"The dead are buried next to the garbage"/ Xama: Phantom incinerator causes collapse at Sharra Landfill

Journalist Ola Xama has once again denounced this Tuesday the ghost incinerator in Landifilli, Sharra, and the collapse that has been created with the cemeteries in this area.

In a reaction on social media, Xama writes that the dead continue to be buried near the garbage dump where, according to the government, the Tirana Incinerator should be. 

In conditions where this garbage keeps coming and increasing day by day, Xama says that it is impossible to stay at the funeral ceremony for the relatives of the deceased due to the unpleasant odor emitted by the nearby remains.

The journalist adds that the graves are being treated without dignity and none of the institutions are reacting to the case. 

Xama raises concerns that institutions have not talked about or resolved for many years what will be done with the mountain of waste in Sharra and why there is no incinerator when hundreds of millions of euros have been given. 

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When you realize that along with the institutions, civic consciousness has also declined.

There are countless moments in history where the state has abusively imposed itself on the individual and the latter has not reacted. There are many autocratic political systems, or cases where the strong rule the weak. And despite this, some of these powers have fallen, not when they have become violent towards the ruled, but when they have offended their conscience.

But in Albania this awareness has declined. I myself realized it when I went to the Sharra cemetery. The dead are buried on the edge of a mountain of garbage that swells every day, and it seems like they are in a war over who will take up more space than each other.

Staying at a funeral ceremony for the relatives of the deceased becomes impossible, partly due to the heat and partly due to the odor emitted by the remains nearby, not to mention the risk to the health of the living who go to perform the last rites.

The graves are next to each other, there is no place to go to light a candle. Treatment without any dignity, but no one speaks.

Institutions have not talked or resolved for many years what will be done with the mountain of waste in Sharra and why there is no incinerator when hundreds of millions of euros have been given. 

Citizens do not speak out and why today they are not only robbed, but they no longer even have those 2 meters at the end of life that belong to all of us (according to the Tolstolian myth).
Even the most ancient tradition, the burial rite, is not being respected. But no one speaks out.