AP), Reuters, Tanjug >13/04/00 > >MILOSEVIC MEETS WITH NEW AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR >Marking the first time in months that a Western diplomat has taken part in >such a meeting, Australia?s new ambassador in Belgrade, Charles Stewart, >presented his credentials to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, >according to AP. "Milosevic said he was convinced bilateral ties between >the two countries would continue to develop successfully and mutual >interests in economic, cultural, sports and other relations would be >fulfilled," Reuters quoted the Yugoslav government, citing the Tanjug news >agency. The Australian government defended the move, noting its large >Serbian community and insisting that the ambassador had delivered a clear >message on human rights to Milosevic, according to wire services. > > > >Dateline: Pristina >Source: Reuters >13/04/00 > >U.N. ASKS COUNTRIES TO SLOW RETURN OF REFUGEES >In an open letter, the head of the U.N. Mission in Kosovo Bernard Kouchner >appealed to countries to avoid forced returns and to help more in >reintegrating returning refugees, Reuters reported. "Bearing in mind that >the returns are just starting, and that we already have problems with too >many arriving simultaneously and with lack of regard for the dangers to >ethnic minorities, it is crucial that we put things right quickly. >Otherwise the tens of thousands of returnees expected this year will swamp >the capacity to absorb them," Reuters quoted. > > >Dateline: Belgrade >Source: Reuters >13/04/00 > >U.N. ORGANISATION REJECTS NATO REFUGEE FIGURES >Eduardo Arboleda, Deputy Chief of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees >office in Belgrade, rejected NATO assertions that as many as 25,000 Serb >refugees could return to their pre-war homes in Kosovo, Reuters reported. >"I have no idea where they get these figures from. They are not in charge >of returning people," Reuters quoted Arboleda during a news conference. >The >U.N. refugee official stated that his organisation could not yet commit to >the repatriation of refugees to the province as their security could not be >guaranteed, according to Reuters. > > >Dateline: Zagreb >Source: Associated Press (AP) >13/04/00 > >CROATIA DRAFTS WAR CRIMES CO-OPERATION PACT >The Croatian government on 13 April announced it has drawn up a declaration >of co-operation with the International War Crimes Tribunal in an effort to >ease investigations into war crimes committed during the country?s 1991 war >for independence, AP reported. "We cannot allow our independence war to be >sullied by hiding certain war crimes and their perpetrators," Prime >Minister >Ivica Racan was quoted by AP. The declaration is due for debate and >ratification in Croatia?s parliament on 13 April. > > >Dateline: Shkoder, Albania >Source: Reuters >13/04/00 > >MONTENEGRO, ALBANIA WORK TOGETHER TO FIGHT CRIME >Montenegrin and Albanian police have agreed to co-operate in their fight >against crime for the first time in 50 years, Reuters reported, citing the >Albanian police. "We decided to exchange information on criminality on >both >sides of the border. This means that people who commit crimes in Albania >and seek refuge in Montenegro to cover their tracks will be identified by >Montenegrin police and vice versa," Reuters quoted Albanian police chief >Bilbil Mema. > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From laberia at hotmail.com Wed Apr 19 04:39:36 2000 From: laberia at hotmail.com (Sorkadh Mustafa) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:39:36 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] L'america Message-ID: <20000419083936.96547.qmail@hotmail.com> Te them te drejten nuk jam shume i dhene mbas filmave por nje skene nga ai film me la shume mbresa. Ishte skena ku nje kamion plot me shqiptare te nisur per ne Itali po kendonin "lashate me kantare...............Sono Italiano, Un italiano vero". Jam i sigurt qe te gjithe shqiptaret qe iken mbas 1990's e dine kete kenge shume mire. Te them te drejten per mua simbolizon eksodin ne e vitit 1992 ku isha pjestar edhe vete. Kur takova disa studente italiane ketu ne Amerike dhe po kendonim kenge te ndryshme, une i pyeta nese e dinin kete kenge dhe ata qeshen duke bere te ditur se ishte nje kenge vertet e dores se dyte ne Itali. U zhgenjeva dhe te them te drejten u deshperova. Si te kete mundesi qe shqiptaret ta kendonin kete kenge me me shpirt nga italianet? A te jete valle se shqiptare jane aq te lodhur fizikisht e shpirterisht me te qenurit shqiptare? Fjalet e Voltairit kur pershkruan nje kolege te tia "great philosopher whose only fault was to be a woman" po i ndryshoj te pershkruaj popullin shqiptar "great people whose only fault was to be albanian". Per mua ai ishte film shume i bukur megjithese ne shume momente kthehet ne film fantastiko-shkencor. E para e punes shqiptaret i dine te gjitha te sharat ne te pakten italisht, greqisht, anglisht, edhe ferngjisht. Realisht druri do te kishte plasur kur nje thote "albanezi di c%$#$^" me ze te larte. >From: Eriola Kruja >To: ALBSA-Info >Subject: [ALBSA-Info] hello folks >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:49:00 -0400 (EDT) > > ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- > - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - > > >miredita (ose mirembrema) te gjitheve, > >me duket sikur keto kohet e fundit kjo lista jone eshte bere shume >stagnante... dhe nuk po e shfrytezojme tamam si liste diskutimi, kshuqe >une po hedh per diskutim filmin "L'america" (topic eshte marre hua nga >lista e alb-clubit)... ose cdo topic tjeter me interes dhe relevant per ne >shqiptaret... mos u shqetesoni se mund te merrni shume e-mail ne dite >sepse tek www.alb-net.com mund ti ndrroni options per kete liste dhe ti >merrni mesazhet 1 here ne dite te grumbulluara ne nje e-mail. > >eriola. > > > >_______________________________________________________ >ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From juniku at hotmail.com Wed Apr 19 00:06:39 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:06:39 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] L'America Message-ID: <20000419040639.11318.qmail@hotmail.com> E moj Eriola, mire qe e hodhe kete film ne diskutim, por cili eshte qendrimi yt perkundrejt ketij filmi? Thone kur e nise edhe perfundoje! Vetem u talla... Ceshtja eshte se nuk e di ne e pate per filmin si realizim artistik apo "pluhurin" qe u pat ngritur rreth filmit si "antishqiptar" etj?! Ta shohim kah do te shkoje diskutimi? Me gjase as une nuk diskutova!:-) Te fala, Uk Lushi ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From ikullolli at hotmail.com Tue Apr 18 19:52:26 2000 From: ikullolli at hotmail.com (Ilir Kullolli) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:52:26 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] hello folks Message-ID: <20000418235226.46537.qmail@hotmail.com> O Eriola.. po shume i vjeter ai film moj... :) Nejse, mua personalisht nuk me pelqeu edhe aq sepse disa gjera ishin te ekzagjeruara... por shumica ishin te verteta (per sa i perket korrupsionit, etj.) Nuk di c'te them tjeter... sepse nuk eshte se me pelqeu shume dhe nuk e ndoqa dhe me aq shume kureshtje... Megjithate, kete e hodha sa per te "ngrohur" diskutimet.... From: Eriola Kruja To: ALBSA-Info Subject: [ALBSA-Info] hello folks Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:49:00 -0400 (EDT) ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - miredita (ose mirembrema) te gjitheve, me duket sikur keto kohet e fundit kjo lista jone eshte bere shume stagnante... dhe nuk po e shfrytezojme tamam si liste diskutimi, kshuqe une po hedh per diskutim filmin "L'america" (topic eshte marre hua nga lista e alb-clubit)... ose cdo topic tjeter me interes dhe relevant per ne shqiptaret... mos u shqetesoni se mund te merrni shume e-mail ne dite sepse tek www.alb-net.com mund ti ndrroni options per kete liste dhe ti merrni mesazhet 1 here ne dite te grumbulluara ne nje e-mail. eriola. _______________________________________________________ ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Wed Apr 19 17:31:17 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:31:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Lamerica (fwd) Message-ID: since it was requested here it is. :) This e-mail was actually sent to another list where there was a fierce discussion about the producer, Giani Amelio. Some thought he is a scumbag and portrayed Albania contrary to what it is.. and others thought the movie hurt to watch because it is so accurate. eriola. ps. I'm working on putting up a Forum on our web-page (which needs some major updating) but it will look very neat soon! :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:17:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Eriola Kruja Subject: Lamerica it so happened that I watched this movie just a couple of days before the debate on "lamerica" started. I wasn't aware of the controversy it had created in Albania when I watched it. Perhaps this one of the reasons I did not take the movie to be a direct offense on Albanians. Actually, i thought the movie to be a sort of parallel between the current situation in Albania (early 90s) and Italy after WWII. Italy in the early 90s was to albanians what America was italians after WWII. What amazed me even more was the ability of the director to penetrate so deeply into our thoughts and wishes... which sometimes was painful to watch. The scene with the old man being pushed into a bunker was a bit exaggerated... but was it really far fetched? I don't think so... nowdays in Albania even children can be that cruel. There were so many litte things about albanians that the director was albe to capture: the scene in the bus where the young albanian men try Gino's sun-glasses one by one... the little girl dancing to a Michael Jackson song etc. You could also sense that as the movie went on the director/Gino became more sympathetic to the albanians.. remember the scene where an albanian gives Gino "buke e djathe" when he saw Gino was hungry? Or the scene where the old woman gives Gino a pair of shoes in the hospital? This clearly portrays us as goodhearted people, who take away from themselves to help others in need. The movie certainly was unnerving and painful to watch. It hurt to watch because a lot of things in the movie were so true. These are things one would always try to masquerade in front of the world. To see them exposed like that can be easily mistaken as a personal attack.. but deep down the movie remains a documentary about the pains of a nation trying to escape poverty. eriola. ps. take a box of tissues if you go to see this movie. From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Thu Apr 20 08:30:41 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:30:41 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] [balkans] CfP: Suedosteuropa Arbeitstagung (vorauss. Frankfurt 6.-8.7.2000) Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] CfP: Suedosteuropa Arbeitstagung (vorauss. Frankfurt 6.-8.7.2000) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:13:06 +0200 Size: 3325 URL: From juniku at hotmail.com Thu Apr 20 00:45:08 2000 From: juniku at hotmail.com (Uk Lushi) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:45:08 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] L'America Message-ID: <20000420044508.2952.qmail@hotmail.com> L'AMERICA VETEM FILM APO ME SHUME Cdo veper krijuese permban edhe vulen subjektive te autorit te saj. Keshtu edhe filmi L'America. Me kujtohet mire kur e pashe kete film ne Gjermani sepakut para kater vitesh. Isha me te dashuren time gjermane dhe nuk mund u durova te qendroja ne salle deri ne fund te filmit. Pasi qava ne heshtje dhe, si udhezon Eriola tash, nuk kisha me vete jo nje tube faculetash por asnje nuk dita si te veproja dhe ika. Me kujtohet se krejt bota u permbys ate mbremje. Isha i dermuar. Zogeza ime gjermane, mu si autori i filmit dhe une, e kishte pare filmin nga tjeter perspektive. Natyrisht subjektive. Ajo u mundua te me fliste per ato skenat qe i permend edhe Eriola, porse mua nuk me mbushej mendja se aty kishte pasur cfaredo skenash qe mund te kualifikoheshin pozitive per paraqitjen e shqiptareve. Ajo insistonte se filmi ishte i mire per shqiptaret. Isha i shashtisur dhe ashtu mbeta per jave te tera. Me duket se mu deshen muaj qe ta kuptoja c' kishte thene gjermanja dhe mandej vite ta kuptoja se c' kishte dashur Amelio. Sot u jam te dyve falemnderues sepse hapen nje horizont tjeter te kendveshtrimit tim si shqiptar per mua dhe per shqiptaret. Ne nderkohe me kujtohet se Kadare u inkuadrua ne disa akuza shume te rrepta per Amelion si antishqiptar. Mandej pata rastin ta lexoj nje interviste shume te detalizuar dhe te sinqerte te Amelios ne shtypin gjerman per filmin dhe simpatine qe ai kishte per shqiptaret. Ai i kuptonte ata si njeri por i paraqiste si artist. Ai shpjegonte se ishte munduar te bente nje diagonale mes Italise se fundit te Luftes se Dyte Boterore dhe skamjes se popullit te tij me gjendjen e shqiptareve pas renies se diktatures ne Shqiperi. Ai thirrte per shprese dhe predikonte dite me te mira per shqiptaret. Sot, me duket mua, keto dite kane nisur dhe e ardhmja e shqiptareve nuk do te jete kurre me me e keqe se sa e kaluara. Natyrisht qe do te kete dhimbje, natyrisht qe do te kete mosdurim, mirepo kthim prapa nuk do te kete. Sot, me duket, edhe Amelio, edhe gjermanja ime, edhe Kadare, edhe une dhe cdonjeri ishim drejte ne interpretimet tona. L'America ishte terri qe do te zhdukej nga drita te fuqishme te daljes se shqiptareve nga rrethi vicioz vetem brenda vetvetes. Ne dolem ne bote. Me fjale tjera, shqiptaret qe ishin shnderruar ne nje ishull u bashkuan me kontinentin e quajtur njerezim dhe tash kurre s' do te ndahen me nga atje. Te tjerat duken te parendesishme, edhe nese filmi ende e ka fuqine t' na detyroje te derdhim lote per qindra faculeta. Poshte Amelio, rrofte Amelio! Me te fala. Uk Lushi New York ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Thu Apr 20 08:32:40 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:32:40 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Conference: Kosovo Conflict and Roma, 16-18.6.2000, Skopije Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] Conference: Kosovo Conflict and Roma, 16-18.6.2000, Skopije Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:05:47 +0200 Size: 6019 URL: From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Wed Apr 19 23:32:38 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:32:38 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Nano per Eliten Message-ID: Pse s'b?het e gjall? elita shqiptare? Nga Mustafa Nano Nj? pjes? lexuesish, sapo t? shohin titullin e k?tij shkrimi, do t? mendojn? se autori e ngre mbrapsht ??shtjen, pasi -sipas tyre- egzistenca e k?saj elite duhet v?n? n? diskutim. P?r k?t? ata kan? argumenta t? panum?rt; dhe un? e di, ca prej k?tyre argumentave t? v?n? n? v?shtir?si, kur vjen puna q? je duke mbrojtur tez?n e kund?rt, pra q? elita shqiptare ekziston. Megjithat? ka nj? kund?rargument. ?do komunitet njer?zish bart brenda vetes kremin e vet intelektual, gj? q? na b?n t? mendojm? se edhe shoq?ria shqiptare nuk b?n p?rjashtim. Esht? tjet?r gj?, n?se kremi yn? intelektual, i ballafaquar me at? t? shoq?rive t? tjera m? t? qytet?ruara, mund t? mos na i mbush? syrin e mendjen, mund t? na shfaqet i ndotur prej provincializmit, shpesh mund t? na ngjaj? me nj? krem t? prishur q? bie era thartir?, e ku di un? se ?far? tjet?r, por kjo nuk do t? thot?, se brenda shoq?ris? shqiptare nuk gjendet nj? shtres? a nj? kategori njer?zish leht?sisht e dallueshme prej kallaball?kut, prej turmave mend?risht e kulturalisht nj?ngjyr?she. Kjo shtres? q?ndron prore sip?r, s'ka gj? se p?rgjith?sisht p?rfaq?son besnik?risht at? q? ?sht? posht?. Me fjal? t? tjera, n?se shoq?ria shqiptare ?sht? kjo q? ?sht?, elita e saj nuk mund t? jet? e krahasueshme me at? italiane, gjermane, franceze, angleze, etj. Megjithat? e p?rs?ris, kjo n? instanc? t? fundit ?sht? elit?, ?sht? elita e shqiptar?ve, dhe k?ta t? fundit, shqiptar?t pra, nuk kan? arsye t? mendojn? se jan? pa t?, aq m? pak kan? arsye, q? t? pak?naqur si? jan?, ngaq? nuk kan? se kund?r kujt t? shfryjn?, t'i derdhen asaj q? mbahet me t? madh, q? k?mb?ngul t? mos nj?jt?sohet me vulgun, duke arritur deri atje sa t? shprehin panevoj?n p?r t?. Ka shum? shqiptar?, t? cil?t klasifikohen apo vetklasifikohen si p?rfaq?sues t? elit?s, e t? cil?t mendojn? se ve? e ve? mund t? hahen gjith? dit?n me kushurinjt? e tyre (n? linj? truri, jo n? linj? gjaku) jo shqiptar?. P?r k?t? t? rr?fejn? historira pa mbarim, thelbi i t? cilave mund t? shprehet pak a shum? k?shtu: Jam takuar me aksh intelektual t? Parisit, t? Rom?s, t? Londr?s, dhe e kam ndjer? veten t? barabart? me ta, n? mos i kam magjepsur me ?far? di mbi bot?n, mbi kultur?n, mbi historin?, mbi politik?n. Nj? gj? e till? mund t? q?lloj? t? jet? e v?rtet?, megjith?se shpesh magjepsja e t? huajve nuk vjen prej asaj q? m?sojn? prej nesh, por p?r nj? fakt m? t? thjesht?. Ata shohin nj? diferenc? t? madhe midis imazhit p?r ne n? p?rgjith?si, i cili ?sht? krijuar n? ato rrug? e p?r ato shkaqe q? dim?, dhe asaj q? ofrojn? shqiptar? t? ve?ant? q? udh?tojn? si qytetar? dinjitoz? n?p?r Europ?, q? ftohen n?p?r konferenca, simpoziume, q? flasin n? disa gjuh? t? huaja, q? din? t? sillen, q? din? t? prezantohen, q? din? t'i ofrojn? di?ka ve?ant?risht origjinale nj? auditori a nj? audience joshqiptare, etj, etj. Af?rmendsh pra, kjo nuk ?sht? ndonj? magjepsje q? vjen domosdoshm?risht prej m?nyr?s se si ndri?ojn? shqiptar?t me mendjen e kultur?n e tyre. Madje, shum? rrall? q?llon q? ?sht? k?shtu. Nd?rsa r?ndom, duke ju rikthyer shpjegimit t? disa rreshtave m? sip?r, duhet th?n? se kemi t? b?jm? me nj? kuturisje paksa t? mundimshme e t? sforcuar t? t? huajve p?r t? luajtur me eleganc?, stil e mir?sjellje, rolin e t? habiturit e kureshtarit: "Ah, ju jeni shqiptar? Sa mir?! Po ?'dreqin b?ni atje n? vendin tuaj, q? s'ju ecin pun?t?" Sigurisht, kjo hab? nuk ?sht? nj? mir?sjellje e shtirur e aq. Shqiptar?t e men?ur, edhe kur nuk kan? kapacitetin p?r t? ndri?uar, kan? fakultetin p?r t? thithur rreze. Kjo nuk ?sht? pak. Me k?t? nuk dua t? them megjithat?, se t? huajt t? hutojn? e t? l?n? goj?hapur n? ?do rast me at? q? din?; as kjo nuk ?sht? e v?rtet?. Madje forca e charm-i i elitave t? vendeve t? tjera nuk q?ndron n? k?t? pik?, aq sa q?ndron gjetk?. Pik?risht k?tu ?sht? vendi t? b?jm? nj? diskutim t? vog?l, p?r t'iu p?rgjigjur k?shtu pyetjes se ?far? i mungon esencialisht elit?s shqiptare, edhe n? rastin kur pranojm? se intelektualisht e kulturalisht ajo nuk bie posht? t? huajve, q? pak m? sip?r i quajt?m kushurinj t? tyre. K?tu, p?r t'iu shmangur p?rfundimeve d?shp?ruese e pesimiste, po harrojm? apo injorojm? faktin, q? kjo elit? ?sht? pjell? e k?tij populli apo k?tij komuniteti, me t? cilin jep e merr, e kusht?zon e kusht?zohet prej tij, e t?rheq zvarr? at? e t?rhiqet zvarr? po prej tij, bile ca m? shum? n? rastin e dyt?. Le ta gjykojm? p?r nj? moment elit?n ton?, duke n?nvizuar ato "s?mundje" t? saj, q? nuk kan? lidhje me p?rcaktorin q? i ngjitet nga prapa: shqiptare. Para s? gjithash, elita shqiptare nuk po arrin t? b?j? t? vetat disa vlera bazilare t? qytet?rimit per?ndimor, nuk po arrin ta vendos? veten si nj? korpus i vet?m mbi k?t? bazament vlerash, mbi t? cilin t? zhvillohet pastaj i gjith? debati kulturor, artistik, politik, etj. Cilat jan? k?to vlera? Ja p. sh., nj? shoq?ri civile e organizon bashk?jetes?n mbi baz?n e rregullave, t? cil?t, me t'u vendosur, nuk mund t? shkelen. N?se dikush i shkel, duhet t? krijohet imediatisht solidariteti elitar kund?r tij. Ose tjet?r, n? demokraci gjithkush ka t? drejt? t? shpreh? opinionin e vet, dhe rrjedhimisht askush nuk ka t? drejt? t? etiketoj? bart?sit e k?tyre opinioneve si armiq, tradh?tar?, t? shitur, t? posht?r, duke p?rjashtuar k?tu rastet kur, s? pari opinionet nuk ngrihen mbi sistemin e vlerave, p?r t? cilat po flasim, e s? dyti kur nj? person ngrihet deklarativisht e n? m?nyr? t? tro?t? kund?r interesave t? komunitetit, t? cilit i p?rket. Ndryshe, kund?r atyre, q? t? etiketuarit e kan? shnd?rruar n? zanat, duhet t? ngrihemi t? gjith? n? k?mb?, jo p?r t'i lin?uar, por p?r t'u th?n?, se me strategjin? e p?rjashtimit (etiketime t? tilla synojn? p?rjashtimin, apo jo?) nuk mund t? ket? as demokraci, as bashk?jetes?. Ose tjet?r, demokracia nuk mund t? kuptohet pa debat, nd?rsa nga ana e vet, debati ?sht? ballafaqim idesh e vizionesh, e jo shk?mbim akuzash e sharjesh t? ul?ta, q? l?shohen nga llogore t? ndara nj?her? e mir?. Ose tjet?r, partit? politike jan? bashkime vullnetare njer?zish, dhe askush nuk ka t? drejt? t'i kthej? partit? n? banda apo klane n? sh?rbim t? nj? personi apo t? nj? grupi personash, e n? k?t? pik?, vet?m t? kqyr?sh ?sht? e pafalshme. K?shtu mund t? vazhdojm? gjat?, p?r t? konkluduar m? n? fund se elita shqiptare ka mbetur sehirxhesh?, dhe un? nuk di m?kat m? t? madh p?r nj? elit?, se sa n? rastin ku ajo vet?m b?n sehir. Si? shihet, jam duke k?rkuar e nxitur nj? elit? t? angazhuar, duke rihapur me k?t? nj? debat t? vjet?r e t? lasht?, s'ka gj? se e di, q? kjo tez? nuk gjen shum? partizan? k?tejpari. Ndoshta edhe n? vende t? tjera kjo tez? ?sht? e diskutueshme e pa mb?shtetje, por n?se ?sht? v?rtet k?shtu, ja tek kemi m? n? fund nj? tabiat per?ndimor q? nuk duhet imituar. Ndryshe, Shqip?ria do t? mbetet n? duar t? atyre, q? po e mjelin pa m?shir? si nj? lop? t? dikujt tjet?r. N? k?to rrethana, t? rrish m?njan? e t? sodit?sh, nuk mund t? shihet thjesht si nj? mod?, si nj? sjellje interesante, si nj? gjetje intelektuale q? t? blaton komfort; p?rkundrazi, komforti n? k?t? rast ?sht? nj? vetg?njim i trishtuar e trishtues. P?r ta b?r? b?r? angazhimin nj? kauz? t? intelektual?ve shqiptar?, nuk ?sht? e nevojshme t? th?rresim n? ndihm? modele intelektual?sh t? huaj, as Jean-Paul Sartre-in, i cili n? librin e tij "Q?nia dhe hi?i", nd?rsa synon t? rikonsideroj? konceptin e liris?, thot?: "Liria ?sht? lir? p?r t? zgjedhur, por jo lir? p?r t? mos zgjedhur, s'ka gj? se t? mos zgjedh?sh, n? fakt, do t? thot? t? zgjedh?sh t? moszgjedhurit." (Ky shkrimtar e filozof ekzistencialist francez arrin t? bezdiset edhe prej q?ndrimeve q? mbajt?n Honor? de Balzac e Gustave Flaubert, i pari lidhur me ngjarjet e vitit 1848, nd?rsa i dyti lidhur me revolucionin francez. Ai nuk mund ta kuptonte "t? ndenjurit m?njan?"). Por si? thash? m? sip?r, nuk ?sht? e nevojshme t? k?rkojm? t? till? shembuj inspirues. N? Shqip?ri ka nevoj? p?r nj? "participation" t? nj? lloji tjet?r. Nuk ?sht? e th?n?, q? elita e k?tushme t? angazhohet politikisht, por ?sht? e pafalshme, q? ajo t? mos e thot? nj? fjal?, t? zbythet e t? struket p?rball? maskarenjve q? po na e b?jn? k?t? vend t? pabanuesh?m. P?rse t? vetp?lqyerit intelektual? shqiptar? heshtin tek ballafaqohen me gjuh?n e dhunshme t? politik?s e t? politikan?ve, tek ballafaqohen me arbitraritetin e ca kodosh?ve t? vegj?l, t? cil?t lozin me pushtetin, a thua se ky i fundit ?sht? nj? lod?r e bler? n? dyqanin m? t? par?, tek shohin q? nga ekranet e disa televioneve t? ngritur prej kontrabandist?sh villet vrer e mashtrohet, tek shohin q? k?to televizione keqp?rdoren prej politikan?sh t? pafytyr? e prej gazetar?sh ?apa?ul?, tek shohin q? turmat e g?njyera shkojn? pas nj? njeriu, q? nuk ofron gj? tjet?r, ve?se ruspa e sloganin "vdekje, vdekje, vdekje", tek shohin q? nj? pjes? e pushtetar?ve t? sot?m nuk e kan? mendjen t? qeverisin, por t? vjedhin, tek shohin q? komunikimi politik midis pal?ve t? k?tushme ?sht? l?n? n? dor? t? nj? gjermani, i cili, nd?rsa v? duart n? kok? prej tmerrit sa her? del prej takimeve me shefat e partive tona, me siguri thot?: "O zot, si nuk arrij ta kuptoj keqkuptimin e k?tush?m!", tek shohin q? at?, elit?n e shqiptar?ve, jo vet?m nuk e pyet askush, por e fyejn?, e posht?rojn?, etj, etj? E pra, mund t? heshtet n? k?to rrethana? N? m?nyr? t? p?rmbledhur, ka dy arsye q? ndodh k?shtu. S? pari, elita shqiptare, ashtu si t? gjith? banor?t e tjer? t? k?tij vendi, ?sht? e detyruar t? rropatet p?r t? mbijetuar. Sipas nj? logjike t? k?tushme kolektive, t? hesht?sh apo t? shitesh n? k?to kushte, nuk p?rb?n ndonj? m?kat kushedi se ?far?. Esht? v?rtet k?shtu? Hm! S? dyti, prej disa vitesh ?sht? krijuar nj? klim? terrorizuese. E v?rteta apo t? v?rtetat vet?m mund t? p?shp?riten. Ndryshe, nuk ?sht? e tep?rt t? thuhet se mund t? t? ik? edhe koka. Klasa politike e sotme, pasi ka b?r? shum? zullume, nuk ka rrug? tjet?r p?r t'u mbrojtur, ve?se t? shnd?rrohet n? nj? klas? politike banditeske, d.m.th. t? k?rc?noj? k?do q? guxon t? thot? m? tep?r se sa duhet. Dhe ata, intelektual?t, ose heshtin, ose gjejn? rrug?t p?r ta braktisur k?t? vend. Kan? t? drejt?? Jo! Nj?mij? her? jo! Gjithkush mund t? ket? t? drejt?, por jo ata. Ata jan? fajtor?. Jan? fajtor? pik?risht sepse nuk b?jn? asgj?. T? mos b?sh asgj? ?sht? nj? alibi fantastike p?r gjithk?nd, por jo p?r nj? elit?. P?r k?t? t? fundit, t? rrish m?njan? e t? b?sh sehir ?sht? prov? e fajit. From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Thu Apr 20 08:35:21 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:35:21 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Conference: Changes in the 1990s and the Demographic Future of the Balkans, 11-13 May 2000, Sarajevo Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... From: bieberf at ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] Conference: Changes in the 1990s and the Demographic Future of the Balkans, 11-13 May 2000, Sarajevo Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:28:14 +0200 Size: 2937 URL: From aalibali at law.harvard.edu Fri Apr 21 08:21:48 2000 From: aalibali at law.harvard.edu (aalibali at law.harvard.edu) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:21:48 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] CfP: Political Action Worshop on Minorities, Maryland, June 2000 Message-ID: An embedded message was scrubbed... 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Regards Arben From aalibali at yahoo.com Mon Apr 24 10:55:02 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: Event Announcement Message-ID: <20000424145502.15317.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Jennifer Kish" Subject: Event Announcement Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:44:54 -0400 Size: 5638 URL: From kruja at fas.harvard.edu Mon Apr 24 15:06:06 2000 From: kruja at fas.harvard.edu (Eriola Kruja) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:06:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Tuesday 4/25/2000 event Message-ID: > > F O R U M > 6:00 P.M. > > "PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY IN YUGOSLAVIA" > > A Panel Discussion With: > DRAGISA BURZAN, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of > Montenegro > HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER, Crown > Prince of Yugoslavia > DR. DRAGOSLAV AVRAMOVIC, Former Governor of the National > Bank of Yugoslavia; Member of the Alliance for Change > DR. ZORAN DJINDJIC, President, Democratic Party, Serbia, Yugoslavia > MS. VESNA PESIC, Vice President, Civil Alliance for Change > > Introduction By: > JOSEPH NYE, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government > > Co-Sponsored by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, > the Organization of Serbian Students Abroad, and the Institute of Politics Student > Advisory Committee > > Location: Forum > Contact: The Forum Office, 495-1380 From aalibali at yahoo.com Mon Apr 24 16:52:09 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Papandreu on Kosova Message-ID: <20000424205209.457.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com> [06] GREEK FM MEETS WITH SERB DELEGATION IN ATHENS An Athens-held conference of Serb opposition groups hosted by Aleksander Karadjordjevic, the son of Yugoslavia's last king, ended on Saturday with the issuing of a declaration calling for a united front against president Slobodan Milosevic. The declaration said a council of Serbia's "democratic forces" should unite all the democratic opposition under Mr. Karadjordjevic. Opposition groups also called for free elections to be held under the supervision of the international community, and voiced support for the struggle of the Orthodox church and the Serbian National Council of Kosovo to secure the rights of the few remaining Serbs in the NATO-occupied Yugoslav province. The declaration added that those responsible for the woes and defeats of the Serbian people should be brought to trial. Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou met a committee of Kosovo Serbs, including Orthodox Bishop Artemije, on Saturday, and told them that Greece wants to help international efforts to return the Kosovo Serbs to their homes, and promised assistance with recording and repairing damage to Orthodox monuments in the province. Mr. Papandreou also pledged Greek help in setting up Internet cafes in Kosovo, and said Athens would set up a radio station for the benefit of the Kosovo Serbs. He also met with Serb opposition leader Goran Djindjic. [12] REPPAS: GREECE WANTS THE SITUATION IN YUGOSLAVIA TO NORMALIZE The Greek government suggests that the embargo against Serbia be lifted, while it is in favor of the unchangeable of the Balkan borders, including Yugoslavia's, stated Greek government spokesman Dimitris Reppas, adding that those positions were reiterated by foreign minister Giorgos Papandreou in the meeting he had with the leaders of the Serb opposition. Responding to questions by reporters, he said that the Serb opposition leaders visited Greece legally and the government had no involvement in the meeting they had in Athens. He said that the Greek government is in favor of the normalization of the developments in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav people must make decisions in a democratic way through a dialogue of understanding and consensus. On the fact that Greek foreign minister adviser Alexandros Rontos addressed the son of the deposed King of Serbia, Karajorjevic, as "Your Highness", Mr. Reppas said that conclusions should not be drawn quickly based on a courtesy address and pointed out that the government does not recognize Mr. Karajorjevic's title. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com From pilika at yahoo.com Wed Apr 26 10:18:13 2000 From: pilika at yahoo.com (Asti Pilika) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 07:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] DHUNIMI PLAGË QË VËSHTIRË SHËROHET Message-ID: <20000426141813.11794.qmail@web801.mail.yahoo.com> DHUNIMI PLAG? Q? V?SHTIR? SH?ROHET ? Ndikimi i mediave vendase e t? huaja n? zhvillimin e hetimeve t? rasteve t? dhunimeve t? femrave shqiptare gjat? luft?s n? Kosov? ? Femrat e dhunuara duhet t? garantohen se nuk do t? fyhen e kritikohen nga rrethi kur flasin p?r fatkeq?sit? e tyre (HRW- Martina Vandenberg) ? Shkrime skandaloze n? mediat tona e t? huaja ? shkelje imediate e s? drejt?s s? femr?s p?r ruajtjen e dinjitetit dhe indivudalitetit t? saj Si trajtohet nga mediat tona ??shtja e dhunimit t? femr?s shqiptare nga pjes?tar?t e forcave t? armatosura serbe para dhe gjat? luft?s n? Kosov?? Sa hap?sir? i jepet nga shtypi ditor, revista javore, dyjavore apo mujore k?saj kaptine t? dhimbshme dhe shum? t? ndjeshme nga lufta e porsap?rfunduar? A ka trajtime adekuate t? k?saj problematike dhe a shkohet nga ajo q? sa m? shum? raste q? p?rshkruhen b?hen me q?llim t? senzibilizimit t? problematik?s? Sa r?nd?si i kushtohet rikthimit n? jet? dhe integrimit n? shoq?rin? ton? t? femrave t? dhunuara duke i shfryt?zur mund?sit? e k?tyre mediave? A kemi ne si shoq?ri p?rvoj? t? mir?fillt? n? trajtimin e rasteve t? tilla dhe rehabilitimin e femrave q? plag?n e dhunimit do ta bartin t? ndryr? n? shpirt deri n? fund t? jet?s? Sa jan? n? gjendje familjet e femrave t? dhunuara t? ballafaqohen me realitetin dhe t?u ndihmojn? vajzave apo nuseve t? tyre n? tejkalimin e thyerjes shpirt?rore q? ato e kan? p?rjetuar? Jan? k?to disa nga pyetjet q? ne ?do dit? duhet t?ia b?jm? vetes dhe t?u rikthehemi dit?ve q? po kalojn?, t? v?shtrojm? prapa se ?far? kemi b?r? dhe sa kemi b?r? deri m? tani p?r ta leht?suar gjendjen n? k?t? drejtim. Jan? publikuar rr?fime t? ndryshme, natyrisht, pa t? dh?na konkrete t? rasteve, jan? publikuar shum? raporte t? organizatave qeveritare dhe joqeveritare nd?rkomb?tare e shum? pak ose fare pak raporte t? organizatave vendase. Cilat jan? shkrimet q? e kan? trajtuar k?t? tem?? N? vazhdim do t? sh?nojm? disa nga publikimet m? t? r?nd?sishme q? jan? dh?n? nga shtypi. Th?n? m? konkretisht, deri m? tani ?sht? shkruar p?r disa raporte q? kan? publikuar OKB, OSBE, FNUAP, HWR etj. Gjat? periudh?s s? sulmeve ajrore t? NATO-s mbi forcat serbe, at?her? kur n? Kosov? nuk ?sht? botuar asnj? gazet? ditore apo revist? tjet?r, n? shtypin ditor t? shqiptar?ve n? Maqedoni ?sht? publikuar raporti i Stejt Departamentit Amerikan, ku, sekretarja e shtetit, Medlin Olbrajt, pastrimin etnik t? forcave serbe n? Kosov? e ka quajtur ?? fushat? t? rrezikshme?. N? k?t? raport thuhet se ?forcat serbe po e p?rdorin dhunimin si pjes? t? pastrimit etnik, se numri i dhunimeve ?sht? shtuar n? vazhdim?si, k?shtu q?, kur b?het fjal? p?r dhunimet, mund t? flitet p?r nj? fushat? t? organizuar. Brenda k?tij raporti thuhet se shqiptaret e reja jan? ndaluar n? nj? hotel n? Pej?, ku pa m?shir? jan? dhunuar nga ushtar?t serb??, (e p?rditshmja shqiptare e Shkupit ?Fakti?, 12.05.1999, faqe 4). Po n? ?Fakti?, m? 12 dhe 13 maj 1999, n? faqen e fundit t? gazet?s, ?sht? dh?n? nj? analiz? e shkurt?r e ekspert?ve t? Tribunalit Nd?rkomb?tar (shkruar n? gjuh?n angleze), q? merren me hetimin e krimit t? dhunimit. Shkrimi titullohet ?Dhuna seksuale si krim nd?rkomb?tar? dhe ?sht? nj? analiz? shum? e r?nd?sishme. E p?rditshmja ?Flaka?, gjithashtu e Shkupit, e dat?s 24 maj 1999, ka shkruar p?r raportin e publikuar nga OSBE, p?r krimet dhe gjenocidin serb n? Kosov?, ku thuhet se jan? grumbulluar mbi 1400 d?shmi p?r krime lufte e dhunime n? Kosov?. N? raport thuhet se d?shmit? jan? grumbulluar nga grat? dhe vajzat e reja shqiptare, t? cilat rr?fejn? p?r veten e tyre (anonime) apo p?r shoqet e tyre dhe t? af?rmet q? kan? p?rjetuar dhunimin nga pjes?tar?t e forcave serbe. N? ?Fakti? m? 26 maj 1999 ?sht? shkruar edhe p?r raportin e FNUAP (Fondi i Kombeve t? Bashkuara p?r Popujt e Rrezikuar), t? publikuar nj? dit? m? par?. N? k?t? raport t? publikuar nga OKB n? Gjenev? thuhet ? ?Ushtar?t serb? p?r ?do dit? ngarkonin me kamion? nga 30-50 femra t? reja shqiptare t? cilat i d?rgonin n? drejtime t? panjohura dhe mbylleshin me to p?r disa dit? me radh? n? nd?rtesa ushtarake apo vendbanime t? tjera t? ushtar?ve serb?.- N?se ato refuzonin t?i n?nshtroheshin seksit - ose vriteshin ose digjeshin nga polic?t dhe ushtar?t serb? ?. P?r dhunimet gjat? periudh?s s? luft?s n? Kosov? ka folur edhe Komisionarja e OKB p?r t? Drejtat e Njeriut z. Mery Robinson. Ajo, n? raportin e saj, ka th?n?: ?Dhunimet e femrave shqiptare n? shum? qendra t? Kosov?s jan? kryer kryesisht nga paramilitar?t e Arkanit dhe nga polic?t serb??. N? vazhdim ajo p?rmend nj? rast n? Ponesh t? Gjilanit ku pjes?tar?t e forcave t? armatosura serbe kan? dhunuar n? sht?pin? e saj nj? vajz? 20 vje?are n? prani t? n?n?s s? saj (?Bota sot?, 7.3.2000,faq. 3). N? prag t? nj?vjetorit t? fillimit t? sulmeve ajrore t? NATO-s, p?rkat?sisht m? 21 mars 2000, organizata joqeveritare humanitare amerikane Human Rights Watch ka publikuar nj? raport prej 37 faqesh, ku jan? p?rshkruar 96 raste t? dhunimeve t? femrave n? Kosov?. Lidhur me k?t? raport (i pari i k?tij lloji) kan? shkruar ?Koha ditore?, ?Z?ri ditor? e ?Kosova sot?, kurse e p?rditshmja ?Dita? e ka publikuar k?t? raport me vazhdime p?r disa dit? me radh?. Po ashtu, p?r k?t? raport ka shkruar edhe ekspertja e HRW Martina Vandenberg, (shkrim ky i botuar n? t?r?si n? revist?n mujore p?r femra ?Teuta? me titull ?Krimet mbi baz? t? gjinis??, (revista nr. 61, prill 2000, faqe 11). Martina Vandenberg, nd?r t? tjera, thot? ?? n?se grat? e dhunuara nuk flasin (nuk d?shmojn?), kriminel?t q? kryen dhun?n seksuale, do t? shp?tojn? pa u nd?shkuar! Grat? e dhunuara duhet t? garantohen se nuk do t? kritikohen nga rrethi kur t? flasin p?r k?to tortura?. Autorja e raportit M. Vanderberg deklaron se, n? saje t? d?shmive q? HRW ka grumbulluar, forcat e armatosura t? Jugosllavis? dhe t? Serbis? jan? p?rgjegj?se direkte p?r dhunimin sistematik t? grave dhe t? vajzave shqiptare n? Kosov? gjat? sulmeve ajrore t? NATO-s . Kurse zonja Zylfie Hundozi ? Pallaska, neuropsikiatre, n? shtojc?n ?Extra? t? revist?s ?Teuta? - t? shtatorit 1999, ka shkruar nj? v?shtrim shkencor p?r pasojat psikologjike t? dhunimit t? femrave, t? titulluar ?Kthimi n? jet?n normale?, faqe 16 ? 17, ku, n? m?nyr? shkencore, flet p?r pasojat psikologjike t? t? dhunuarave dhe m?nyr?n se si duhet t? trajtohen ato nga rrethi q? t? rikthehen n? jet?n normale. Po kjo revist?, n? numrin e saj t? tetorit 1999, ka organizuar nj? tryez? t? rrumbullak?t ku kan? marr? pjes? psikolog?, neuropsikiat?r, p?rfaq?sues t? Qendr?s p?r Mbrojtjen e Grave e t? F?mij?ve dhe t? K?shillit p?r Mbrojtjen e t? Drejtave e t? Lirive t? Njeriut. Tem? diskutimi ishin raste t? shumta t? femrave t? dhunuara dhe fenomenin e dhunimit t? femr?s son? nga pjes?tar?t e forcave t? armatosura serbe. N? t? p?rditshmen ?Z?ri? ?sht? publikuar n? t?r?si shkrimi i botuar n? t? p?rditshmen londineze ?THE OBSERVER?, titulluar ?N?nat e dhunuara mallkojn? f?mij?t e lindur, luft?n, serb?t dhunues?? (19 prill 2000, faqe 11) dhe ?Foshnjat e dhunimit presin adaptuesit? (20 prill 2000, faqe 11), n? t? cilin shkrim, nd?r t? tjera, thuhet se grupet lokale humanitare kan? konstatuar se vet?m n? janar t? vitit 2000, n? Kosov?, kan? lindur rreth 100 foshnja, et?rit e t? cil?ve jan? dhunuesit serb??! Kjo gazet? rr?fen p?r v?shtir?sit? q? hasin ekspert?t dhe hulumtuesit nd?rkomb?tar? dhe vendas n? evidencimin e k?tyre rasteve p?r shkak se shumica e femrave t? dhunuara nuk pranojn? se kan? qen? t? dhunuara, mir?po, p?r to m? tep?r mund t? m?sohet nga rrethi dhe d?shmitar?t eventual?, q? i kan? par? n? momentet kur ato jan? marr? nga forcat serbe. Lidhur me k?t? shkrim menj?her? kan? reaguar autoritetet udh?heq?se t? Klinik?s Obstetrike ? Gjinekologjike n? Prishtin?. Ky reagim ?sht? botuar n? t? p?rditshmet ?Koha ditore? dhe ?Z?ri? m? 20 prill 2000 dhe n? t? thuhet se nuk ?sht? e v?rtet? se koh?ve t? fundit kan? lindur shum? f?mij? t? dhunuesve serb?, sepse nuk do t? thot? q? ?do dhunim ka p?rfunduar me shtatz?n?si. Ata d?shmojn?, po ashtu, se shum? raste t? shtatz?n?sive t? tilla jan? paraqitur para disa muajve dhe jan? parandaluar n? k?t? spital. Dhunimi seksual ? krim kund?r njer?zimit N? v?shtrimin ?Dhuna seksuale si krim nd?rkomb?tar? (?Fakti?, 12 e 13 maj 1999) ekspert?t e Tribunalit Nd?rkomb?tar p?r Krime t? Luft?s theksojn? se aktet e dhun?s seksuale trajtohen n? kuad?r t? juridiksionit t? ICTY (Tribunali Nd?rkomb?tar p?r Krime Lufte n? Jugosllavi) dhe t? ICTR (Tribunali Nd?rkomb?tar p?r Krime t? Luft?s n? Ruand?). Ata, me shembuj t? ndrysh?m t? dhunimeve, e elaborojn? k?t? ??shtje n? m?nyr? shkencore dhe juridike. K?to Tribunale e specifikojn? dhunimin seksual deri n? shkall?n e definicionit t? akteve, t? cilat mund t?i konstituojn? krimet kund?r njer?zimit. K?ta ekspert? potencojn? disa segmente t? juridiksionit t? t? dy Tribunaleve Nd?rkomb?tare p?r Krime t? Luft?s, t? cilat, n? statutet e tyre, dhunimin seksual e konsiderojn? si: - krim kund?r njer?zimit, - gjenocid, - shkelje t? ligjeve t? luft?s, - tortur?, - krim t? luft?s n? konfliktet e armatosura midis dy vendeve, - krim t? luft?s n? konfliktet e armatosura interne, - krim i luft?s konsiderohet edhe p?rgjegj?sia p?r dhunim, kurse - shtatz?nsia e dhunshme konsiderohet krim potencial. N? k?t? v?shtrim jan? marr? disa shembuj t? personave t? akuzuar nga k?to Tribunale p?r abuzime seksuale t? civil?ve t? pafajsh?m n? Ruand? dhe n? ish-Jugosllavi (Bosnj?, Kroaci e Serbi), kurse vet?m ?sht? potencuar se ICTY e ka zgjeruar juridikisionin e vet p?r hetimin e abuzimeve seksuale t? kryera nga forcat e armatosura serbe mbi popullat?n civile shqiptare gjat? luft?s n? Kosov?. Sa ndihmojn? rr?fimet anonime t? publikuara n? shtypin ton? e t? huaj? A ndihmojn? dhe sa ndihmojn? rr?fimet anonime t? viktimave t? dhunuara apo t? d?shmitar?ve t? dhunimeve nga forcat serbe gjat? luft?s n? Kosov?, q? her? pas here po publikohen n? shtypin ton?? Po t? shtrohet ??shtja se sa kan? ndikim mediat n? zhvillimin e hetimeve mbi rastet e dhunimit t? femrave gjat? luft?s n? Kosov? dhe ?far? ndikimi ushtrojn? ato, at?her? kalojm? n? nj? rrafsh krejt tjet?r, terren ky q? m? shum? do t?u takonte organizatave e institucioneve p?rkat?se, psikolog?ve dhe hetuesve q? merren me trajtimin dhe hetimin e krimeve t? k?saj natyre. Duke marr? parasysh v?shtir?sit? q? hasim ne si institucion n? ndri?imin e k?tyre rasteve, v?sht?rsit? me t? cilat ballafaqohemi gjat? zbulimit t? tyre, deklarimit t? viktimave apo t? d?shmitar?ve dhe duke pasur parasysh ndjeshm?rin? e hetimit mund t? konkludojm? se puna q? ?sht? b?r? deri m? tani n? k?t? drejtim ?sht? e vog?l dhe e pamjaftueshme. Themi k?shtu p?r arsye se kemi t? b?jm? me nj? problematik? shum? t? nd?rlikuar, e cila k?rkon nj? tempo m? t? shpejt? t? zgjidhjes s? problemve, sepse ?sht? n? pyetje e ardhmja e nj? pjese shum? t? r?nd?sishme t? shoq?ris? son?, e ardhmja e qindra e mij?ra femrave tona (kryesisht t? reja), t? cilat, po nuk u ndihmuan, do t? mbesin n? m?shir?n e fatit dhe do t? gjenden para situatave shum? t? r?nda, prej t? cilave v?shtir? do t? arrijn? t? dalin vet. N? baz? t? p?rvoj?s q? kan? bashk?pun?tor?t tan? n? hetimin e rasteve, shumica e viktimave apo e d?shmitar?ve q? kan? dh?n? deklarata p?r KMDLNJ, kategorikisht jan? kund?r publikimit t? rasteve t? tyre p?r media edhe at?her? kur atyre u ?sht? premtuar se rasti vet?m do t? p?rshkruhet pa emra apo me iniciale (sipas d?shir?s s? tyre) dhe se t? dh?nat e tjera do t? mbahen sekrete. Megjithat?, kemi pasur raste kur viktimat kan? deklaruar haptazi se nuk d?shirojn? t? flasin p?r p?rjetimet e tyre t? tmerrshme mu p?r shkak t? frik?s se rasti do t? publikohet p?r media. Viktimat e shfaqin ?do her? k?t? mosbesim dhe refuzojn? ?do bised? q? do t?u hapte rrug? rr?fimeve t? tyre. Skandaloz ka qen? shkrimi i botuar n? ?Koha ditore? me titull ?F?mij?t e turpit?, shkrim ky q? ngjalli reagime t? ndryshme edhe n? shtypin ton?. Marr? n? p?rgjith?si, p?r mendimin ton?, ky shkrim dhe shkrime t? tilla e t? ngjashme kan? pasur ndikim shum? negativ n? hulumtimin e rasteve t? dhunimeve p?r shkak se shum? femra t? dhunuara, q? kan? pasur rastin t?i lexojn? k?to shkrime, e kan? ndier? veten t? n?n?muar dhe, edhe n?se do ta kishin pasur mendjen q? ndonj?her? t? rr?fehen, e kan? mbyllur p?rgjithmon? k?t? kaptin? t? hidhur t? jet?s s? tyre. Cila ?sht? evidenca e KMDLNJ lidhur me rastet e dhunimeve t? femrave? Lidhur me k?t? kategori t? dhun?s dhe p?r k?t? krim ?sht? folur para dhe gjat? gjith? periudh?s s? luft?s n? Kosov?. N? baz? t? t? dh?nave nga terreni, kemi dyshime t? bazuara se femrat shqiptare jan? dhunuar nga forcat serbe q? nga fillimi i luft?s n? Kosov?, kryesisht n? pjes?t q? gradualisht jan? p?rfshir? nga lufta. Mir?po, intensiteti i dhunimeve ?sht? shtuar me fillimin e bombardimeve dhe ?sht? rritur n? vazhdim?si gjat? t?r? periudh?s s? sulmeve ajrore. Shum? organizata nd?rkomb?tare joqeveritare dhe ekspert? t? ndrysh?m kalkulojn? me shifr?n se af?r 20.000 femra shqiptare jan? dhunuar nga pjes?tar?t e forcave serbe n? dit?t e luft?s. T? dh?nat nga terreni dhe d?shmit? e mbledhura n? kampe t? refugjat?ve n? Maqedoni, Shqip?ri, Mal t? Zi, dhe n? vende t? ndryshme, ku kan? qen? t? vendosur shqiptar?t e d?buar e t? deportuar nga Kosova dhe t? gjitha d?shmit? e mbledhura pas p?rfundimit t? luft?s, d?shmojn? se numri i femrave t? dhunuara mund jet? shum? i madh me qindra e mija. Por ne, si institucion, kemi sh?nime p?r: - 126 femra shqiptare t? dhunuara nga forcat serbe, t? cilave ua dim? identitetin, vendin dhe koh?n kur jan? dhunuar, e n? disa raste, kemi identifikuar edhe dhunuesit e tyre; - prej tyre 28, pasi jan? dhunuar, jan? vrar? nga dhunuesit serb?, kurse - 8 femra, pasi jan? dhunuar, jan? marr? nga dhunuesit, jan? d?rguar n? drejtime t? panjohura dhe ende llogariten si t? zhdukura. Nga ana tjet?r, kemi t? sh?nuara edhe disa lokacione, ku femrat shqiptare jan? dhunuar n? grupe, por identitetin e tyre nuk kemi arritur ta konstatojm?. K?to d?shmi jan? marr? nga personat q? kan? qen? prezent? kur nga kolonat e t? d?buarve jan? nxjerr? dhe jan? d?rguar n? drejtime t? panjohura p?r t?u dhunuar nga 20, 30 e 50 femra shqiptare. Ka p?r t? mbetur enigmatike se cilat kan? qen? k?to femra, sepse karakteristike ka qen? se ato nuk jan? njohur nga rrethi ku jan? marr?, p?r shkak se popullata, gjat? d?bimeve, ka qen? e zhvendosur. P.sh., n? Prishtin? jan? marr? femra t? rretheve t? tjera; n? Gjakov? jan? marr? dhe jan? dhunuar femra t? Mitrovic?s apo t? fshatrave t? Drenic?s. Po ashtu, kemi sh?nime se pjes?tar?t e forcave serbe, n? disa fshatra, q? p?r arsye objektive nuk po i p?rmendim, kan? dhunuar sistematikisht 50, 70, 80 e m? shum? femra t? reja. Ne kemi sh?nime p?r dhunimin e 857 femrave shqiptare, identitetin e t? cilave nuk e dim?, por jemi duke i gjurmuar k?to raste. ?ka do t? ndihmonte rikthimin e femrave t? dhunuara n? binar?t e jet?s normale? K?to ishin disa nga shkrimet q? kan? alarmuar opinionin p?r ndri?imin e krimit m? makab?r q? ?sht? kryer nga forcat serbe n? Kosov?. M? lart cek?m se jan? publikuar edhe disa rr?fime t? viktimave apo t? d?shmitar?ve t? dhunimeve, t? cilat, ve? e ve?, jan? rr?fime rr?qeth?se t? t? mbijetuarave, q? kan? arritur t? shp?tojn? gjall?, por q? plag?n e dhunimit v?shtir? do ta sh?rojn?. Ne nuk mund ta konstatojm? v?rtet?sin? e k?tyre shkrimeve dhe objektivitetin e tyre, sepse ne e dim? fare mir? reagimin e viktimave e t? d?shmitar?ve, por nuk e p?rjashtojm? mund?sin? q? ndonj?ri prej rasteve t? jet? i v?rtet?, megjith?se e dim? se kjo m?nyr? e qasjes k?saj problematike nuk ?sht? krejt?sisht e q?lluar. Mir?po, ne, si instucion, e shohim t? arsyeshme t?ua p?rkujtojm? autor?ve t? shkrimeve t? tilla se n? gazetari nuk ?sht? ?doher? i preferuar senzacioni q? do ta rris? tirazhin e gazet?s , por p?rher? duhet t?i jepet p?rpar?si v?rtet?sis?. N?se ne, si shoq?ri, p?rpiqemi t?u ndihmojm? n? t? gjitha format k?tyre femrave t? l?nduara, at?her? ndihm?n ton? duhet ta orientojm? n? kahje t? tjera, p?rpjekjet tona duhet t?i kanalizojm? n? forma t? tjera. K?to femra m? s? tep?rmi do t?i ndihmojm? duke organizuar tryeza t? rrumbullak?ta, seminare, trajnime p?r media, ku ekspert? t? k?saj fushe, psikolog?, veprimtar? p?r t? drejtat e njeriut, p?rfaq?sues eminent? t? t? gjitha konfesioneve fetare t? Kosov?s, veprimtar? lokal? dhe qytetar? t? vullnetit t? mir? do t? diskutonin lidhur me k?to probleme dhe do t? k?rkonin rrug? e m?nyra p?r t? ndihmuar q? k?tyre femrave t? mos u cenohet dinjiteti i tyre moral e njer?zor. Duhet t? organizohen anketa me shtresa t? ndryshme t? popullsis?, k?shillime dhe emisione kontakti n? radio e TV, kurse femrave t? dhunuara t?u b?het thirrje q? dhunimin e tyre t? mos e konsiderojn? turp t? tyre personal, t? mos e mohojn? veten e tyre nga ?do gj? n? jet?, sepse ky edhe ka qen? q?llimi i fundit i dhunuesve t? tyre. Dhunimin e tyre duhet ta marrim edhe ne si pjes? t? luft?s s? p?rlyer q? ka b?r? armiku, luft? kjo n? t? cil?n ato nuk jan? fajtore, por viktima nd?r m? t? r?ndat. Gjat? luft?s n? Kosov? dik? e ka q?lluar plumbi, dik? e ka q?lluar granata, dikush ?sht? vrar? e masakruar, dikush ?sht? gjymtuar e dikush ?sht? zhdukuar apo ?sht? arrestuar dhe ende mbahet n? burgje, dikujt i ?sht? djegur sht?pia, dikujt i ?sht? pla?kitur pasuria e dikush ?sht? dhunuar. K?to nuk jan? vepra e veprime turpi t? shoq?ris? son?, por viktima t? k?saj lufte t? pabarabart?. U b?het apel familjar?ve se fshehja e krimit t? dhunuesve t? femrave tona ?sht? p?rkrahje e krimit dhe ndihm? q? iu b?het dhunuesve serb?. Getoizimi familjar i k?tyre femrave, n?n?mimi dhe mosp?rfillja e problemeve sh?ndet?sore t? tyre ?sht? krim i dyfisht?. Braktisja e femrave t? dhunuara, aq m? tep?r d?bimi i n?nave t? dhunuara nga sht?pit? dhe familjet e tyre, do t? ishte krim mbi krimet. Prishtin?, m? 20 prill Naime Ma?astena ? Sherifi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com From i_spaho at hotmail.com Thu Apr 27 11:23:38 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:23:38 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [bota letrare] Per fansat e Adriano Celentanos Message-ID: <20000427152338.33549.qmail@hotmail.com> > >. Per fansat e Adriano Celentanos > > Per presidentin e klubit te fansave te Adriano Celentanos, Sergio >Cotti, >kontakti i pare me Shqiperine nuk ka qene nga ata me te lumturit. Por >mikpritja e miqve, madje dhe hyrja ne Tirane, ka qene vertete befasuese, >jo aq nga peizazhi, shtepite etj, por nga ngjarja e vecante ne te cilen >do te asistonte. Ai ishte i vetmi mik italian i mbremjes per Adriano >Celentanon. Vec respektit dhe rendesise qe kjo figure artistike kishte >ne Shqiperi, e vecante per Cottin ishin qindra manifeste me imazhin e >Celentanos, qe mbulonin muret dhe zonat me te dukshme publicitare te >rrugeve me te frekuentuara te qytetit. As ne Itali shprehet ai, nuk kam >pare nje gje te ngjashme per nje kengetar te muzikes se lehte, dhe biles >as kur behet fjale per nje koncert te vete artistit. Te gjithe >kengetaret pop me te njohur te vendit, ishin mbledhur ne Pallatin >prestigjoz te Koncerteve per te kenduar ne gjuhen italiane, nga nje >kenge te Adrianos. "Ky ishte nje homazh pa precedent ne Shqiperi, >vazhdon Cotti,- per nje kengetar te muzikes nderkombetare". Duke filluar >nga "Il tuo bacio e'come un rock" deri tek "Una rosa pericolosa", >mbremja do te merrte vrull menjehere, duke pershkuar rreth 40 vjet >muzike, duke kaluar neper "Azzurro", tek "Preghero", qe nga "Susanna" >deri tek "Il tempo se ne va". Nje kor i njezeshem thirjesh "Adriano, >Adriano" eshte degjuar ne fund te shfaqjes nga spektatoret, gje qe do te >bente te emocionohej edhe spektatorin me indiferent. Per Cottin ky ishte >nje apel qe Adriano nje dite, te mund te >vije me te vertete. > > Koha Jone 27 Prill 2000 - V. 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From: bieberf at ceu.hu Subject: [balkans] Query: Media in Kosovo Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:45:36 +0200 Size: 2523 URL: From shkenca-owner at egroups.com Sun Apr 30 05:19:44 2000 From: shkenca-owner at egroups.com (shkenca Moderator) Date: 30 Apr 2000 09:19:44 -0000 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Invitation to join shkenca Message-ID: <957086384.3665@egroups.com> Hello, This is an invitation to join the shkenca group, an email group that I moderate at eGroups, a free, easy-to-use email group service. By joining this group, you'll be able to easily send messages to fellow group members using just one email address. eGroups also makes it easy to store photos and files, coordinate events and more. Here's my introductory message for you: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pershendetje, [Shkenca dhe Jeta] eshte lista e hapur per te gjithe te interesuarit pas shkences. Shkrimet duhet te kene karakter shkencor. 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Janollatosi p?rdhos autoqefalin? e KOASH-it n? dit?t e >Pashk?ve > >Kush urdheroi q? epitafin ta mbajn? n? krahe ushtar?t grek??! > > >Skandalet e kryepeshkopit t? Shqip?ris? Janullatos, nuk kan? >ndaluar edhe n? dit?t e shenjta t? Pashkeve. Gjat? marshgjergjis >imt t? >besimtareve ortodoks? dit?n e t? "Premtes s? zez?" n? qytetin >e Durresit, besimatr?t shiptar? jan? ndodhur p?rball? nj? >provokimi dhe fyerje t? papar? t? organizuar nga Peshkopi i >Tiran?s, Durr?sit dhe gjith? Shqip?ris, Anastas Janullatos. >Epitafin q? mbahet n? krah? nga besimtar?t gjat? k?tij >marshimi t? shenjt? n? m?nyr?n m? provokative dhe t? pa >ligjshme, e mbanin ushtar? greke t? kompanis? s? instaluar n? >Tiran?. T? veshur me uniforma ushtarake luftimi, me grada dhe >simbole kombetare greke, k?ta ushtar? jan? caktuar nga >autoritetet e peshkopat?s t? mbajn? epitafin gjat? k?tij >marshimi t? detyruesh?m e t? respektuar me fanatiz?m nga t? >gjith? besimtar?t ortodoks?. Kjo ka b?r? q? shum? besimtar? ta >l?n? m? mes marshimin n? form? proteste, nd?rsa t? tjer? p?r >t? mos l?n? n? mes ritin, kan? protestuar n? m?nyra nga m? t? >ndryshmet. Ky provokim ?sht? nj? shkelje e r?nd? e ligjit t? >Kish?s Ortodokse Autoqefale Shqiptare dhe p?rdhosja e radh?s >nga kryepeshkopi grek i saj Janullatos. >Si n? t? gjitha liturgjit? e kishave ortodokse t? vendeve t? >ndryshme, peshkop?t luten p?r popujt, ushtrit? dhe qeverit? e >k?tyre vendeve. Edhe n? Durr?s ?sht? k?nduar kjo lutje "P?r >Republik?n e Shqip?ris?, ushtrin? dhe qeverin?, le t'i lutemi >Zotit, Amin". Kjo lutje q? b?n krenarin? per besimtar?t >ortodokse shiptare, ?sht? zhvleft?suar kur kan? par? q? >epitafin nuk e mbanin n? krah? ushtar?t shqiptar?, sipas >kanunit t? kish?s por ushtar? grek?, q? kishin ardhuar nga >Tirana me dy automiete, nj? kamion me targ? 90146 dhe nj? xhip >ushtarak tip Benz. >Ky provokim dhe shkelje e ligjit t? KOASH-it u intepretua nga >besimtar?t ortodoks? t? Durr?sit dhe banor?t e tjer? t? >pranishem n? k?t? moment, si nj? veprim i q?llimshem i kreut >t? kish?s Janullatos. N? zon?n e Durr?sit ka shum? reparte >shqiptare dhe do t? ishte normale madje e detyrueshme q? >epitafin ta mbanin ushtar?t e ushtris? shqiptare, p?r t? cil?t >besimtar?t ortodoks? n? k?t? dite t? shenjt?, kan? nj? lutje >t? ve?ant?.Provokimi i turpshem i organizuar dje n? Durr?s me >ushtar?t grek, ?sht? nj? akt m? shumi n? llogari t? >kryepeshkopit, i cili po shkat?rron ?do dit? autoqefalin? e >kish?s son? ortodokse. Ushtar?t grek q? jan? lejuar nga >qeveria t? rrin? n? Shqip?ri mund t? vijn? e t? festojn? si t? >gjith? ortodokset, pashk?t, por mbajtje te epitafit n? >territorin e Shqip?ris?. Kudo q? festohen pashk?t ?sht? detyr? >dhe nder i ushtris? shiptare, p?r t? cil?t ne ortodokset si >edhe besimtar?t e feve t? tjera n? Shqip?ri i lutemi Zotit me >nj? lutje t? ve?ant?. Kjo p?rve? nj? shkelje t? r?nd? t? >kanunit t? kish?s ortodokse autoqefale shqiptare, ?sht? edhe >nj? fyerje e r?nd? kombetare q? mban firm?n e kryepeshkopit >Janullatos. > >Jorgo Thanasi >55 > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >* Alb-Club at alb-net.com / Albanian Club Discussion List * >____________________________________________________ >Alb-Club mailing list: Alb-Club at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/alb-club ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From i_spaho at hotmail.com Sun Apr 30 16:56:21 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:56:21 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Igli Tare's success in Germany Message-ID: <20000430205621.36541.qmail@hotmail.com> For German speakers, interested in soccer > >http://www.fck.de/html/start.php3 > >Zuerst genoss er das Bad in der Menge und dann im Erm?dungsbecken. ?Das ist >der gl?cklichste Tag meines Lebens?, freute sich Igli Tare. Nach Monaten >der >Frustration, abgestempelt zum Fehleinkauf, ausgepfiffen von den eigenen >Fans, ausgewechselt nach ungl?cklichen Spielen. ?Es hat mich sehr >getroffen. >Ich habe immer wieder an mich geglaubt, dass es irgendwann mal wieder >klappt >?, hoffte der albanische Nationalspieler auf eine Besserung der Situation. >Und wie es geklappt hat! Mit drei Toren schoss der 1,91-m-lange H?ne den >FCK >wieder ins Rennen um die Champions League-Pl?tze. Zusammen mit seinem >Sturmkollegen J?rgen Pettersson machte er Jagd auf die Spatzen, die nicht >mehr als Kanonenfutter f?r die Lauterer Offensive waren. > > > > > > >* Alb-Club at alb-net.com / Albanian Club Discussion List * >____________________________________________________ >Alb-Club mailing list: Alb-Club at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/alb-club ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From aalibali at yahoo.com Sun Apr 30 20:16:34 2000 From: aalibali at yahoo.com (Agron Alibali) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Zi ne Komo per vrasjen e K. Hoxhes Message-ID: <20000501001634.14186.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> La Stampa Como, in diecimila danno l?addio al piccolo albanese Il pap? di Claudio: giustizia, non vendetta Brunella Giovara inviata a Como Sulle teste della folla avanza una bara piccola piccola, con su la bandiera rossa e nera degli albanesi, e una corona di margherite gi? appassite. La bara ondeggia, tutti vogliono portarla in spalla. Cento uomini si daranno il cambio per portarla al cimitero, diecimila persone seguiranno il funerale. Si seppellisce Claudio Hoxha, 8 anni, il primo albanese interrato in questo camposanto della Brianza. Ucciso da un ragazzo di 17 anni che voleva ?solo toccarlo un po?, poi gli ho stretto le mani al collo, ed ? morto?. Un funerale misto, met? musulmano, met? cristiano. Claudio seguiva le lezioni di catechismo, era andato all?asilo dalle suore. Perci? ha avuto una veglia funebre albanese e una cerimonia nella chiesa di Santo Stefano, al centro di Mariano Comense. Cos? hanno deciso i genitori, Sami e Anila, per dire addio al loro figlio maggiore. La comunit? albanese che si ? radunata in paese da tutta Italia ha accettato. E la tensione dei giorni scorsi, i giorni delle ricerche inutili, delle battute dei boschi, e poi della caccia al mostro, quella tensione se ne ? andata via, sciolta lungo i tre chilometri che separano la casa popolare dove vivono gli Hoxha dal cimitero. Centinaia di donne e uomini - tutti vestiti di nero, gli albanesi - in corteo lungo le strade del paese, tra lacrime e applausi, e quella bara in bilico con dietro i parenti pi? stretti, la mamma e il pap?, gli zii, i cugini venuti da Milano, Brescia, Treviso, Torino. Hanno partecipato alla veglia funebre: il cofano bianco posato su un tavolino, i fiori e le foto di Claudio felice, le donne di casa e la mamma radunate intorno, un lamento senza fine che ? andato avanti fino all?alba, che ha tormentato i pensieri dei vicini, ha tenuto sveglio il cortile dove Claudio giocava a pallone, ed era solo marted? scorso. Gli uomini nell?altra stanza, come ? l?usanza, a fare forza al pap?. Poi le visite. In fila, per ore, per entrare nel miniappartamento gi? pieno, con due compaesani di Kavaje a smistare la gente, a offrire sigarette agli ospiti ?che vengono qui a rendere omaggio alla nostra vittima?. Alle tre arriva il parroco, ?? ora di andare?, dice. Fuori un gruppetto di Durazzo grida per l?ultima volta che per l?assassino di Claudio ?ci vuole la pena di morte, come in America?, che ?il ragazzo sapeva quello che faceva, e allora va punito?. Ma dura poco. Esce Sami Hoxha, tranquillizza gli agitati, ringrazia tutti, ?albanesi e italiani?. E si parte. In testa il furgone funebre, vuoto. I genitori non l?hanno voluto, chiedono che Claudio venga portato a spalle dalla sua gente. Poi due ragazzi che reggono una bandiera dell?Albania, dietro i carabinieri, e i vigili che portano il gonfalone del Comune e quello della Provincia di Como. Aprono un corteo che sfila tra un cordone di volontari albanesi che si tengono per mano. Poi la bara bianca, portata da dieci uomini, che si pestano i piedi e inciampano spesso: il cofano ? piccolo, basterebbero quattro per portarla, ma tutti chiedono, tutti dicono ?anch?io, anch?io?, e allora ci si ferma ogni tanto per il cambio. Via Vittorio Veneto, e poi in piazza. Le finestre sono piene di gente che applaude, donne che piangono, coppie di fidanzati che si abbracciano in lacrime, pap? che alzano bambini, ?guarda, l? dentro c?? un bambino piccolo come te?. C?? il sindaco Vigan? con la fascia tricolore, la giunta, i volontari della Protezione civile, quelli che hanno partecipato alle ricerche per giorni e notti intere. Divise pulite, uno dice ?mi ? asciugata in tempo, era sporca del fango che abbiamo tirato su in questi giorni, l?avessimo almeno trovato vivo?. Claudio esce dal paese come un eroe. Nella chiesa di Santo Stefano aspettano in silenzio i bambini delle scuole elementari, ognuno con la sua rosa bianca in mano. C?? il coro, ma ? troppo commosso, e i canti vengono fuori stonati, l?Alleluja ? una nenia senza gioia. Su una colonna c?? un cartellone delle foto dei bambini del catechismo: Claudio ? nella fila in basso, per tutti la scritta ? ?essere amici di Ges? ? bello?. Una nuvola di incenso, poi parla don Giovanni, il prevosto. Dice ?basta con i pensieri di rabbia, e persino di vendetta. Non facciamoci travolgere dalla foga della vendetta?. Nel primo banco, Sami e Anila sono solo stravolti, e chiss? se lo ascoltano quando invita alla fratellanza e include ?anche colui che in un momento di follia ha provocato questa tragedia. Anche lui si senta fratello?. Una ragazza legge: ?Per la disattenzione e diseducazione nei confronti dei fanciulli, fino a sfruttarli con i mercati infami della pornografia?. Si risponde insieme ?Signore, piet??. Don Giovanni porta il messaggio dell?arcivescovo di Milano, che si sente ?vicino alla comunit? albanese?. Gli albanesi applaudono ancora, ma ? ora di andare, e si esce in un sole caldissimo, si riprende la marcia lentissima verso il cimitero. Campo dei bambini, tra la tomba di Massimo e quella di Daniela, dietro quella della neonata Maria. Da oggi Claudio Hoxha ? sepolto qui. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From ikullolli at hotmail.com Sun Apr 30 20:56:56 2000 From: ikullolli at hotmail.com (Ilir Kullolli) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:56:56 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Igli Tare's success in Germany Message-ID: <20000501005656.61655.qmail@hotmail.com> A ka ndonje te na e perktheje kete ne SHqip.. sepse jam ca i interesuar edhe une per sportistat shqiptare... Faleminderit From: "irma spaho" To: albsa-info at alb-net.com Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Igli Tare's success in Germany Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:56:21 PDT ----------- ALBSA-Info Mailing List --------- - ALBSA Web Site: http://www.albstudent.org - For German speakers, interested in soccer > >http://www.fck.de/html/start.php3 > >Zuerst genoss er das Bad in der Menge und dann im Erm?dungsbecken. ?Das ist >der gl?cklichste Tag meines Lebens?, freute sich Igli Tare. Nach Monaten >der >Frustration, abgestempelt zum Fehleinkauf, ausgepfiffen von den eigenen >Fans, ausgewechselt nach ungl?cklichen Spielen. ?Es hat mich sehr >getroffen. >Ich habe immer wieder an mich geglaubt, dass es irgendwann mal wieder >klappt >?, hoffte der albanische Nationalspieler auf eine Besserung der Situation. >Und wie es geklappt hat! Mit drei Toren schoss der 1,91-m-lange H?ne den >FCK >wieder ins Rennen um die Champions League-Pl?tze. Zusammen mit seinem >Sturmkollegen J?rgen Pettersson machte er Jagd auf die Spatzen, die nicht >mehr als Kanonenfutter f?r die Lauterer Offensive waren. > > > > > > >* Alb-Club at alb-net.com / Albanian Club Discussion List * >____________________________________________________ >Alb-Club mailing list: Alb-Club at alb-net.com >http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/alb-club ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________________ ALBSA-Info mailing list: ALBSA-Info at alb-net.com http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/albsa-info ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From i_spaho at hotmail.com Sun Apr 30 21:01:07 2000 From: i_spaho at hotmail.com (irma spaho) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:01:07 PDT Subject: [ALBSA-Info] tragjedi shqipetare Message-ID: <20000501010107.62663.qmail@hotmail.com> Per ata pak anetare qe nuk mund te lexojne artikullin e percjelle ne liste nga Agroni, po percjell nje version shqip te tragjedise se vogelushit shqiptar, Klaudio Hoxha. Irma > >N? RRETHIN E KOMOS, N? ITALI, NDODHI TRAGJEDI E R?ND? SHQIPTARE: > >PEDOFILI ITALIAN SHTAT?MB?DHJET? VJE? E KA RR?MBYER DHE E KA MBYTUR >VOG?LUESHIN TET?VJE?AR - KLAUDIO HOXHA > > Shkruan: Engj?ll KOLIQI > > Rom?, 30 prill 2000. - Vite m? par?, n? Mariano Comense (af?r >Komos), ishin vendosur bashk?short?t: Sami e Anila Hoxha, nga Vlora, me >f?mij?t e tyre. Aty ata, t? ikur nga varf?ria, kishin filluar jet?n e re >m?rgimtare - nj? jet? t? r?nd? fizikisht, por t? leht? shpirt?risht, sepse >me pun?n e tyre t? ndershme (Samiu murator e Anila kamariere) fitonin para, >p?r ta mbajtur standardin e jet?s e p?r ta nd?rtuar, ngadal?, nj? >p?rspektiv? t? jet?s n? Atdhe - n? Vlor?n heroike. Familja Hoxha, n? >rrethin >e ri shoq?ror ishin t? nderuar dhe t? respektuar. Ata i nderonte dhe i >respektonte puna e tyre e palodhshme dhe jeta e ndershme, sipas normave t? >traditave t? sh?ndosha shqiptare. Ata ishin t? lumtur, p?r integrimin e >mir? >n? rrethin shoq?ror dhe p?r faktin se me djers?t e tyre po krijonin nj? >p?rspektiv? jete, n? Vlor?, ku do t? ktheheshin pas pak vitesh. S? paku >k?shtu dukeshin - t? lumtur, deri t? mart?n e kaluar. > >Klaudio humbet pa gjurm? - ethet e frik?s trondisin familjen Hoxha > > Anila e Samiu e kishin edukuar t? birin e tyre, q? t? jet? i >kujdessh?m, sepse jeta ?sht? plot me rreziqe. Klaudio i vog?l, i ndikuar >nga >edukata e prind?rve, nuk e merrte as edhe nj? sheqerk? nga t? panjohurit. >Mir?po, k?saj radhe, mbase me venomin e kobit, ishte "mashtruar", sepse nuk >kishte menduar q? e keqja mund t'i vij? nga nj? i njohur, q? banonte n? t? >nj?jtin pallat, vet?m dy kat m? lart. > Pasditja e kobshme e s? mart?s. Vog?lueshi Klaudio Hoxha, me >shok?t >moshatar?, po luante me top, para pallatit ku banonte. Afrohet vras?si (nj? >shtat?mb?dhjet?vje?ar, emri i t? cilit nuk ?sht? publikuar, i cili po >banonte vet?m dy kat m? lart, n? t? nj?jtin pallat, me familjen Hoxha). >Ishte, pra, nj? i njohur, me t? cilin shiheshin ?do dit? e nga i cili f?miu >nuk priste ndoj t? keqe. E kap vog?lueshin p?r dore dhe i thot? t? b?jn? >bashk? nj? sh?ti t? vog?l. Klaudio, si f?mij? i pasherr pranon dhe hyp? n? >moto?iklet?n e vras?sit. > Kalon koha - nj? or?, dy, tri... bie terri e thellohet nata dhe >Klaudio nuk kthehet. Prind?rit e shkret? i kap frika e paniku. Alarmojn? n? >organet shtet?rore vendore. Karabinier?t dhe policia fillojn? menj?her? >hetimet dhe k?rkimet, por pa sukses. Assesi t'i biejn? n? gjurm? f?mij?s s? >zhdukur. Kalojn? or?t e dit?t e ethet e frik?s, p?r vdekjen e t? birit, >trondisin gjithnj? e m? shum? shpirtin e prind?rve. > >Pas tentimeve t? kota p?r ta fshehur krimin - vet? vras?si e pranon vepr?n. >U telefonon karabinier?ve: - "un? e kam vrar? Klaudion" > > Ankthi i frik?s, p?rve? prind?rve t? vog?lueshit t? zhdukur, i >kishte >kapluar edhe vend?sit - fqinjt e tyre, sa nga keqardhja, sa nga frika se >jeta m? nuk ?sht? e sigurt? as n? fshatin e tyre. E vetmja tem? bisede >ishte >zhdukja e Klaudios s? vog?l. I ngush?llonin prind?rit, duke u th?n? se >djali >do t? gjendet, por... T? vetmit, q? shtonin dyshimin ishin: vras?si dhe e >?ma e tij, e cila mbase do t? ket? qen? e informuar nga i biri i saj >(homoseksual e pedofil) vras?s. Q?llimi i tyre ishte - t? humbnin gjurm?. >Vet? vras?si, disa her? kishte deklaruar se Klaudio mund t? jet? rr?mbyer >dhe vrar? nga magjup?t (rom?t), t? cil?t jetojn? "roullotat", af?r kampit >sportiv. "M? vjen keq, se e kam pasur si mik t? mir?" - thoshte vras?si. E >?ma e tij e kishte ndalur n? rrug? Anila Hoxh?n dhe i kishte th?n?: "Zonj?, >kam shkuar te magjistarja, p?r t? m?suar di?ka p?r fatin e Klaudios dhe ajo >m? ka th?n? se ai mund t? jet? i vrar?, n? zabel" (duke i p?rmendur mu >zabelin, n? t? cilin ishte vrar?). > T? premt?n, pasdite - pak minuta pas or?s 13, cing?rron >"112-t?shi" >i karabinier?ve. Nj? thirrje nga kabina telefonike publike, aty af?r. Nga >kabina, z?ri i vras?sit: - "E kam vrar? un? Klaudion. E kam fshehur n? nj? >grop?, n? zabelin e Arosio-s". Karabinier?t e kan? zgjatur bised?n >telefonike, p?r pak m? shum? se dy minuta, derisa skuadra p?r nd?rhyrje t? >shpejt? ka mb?rritur te kabina, prej ku ka telefonuar vras?si dhe e kan? >kapur, derisa po bisedonte me karabinierin kujdestar. > >Mbas af?r tri or? prind?rit, n? trotoarin para banes?s, marrin lajmin e >zi. >Bab? Samiu b?rtet, jasht? kontrollit: "Ku e kam djalin, ku e kam djalin..." >N?n? Anila, pasi l?shon britma t? paartikulluara (n? gjuh?n shqipe), humbet >dhe m? as nuk han, as nuk pin, as nuk flen. > > Sapo e kishin kapur vras?sin, karabinier?t, bashk? me te kishin >shkuar n? vendin e krimit. Aty e kishin gjetur kufom?n e Klaudios s? >shkret?, t? mbuluar me gjethe e me bari, n? nj? grop?, af?r nj? cungu t? >lart? e t? thar? t? nj? lisi. N? fytyr?n e vog?lueshit jan? v?rejtur gjurm? >dhune, kurse nga autopsia ?sht? v?rtetuar se dhunimi seksual nuk ?sht? >realizuar. Dhe, mu p?r shkak t? refuzimit, vog?lueshi ka humbur jet?n. Vet? >vras?si ka pranuar n? hetuesi, se kur e ka "p?rqafuar" Klaudion, vog?lueshi >ka b?rtitur. Ai ka filluar ta p?rdor dhun?n fizike dhe e ka futur n? zabel. >Meq? Shqiptari i Vog?l nuk ka pranuar n? asnj? m?nyr? "loj?n seksuale" me >nj? homoseksual e pedofil t? "rac?s s? civilizuar europiane", >maniaku-killer, nga friga se ?uni do t? alarmoj? familjen dhe opinionin e >rrethit, e ka mbytur, duke e furur. > Karabinier?t, rreth or?s 16 t? s? premtes s? zez? t? 28 prillit, >ua >kumtojn? prind?rve lajmin e zi, p?r vrasjen mizore t? t? birit, nga fqinji >vras?s, t? mart?n e zez? t? 25 prillit. Me t? d?gjuar lajmin tragjik, Bab? >Samiu, kishte kapur kok?n dhe, pakontrolluesh?m, kishte b?rtitur: "Ku e kam >djalin, ku e kam djalin..." N?n? Anila, poashtu, kishte l?shuar britma n? >gjuh?n shqipe - t? paartikulluara nga d?shmitar?t e pranish?m. P?rve? >v?llait t? Samiut dhe disa t? af?rmve t? tjer?, me t? d?gjuar t? lajmit t? >kobit tragjik, aty ishin mbledhur pothuajse t? gjith? vendasit, t? cil?t - >t? tmerruar nga turpi, i ngushllonin prind?rit dhe t? af?rmit e Klaudios >tet?vje?ar, i cili kishte r?n? viktim? e pedofilis? homoseksuale, n? zem?r >t? Europ?s. Mbase dikush edhe k?t? dukuri, q? merr jet?ra f?mij?sh t? >pafajsh?m, e quan nj? lloj "norme t? civilizimit"?! Anila, prej ?astit, kur >ka marrur lajmin e zi, m? nuk ka ngr?n?, nuk ka pir?, as nuk ka fjetur. T? >shtun?n i ?sht? dh?n? ndihma mjek?sore, por n?na e shkret?, ende spo mund >ta >marr? veten. E ka shum? v?shtir? t? pajtohet me k?t? t? v?rtet?, q? t? >tmerron edhe n? ?nd?rr. Kurr? s'kish paramenduar se f?mija i saj do t? >vritet, n? zem?r t? Europ?s, pse ka refuzuar t? ket? marr?dh?nie seksuale >me >nj? maniak. > >Shteti hesht, kurse vendasit k?rkojn? d?nim me vdekje p?r vras?sin. Nga >mbar? Italia vijn? ngushllime p?r familjen Hoxha dhe akuza p?r organet >shtet?rore, q? k?so ligjesh t? buta po rrezikojn? jet?n e njer?zve t? >pafajsh?m. Ka ngritur z?rin e arsyes edhe hierarkia kishtare. > > ?sht? p?r t'u ?uditur, fakti q? p?rve? deklaratave t? >karabinier?ve >dhe t? hetuesis? e t? ekspert?ve q? po ndri?ojn? realizimin e k?tij krimi, >askush nga institucionet shtet?rore t? Italis?, s? paku deri tash, nuk >?sht? >kujtuar t'i thot? dy fjal? ngushlluese p?r familjen Hoxha, as dy fjal? >gjykimi para opinionit italian. Kur ndodh ndoj krim, shum?fish m? i leht? >n? >krahasim me k?t?, i kryer nga shqiptar?, p?rfaq?sues t? organeve qeveritare >nuk ngurrojn? t? dalin me deklarata se mafioz?t shqiptar? jan? shum? t? >rreziksh?m dhe t? eg?r dhe dijn? t? vrasin edhe pa ndoj motiv, ose p?r >motive shum? t? ulta. Si mund t? mos dyshojm? n? ksenofobin? e aparatit >shtet?ror aktual t? Italis?, ndaj m?rgimtar?ve shqiptar? n? k?t? vend. > Nga ana tjet?r, nga mbar? Italia mb?rrijn? ngush?llime p?r >familjar?t dhe farefisin e f?mij?s s? vrar? nga pedofili-killer. Edhe >vend?sit kan? reaguar shum? ashp?r dhe kan? k?rkuar q? vras?si t? d?nohet >me >vdekje. Z?ra qortues p?r drejt?sin? italiane kan? dalur edhe nga burgjet, >prej nga shum? t? burgosur kan? k?rcnuar, se n?se nuk d?nohet ky vras?s me >vdekje, at?her? do t? likuidohet n? burg, nga t? burgosurit. Ndoshta edhe >kjo mund t? jet? arsyeja, q? emri i tij nuk po publikohet?! T? shtun?n u >kumtua se karabinier?t kan? evakuuar familjen e tij, n? "nj? vend t? >sigurt?", nga frika p?r ndoj hakmarrje nga shqiptar?t. Shum? shoqata >humanitare kan? akuzuar aparatin shtet?ror t? Italis? p?r ligjet penale >shum? t? buta, q? po rrezikojn? gjithnj? e m? shum? lirin?, sigurin? dhe >jet?n e njer?zve. > Edhe hierarkia kishtare katolike ka ngritur z?rin e arsyes, lidhur >me k?t? krim t? papresedan. Kryeipeshk?vi i Dio?ezit t? Milanos - Kardinali >Martini, duke e gjykuar ashp?r krimin mbi Klaudion e vog?l, nd?r t? tjera >ka >th?n?: "Ky delikt ?sht? nj? pesh? e r?nd? mbi nd?rgjegjet tona. Ky gjest i >pashembullt i dhun?s, le t? na shtyj t? promovojm? nj? kultur? t? >respektimit t? jet?s". T? shtun?n, e p?rditshmja e Vatikanit ?L'Osservatore >Romano? ka botuar nj? koment, me titull "T'i mobilizojm? nd?rgjegjet", n? >t? >cilin gjykohet ashp?r krimi mbi vog?lueshin tet?vje?ar - Klaudio Hoxha. N? >k?t? koment, nd?r t? tjera thuhet: "Ky ?sht? nj? delikt tep?r i tmerrsh?m, >i >llahtarsh?m dhe p?rbind?sh, por edhe nj? dram? njer?zore e nj? t? riu, t? >shnd?rruar n? xhelat...t? vigjilojm? t? gjith? dhe t'i mobilizojm? >nd?rgjegjet n? mbrojtje t? jet?s s? njeriut - gjithnj? e m? t? ofenduar, m? >t? shkelur, m? t? injoruar, m? t? mohuar, m? t? vrar?...Njeriu i sot?m ka >nevoj?, mbi t? gjitha, ta zbuloj? kuptimin e jet?s, ka nevoj? t? dashurohet >n? jet?n e vet dhe t? t? tjer?ve, por m? par? duhet t? m?sohet ta njoh? at? >(jet?n), si vler? t? patjet?rsueshme, q? duhet mbrojtur gjithnj? dhe >sidoqoft?". > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From dritanp at earthlink.net Wed Apr 26 16:09:01 2000 From: dritanp at earthlink.net (Dritan Prifti Prifti) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:09:01 -0400 Subject: [ALBSA-Info] Ilir Meta and Fatos Nano visit to Harvard Message-ID: <000b01bfafbb$7fe7b520$81931b3f@oemcomputer> Hi everyone, I do not know all of you, but I assume you would be interested in knowing about the following Albanian event at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, on May 8,2000. Albanian Prime Minister, Mr. Ilir Meta, and Albanian Socialist Party Chairman, Mr. Fatos Nano, have been invited to speak to Kennedy School students and Harvard Community on political and economic developments in Albania and the Balkan. The event will be hosted at the Kennedy School of Government, ARCO FORUM, Littauer Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. The date of the event has been confirmed to be May 8, 2000 and the time will be 6PM. Attendance is free and open to the public. I would encourage all of you to attend the event. It will offer an opportunity for questions and answers, as well as an informal exchange of ideas. This visit is another effort on the part of the governemnt of Albania to make Albania known to the international community, make the regional issues better understood by the Harvard community, and gather further support for regional stability, peace and reconstruction. Opinions will be offered on the future status of Kosovo, plans for national reconciliation, stability pact for the Balkans, etc. I hope you will all be able to attend and support the goal of making Albania and its issues more known to the area. I am attaching a flier which you can post (where you feel is appropriate) for other Albanians to note the event. You may also check the daily events of Kennedy School for further information. Sorry for any inconveniences caused. Best, DRITAN PRIFTI -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed -------------- next part -------------- [ The following attachment was DELETED when this message was saved: ] [ A Application/MSWORD (Name="NANO-META reklame per pjesemarrje.doc") ]