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Armend Zemaj

Polish over Principle: Bahri Cani’s Response to a Public Assault
After Armend Zemaj punched a citizen, Bahri Cani condemned “violence” yet domesticated it as “complexity”— then liked an ad hominem against me…
Oct 30 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Punch in the Square: Kosovo’s Democratic Stress Test
An MP’s punch in Pristina crystallises a deeper crisis collapsing restraint, performative media, fraying trust and rising vulnerabilities that foreign…
Oct 26 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Punch That Exposed Kosovo's Rotten Press
A politician’s punch is not provocation or “self-defence.” It is authoritarian violence and the media that excused it helped assault truth, democracy…
Oct 26 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Armend Zemaj’s Blow and the Cowardice of Power
When an MP’s fist silences a citizen’s word, democracy dies twice, once in the strike itself, and once in the applause that follows.
Oct 25 • Vudi Xhymshiti
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