Open Letter – Dielli

OPEN LETTER TO THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

October 26, 2020 by dgreca

ALBANIAN AMERICANS FOR TRUMP

A LEGALLY REGISTERED GROUP OF DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT INC.

US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 2020

OPEN LETTER TO THE ALBANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

Dear Albanian compatriots in Michigan and throughout America,

On behalf of the “Albanian Americans for Trump”, a legally registered group of the Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., we would like to direct you our sincere call to vote for the re-election of President Donald J. Trump. This is the most crucial time in decades, when the United States of America has another chance to stay on its secure path, as the most powerful capitalist country of the world, or otherwise, to shift towards the radical left with its socialist politics of the economy and the society development. We Albanian Americans, as a solid and integrated ethnicity in America, can make a difference.

This call to you to vote for Trump, has to do mostly with those principles which identifie us best as Albanians, such principles we find embraced by the person Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

1. Communism or the Marxist ideology has been practiced at its worst forms as the best example of inhumanity, by killing, torturing and persecuting hundreds of thousands of innocent people in eastern Europe, especially in Albania. Over the past century, communist totalitarian regimes around the world have killed more than 100 million people and subjected countless more to exploitation, violence, and untold devastation. 30 years ago, while the communist regime in Albania was collapsing, it left behind a dark history of crimes against its own people, such crimes have been engraved in our memories.

It was President Trump, the first world leader that, in 2017 to announce November 7, the National Day of the Victims of Communism. On such announcement, President Trump said: “Today, we remember those who have died and all who continue to suffer under communism…Today, we renew our commitment to helping secure for all people a future of peace and prosperity founded on the core tenets of democracy—liberty, justice, and a deep respect for the value of every human life. Communism is the past. Freedom is the future”.

2. Mother Theresa, our most beloved saint, the perfect personification of the kind, hardworking, generous and devoted Albanian woman will forever fill us with honor and pride. It was President Trump who wrote tributes and deeply paid respect towards our Mother Theresa, before and after he was elected president. President Trump has said: “Mother Theresa had an amazing life of charity and holiness. She gave food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, education to the needy. Mother Theresa represents the best of each of us. I am truly happy to see people across the world, join together and celebrate Mother Theresa’s uniquely humbled, generous and pious life. There was nobody like her”.

3. Abortion is the number one cause of human death, taking over 42 million innocent lives worldwide every year. Mother Theresa has said: “Today, the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because it is a war against a child”.

President Trump is a Pro-Life president. He is the first President of the United States of America to attend a March for Life rally. In 2018, during the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump said: “Like many nations here today, we in America believe that every child – born and unborn – is a sacred gift from God”.

President Trump recently signed an executive order to provide life-saving medical care for infants who survive abortion. The order reads: “Every infant born alive, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, has the same dignity and the same rights as every other individual and is entitled to the same protections under federal law.”

Trump has said: “Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House.”

On the other side, candidate Joe Biden has declared: “I am pro-choice in every respect”. He has also voted for legal abortion on the very final stages of pregnancy, taking away the right to life for millions of children to be born.

4. Family is the foundation of our society. We Albanians recognize that and take

pride of our families: our family trees, our parents, grand-parents and all ancestors, generation after generation. The Trump family possesses all the attributes of a good family, a honored and strongly bonded husband and wife with well-educated hard-working children. We see President Trump as a defender and supporter of family. President Trump has said: “The happiest people I know are those people who have great families and real values. I’ve seen it. I know it. People who have a loving spouse and have children they really love are happy people.”

On the contrary, candidate Biden represents the far-left liberal values. Only one fact sells it all: in 2016, Biden while serving as vice president, he married two men. On that day he wrote: “Proud to marry Brian and Joe at my house. Couldn’t be happier, two longtime White House staffers, two great guys.”

5. Religion is one of the strongest values for us Albanians and we take pride of the peace between all faiths among us. President Trump has been continuously encouraging and supporting the freedom of religion. At the same time, he has been defending the people of all faiths from religious persecution. Trump’s most recent statement on religion was:

“In this country, civil society, especially religious institutions, are the essential foundation of the American freedom. A nation is strong because of the people of all faiths. That’s why as president, one of my top priorities, is to defend religious liberty, and to cherish the role of faith and faith-based organizations in our national life. As a President I will defend the right of religious believers of every race, religion, color or creed… Religion plays a very large factor in happiness. People who have God in their lives receive a tremendous amount of joy and satisfaction from their faith.”

6. Children are our most precious creatures, the inspiration and the motivation of our lives. They have never had a better supporter and protector in the White House. President Trump has recently undertaken a war unseen before against child abuse and human trafficking. Trump’s Homeland Security Investigations have arrested over 1600 criminals associated with child trafficking. Law, order and the safety of our lives and our children has been one of his priorities. Public schools throughout the country have downgraded their standards. Their administrations have removed God from educational institutions, trying to induce liberal values and indoctrinate our children. President Trump’s policies are to restore religion and the right to pray in our schools. Furthermore, Trump’s plan is to allocate funds toward private schools, encouraging and advancing school choice for our children.

On the other side Biden has been promoting most demonic values, encouraging parents to allow prepubescent minor children to transgender. Biden has recently stated: ”If your 8 year old child says they want to be transgender to make life easier… they have a right to transition and there is no reason for you [parents] to deny it”. Parents, please reconsider again before you vote for Biden. Put your children first.

7. Kosovo is our unfinished project until we Albanians have national unification of Albania, Kosovo, Çameria and all our territories. Trump and his administration, on the recent years have been putting their full attention to the peace in Balkan. Under the President Trump’s supervision, Kosovo and Serbia recently achieved a great peace agreement of their economic development.

President Trump has started and will accomplish his project for a permanent peace and mutual recognition between Kosovo and Serbia.

Candidate Biden has apologized to Serbia for NATO bombing raids which liberated Kosovo and it was him who repaired and rehabilitated relations with Serbia. Only a few weeks before Presidential elections, candidate Biden proposed an uncertain written proposal on Kosovo-Serbia relations, but in eight years, Biden serving as a vice-President, did nothing but left Kosovo unattended and completely forgotten.

Dear our fellow brothers and sisters of Albanian blood, we all left our countries and chose America for a safer and better life. This is our permanent country for the generations to come. Please don’t hesitate but vote! Before you vote remember who you are and where you come from. Vote for conservative values and those principles which identify you as an Albanian heir. Vote for the family of the image of the Holy Family. Vote for your own children’s future. Vote for Trump! Preserve the great America.

Prepared by Valentino Lumaj

Michigan, October 25, 2020

Open Letter Marks 17th Anniversary of Bytyqi Murders

July 8, 2016 by dgreca

Open Letter Marks 17^th Anniversary of Bytyqi Murders/

July 8, 2016/

To mark the 17^th anniversary of the Bytyqi murders, more than three dozen notable experts who have worked and are working at the highest levels of government, academia and within the NGO communitysigned an open letter urging European Union and United States leaders to engage the Serbian government on its record in resolving war crimes, including the Bytyqi case.

The signatories noted their, “deep[] concern [for] the slow pace of Serbia’s domestic war crimes prosecutions, including its failure to resolve the murders of Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi,” calling this record “dismal [and] unacceptable.”

Serbian Presidents and Prime Ministers have pledged to resolve the Bytyqi murders for many years, including in June 2015, when Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic publicly declared to resolve the Bytyqi case “very soon or much sooner than anybody might expect.”

Robert L. Barry, a former U.S. Ambassador & Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina said this:

“If Serbia’s leaders want to lead their country into the EU, they must stop coddling criminals and start keeping their word.”

Tanya Domi, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Advisor to Freedom House said this:

“Serbia’s path toward becoming a democratic state demands it must confront its sordid past by pursuing accountability through vigorous and transparent legal processes. The government chooses to ignore one of its greatest resources — that of a robust human rights community. But sadly, the continued denial and obfuscation by Serbian officials about past war crimes undermines Serbia’s present and aspirational future.”

Praveen Madhiraju, a pro bono representative of the Bytyqi family said this:

“In the Bytyqi case, Serbian political leaders have repeatedly failed to deliver on promises made to the U.S. officials, including Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Kerry. Unfortunately, Serbia’s leaders have a much better track record delivering for suspected war criminals.”

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OPEN LETTER TO JOSEPH BIDEN, THE U.S. VICE PRESIDENT,

JOHN KERRY, THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE,

FEDERICA MOGHERINI, HIGH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE E.U. FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND SECURITY POLICY,

JOHANNES HAHN, E.U. COMMISSIONER FOR EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY & ENLARGEMENT NEGOTIATIONS,

THE EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL,

THE U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS,

AND THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

As former representatives of the United States government, authors, human rights activists, and academics who have closely followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and Serbia’s subsequent efforts to resolve the many war crimes committed during that period, we are deeply concerned by the slow pace of Serbia’s domestic war crimes prosecutions, including its failure to resolve the murders of Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi, three brothers who were executed and dumped on top of a mass grave seventeen years ago today. Since the position’s inception in 2003, the Serbian war crimes prosecutor has indicted no senior Serbian military or police officials, no government officials, and no persons of any rank involved in the removal from Kosovo and reburial in Serbia of more than 900 Albanian bodies – a deliberate “cover-up operation”. Prosecutors filed only seven indictments in 2014, the majority of which were the result of complete investigatory files transferred from prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2015, they only issued two, neither of which was confirmed. This is not a record to be proud of. In the Bytyqi case, a Serbian President and the two most recent Prime Ministers have repeatedly promised resolution since 2006, but have failed to take adequate steps to secure this result. Instead, reports indicate that a primary suspect has intimidated witnesses and remains close to senior members of the current government. International and domestic NGOs, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the European Commission, have diagnosed numerous problems with Serbia’s war crimes record. Uniformly, each cites a lack of political will and political interference as impeding accountability. Similarly, witnesses will never come forward and cases will not be resolved when government Ministers host “welcome home” parties for returning convicts of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and suggest there be a political loyalty test when selecting the chief war crimes prosecutor. Though the ICTY is winding down, the hard work for its countries of focus is nowhere near complete. Across the Balkans, tens of thousands of victims and their families deserve closure. Henceforth, only domestic prosecutions will have the ability to deliver them justice. To date, Serbia’s record has been a dismal one that is ultimately unacceptable. Therefore, we urge you and the entities you represent to take constructive steps to ensure better commitment and effort by Serbia’s leaders and institutions to resolve war crimes cases, including the Bytyqi Brothers case. This issue should be raised as part of your continuing dialogue with the Serbian government, parliament and civil society leaders.

Sincerely,

Ambassador Robert L. Barry (ret.)

former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria and Indonesia former Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Tanya Domi Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Advisor, Freedom House Praveen Madhiraju pro bono advisor to the Bytyqi family Nataša Kandić Founder, Humanitarian Law Center Coordinator, RECOM process Sonja Biserko Chair Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia Sandra Orlović Executive Director Humanitarian Law Center Jelena Milić Director Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies Milica Kostić Legal Director Humanitarian Law Center Goran Miletić Program Director for the Western Balkans Civil Rights Defenders David Tolbert President International Center for Transitional Justice C. Dixon Osburn Executive Director Center for Justice & Accountability Fred Abrahams Author & Researcher Kelly Dawn Askin former Senior Legal Officer for International Justice Open Society Justice Initiative Nina Bang-Jensen former Executive Director, Coalition for International Justice Senior Peace Fellow, Public International Law & Policy Group Kurt Bassuener Senior Associate Democratization Policy Council Holly Cartner Human Rights Lawyer Stefanie Frease Senior Associate Democratization Policy Council James R. Hooper Independent Consultant Maxine Marcus International Crimes Prosecutor and Investigator Expert in Transformative Justice for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Formerly Prosecuting Attorney at ICTY Pamela Merchant former Executive Director Center for Justice and Accountability Glenn C. Nye former Member of Congress & U.S. Diplomat Dr. Valery Perry Senior Associate Democratization Policy Council Florian Bieber Professor University of Graz Robert Kogod Goldman Professor of Law & Louis C. James Scholar American University Washington College of Law; former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights András Riedlmayer Bibliographer, Documentation Center for Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard University Editor, International Justice Watch Naomi Roht-Arriaza Distinguished Professor of Law and Thomas Miller Chair University of California Hastings College of Law Daniel Serwer Professor Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Dr. Paul R. Williams Rebecca Grazier Professor of Law and International Relations American University Laurel E. Fletcher Clinical Professor of Law & Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Aida A. Hozic Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science University of Florida Dr. Paula M. Pickering Associate Professor of Government College of William and Mary Gabor Rona Visiting Professor of Law Cardozo Law School Susana SáCouto Executive Director, War Crimes Research Office American University Washington College of Law Milada Anna Vachudova Jean Monnet Chair of EU Studies & Associate Professor of Political Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dr. Arnaud Kurze Assistant Professor of Justice Studies Montclair State University Nenad Stojanović Visiting Research Scholar Princeton University Jasmin Hasić PhD Candidate Universite libre de Bruxelles and LUISS Guido Carli of Rome Jessie Hronesova DPhil Candidate in Politics University of Oxford