Speaking at a commemorative ceremony at the Prime Minister’s Office for the four people killed during anti-government protests 15 years ago, attended by victims’ family members, Rama said justice for Jan. 21 had not been betrayed but deliberately placed in the hands of an independent judiciary.

“We have upheld that responsibility with dignity and have not violated our solemn commitment, because by freeing justice from political power and establishing SPAK and the Special Court, we created- for the first time – the conditions to end impunity through law, not custom,” Rama said, stressing that accountability must come through judicial institutions, not the government or political parties.

The government head said that until the new justice system delivers a genuine trial for Jan. 21, it risks appearing “increasingly old,” warning that the case remains “an open wound in the foundations of the new justice.”

“Justice for Jan. 21 is the moral cornerstone of the new justice system and of Albania’s rule of law,” he concluded.

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