From Wartime Commander to the Face of Menacing Politics
From Drenica to Libya, Sami Lushtaku’s trajectory reveals how a wartime commander becomes a sanctioned political actor without ever truly relinquishing coercive power.
I began examining Sami Lushtaku’s public record not because of a single allegation, but because his name kept reappearing, across decades, across institutions, and across forms of power that are meant to restrain one another. Courts. Police. Media. Party structures. Foreign actors. What initially appeared as a series of disconnected controversies resolved, over time, into a pattern that is difficult to dismiss as coincidence.
The documents came first.
