Albanian Alliance MP Ilir Čapuni stated the reasons why he did not vote for the adoption of the Resolution on Genocide in the Jasenovac, Dachau and Mauthausen camp system, saying, among other things, that it does not regulate any problem of the citizens of Montenegro, especially not the Albanians in Montenegro.
"It was July 6, 1991. In an improvised center in Sutorman, the JNA mobilized reservists who were to be sent to the battlefield. In a separate section, there was a group of Albanians from Ulcinj who refused to join the war party, and who , according to testimonies, were in charge of rifles without ammunition.With the support of Albanian deputies in the Parliament of Montenegro, their parents and a few Montenegrin reservists, several meetings were held where it was clearly announced that they rejected the plan and the order to join the military formations which, as later it turned out, to leave behind the accumulated crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"On June 28, the Parliament of Montenegro voted on the Resolution on Genocide in the Jasenovac, Dachau and Mauthausen camp system. I voted against it for several reasons.
"The fact that Ulcinj and the Albanians in Montenegro have traditionally good historical ties with Croatia and its coastal cities is the reason that, after the siege of Dubrovnik, the people of Ulcinj offered through their friends that people of good will from Ulcinj participate in the cleaning and restoration of Dubrovnik. Similarly, a few days after the earthquake in Petrinja, i.e. on January 14, 2021, as a sign of solidarity and concern, we invited the Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to Montenegro to unveil the Monument to the citizens of Ulcinj who died during the 1979 earthquake that hit the coast of Montenegro on April 15.04.1979, XNUMX .All this is at the level of historical symbolism. Why is the adopted resolution not only symbolic?
"The crimes in Jasenovac have been recognized by official Croatia. The Croatian society, according to its own official duty, makes sure that at least with the memorial complex and regular visits by officials to the same, the murdered are given a post, and the citizens are given a constant lesson and reminder of this ugly episode in the history of Croatia. All this also applies to Austria and Germany.
"Furthermore, the voted resolution does not regulate any problem of the citizens of Montenegro, and especially not of the Albanians in Montenegro. For example, in April 1945, during the dismantling of the Jasenovac camp and the hiding of the traces of crimes in it, a massacre of at least 1.000 people took place in our Bar of Albanian recruits from Kosovo.
"In the end, the effects of the very content of the declaratory nature of the resolution and the question of why this resolution needed to be adopted at this very moment has less significance than the concrete consequences on Montenegro's European path. Namely, wanting the resolution to 'teach a lesson' to its neighbor about the crimes that happened almost 80 years ago and which she does not deny, due to newly emerging circumstances on the international level, we will first have to read the collected misdeeds of Montenegro and Serbia in Croatia during the 90s and establish that material well, and then prove concretely how we apply legal solutions regarding the so-called IBAR laws that we passed 10 days ago," Čapuni wrote.
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