FLASH
Shkruar nga Frrok Çupi
They gather together like little crows and wait for Saliu to wave the national flag. Then they open fire on the national symbol.
All the cameras lined up as if they were going to hear the miracle. Sali Berisha left the meeting with the right-wing Europeans 'with a softened back', as the media said. This was not the case. He promised that there would be no more fires in the city, but it seemed that he was betraying himself.
Just like 29 years ago.
It was March then. Now a few days before March, the end of February. That's the only difference.
It was 1997. The president and government of Albania were supposedly trying to put it behind them. This is the year 2026 when the same leaders of March 1997 are trying to pull from the depths that year full of horrors, graves, and threats that the north would extinguish the south.
It's been a terrible year. Not the year, but the people of that leadership.
Around mid-March, the President of the Republic instructed the secret service and his militants to spread the fear that 'Vlora is coming to kill me in the presidency!'. I was in Vlora the whole time. No one said or thought about marching towards Tirana to capture the president alive. The boys of Vlora were wary that 'the enemy is coming' from the sea or from the Vjosa. They were already distributing food aid and medicine for the needs of the citizens who had been besieged to death by the Albanian leader.
The two fighter jets loaded with chemical weapons to mass-exterminate the people of the South of the country had escaped without dropping a single weapon. This reassured the people.
Were there other planes to be sent? There were other planes, but there were no more scoundrels, neither the president, nor the government, nor the gangsters around them.
There was only fear present wherever there were perpetrators of the murder of half the nation. Armed militants had gathered around Berisha at the president's headquarters, led by another Saliu who is still under attack by the former president.
Interesting, how young the evil remains, it seems as if it is always only three years old. Those who terrorized then, they terrorize today. They have only renewed the Fire Group. Children and teenagers, poorly paid for a night in the pub, gather under the masked beards of deputies. They gather together like little crows and wait for Saliu to wave the national flag. Then they open fire on the symbol of the nation.
Completely the same as back then.
Only then had they gathered at the president's headquarters. The president himself carried two automatic weapons. One for the people of Vlora, the other for the people of Tropojë, if they betrayed him. Fear consumed him. Even the militants who had filled the headquarters were consumed by hunger and the need for toilets. When the work was finished, the entire yard and offices had to be washed with detergents, it took three months for the strong smell to disappear.
At that moment, the internationals landed in Tirana. An Austrian, the Chancellor himself, took over as caretaker of the country. 7,000 soldiers would arrive from multinational forces. The president had agreed to leave the country. The helicopter was waiting for him at the old stadium.
History repeated today.
Europe landed yesterday with a bunch of officials, to talk to the same president, now a defendant in the special court for major corruption and undermining democracy. They also came to talk about whether he will stop the war or has a proposal for a helicopter. A few days ago it was the political director of the European Parliament, McAllister, who had said that he 'does not know' the president of 1997.
It seemed like they were talking about ghosts: How could you meet in 2026 the same president from 1997. 29 years old. The same as then, with a gun in his hand. Even the observer sent by the EP, Mr. Schieder, also Austrian. He told Berisha to lay down his weapons and not burn the city.
Those who came yesterday were said to be fact-gatherers. They are not weapons-gatherers either. But some people from Europe, who should have been as many as possible, so that Berisha would not hesitate to say 'there were no witnesses'.
They told him, 'Keep your head down and don't terrorize the people in the middle of Europe.'
They also whispered something 'confidential' in his ear.
How could they say 'do you need a helicopter?'. Now they can't carry him because he is a defendant before the court. But Berisha appeared exactly like he did on the night of the helicopter, March 1997. He said that 'he will not drop bombs in the middle of the city anymore'.
Yes, do you believe it?
Even then, he begged the lilac tree to 'stay wise', just leave him here. Some naive politicians came to his rescue. As soon as they got him off the helicopter, he took the Kalashnikov. Not the Kalashnikov, but the Guard tanks a year later, 1998. He even threatened America to 'burn down the embassy and the ambassador!'. In fact, he tried.
Let's see what he will attempt in the uprising on Saturday! Surely fire on the city again.
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