Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Excuse My English!
| 08 December 2008 | By Besar Likmeta in Tirana
Abusing protocol, as Berisha does with gusto all the time, the Albanian premier gave a press conference in Italian to an audience of mainly Albanian reporters, in which he mispronounced half his words.
Although the Albanian language is the one common element that unites all Albanians, be they Muslim or Catholic, be they Gheg or Tosk, the Prime Minister's distaste for the correct usage of languages has brought some wild conspiracy theories to the fore.
Some people say that because Berisha is a megalomaniac, dictator-like leader who thinks he knows everything, none of his aides has ever found the courage to tell him that his bad English and Italian are embarrassing the whole nation.
Others argue that his abuse of foreign languages is a well-thought political move. Because when he is lying to the rest of the world about his successes in the war against corruption, later he can go back and claim that it was a misunderstanding and that was lost in translation.
However, Berisha loyalists believe that his critics are always blind to his successes, and they hate to admit even his masterful command of languages, and they are seeking to find dark spots by negating his god-like, Balkan leader qualities.
Berisha, one of the last former communist leaders still standing in Eastern Europe, declared last Tuesday that he, like the olives, is eternal. Let’s hope for the sake of everybody that this was also misstep in pronunciation, because, although my religious training is not that great, everybody knows that Buddha, Allah and Jesus don’t like competition.
2008-12-08 16:42:56