The blood feud is not forgotten, but minimized in the north

The leaders of the local government, in cooperation with the blood reconciliation association, have continuously worked in this direction by sensitizing the opinion, even with this method there have been positive results, but we still have cases of families being tested due to old and already recent events. well-known, the leaders of the blood reconciliation association in Tropoja, an association which has extended its activity to the region of Gjakova and beyond. A few years ago, there were two families who had been at enmity with each other for years, in the area of ??Nikaj-Merturi, families belonging to the villages of Paç and Apripë, but now they have reconciled. The decrease in the number of trapped families remains an indicator of the work done by the community, police forces and state structures, not only in Tropoja, but also in the other 3 districts of Kukës district. where there are still families trapped in Has and one in Kukës. The reported cases of blood feuds are a concern in the Tropoja district, say the leaders of the association. We are working with these families in cooperation with the local government with the aim of final reconciliation, as the causes are mainly property disputes, or temporary disputes that can be resolved through reconciliation between families. In a tribal society, as northern Albania has been organized for centuries, where self-judgment has ruled and still rules more than justice, where blood feud is unfortunately still an unhealed wound, in these tribes, where a code has ruled and acted for centuries customary called canon, where an act of revenge committed by the injured party is the last sanction to punish an injury, to establish and maintain social order in these legions, it is significant that the trial we are taking to throw light on the organization of the tribe according to the canon. "The population of this area, writes the Japanese professor Kazuhiko, has preserved tribal structures based on family, brotherhood and tribe. The highlands of northern Albania, he continues, have been subject to the customary tribal code called canon. And by researching and studying the canon of Lekë Dukagjini, collected by Father Shtjefën Gjeçovi, and published after his death in 1933, it is concluded that the canon has exercised its legal power for centuries in the Northern Highlands. Undoubtedly, this customary code should be studied and analyzed by experts. of this field, even today, to draw conclusions on the perfection of its implementation, since the Albanians in this transition period, few know the law and the state, and the enforcers of the law do not sufficiently perform the sacred duty of justice, spreading everywhere the inaccurate slogan that there is no state, we cannot make a state, that almost all of these have a painful human bill : with murders for blood feuds, murders, children who do not go to school, etc. Let us judge according to the canon how the organization of the tribe was determined by the protagonists themselves in the north of Albania. The tribe is the blood of the men and the gender of the women, while the bajrak is the tribe-state composed of brotherhoods. The organs of the bajrak are: the bajraktari, who is the head of the tribe, the highest authority in the tribe-state. To this belongs the head of the tribe in times of peace and in times of war from generation to generation. The bajraktar's assistants are always the heads of the tribe, the first of the great brotherhoods, of which the tribe consists. Based on the above, we will try to present the organization according to the canon of the tribe and the bajrak. And now let's continue with the organization of the tribe-state according to the canon. The minor chieftains are the first of the minor brotherhoods, or voivodes. Each of the voivodes has a designated assistant, who is called a boy. Bajraktari and voivode exercise the power of the pariah son after son. The meetings that are held for the exercise of authority in the tribe, or for the determination of new laws and their implementation, are called assemblies. Each tribe has determined the place where the assemblies take place. Among the most essential issues is the creation of a commission of chiefs, who enjoy the authority of the entire tribe. Their decisions have legal force for the entire tribe. In the event of a blood feud between brotherhood and brotherhood or tribe to tribe, the one who breaks the oath is expelled from the tribe. There have been such cases in Nikaj-Mertur, Dukagjin, etc. In conclusion, we can quote that the inhabitants of these parts refer to the canon as a source of justice, which enables them social order, peace and freedom of living, because as we mentioned somewhere above, there are still tribal societies called houses-brotherhood- tribe We think that these judgments are valid to analyze the canon, in the phenomena that are still encountered in northern Albania, as a result of the non-implementation of the law, but surprisingly in many cases not even the canon, that there are many articles that define how blood is reconciled, non-violation of women, children, blood forgiveness, etc. which enables them social order, peace and freedom of living, because as we mentioned somewhere above, there are still tribal societies called house-brotherhood-tribe. We think that these judgments are valid to analyze the canon, in the phenomena that are still encountered in northern Albania, as a result of the non-implementation of the law, but surprisingly in many cases not even the canon, that there are many articles that define how blood is reconciled, non-violation of women, children, blood forgiveness, etc. which enables them social order, peace and freedom of living, because as we mentioned somewhere above, there are still tribal societies called house-brotherhood-tribe. We think that these judgments are valid to analyze the canon, in the phenomena that are still encountered in northern Albania, as a result of the non-implementation of the law, but surprisingly in many cases not even the canon, that there are many articles that define how blood is reconciled, non-violation of women, children, blood forgiveness, etc.