"They hit me with crowbars over and over", Rama's confession: They left because they knew I was dead, why did I take the picture

2023-05-09 21:27:45Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"They hit me with crowbars over and over", Rama's confession:
Edi Rama speaking at Grida Duma

In an interview with Grida Duma in Top Story, Prime Minister Edi Rama told how he was barbarically beaten in 1997 and why he went to be photographed covered in blood.

"It is true if I take out of the context of the time what I was doing and what was happening and the reason why I went to take the photograph was that at that time it was January '97 and I had returned to Albania since before the year new and I stayed longer because I was trying to collect signatures to make a petition to request the resignation of the government of Alexander Meks and before we came to this moment there had been the beating of Servet Pellumbi and some others whose blood had been commented on in the official media of the time as ink. So if they had pretended and I was around 11 o'clock at night, make no mistake, January 22 and it was very cold, I was going home, together with my friend and another friend who lived in a small apartment, we entered the building block and walk in line from the wall,

I was taken away and what was very spectacular was that it was a block of four buildings and everyone was on the balconies and no one came down.

I was lying down, my friend was running around the floors asking for help and meanwhile the other friend ran to save, people were on the balconies it looked like a gladiator arena I started shouting to people keep being scared like a dog. Then my friend came out and picked me up, I went to the main road and there a car comes, we got in front of it and there comes a person who to this day I have relationships with, he accompanied me to the car that had two boys in it, I told my friend go tell that I don't know what will happen, I told the Chunas you will stop at Petrit Kumi, who was the photographer, because I thought that anything could happen, I did it for evidence.

I was very helpless, I had a cold fever, they knocked on the door and said that I am with Edi Rama, the photographer saw me bleeding, I had the feeling that I definitely needed a testimony, at that time we only had a free newspaper that published everything and then I went to the hospital. This is the story. I wanted to be part of the PD, after about 30-40 minutes I left the PD and I came to dinner, I went to the student town and the reason for leaving is that they were from the doctor and my question was simple what pretend here that you are communists. I told Ben Imam then, not only am I not coming, but that guy over there will eat you all and that party will go in a completely different direction. There was no place there either for me or for liberal people".


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