Doubletake: Breaking a blood oath

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In 2005 Tani Prroj was pastor of a small Albanian church and his wife Elona was a stay-at-home mom. But then Tani’s uncle shot and killed a mountain man, casting the family into a cycle of revenge that can go on for generations. Albania is one of the last places on earth that still practices “blood feud.” It’s a cultural imperative and an impulse most of us recognize all too well: the desire for justice–and then some.Support sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth at wng.org/donate (http://wng.org/donate). Music licensed via podcastmusic.com (http://podcastmusic.com/) from ALIBI, Atomica Music, Strike Audio, Merge Music, Pink Shark MusicAudio clips from Taken 2, and Sons of Cain.

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0:00.0	From world radio, this is Double Take.
0:07.0	This is a very Albanian Greek style, it's a type of lasagna but we call that pastito.
0:22.5	On a Monday evening last January, Elona Proy served dinner to guests at her home in Tirana,
0:28.0	Albania.
0:29.0	Among the visitors was world radio correspondent Jenny Ruff, you've probably heard her on
0:33.4	legal docket.
0:34.9	After a prayer and a toast to good cheers, Elona told a story.
0:51.4	In September of 2005, Elona and her husband, Tani, were living in northern Albania, a region
0:56.7	called Škoda.
0:58.4	Tani was the pastor of a local church.
1:00.4	Elona was a stay at home mom to their two kids, Sarah, two, and Gabriel, four.
1:04.8	It was a pretty normal weekday.
1:07.2	We were living live.
1:08.2	Tani was passed away in the church, both kids were sick, they were getting injection on
1:14.4	the day.
1:15.4	A nurse was supposed to stop by the apartment, but as Elona and her kids waited.
1:19.8	We heard guns.
1:21.0	We heard guns, what has happened.
1:22.6	The nurse finally arrived with some news.
1:24.9	The nurse came to do injection.
1:27.0	Somebody killed somebody, she said.
1:28.7	We don't know where he is.
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