Luiza Gega, Çiljeta Xhilaga, Roland Hysi and others should be charged today!

2025-02-13 11:42:00, Opinione Isa Myzyraj

Luiza Gega, Çiljeta Xhilaga, Roland Hysi and others should be charged

Not because they have supported a certain politician. Not because they are supporters of Erion Veliaj. Not because they have chosen to be close to a government. They should be accused because, with their silence, with their blind support, with their bowing to a suspected criminal system, they are legitimizing injustice, normalizing corruption, and selling the soul of this country for personal interests.

They, once respected athletes and artists, no longer represent strength, talent, and meritocracy. Today, they represent a system that uses people as puppets. They are no longer simply career individuals; they have become symbols of submission, of selling dignity for petty gains, and of accepting a reality where violence, injustice, and inequality have become the norm.

Where were they when, at 5 a.m., the poor families of Unaza e Re woke up to the smoke of tear gas? When children cried in terror, while their parents begged not to be taken out of their homes? Where were they when the explosions of the firecrackers collapsed the National Theater in the darkness, destroying not only a building, but also the dignity and culture of this nation?

Where were they when Ardit Gjokaj, a child of only 17, lost his life in the most horrific way, in a place he should never have been, working illegally for a system that exploits young people and then throws them away as if they had never existed? Did any of them feel the pain of his parents? Did any of them have the courage to raise their voices?

Where were they when honest artists and athletes who refused to bow down were ostracized, humiliated, and forgotten because they did not serve the interests of power? When young talents were pushed aside to make room for servile and militants?

They were silent. They were silent then and they are silent today. And their silence is not just indifference. It is complicity. Because when you see evil and choose not to speak out, you are no longer innocent. You are part of it.

Today, they come out and defend a government suspected of corruption, violence, and injustice. They come out and embellish with beautiful words, with their image, an ugly reality that the majority of citizens experience every day in the form of injustice, poverty, and insecurity. They are no longer simply artists and athletes. They have become part of a mechanism that suppresses and kills hope.

And for this, they must be held accountable. To the public. To history. To their own conscience, if they still have any of it left.

They should be accused by the public today!/ CNA