Attack on Kosovo/ Boçi-Rama: He is using the flag, the police and the KLA for division

By Luciano Boci

Edi Rama's latest post towards Albanians in Kosovo and North Macedonia reveals his panic.

His reaction is the outburst of a power that feels its decline.

Yes, the Albanians of North Macedonia are not a diaspora of Albania. They are a state-forming people in their country, a historical, political and constitutional factor.

Yes, the Albanians of Kosovo are not anyone's diaspora. They have their own independent state, built on sacrifice, blood, perseverance, and the support of the democratic world.

But this is where Rama's deception begins.

He takes a terminological truth and turns it into a political weapon against Albanians who do not obey him.

I do not use the word to defend national dignity, but to divide Albanians into useful and useless, into those who applaud and those who dare to oppose.

Rama takes the usual pose of an anti-national.

Whoever follows it, declares himself a patriot.

Anyone who protests is declared a mob, a threat, a disgrace.

According to this logic, the homeland is no longer Albania, Kosovo, Tetovo, Presheva, Ulcinj or the diaspora. The homeland becomes Edi Rama's chair.

The language he uses is divisive.

When the national flag is treated as a decoration for a farce, when the polka dot is used for ridicule, when Albanians across the border are depicted as a problem just because they do not align themselves politically, then we no longer have simple arrogance.

This is a moral, national and, why not, psychological slide.

Because the police are not blackened by the citizen who protests.

The police get angry when the government mocks them.

The flag is not desecrated by Albanians who stand in the square. The flag is desecrated when the prime minister divides the nation into "ours" and "enemies."

Even more serious is the attempt to use the KLA as a decoration for accusations. The KLA flag is not the property of a party, nor the property of a government, and even less the property of a prime minister who only remembers history when he needs it for propaganda.

The KLA stood up for freedom, dignity, and the right of Albanians not to be humiliated, not to one day be used against Albanians who protest.

Here lies the hypocrisy.

Rama poses as the defender of Kosovo, but insults its citizens when they don't like him politically.

He poses as a friend of the Albanians of North Macedonia, but despises them as soon as they don't fit into his scenography.

It is removed as the guardian of the national image, while it damages the image of Albanians with arrogance, division, and contempt.

Essentially, this post is not about Kosovo and North Macedonia.

He speaks of Edi Rama's fear. Of a government that has lost its composure. Of a prime minister who cannot accept that Albanians, inside and outside Albania's borders, are not his decoration.

And in panic, he chooses to insult, to divide, to defend his power by attacking national sensibilities.

This is why this post should not be passed off as another joke.

It is a treasonous attack on the interests of Albanians and citizens!