Everyone against blood feuds

“67 families have isolated themselves because of the blood feud. 39 in Shkoder, 9 in Malesi e Madhe, 13 in Kukes, 4 in Lezhe, 1 in Tirana, 1 in Durres. There are 135 people isolated, 33 of which are children and don’t go to school. 23 of them only in the Shkoder district”, Ndoka declared.

This phenomenon has spread in other cities and has nothing to do with the Kanun, to which it is often related, because the police says that now even the women are isolating themselves.

The Ombudsman declared that no one should stay silent for this social wound, on behalf of the image, and everyone must take its own responsibilities.

“We should not feel ashamed from the negative phenomena among us, which we allow to grow with our silence. For a European Albania, for an Albania of values, and a democratic Albania it is a shame to stay silent on this phenomenon, and this was the main reason why we wanted to hold a meeting where we could talk with each other about what we can do together. I know that it is difficult and it will be a long way, but we have to end blood feuds once and for all”, declared the ombudsman, Igli Totozani.

The former Albanian President, Alfred Moisiu, declared that everyone agrees that this wound must disappear, but few are those who act, even why they know that this is up to the Albanians and no one else.

“There’s something wrong here that the Albanians must identify and fix by themselves. We thank our foreign friends for the assistance and advises, but we are the ones who should try to resolve this”, Moisiu declared.

One of the most important Albanian actresses, Tinka Kurti, joined this meeting together with directors Lazer Filipi, Vladimir Prifti, Merkur Bozgo, Petrit Malaj and Sokol Angjeli. Tinka Kurti underlined that women must play a great role against this phenomenon.

“The woman is able to stop them, even by going between them with a cradle”, Kurti declared.

Lazer Filipi reminded an ancient legal tradition of the Shkoder area, and asked everyone to contribute for ending this criminal phenomenon that has nothing to do with Kanun.

Movie Director Vladimir Prifti declared that the treatment of the blood feud topic by the artists is a worthy contribution that is detached from the real life. Blood feud is one of this reality that should be in focus.

Journalist and leader of the Civil Alternative, Mentor Kikia, underlined that one of the conclusions of this meeting is to organize a civil coalition to publicly report the blood feud crimes.

“We will establish a coalition with the ombudsman, the civil society organizations and the media for reporting every element that is related with the blood feud and isolation. If a crime happens somewhere based on blood feud, we should not stop only with the fact, but we must turn it into a matter, a motive of our protest and our civil reaction, so that we can make the civil structures see their responsibilities.  We must take any possible information that is related with the isolated children and turn it into a public matter, rising up this way the civil conscience and make the state accountant”, Kikia declared.

According to the organizers, this meeting will be followed by other intensified movements that will make the state institutions act, especially the justice institutions, in order to investigate the cases of isolated families.

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