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The mass murders, the bells that rang in Belgrade require ears

2023-05-09 17:50:05Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ÇAPAJEV GJOKUTAJ
The mass murders, the bells that rang in Belgrade require ears
Chapajev Gjokutaj

In the span of 48 hours, Belgrade became the scene of two mass murders. The first happened in a school in the Serbian capital, the second in 2-3 villages near it. In the first, a 13-year-old student killed 7 classmates plus the school guard, in the second, a 21-year-old killed 8 people, driving up and down, riding in a car, as if he were on a safari game of macabre proportions. . Two mass murders in two days, 15 dead and 21 injured, 3-4 of them in serious condition.

These successive crimes became the subject of the media and social networks in our country. In addition to the submissions with an objective approach and humane predisposition, there were also voices that blamed the Serbian people as a group, as a primitive and violent ethnic group; others found the roots of the two massacres in war-loving and ferocious Serbian nationalism.

They cultivated this spirit for decades, now it is natural to suffer the consequences, said someone from a television screen. It is not worth dealing with the bullshit that is appearing on social networks, where not only is the Serbian people and culture taken under the block to be blamed, but in some extreme cases the impression is created that the writers rub their hands for the victims, as if they were not innocent children or adults who happened to be at the scene of the crime, what if they were Milosevic's sadistic soldiers mixed with Arkan's paramilitaries, covered head to toe in blood during the excruciating genocide in Kosovo.

In fact, the mass killings in Belgrade are bells ringing for the region and beyond. It is necessary for us too.

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Although Serbia is full of weapons left over from conflicts in the 1990s, the Washington Post reported, mass killings are rare, the last being recorded in 2013 when a veteran killed 13 people in a village in the central regions.

Even in other countries of the region and more widely in Europe, such crimes are relatively rare, compared to the USA. According to reliable sources, since 2018 there have been at least 207 incidents involving firearms in school settings alone, with 114 dead and 245 injured.

I became curious to know the reasons why mass murders are so common in the US and asked Chat GPT telling him to rely only on scientific sources. I was disappointed when I noticed that all the main causes mentioned by the car are still alive in us, maybe more strongly. In the following I am briefly listing 3-4 of them.

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The ease of finding firearms was cited as the first reason. The United States, the car continued to argue, has relatively liberal laws on the sale and possession of weapons, which makes it easier for individuals who wish to commit acts of violence to find them.

In Albania, we have strong laws for this work, even amended from time to time. 2-3 amnesties have been announced and still reliable sources say that more than 325,000 firearms continue to be in circulation, with the lion's share of the gunpowder. These sources add that 7 out of 10 murders are committed with illegal weapons. With a dark mood you could say: fun to kill to have, without weapons you can find them more easily than an umbrella????

As a second reason, the machine listed cultural factors and elaborated that American culture highly values ​​individualism and personal autonomy, traits that can contribute to a tendency to isolate and disconnect from others. All of this creates feelings of frustration, despair and anger, which can lead to violent behavior and crime.

It seems that our society today has a rather pronounced individualistic tendency, an individualism that, more than as a philosophy and social tendency, appears as a primitive phenomenon also stimulated by the crisis of values. This crisis of values ​​is so deep that it seems that even the "eternal" moral principles of the type "don't steal", "don't kill" etc. have been shaken. Besides these, almost endemic poverty lowers the quality of living, turns life into a scarce commodity that can be destroyed and terminated without much hesitation. There is hardly any other place in Europe where a person can be killed for a fence or for a word of mouth.

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As a third reason why mass murders are so prevalent in the US, the car listed mental health problems. A significant proportion of mass murders are committed by people who later turn out to have mental health problems. Access to this health service is often limited, and the stigma against it often prevents people from seeking help, the car concluded.

The relationship between crime and mental health in our country is the same, but maybe beyond gray and close to black. Among the dozens of cases that are reported every year, the emblematic one remains that of a mentally ill person from Palasa e Vlora who in 2014 cut off the head of a 12-year-old child with an ax because he had ... bored him. The pre-history and post-history of this crime highlight a glaring reality.

The patient in question, before committing the monstrous murder, had been in and out of the Vlora psychiatric hospital several times, had returned to the village as many times to be laughed at and ridiculed by part of the community, and after the crime , as confused and angry as he was, threw himself among the prisoners in Fushë Kruja prison, where he killed himself a little later. We are the only country in Europe that does not have a prison ward to hold and treat the mentally ill who commit crimes. The population's access to psychological, neurological and psychiatric services remains low, even though the scope is limited, either because of the stigma, which in a small country with all the prejudices, remains high and corrosive.

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As the fourth cause, the phenomenon named "copycat effect" was listed, which in Albanian could mean: imitative effect. Researchers, explained the car, have noticed that unprofessional media coverage of mass murders can lead to an increase in similar crimes, as individuals with a tendency to violence can be encouraged or inspired by publicity that can be perceived as fame.

The mimetic effect is one of the main products of our media when reporting the crime of murder. To accept this statement everywhere, it is enough to recall how the scene of the murder of the Lezhian businessman was used a few days ago. Even the biggest and most qualified televisions broadcast and rebroadcast with endless descriptions and comments how the Portuguese entered the hotel lobby, how he raised his hand and emptied the gun, as if he were Avni Rustemi in Paris and not an ordinary murderer.

The imitative effect becomes effective not only from the detailed and unprofessional presentation of crimes, but also from another phenomenon: quite a few of our media broadcast almost all the crimes that are committed in the country, not as a feed of journalists from the field, but as a follow-up of communiqués from daily of the police directorates. The reasons why this is done may be different, but the result remains the same: the false perception is created that crime is ubiquitous, it is not a rare event or an exception, but something massive. This practice, intentionally or unintentionally, leads people prone to violence to reason: "When so many people do it, why can't I do it too?"

As you can see, we have all the factors that promote mass murders, so we do well that whenever such crimes are reported, committed in our neighbors or even further away, we remember that the bell tolls for us as well.


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