FLASH
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Zamir Dule managed to break up this 'coracy' that was created not only in the police but in all the state institutions and he paid for it with an unprecedented violence exercised by the secret service of that time, Bashkim Gazidede's SHIK by order directly from the president of that time Sali Berisha.
Journalist Zamir Dule died at the age of 55. He breathed his last in one of Tirana's hospitals, thus closing the chapter of a troubled and 'locked' life within the four walls of his house in Miras of Korça, one of the most brilliant chronicle journalists in Albania.
He put an end to the journalist's profession early, not because of his fault, but because the entire scandal of the time, the entire dictatorship of the time was unloaded on him. After Zamir Dule started journalism, a profession which unfortunately for him was neither at the right time nor at the right place, precisely in the darkest post-communist period, under the regime of Sali Berisha, the biggest disappointment and the most precedent dangerous in Albanian politics.
I had the good fortune to know him, to be a colleague with Zamir Dule for a short time at the newspaper "Koha Jonë" in the first years of post-communism. It was a different chronic reporter. Nikollë Lesi, the leader of this newspaper, at that time the biggest newspaper and at the same time the real opposition in Albania, had apparently seen this, when he pulled Zamir from Korça where he was a correspondent in the Tirana editorial office.
Extremely scrupulous in finding the news, he was always looking for the 'strange' news as we jokingly considered it when we had lunch at the former restaurant "Durrësi" which was close to the editorial office of that time. I am talking about the time when we worked in the same editorial office.
It did not mix with chronic news that had anything to do with politics or with political people inside, including work in the court or the prosecutor's office. He was more interested in the terrain, the police news, mainly the crime against the person or other elements that made his news short but brilliant, full of metaphors that attracted endless readers.
He was so out of politics that the news that had anything to do with him, in the conditions of deep sincerity and endless humor with his colleagues, he "exchanged" in the ratio of 3 to 1 with the news that only he liked, that only he knew how to he did them well, remaining unforgettable and with these moments of 'negotiation' between colleagues.
But his pen hit hard, he sought the news where it was impossible, touching quite a few 'wires' of the state segments of the then regime of Berisha, at a time when it was the greatest achievement for a journalist if he took a weekly 'brushed' report on crime in the country. Nothing was reported, everything was hermetic, so if you compare the criminal events in the country at that time, they came out almost the same as during the time of Enver Hoxha. Everything was drowned, nothing was reported.
Zamir Dule managed to break up this 'coracy' that was created not only in the police but in all the state institutions and he paid for it with an unprecedented violence exercised by the secret service of that time, Bashkim Gazidede's SHIK by order directly from the president of that time Sali Berisha.
On March 3, 1997, the editorial office of the newspaper "Koha Jonë" was burned down by order of Berisha and Gazideda. Journalist Zamir Dule also lived inside the editorial office of the biggest newspaper of the time. Journalists weren't millionaires then, they were almost in the same lifestyle. They had not yet started the 'coaches' in function of enrichment or the 'compromises' with the regime and its structures, which were made under the guise of 'independent journalism'.
The only wealth of journalists at that time was the idealism and desire for this difficult profession and not the command news journalist and 'tinged' with favors, so Zamir Dule lived inside the newsroom. Like most other journalists, who lived through the newsroom or 'populated' the dormitories, or an entrance for many journalists to share the rent. Despite the fact that some of them have become millionaires today. The rest have remained salaried, so they are not 'in tune with the times'.
The SHIK of Berisha and Gazideda 'targeted' after the burning of the editorial office of the Koha Jonë newspaper, precisely the journalist Zamir Dulen, whom they tortured and massacred, hitting him wherever they could, starting from the editorial office to the detention cells at the police station , to massacre him further in the "Mountain with Holes" and leave him to die there.
Fate saved him to live until yesterday, but he was no longer the journalist Zamir Dule, he was alienated, he was afraid and was waiting from moment to moment for SHIK people to enter the apartment. He lived since 1997 locked in his house in Miras of Korça, where the only contact with the world was books.
He lived in poverty, with only a special pension granted by the government of Fatos Nano, as an appreciation for his short but profound contribution to journalism, but which was never enough to lead a normal life in the conditions of abnormality. to put some memories on paper about his work, after he was violently hit by Berisha's regime in exactly what he knew how to do best: Journalism and books. Remaining only in the publication of one book, the one before 1997 when he was massacred by Berisha's regime, the book "Monster of Tropoja".
And it was not the first case of the massacre of journalist Zamir Dule. A full year before Dule was irretrievably raped, "Dita Informacion" journalist Bardhok Lala was kidnapped and massacred. From the same structure, the SHIK of Gazedede and Berisha, who kidnapped him from the "Dollari" in front of the Central Bank of Albania, while the journalist Lala was performing his duty, the reflection of the only protest of the then socialist opposition during Berisha's regime in the square "Skenderbej", on May 28, 1996, just two days after the theft of the vote by Berisha, in the elections of May 26 of this year.
Journalist Lala was kidnapped and sent to police station 2, today the police department of Tirana, they beat him, massacred him and sent him to the edge of Tirana's artificial lake, rolling him to die in the water. The fate of the journalist Lala was a family that found him half dead, informed the editors who sent him first privately to Tirana, where his friends treated him temporarily and then abroad, in Germany.
But mother and journalist Bardhok Lala has not returned to journalism since that time, he practices another profession now, that of caring for people, in medicine. Although he remembers journalism with nostalgia, the dream that was cut in the middle and that hit him from its beginnings.
The violence of Berisha and the organs of violence he commanded was also unleashed on other journalists, from the current Prime Minister Edi Rama who was beaten and left for dead in Tirana, to the beating and rape of Zenepe Luka, Erion Braçe and journalists others local and foreign, whose images captured the media of the whole world at that time. Even giving Berisha the highest 'title': 'One of the 10 biggest enemies of the press in the world'.
One could say that it has changed. Not at all. Just go to the google search engine and see the first press conference that Berisha held as soon as he came to power as prime minister in 2005, and you will see how one of the most popular journalists, publishers even, was blocked while asked the question. Out of fear, if nothing else, he left the press conference and ran away without saying a word for many minutes. A signal that you should be careful with Berisha.
There are many journalists who remember those terrible times after 1997, when Berisha and why he was in the opposition had all his anger with the media. When half of the conference hall on the second floor of the PD headquarters was occupied by bodyguards and former police officers, when the questions were identified, the name and the media it represents were then conveyed through the loudspeaker from the window to the crowd outside cheering Berisha. When journalists were insulted and tortured in front of the PD headquarters, when many journalists left the country, for the sole reason that they "read" a few days before the failed coup of September 14, 1998, Berisha's statement that a person would be killed to topple Nano's regime, and three days later former December leader Azem Hajdari is killed.
As we remember all these serious events, on this sad day for Albanian journalism with the death of the brilliant journalist Zamir Dule, we remember the terrible situation he had in the media meetings with Berisha in the 8 years of his government. Until the threats to life and in their announcement of the coup, the labeling and threats that have continued even now that he is under house arrest. And I try to criticize the behavior of the socialist government and Prime Minister Edi Rama with the media.
This high sensitivity is to be welcomed, and I am against all those who label any journalist who reacts as a 'glass journalist' who breaks with a look at the one in front of him, or changes his mood with a message coming from the boss, of the party or of the business associated with the party, to create a 'situation'. It is important that journalists are not harmed in their work, to do their job well without even facing a frown. One must strive for the best. After all, many of the journalists in their beginnings faced prison, beatings and massacres, tried punches, kicks and sticks on their bodies, facing the dilemma of leaving this profession. And many left. But times change, and for the better, and for this reason we are hopeful that journalism will not have any obstacles from external factors to do its work. From within journalism, it's worth discussing.
But yesterday was a sad day, journalism has lost Zamir Dule, the brilliant journalist of the chronicle, who never wrote: "I say this happened" and "it happened as I say". He had other phrases at that time, like many others, starting with the words 'I think', 'I believe', 'according to'... and other sacred terms of journalism, which were associated with facts. Without ever getting the 'exclusivity' of absolute truth.
May the troubled, battered and abused soul of Zamir Dula rest in peace. As an appeal to all journalists and those who are in front of them, to each do their work, without interacting violently with each other, but also without taking revenge on each other.
Apparently, the 'curse' of Zamir Dules, who remained locked up at home for 24 years in a row until the end of his life, as a result of the trauma caused by the macabre violence perpetrated by Berisha's SHIK, has taken over Sali Berisha as well. , who has been under house arrest in his palace since December. And who risks staying locked up for a long time, at home or in a cell, showing that there is also a God above who sees. Apart from the hope that the new justice will see his atrocities in detail.
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