The Serbian thesis of "KLA Mercenaries" and the nonsense of its spokesmen in Tirana

2026-06-26 10:27:00, Opinione Luan Rama

The Serbian thesis of "KLA Mercenaries" and the nonsense of its

The discovery or fabrication, and subsequent public use of a supposed "document with the names of paid KLA fighters" to "prove" that the protester "serving Iran", Dritan Goxhaj, was a paid "commander" in the army that fought for the liberation of Kosovo, is utter nonsense.

And, what's worse, the Prime Minister of Albania himself has fallen into the waves of this public stupidity, probably without knowing that, by clinging to this "argument", he has also given his own voice to the Serbian thesis that "there were mercenaries sent from Albania in the Kosovo Liberation Army"!

Before, during and after the war for the liberation of Kosovo, Serbian propaganda, which at that time was led and supported by Miloševi? himself, who is today the President of Serbia, emphasized in great detail that "in the ranks of the KLA there are mercenaries paid from Albania and other Muslim countries."

Their aim was clear: not only to delegitimize the just liberation war of the KLA, but to present it in the eyes of the world as a war of paid mercenaries, organized by Albania, as a war financed with the money of organized crime, drug trafficking, and Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups.

The "letter", served with evil zeal to unmask Dritan Goxhaj and, through him, also to smear the civic protest, which has become the government's nightmare for almost a month, as well as the use of some Albanian-speaking voices, in Tirana or coming from Pristina, to tell us that Dritan Goxhaj "was not a fighter, but a mercenary from Albania, paid to the KLA", is the most idiotic finding, to keep it in this case in a lower register of definition, without wanting to go further.

The idiotic naivety, driven by the madness that here we finally found the fact we needed to say that the leader of the protest is someone paid by the KLA, has led all those who, after the Prime Minister and with him, used this "fact" as an argument, into a miserable and ridiculous position.

For public opinion and for the citizens in protest, it does not matter whether Dritan Goxhaj, accused of being "paid", was or was not in the ranks of the KLA. It does not matter whether he fought with a weapon in his hand or not, with or without the KLA uniform, or whether he was paid with its money or not.

It is important that the Prime Minister of Albania and his government understand, an hour or so ago, the real motives why citizens have risen up in protest, why citizens can no longer accept the arrogance and ignorance of the government, the corruption and collaboration with criminal groups, who turn drug money into towers and tourist resorts, without asking about the law, about private or public property, without asking about the citizen's interest or the interests of the country.

Then, if someone like Dritan Goxhaj or others like him are in that protest because they serve the interests of Iran, Serbia or anyone else, the Prime Minister, before telling us this on Facebook or through his empty-headed interlocutors, should ask the law enforcement agencies to do their duty. The state is not governed by "they told me" and "I told you", by "it was" or "it wasn't", but only by enforcing the law.

Dritan Goxhaj is not an MP, nor is he a minister or deputy prime minister, so that the votes of the members of Parliament are needed to arrest him and bring him to justice, if there is actually evidence that he is serving Iran.

The rush to find "evidence" at all costs, anywhere and everywhere, and the blindness to use it according to the logic of "whatever comes to mind," only leads to stupidity.

Despite everything, the history of the KLA deserves respect, not use as a weapon in the daily political clashes nor in the rhetoric of the Prime Minister and his followers against the protest./ CNA