Prime Minister Edi Rama, during a meeting with the Albanian Diaspora in Detroit, United States, also spoke about the decision of the Special Court in The Hague against the former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Rama said he could not avoid this issue during his address to the Albanian community, describing the situation as a "living death" and a moment of national helplessness.
The Prime Minister further raised his concern about what he described as the "burial alive" of the four former KLA leaders, saying that the decision, according to him, does not find support among the people.
"Democracy is a disagreement that excludes hatred, a confrontation that implies respect, and a war where the end does not justify any means. This is a longer path, because it is not enough just to be free to have a society where democracy works for everyone."
How rarely have I struggled as much as this time, arranging the words of a speech, because I had no way of avoiding what happened in The Hague, but I also couldn't find a way to approach that big, heavy stone, in front of which all the words look the same as in a tomb. A tomb for the living, a burial of living people and a national powerlessness in the face of an international agreement.
There is a saying that is often repeated to us: respect the court's decision. They must be respected, the rule of law, the democratic world functions with respect for decisions. We do not discuss this, but not the court's decision, but even death itself is silently accepted only by the one who dies.
The problem is not not respecting this decision, but how to refuse the burial of 4 people alive in the name of the people, where the people themselves do not find themselves anywhere in that decision, not only in a foreign language, but alienated from justice.
"Albania cannot do anything more than stand by Kosovo, but it would still refuse to bury those 4 men alive. And I believe that the forced and unquestionable respect for that decision does not in any way prevent the rejection of that burial as a fatality without appeal," Rama said.
