Belgin’s Beating: Our National Disgrace

Kosovo, born from genocide, now flirts with fascism, beating children of minorities while leaders, media, and intellectuals stay silent. This is not justice. This is shame.

There is a moment in every nation’s history, when silence itself becomes a complicity too heavy to bear, a moral abyss into which all claims of justice, democracy, and human dignity are swallowed. In Kosovo, a young boy, Belgin Jashari, fifteen years of age, a child, a citizen, a sportsman, and a member of the Ashkali community was physically and verbally assaulted during a football match. The aggressor: not another youth acting in the heat of play, but a grown adult, a parent, who stormed the field with the fury of inherited prejudice, delivering not only blows to a child’s body, but to the very soul of a society still claiming to recover from the wounds of systemic oppression and ethnic hatred.

What followed, or rather, what failed to follow is more damning than the act itself. The halls of power remained unmoved. The Prime Minister's office, so vociferous in moments of political theatre, suddenly found no voice. Our so-called intellectuals, often quick to pen poetic lamentations of …