That straw that breaks the camel's Indignation The complexity of things often gives rise to personal interpretations and allows us to consider things from different points of view. Who has an interest to exploit and manipulate public opinion can obviously make the most of the complex and unclear.
Without any pretense of objectivity I try to reconstruct what happened here Friday in Tirana. From my point of view, trying to tell through the views of people and trying not to give personal interpretation to the facts.
Three dead. Death is something that does not allow for relativism. A dying life is a life that goes out.
But first things first. Twenty days ago 'Albania's Top Channel television channel aired a movie recorded with hidden cameras that took over the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Energy, Ilir Meta, who bargained with the company the share of electricity tangent that he would have received in exchange for granting the contract.
To make clear the circumstances is there to tell some background. In Albania there are three parties in parliament. The Democratic Party of Sali Berisha, who has a majority, the opposition Socialist Party, Edi Rama, and then the LSI, the Socialist Movement for Integration, Ilir Meta, a socialist in the past but incredibly Berisha coalition after the elections of 2009 allowing the government to obtain a solid majority in parliament. Since that time the Socialist Party began boycotting parliament, recriminations on the regularity of the electoral count. In fact, the Socialists have not been in parliament for several months, indicating strikes and protests of any kind in the Albanian capital, of which Rama is the mayor.
The video aired by the Albanian broadcaster was not a bolt from the blue, but it simply highlights what has long been clear to all Albanian citizens and beyond. The European Commission, rejecting the candidacy of the country Eagles for joining the Union, among other things called for greater transparency in politics and the elimination of corruption among the ruling class.
Complain true or political manipulation?
The widespread loss of confidence in the political class has done that in the days before the event for Friday, January 21 nobody had given too much credit to the authenticity of the intentions of the participants. To understand: Many of the protesters were recruited and did not participate voluntarily.
This does not mean that all those who protested were there only to interests other than protest. The facts show more: the absence of political symbols and the tenacity with which the protesters said the police show that for many participants the protest on Friday was more than just a trip to Tirana with the buses paid for by the party.
injury or death premeditated?
At the end of the day of fire Prime Minister Berisha, the main target of the protest, has been careful to point out that it was the violence of the demonstrators to provoke the deaths, perhaps the shots were even parties in the ranks of demonstrators. According to Berisha even deaths have been caused intentionally to put in a bad light on the violence of government repression of its opponents.
The next day, a video of the TV "News 24" show as one of the dead was hit by gunfire from an officer of the Republican Guard, which fired on the unarmed crowd.
brink of civil war?
What are the consequences of this protest? It will be unnecessary deaths of these people? Will the two parties to interact peacefully as requested by the European Union? It 'really as a real risk of civil war? All these questions have not yet a clear answer.
What is certain is that Berisha has called a "counter-demonstration" on Wednesday, the opposition has responded with another rally planned for Friday, January 28.
E 'the turning point for Albania or is it just a struggle for those in power?
The facts will answer all these questions. Meanwhile, in Tirana, the rain falls and the silence of waiting makes this pleasant Sunday afternoon.