
The last decision of the local authorities in the Albanian town of Himara to demolish the buildings of 19 families pretended as Greek minority by Greece, caused harsh debates on Thursday in Parliamentary Session.
The head of the Union for Human Rights Party, Vangjel Dule, accused Prime Minister, Edi Rama as responsible for the demolish process.
"Buildings to be demolished are chosen selectively and with a notable sense of revenge, while laws are being violated in other buildings in village of Qeparo,” said Dule.
According to him Albania has the Constitutional obligation to protect its citizens wherever they are in the world, and this is the case also for Greece.
“We have an adventurer on top of our government who has changed politics and European values. He wants to tell us that Greece is our enemy, the country where 750.000 Albanian immigrants were welcomed,” he added.
Reacting to these accuses, PM Rama said that this debates takes to nowhere, since the Government project only aims demolishing 18 objects, which are mainly car wash, kiosks, old depots or house ruins.
“Only six of them will be expropriated, a very small number compared to the expropriations made throughout the country,” reacted Rama.
PM commented even the reaction of Greek politicians about his declaration on Acropolis. According to him, those were senseless, since they were lucky that an Albanian, Gjergj Dushmani was there in 17th century to protect their monuments from the bombardments of the Venetian fleet.
“Why should our neighbors get angry when I say that Albanian language was spoken for a specific time in Athens, when I am not angry when they say that people in Himara speak Greek? This never makes Athens an Albanian city or Himara a Greek town," Rama added.
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