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January 21, that day and after: The protest that killed the protest

2026-01-21 09:17:54Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ADRIAN THANO

What did Sali Berisha do on January 21?

Faced with a civil protest, he treated the state like a village tower. He closed it, he armored it, he used it as a weapon. He declared the citizen of his country an enemy.

But it didn't just take four innocent lives. This is a shocking crime, but the worst of January 21st is elsewhere.

That day, the belief that after '90, protest was an inviolable right that was protected by the state was killed. This belief was killed by the very person who seeks the medal of "the leader of the revolution" from history.

The bullets of January 21st bled the idea that change can come "from below," from the ordinary citizen, without fear of punishment. This is the heart of democracy.

This heart was shot by the heart doctor, who calls himself the "chief democrat".

He did it right there, where today he goes to protest himself. Where he cries for the missing crowd. Where he seeks support against the drug state from the same people he spoke to with a gun. He goes and steps on the slabs, where four innocent people lost their lives.

If this is called politics, this country should never have politicians.

Because it is truly a moral impudence that is shocking. It is a desecration of pain, a minimal lack of respect for life. When it comes from a doctor, it is also an unprecedented subversion of all human ethics.

That's why the square doesn't respond to you today.

Not because there is no anger. Not because we have been lied to by narco-propaganda. The square does not respond to you because you, with bullets and then with endless lies, transformed the idea of ??protest into a national trauma. It does not respond to you because it has the memory of blood.

What did Edi Rama do after January 21?

On January 21, Edi Rama was on the side of the protest. He was its political voice. At that moment, he represented the hope that the corruption of Meta's video would be punished and that the state would be forced to bear responsibility.

But what happened next? The one who built part of his power on January 21st, chose to govern precisely with Ilir Meta. With the figure who was symbolically and politically linked to the cause of that protest. The video that ignited civic anger became a political bargaining chip.

Thus, the protest lost the last moral support it had. Berisha killed it, Rama emptied it of meaning.

This was the first breach of trust. It didn't stop there. Over the years, the disappointment deepened, became systemic. Corruption went unpunished, expanded, and became institutionalized. We reached the point where the 700,000 euros in the January 21 video are now less than the bottles of wine in her husband's cellar.

The former opposition leader, now prime minister, is asking for "patience," meaning more mandates from the same people whose hope has been stolen, whom the former prime minister, now opposition leader, is asking for in the streets.

When they don't get the answers they expect, they call the people apathetic or lazy.

They can continue to stay in a system that they have monopolized and built themselves on blood and corruption. But they have lost the Albania of faith. And that of critical thought.

This Albania votes today "with suitcases". Border points, ports, airports, are its squares of revolt. Escape! The massive escape is its protest. This protest is stronger than speeches and tribunes. It is not apathy. It is not servility, no, no.

It is a complete lack of hope and faith. It is a clear rejection by a people who were killed on January 21st and betrayed after January 21st.

This people are speaking the last language they have left./Published in DITA


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