Assembly of Sinja (1912), the national character of his memorandum

Abstract

Sinja Assembly, whose 100th anniversary was commemorated and celebrated in July of this jubilee year of the 100th anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence, belongs to those great historical events of the last stage of general uprisings of the years 1910-1912, which led to the successful winning of the Albanian national movement, in the Proclamation of Independence and in the creation of the Independent Albanian State.
In that historical-political process, all Albanians were mobilized in an overall political, cultural, armed, war. Sinja Assembly, which met in Sinja village of Berat and was held from 10 to 23 July 1912, was an integral part of that historical-political process.
It met and was held at a time when anti-Ottoman general uprising of 1912 had included and was developed across the whole ethnic Albanian area.
The political and historical moment was special and gave to the Assembly of Sinja an exceptional value because the decisions there taken were an answer to the national historic tasks set before the Albanian nation in those moments. The goals of its decisions were in conformity with the political strategy of the Albanian national movement during the Renaissance.
The contents of Memorandum (basic document) adopted by the Assembly of Sinja expressed clearly and publicly this aspect where everything was judged and estimated on the basis of the national interests, where everything was treated and required for all the Albanian nation and territories, without any separation.
It was another clear and comprehensive expression and an evidence of the significant political and organizational unity of the Albanian national movement in the whole-ethnic Albanian space.