According to Vangjeli, there is an unfortunate axiom that haunts the Albanian nation like a curse: “What we manage to win with blood, with pain, with extraordinary sacrifices in war, we lose with criminal recklessness in peace. What was won 27 years ago over the sky and land of Kosovo, so that the war was won, a battle was lost last week in The Hague.”
The analyst emphasized that this moment goes far beyond the concrete event and highlights a dramatic difference with the northern neighbors.
“If we in Albania, in Tirana or in Pristina continue to talk about individuals, about the relations between them, about their relations with the government, the Serbs, on the contrary, have an institutional continuity, they have an institutional memory towards their goal and strategic objective“, said Vangjeli.
Vangjeli pointed out that the main political figures in Pristina, during the last 10-15 years, have often gone further than the Hague judges in mutual accusations.
“If you listen to the main political figures at least in these last 10-15 years in Prishtina, what they have said about each other and in relation to what they have done, I doubt that one or the other has done, they have been many times more lenient than the judges, only that they have not pronounced their sentence. They also spoke on behalf of Kosovo, but they made the same accusations that the judges ratified.” said Vangjeli.
According to him, this is a much more important moment of reflection than the decision itself.
“And this is a moment, a moment of reflection, I believe many times greater to show us what is not going well between us, what is going wrong between us and I believe it is one and only one: The terrible and criminal blood towards power”. further emphasized.
Vangjeli concluded by saying that the necessary reflection must go beyond individuals and affect the collective: “This should, I believe, be our reflection that goes far beyond even the extremely painful event of transformation that an almost mysterious alchemy transformed those men, the commanders and heroes of a war, into convicts, into criminal offenders..”
