FLASH
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For 18 days, a protest that began quietly and on a small scale over environmental issues has captured the attention of major international media outlets, eclipsing events of global importance and shaking the entire old political system in the country to its foundations.
While it was initially ignored by the authorities and parties, who predicted its rapid extinction, Albanian youth is demonstrating a resistance that has exceeded all expectations.
According to detailed analysis by security expert Ilir Kulla, this civic movement is being massively fueled precisely by the arrogance and immaturity of institutions.
Speaking on the show "Të Pashoj" on the 'Pamflet' YouTube channel, Kulla said that ignoring demands and lack of communication have caused indignation to grow. Kulla added that Rama's dismissive approach and statements of disregard, even when half a million people gather in the square, remind him of Berisha in 1997, shortly before the country was engulfed in unrest.
Kulla added that although without any acts of violence, without injuries and without fires, this revolt has managed to highlight the decay of the social system and the rottenness in justice, in parallel with the actions of special justice. It is reported that when the youth comes out, every independent mind is forced to listen. For the expert, numbers are irrelevant in the face of the energy and insistence of citizens. He emphasized that the attempts of political parties to infiltrate or to divide this movement have failed, as the civic spirit is not allowing old agendas to be served.
Excerpt from the interview:
-Even tonight we will start with the headline news of every day that has accompanied us for 18 days in a row. Protests are already taking place in the square on the 18th day against the government and Edi Rama, but also more broadly against the entire old political establishment. To discuss this but not only, I am pleased to have Ilir Kulla, a security expert, back in the studio. Good evening, welcome. That last interview together went more than viral with the cake people, a find on your part. However, 18 days of protest, there is a perception in the last few days since the attempt to march towards Rinas, that this protest is fading, that it is trying to be divided, that it no longer has the effect of the first days. Is this a wrong perception? How does the truth stand in your eyes on the 18th day of the protest?
Ilir Kulla: Look, the truth has a beautiful nature because the truth depends on the perspective you see it from. So every perspective you see it from is true, but you have to see who sees it, how they explain it and from which perspective they see it. The history of this protest is simple. It started as a very small protest in Zall-Herr, in Zgërdhesh, continued with an even smaller protest at the Tirana Police Department, faced with the ignoring of political parties, authorities and others. Even some of their public spokespeople went out on public outings and said, "no, this will end, as soon as Big Brother starts, the beach starts" and others.
And meanwhile, this protest, despite the fact that there are 58 conflicts in the world, two of which are at their peak and are in everyone's attention, since the protests in France, Iran and Ukraine, this protest has been broadcast and continues to be broadcast live by the most important world media, with which the Prime Minister of Albania himself communicated in a press conference. So if you remember the first time, I told you that this protest is being fed by the arrogance and, let's say, the political immaturity of that part of politics that should have responded to the protest and come into contact with the protest, even indirectly through the diplomatic corps in Tirana.
So I am convinced that if on the third day of the protest the prime minister... that Berisha took a turn after a week when he realized that even today he had gathered some people, but there were 20 people in a hall... if on the third or fourth day the prime minister would have played one of those methodologies that he has played in the past, that is, of entering, communicating with the crowd and not ignoring them, and even more so not insulting them by saying: "No matter how many there are 5,000, 10,000, even 500,000, I will not sit there and I will not turn my head there". Which is very similar to Berisha's expression in '97 when the riots in Lushnje started, which he said in English "I will never retreat, never, never" so to the BBC. And three or four months later he would go and ask the diplomats "oh my God, talk to the socialists, don't kill me, I will take my family out" and others. Why? They are movies that we have seen, that is.
So, I don't know how big the protest is or how much because, I have a clear stance, the youth of Albania has come out there and when the youth of Albania comes out there is no voice or intellectual ear or independent mind that will not listen to them, or at least try to understand them. Then how much I support them or not is relative. Because there are things there, for example, that I cannot support because they do not constitute my conviction. But people have come out there anyway. And it is a protest that was born for an environmental reason, but then the pus burst in the justice system, in the prosecutor's office, that is, and all the filth that society has came out, the things that we have discussed here dozens of times. And as such, this protest has received the attention of the whole world.
But keep in mind, it is a protest that has no injuries, no deaths, no fires, no surprises. And yet it has the attention of the whole world. Which means, has this protest failed? No, on the contrary. This protest, accompanied by all the activity of the Albanian justice bodies in recent days, namely the special justice, is shaking the entire political system to its foundations. So if Berisha tried for months every Monday to hold speeches and others, and no more than 100 people gathered in the square in front of the prime minister's office. If he just took the chairs and sat there and others and no people gathered, this is where the citizens came out. The youth came out.
And it doesn't matter if the amount is a little bigger, a little smaller, what's important is that it has come out, continues, is energetic, insists and above all, despite all the efforts that are natural that political parties would be forced to seek to infiltrate or certain interest groups and it is natural that this would happen... But this protest has exceeded everyone's expectations. And it continues. And it will continue. So if, you rightly said that my expression about the cake people despite... I'm sorry if someone commented as if it was anti-northern or not, on the contrary. In the suburbs of Tirana, many people from the south live, I have my cousins, I am originally from Korçë and there is no harm in it because it shows the inequality that our society has created and it is one of the problems that we have created, and here I am including myself in the problem.
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