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P/R Operazione Colomba urges for the protection of blood feud victims
Press release – Operazione Colomba, Nonviolent Peace Corps of the Pope John XXIII Community, learns from media sources, both Albanian and international, about Mario Majollari’s homicide. The 28-years-old Albanian has been killed on April 10th, 2018, as a vendetta for the murder of Ilir Gjuzi, committed by Mario Majollari’s father. Wanted for Majollari’s homicide is Kastriot Gjuzi, Ilir Gjuzi’s brother.
In 2014, when his father, fugitive up to then, got arrested, Mario Majollari was in Sweden as international protection applicant, since he feared he could have been killed for vendetta. Protection, however, was denied. Among the motivations, Swedish sources claim that the Judge’s decision has been based on the information transmitted from Albania. Swedish judiciary therefore concluded that the Albanian judicial system – independently from its current gaps – can give protection from blood-feud-related conflicts.
Operazione Colomba is worried for the lack of protection to the people and the families involved in blood feuds and, as stated in the report presented in March, it hopes for a greater awareness from State Institutions in order that they will put more and more efforts in achieving the elimination of the phenomenon and in the protection of its victims.
Tirana – Descriptive document on the phenomenon of ‘Hakmarrja’ and ‘Gjakmarrja’
March 27, 2018. From Tirana Operazione Colomba presents its report “Descriptive document on the phenomenon of ‘Hakmarrja’ and ‘Gjakmarrja’ to raise awareness among Albanian and international Institutions – III edition”. Audio in English.
Descriptive document on the phenomenon of ‘Hakmarrja’ and ‘Gjakmarrja’
March 21, 2018. From Shkoder Operazione Colomba presents its report “Descriptive document on the phenomenon of ‘Hakmarrja’ and ‘Gjakmarrja’ to raise awareness among Albanian and international Institutions – III edition”. Audio in Albanian and Italian.
The Human Rights Day
On the occasion of the Human Rights Day, we held a demonstration in Shkodër pedestrian area.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and, for some of us, this is taken for granted like admiring a starry sky.
Unfortunately, for the victims of blood feuds, “normality” is to experience the daily violation of their fundamental human rights.
BBC: The children trapped by Albania’s blood feuds
Even BBC of blood feuds. It is important to talk about it, to inform and to lobby institutions, so that they cooperate with civil society to eradicate this plague from Albania. Volunteers of Operazione Colomba support involved families and try to advocate for this change.
Read the article on the BBC website