Flaka Surroi and the Art of Silencing Dissent

Flaka Surroi preaches democracy but silences dissent. When media gatekeepers delete criticism instead of debating it, is it journalism, or just another tool of power?

In a region where history is as much written by the victors as it is censored by their enablers, Kosovo’s media landscape has long danced on a tightrope between truth and complicity. Flaka Surroi, a figurehead of KOHA Group, once positioned herself as a vanguard of journalistic integrity, a voice of reason in a cacophony of political noise. Yet, when placed under scrutiny, her own actions betray the very principles she purports to defend. The hypocrisy of her stance is not just an individual failing; it is emblematic of a wider systemic decay, where media institutions that should hold power to account instead wield it selectively, preserving the status quo that has suffocated Kosovo’s democratic evolution for over two decades.

Surroi’s recent public musings on democracy and the electoral process¹ exude a moral superiority that, at first glance, appears to champion democratic principles. She waxes lyrical about the sanctity of the vote, about the need for an unblemished electoral process…