I won’t shut up because you don’t have any right to appropriate the history of the Albanian families who suffered under the dictatorship.
Their history isn’t told by showing the methods of persecution, the iron torturing tools, or the torn clothes of those who were interrogated hanging on the walls.
Their history cannot be told through their persecutors. The history that you are curating underneath your government’s offices is not the history of the people persecuted during the communist dictatorship.
I won’t shut up because you don’t have the right to sell the media a history that you are fabricating in a total lack of transparency, without any contribution of those who suffered or any genuine scientific studies.
No, the show that you have put up isn’t worth selling as the painful history of thousands of Albanians, nor to be treated as the next concession.
I won’t shut up because I cannot accept that after 25 years, I hear you articulating the expression “suffering together and guilty together” once again in the same way “in order to bashkekungoj in our most painful wounds.”
No! We didn’t suffer together, we’re absolutely not guilty together, and I will never bashkekungojme our most painful wounds.
I won’t shut up, because against the images projected on large screens that you keep underneath your feet, I choose the simple words that come from the memory of my mother.
Against the citations picked here and there from De Gaulle, Horace, Primo Levi and others, I choose the saying of the Albanian martyrs before the firing squad: “I forgive all those who at any time have done me harm.”
I won’t shut up because my humble voice has to be heard, even if I don’t have the possibility to open the news broadcasts of the Albanian television channels. Because I feel the duty to write a few words for those to whom I owe so much, so that their spirit is not disturbed, even now that they’re no longer on this world.
“Shut up!” is such a lowly expression for a prime minister. Whether its your own or taken from someone else, know that it is an expression that the enemies of free speech and different ideas have often used. Nonetheless, I will not shut up.
With the deepest humility toward all those persecuted by the communist regime and the martyrs that gave their lives in the dark cells next to what you nowadays call “art,” with the deepest humility to speak in the name of some of them, I say to you that this initiative, no matter its reason, has nothing in common with respect and dignity for the victims of the communist dictatorship.
I see the promotion of these types of enterprises as dangerous attempts to intentionally change the true past and without any contribution for the fraternal future of the Albanians and the prosperity of this country.
