Yesterday, the 27th consecutive protest of the civic revolt against the government was held, which began as an opposition to the resort project in Zvërnec and Sazan, but has now transformed into a much broader movement with the main demand for the removal of Prime Minister Edi Rama and the socialist majority. One of the entities hiding behind these protests is Soros, who has been the main financier of dozens of NGOs that are an integral part of the protests, while international media support comes from powerful media outlets financed by him that are openly attacking the Trump family’s investment with headlines such as “Ivanka Trump ignites Albania”, etc.
In the current situation, where heavy media artillery has fired on the Trump family and Albania has become part of a titanic war between the left and the right, the role of the Soros family seems to have sacrificed its loyal “soldier”, Edi Rama, for the interests of the American left but also of the Sorosist movement. From what has happened currently, the Albanian prime minister is buffered between the Trump family and the Soros family, where his role remains unclear whether he is a victim of Soros’ war or his secret collaborator in the war against the Republicans and President Trump himself.
Soros seems to have sacrificed his loyal soldier, as the latter has also created huge political costs due to corruption allegations. In this case, he is serving as a “cleansing” of a problem that has already become a burden for the Sorosian network. Meanwhile, suspicions have also increased in the Trump camp that Rama himself is playing with two goals, trying to maintain ties with both sides.
Fred Abrahams takes to the field
Fred Abrahams, an important figure for Soros, but also for the American secret services, who has been one of the characters who has been active wherever there have been tectonic changes in the Balkans and beyond, has descended onto the battlefield. The fact of Fred Abrahams’ involvement in the current protests has also been declared by Edi Rama’s media man, Baton Haxhiu, who has stated that Abrahams has been active and present against Edi Rama during the days of the protests.
Fred Abrahams, the American journalist and former senior director of Human Rights Watch, has returned to the center of public debate in Albania after his criticism of the government and the support he has expressed for the recent protests. The relationship between Fred Abrahams and Edi Rama begins in the most difficult years of the Albanian transition. Abrahams first arrived in Albania during 1993–1994 precisely in the framework of projects financed by the Soros Foundation. Abrahams in his book “New Albania – From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe” documented the dramatic events of 1997.
In this book, he describes in detail the violence inflicted on Edi Rama, who was a publicist and activist at the time, as well as on Ndre Legisi, presenting Rama as one of the figures hit by the government of the time. The relationship between them continued even years later. In December 2015, Fred Abrahams promoted his book in Tirana and was received by Edi Rama at the Center for Opening and Dialogue (COD) at the Prime Minister’s Office. At the time, Rama publicly praised Abrahams’ book, describing it as a professionally impartial reflection and an important memoir of the 25 years of Albanian transition. But over the years, the relationship changed radically.
In numerous public interviews and analyses, Abrahams has stated that the Rama of today no longer bears any resemblance to the dissident, artist and human rights activist he knew in the early 1990s. One of the strongest criticisms is related to the Albanian prime minister’s rapprochement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which Abrahams has considered a deviation from the democratic ideals that Rama once represented. In recent writings, Fred Abrahams has described Edi Rama’s political journey as a transformation “from the critic of 1997 to the autocrat of today.”
According to him, although Albania is no longer in the chaos of 1997, power has been concentrated in a single hand and the government has taken on authoritarian elements. His recent stances on the protests have brought strong reactions from the Socialist Party. Majority exponents, including Taulant Balla, have published statements and videos accusing Fred Abrahams of recycling Serbian propaganda against KLA commanders. From the man who documented the violence against Edi Rama and was publicly praised by him in 2015, he has today become one of the harshest international critics of the Albanian Prime Minister’s government.
In parallel, his early association with the Soros Foundation and his connections to Soros continue to be used as elements of the political debate in Albania. Abrahams’ international career also includes the documentation of Serbian crimes in Kosovo (1998–1999), where his testimony served against Milošević in The Hague, as well as missions to North Macedonia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Today, from the witness and defender of the 1990s, Fred Abrahams has become one of Rama’s most vocal opponents, seeing him as the personification of the failure of the promises of democratic transition.