THE HIMARA COMMUNITY OF ALBANIA

Press Release

The murder of 38-year-old Aristotle Guma for ethnic reasons in Himare organized by a group of Albanian citizenship, has created a concern in the Himara community, which addresses international institutions to take into consideration for the situation in which is today Himara region.

Even as the murder in a terrorist act with greek old origin, Pyrro Bollano to 2007, The Himara Community had called the Albanian government, to take initiatives for transparent, revealing vandal act terrorizing dozens of children and women in the middle of town of Himara, now another of violence kills as old of experience of paramilitary groups hit Haimara systematically happen during the local elections since 2000, has shocked the entire Himara community.

The Himara community, calls the international institutions such as NATO, OSCE and EU to follow the attention and causes of the murder investigation in case of Aristotelis Gumas, and also become interlocutors of solving many outstanding issues left in the hands or Albanian government and institutions, such as community safety issues, land ownership, identity and exercise control of an autonomous of large local authority etc..