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| Floreta Rasha after came to Albania |
Two years after she was repatriated from Syria, Floresha Rasha has decided to testify about how she joined the ISIS group and how Albanian citizens are recruited.
According to News24, Rasha has cooperated with SPAK (Special Anti-Corruption Structure; Albanian: Struktura e Posaçme Anti-Korrupsion), which has launched investigations into how Albanian citizens are recruited and sent to fight in Syria.
In her testimony, she states that Genc Balla, the imam who is currently in prison, convinced her to travel to Syria with her children.
Floresha says that she left Prishtina for Syria. According to her, in the camp where they were stationed, they received $50 per person once a month in order to survive.
"6 months after Diamanti went to Syria, he begged me to go there with the children too. I was convinced by Genc Balla, the self-proclaimed imam of the "Unaza e Re". I traveled from Prishtina with my two children, my daughter, and my young son. 6 months after I went there, my first husband was killed with whom I had a daughter and a son. Then I decided to marry again, with Lavdrim Muhaxheri, (known as one of the chief terrorists). After 3 years of marriage, I had 2 children, one of whom passed away and the daughter survived.
Muhajheri was killed by an airstrike. I was forced to marry a fighter in Syria of Iranian origin. I had a baby. Many Albanians came to the camp. We used to go near the ISIS camp and get there 50 dollars per person and with that money we survived. When the last battle happened when we were going to be transferred to the Al-Hol camp, the girl I had with Diamant Rasha has been killed," Floresha Rasha said.
She said that many children and other Albanian citizens have been killed in Syria. Since she had a marriage with Lavdërim Muhaxhri, it is considered a key testimony and evidence for the Albanian prosecution, as it had the names of all the Albanians who were there.
Floresha Rasha also confessed about the role of women in the Syrian camps, as did Alrmira Kastrati, the daughter-in-law of Genc Balla, the self-proclaimed imam.