Author: admin 11 September 2015

The answers from the Mayor of Tepelene on blood feuds’ phenomenon

The volunteers of Operazione Colomba continue to receive answers from the Albanian institutions! As you know, our volunteers have send the questionnaire to all the newly elected mayors. Being confident in waiting for new replies, today we publish the answers of the Mayor of Tepelene, Termet Peçi.

The questions

1. What is the spread of the blood feud phenomenon in the area where you are the mayor?

• How is the phenomenon perceived by the population?
• How many cases of blood feud are there in the municipality/district where you are the mayor?
• Is there any collaboration between the local administration and the other organizations in the territory where you are the mayor?

2. Specifically, which concrete steps would you do for the complete eradication of the blood feud phenomenon, referring particularly to the territory of the town/district where you are the mayor?
3. In 2005 Law no. 9389 of May 4th 2005 was emanated but it has not been applied so far because of the lack of the implementing acts by the Executive. What do you plan on doing to ask the Albanian Executive to apply this legal instrument?

The answers from the Mayor of Tepelene

Below you can find the full text containing the answers from the Mayor of Tepelene, which the volunteers of Operazione Colomba found in the mail box.

“Dear Sir/Madam,

in response to your letter Prot. Nr. 280B / 2015, dated 27.08.2015 regarding the phenomenon of blood feuds, I will summarize the answers to questions 1 and 2: With pleasure I inform you that we have no case linked to this phenomenon in Municipality of Tepelene. Indeed, it does not belong to the spirit of the people of our community.

Question 4: surely we will have to seek measures for the implementation of legislation for the implementation of the law.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Mayor Termet Peçi”

Thanks

It’s our turn to thank the Mayor of Tepelene for his kind cooperation. We would like also to take this opportunity to tell him that we will compare his statement on the absence of the phenomenon in his area of ​​expertise with the data we collect. Additionally, we kindly invite him to fully reply to the fourth question and to inform us if possible, of his ideas about what measures might be effective to develop the legislation in an attempt to address the serious phenomenon blood feuds in Albania.