The leader of the Movement for National Development, Dashamir Shehi, has warned of further escalation in the country if the crisis is seen only as a police matter, while protests by students and high school pupils are now in their seventh day. He recalled elements of the 1997 unrest, which he said resulted from the failure to take political decisions at the right moment. Shehi stressed that the protests are a consequence of a political crisis and require political solutions, not just the intervention of law enforcement forces, otherwise other situations will erupt.
”Actually, history often repeats itself in different forms. When this turmoil begins, everyone is reminded of ’97, which was a derivative of failing to make political decisions at the right moment. When you think you will solve things through repressive means, with the army, with SHIK, remember those situations, when the solution was very simple, and we proposed it. Let’s come to today’s situation.
Thank God we are not at ’97 here, but there are elements. Now they are trying to resolve this matter with police. The police will resolve it, because the police will win with the students, it has its own means, it has a justification, that no one wants shops to be burned. Inside there may also be people who want to steal, there are thugs, but this rebellion is the result of a political crisis. But it is not a police matter. The crisis will not be resolved, it will explode somewhere else. The crisis is political and requires political means, it is not a police matter”, he said on ”A2CNN”.
