Snow cannot whiten misery in Bulqize

11/02/2012 00:00

A thick snow has covered Bulqize with a polar cold. It has also covered
the mountains of chrome stocks, where most of the residents dig during
the year for their survival. Such storms are not rare for this area,
which is noted for a wild weather.

But this winter is twice dangerous for the Bulqize residents. They are isolated and without food. The strikes and protests that followed for several months during summer, followed with no wages by the owners, have made them face this winter without food reserves. The Fushe-Bulqize commune says that the only means of living in the area are the mines.

“The economic crisis has gone even deeper here. The mining crisis has damaged the economic situation of many residents. Most of them live by social assistance”, declared the secretary of the Fushe-Bulqize commune, Asllan Dagja.

Many of the isolated owners have only one minimarket where they buy the food, but this shop is to the brink of failure, since most of them have no money to pay the items they have written down on tabs.

In this situation, with the weather as the common enemy for everyone, the shop owner says that he will continue giving food to the residents, hoping that they will pay him when they get the money. But among these presidents, are some who say that their houses are falling to pieces.

This is one of the areas where the Emergency Headquarters is sending helicopters that carry more cameramen than food. The road to the northeastern areas is very difficult, but the drivers keep going, even without tire chains and even by transporting passengers. There are no police agents in the area to control them.

In these conditions, the Emergency Headquarters, part of which is the Interior Minister and the General Chief of the Police, have not given additional police forces for the circulation in the northern areas. In temperatures -11 C, the asphalt has been very generous for not having created new victims.

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