Rejection, Lumir Abdixhiku writes that rejection towards the political system in Kosovo accumulated for years, and it was well-known that someday it would outburst. This sadness could have been felt everywhere, from family conversations to the reporting of the broadcasters on migration, corruption, luxury and political irresponsibility. “This could be felt at a cafeteria, among friends, in the streets, so everywhere. It could have been easily felt by anyone who spent a single night in Pristina during the last three or four years,” he writes highlighting also unemployment in Kosovo.
“Kosovo, this state initiated seven years ago full of hope and optimism, soon lacked both…Rejection had to outburst, this time for Jablanovic and Trepca, next time for some other reason. Therefore over 30000 citizens demonstrated this rejection last week. And the protest would have been perfect if it remained (as it actually started,) a protest of the citizens and not of the parties. If thousands of citizens protested calmly each day, without party requests, without hysteric calls that scare the human kind, the evolving change that we have been requesting for a long time, would happen. It would have been a clearer message that would necessarily bring obedience. And just for the curiosity of party organizers, any dissatisfaction with the government would lead to their benefit. There would have not been any other way, it is surprising how they cannot understand this,” writes Abdixhiku. He adds that by politicizing the protest, the parties were unfortunately not aiming fulfillment of the protesters’ requests but fulfillment of their intentions to replace some other people like them. “I cannot accept this. Replacement should not happen in the streets,” he writes noting that the governing parties have more criminal and hooligan experience to use the same means the next day that they lose power.
He further criticizes the political organizers of the protest “for using a pathetic excuse of the mobile grids set by the police, which allegedly divided them from “Skenderbeu” monument. We are all losers in this chaos of violence and fire; there cannot be winners among us. Sequences of the second protest were sad, painful, and scary leaving very little space for hope.”
Dismissal of a fascist like Jablanovic should happen without even discussing the issue, if there was a little order and dignity in this country. Government and the Prime Minister should not be forgiven for this. The thing is that when you allow Jablanovic to insult and deny victims of the war, you encourage Maric to communicate from the Ministry without symbols, Stojanivic to call Kosovo “Serbia”, Nikolic to set a checkpoint in Brezovica… Therefore lack of his dismissal is a sufficient reason to protest. Therefore it is essential to hear the voice of Kosovo citizens, to set (even though with a delay) an example of non-tolerance towards the disgusting attacks of the most basic values of our new Republic.”
Abdixhiku stresses that he has written about the Trepca issue recently and adds that there is no reason to protest for this issue unless if someone wants to use every single populist and misinformed issue in Kosovo for a chaos.
