Columnist Enver Robelli writes today that there is an insincere tendency on the part of the late Kosovo president Ibrahim Rugova’s family to describe his son and former MP, Uke Rugova, as a victim of a conspiracy that led to him being detained on a number of charges. A while ago, his sister and the future MP from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Teuta Rugova, even accused her party of not being adequately engaged in her brother’s case whereas just recently, the oldest of the siblings, Mendim, spoke to the media describing his younger brother, Uke, as a victim.

While it is understandable that the Rugova family would sympathise and support Uke, it is unserious to seek responsibility or blame for his arrest beyond the circles that he socialized with, considers Robelli. Democratic League of Kosovo is not indebted to Rugova family and would in fact be scandalous if it chose to interfere in a case that is being prosecuted by justice, the columnist adds. At the same time, it is quite obvious that even the general public has no sympathies for Uke because he himself created an image of a person associated with ‘underground’. “One cannot ask for solidarity for someone being investigated for organised crime by referring to one’s father”, writes Robelli.

Kosovo aims to become a society with democratic order and republican state order. It most definitely is not a monarchy and Uke Rugova is no crown prince. Teuta Rugova is also no crown princess and although she received thousands of ‘emotional’ votes because of her late father, she has no political experience and she should behave very cautiously in the political scene and not repeat the example of her brother who will be remembered for allegations of being involved in a number of criminal acts and as an MP who never once said anything in the Assembly’s stand.