Is Albania Enabling Serbia’s Arms Trail Into Kosovo?

Explosives seizures in Kosovo and suspicious operations in northern Albania raise a troubling question: is Tirana ignoring, or quietly tolerating, a Serbia-linked weapons corridor.

Before I ever picked up a camera in a trench or filed copy from a front line, I was a teenager in Kosovo with a notebook and a list of names. More than sixteen hundred people were still missing after the war. My first experience of politics was not in a parliament or a newsroom, but in the quiet rooms where families waited for news that never came. Human rights were not an abstraction. They were the question asked every day. Where is my son. Where is my mother. Who is accountable.

Those early years shaped how I look at power. I learned to read between the lines of official statements, to listen as much to what was not said as to what was being said, and to treat every reassurance with a private question. Later, as I moved into journalism and then relocated to London, those instincts stayed. London opened doors that Prishtina never could. Private members clubs frequented by former diplomats, retired intelligence officials, and the sort of people whose real work is never advertised. In t…