— The daughter of Viktor Barman, Hitler’s right-hand man, said “she was ashamed of her father’s crimes.” — The granddaughter of Herman Hasses, a high-ranking Nazi official: “When other people find out that I am the granddaughter of a criminal, they look at me with hatred.” — The daughter of a notorious Nazi criminal who invented crematoria and experiments on thousands of victims: “I would not want to be his daughter.” The dictatorship and communist criminals in Albania, in many cases, surpassed the imagination of Nazi crime. — Some Albanian sons of criminal and persecutor fathers have seized new political flags and climbed their way into parliament. — Have you ever heard any of these politicians—sons of persecutors—speak out against and condemn their criminal fathers and the crimes?! — Democracy is suspect and cannot be built on crime, concealment, speculation and abuse of it— The former political prisoner X., around seventy years old, hesitates to speak about his small band of “five men” (he has counted twenty-four years in prison cells), a former partisan and member of the Vigut heroes’ band, was replaced by one of them in Mirdita, precisely the person who was first given the order to kill Bardhok Bieba (an order he did not carry out). He hesitates to confess, hesitates to name his persecutors and those of others. “I am seventy years old,” he says, “without support (I still have not been granted a pension; I am still working to reach pension age, as though the twenty-four years in prisons and torture were not enough. I am still working because the documentation that would validate my long years in prison has disappeared). ‘I am at a crossroads,’ he adds, ‘and I cannot tell the criminal story of myself and the others, because they are still powerful...’ ‘And above all, what would telling the story of all the former persecutors bring to democracy...? I just don’t understand,’ adds this former prisoner, ‘how the sons of criminals and persecutors have the nerve to engage in politics.’ “I would not ask the state to put my former persecutor on trial every day, however criminal he may be—so criminal that even the most powerful imagination could not picture it—but I cannot understand how the son of a genuine former criminal can be involved in politics today.” “I was in prison for 24 years; in total, it was more. We all had persecutors; I am not talking about the small-time informers. There were hideous former persecutors, people of standing and repute, with broad influence in Shkodër. His tortures of political prisoners are well known.” (Continued on page 2) YLLI RAKIPI

In previous issues, the editorial office of the newspaper “Republika” informed the public about Albanian oil that had set off for Serbia. A few days ago, one of our journalists came across such a case: Five Yugoslav tankers with highly suspicious license plates (Bosnian plates at the front, Kosovo plates at the rear) were travelling from Ballsh toward the border. Their plates were: PE 2367, PE 3217, PE 3188, GZ 32359, GZ 32353. This observation naturally raises the questions: — How do these tankers get through customs? Who sells this oil? Who signs? Who stamps it? Where are the Financial Police and the other agencies that should deal with this matter? These questions await answers. Correspondent of “Republika”

— God is dead, Marx is dead, and I am pleased — VINCENZO SCASCIA As far as Christianity is concerned, by looking carefully at the Antichrist, we can shed more light on it and be given a deeper and truer explanation than the version of Christianity offered by the PIRANDELLIAN ALPHABET, as a surrogate product of materialism and Faguet’s government of Babylon. A few years ago, it was the Soviet Union that was considered Europe’s true opposing side. Today, the West is trying to redraw the borders of the countries of the former Soviet Union, outlining its own respective geographical spheres. We are in peacetime, but there is a fear, as Nietzsche says in “Aristocracy,” that peace is achieved only when one side or the other is recognized as MASTER. Leonardo Sciascia said: “God is dead, Marx is dead and I am pleased,” just as the priest who rebelled against God signed himself, saying: “The West did not win; we have all lost.” But there is a systematic approach by the cardinals, wholly or partly inspired by an imaginary counter-reformation, which offers us an old pragmatic value: I do not [unclear] politics. It has a new neotemporal value, coming from the Catholic theology of Hans Kung. On the other hand, there is a new proposal for the Antichrist—or rather, for the Antichrist as “The Defeat of God”—by Sergio Quinzio: “we are obliged to think about Christianity, which has constituted the highest and most important point of reference for the West: Catholicism... The non-existence of God can be demonstrated, but not just from today—from time immemorial.” “The Pope champions the idea of SOLLECITUDO REI SOCIALIS” with his encyclical CENTESIMUS ANNUS and the right to an economy. This is the extraction of the utopian product, of that “utopia” of ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM’S ENCOMIUM MORIAE, which eliminates contradictions by transcending them. It is the hope of the peoples of the Third Millennium: the end of “-ism” and the starting point of what, in the prophetic... (Continued on page 3)

It is hardly necessary to point out that the most widespread currency in the world today is the US dollar. It is impossible to carry out various transactions in trade, on the stock exchange, etc., without it. But what do we know about the dollar’s “biography”? The dollar is printed at a special printing works located in DALLËN (Massachusetts) on special paper made up of 75 percent cotton and 25 percent material that comes from wood pulp. In the USA, nothing else is guarded as strictly as this paper. Fourteen special presses working continuously produce, in 24 hours... 22.5 million banknotes. By the end of January 1992, there were 4,385,753,541 one-dollar banknotes and 2,139,495,921,740 banknotes of [text cut off]

While protesting the good relations between Albania and Greece, deputy Miço, who until that moment had criticized Albanian foreign policy for pursuing active relations with the minority, spoke in the chamber. His colleague Majkaridhis, in order to calm the room, acknowledged the ambassador’s intervention and then began explaining to those around him that it had been a translation error from Greek into Albanian.

A foreign journalist was curious about Mr. Miço’s speech and asked an Albanian journalist to introduce him to him. “I’ll introduce you,” the Albanian journalist said, “but first Mr. Miço must be informed,” he explained, “because he cannot speak to anyone without consulting the Greek ambassador.” “How can I believe that?” the foreigner asked. “It’s quite simple,” the Albanian journalist told him. “The part of the speech that was written on paper, and the level of the exchange he had with Mr. Balla, which he was forced to conduct without notes, show that Mr. Miço likes things written down before he reads them.”

Ana, this woman in her forties, has been looking for her missing son for two years, Olsi Jorian, aged 18. At the anti-communist demonstration of December 13, 1990, he was among the 13 martyrs. The crowd moved through the city, surrounding Enver’s statue with a mass of people who had gathered in Shkodër’s square, while agents of the State Security were waiting to arrest him. At that time, Ana herself told him to leave and not get involved; he disappeared, aged 18. What happened there? Ana has been searching at the border. But the passport of another person... still... [unclear] ... who was asking the young people to leave the Kosovo area, since in the legend of Kosovo she hopes that her son is [unclear], hopes... This hope... then to ask where, “in the homeland, at the border of Albania.” Many Albanian mothers are trying to find out what happened to their relatives who lost their lives at the border. In Shkodër, Mehmeti, at the Shkodër branch, [unclear], a complete list of the old cases and border incidents, says that in Shkodër “there has been a huge number of unjustified killings.” The documentation of the 1st DPR and the secret court has been deposited in Tirana. A colonel of the relevant department confirms that “there are political prisoners who were held in the cells; the police have records. Anyone arrested in the city...” According to all the documentation they possess, “but perhaps still ... the commission that ...” One of the answers, meanwhile, is that Shkodër’s political prisoners, and people throughout Malësia e Madhe, are searching, mothers and old people, at the sites of border killings and disappearances from 14 years ago. The list is long. But from it we can understand. (Continued on page 2)

“Arben Imami for president! Long live the new president!” Yesterday morning, many people had gathered opposite the steps of the “Arbëria” Hotel. Among them, S.K., a lively young man, was making a commotion. “I knew there’d be a demonstration. My heart told me, so I came (S.K. is from Burrel). I met him a month ago on the central promenade. ‘I’ve come because there’ll be a demonstration. I’d die for a demonstration.’” The crowd on the steps of the “Arbëria” kept growing and growing. And what was going to happen here? Opposite the laughing crowd, that unfortunate woman you have probably seen was shouting. “Long live President Arben Imami! Long live the new president!” What a dream the poor woman must have had! The day before, she had been shouting, “We want Xheili Gjoni! Down with Ramiz Alla-lia!” Quite suddenly, she was delivering a new speech: “Arben Imami, Arben Imam! He is president! The elections are over...” People were laughing, while she kept shouting, as though possessed, her voice growing louder and louder. “Ptooey!” S.K. cursed, thinking it was a demonstration. Socialist humor Anecdotes about ...

After the proclamation of pluralism, Albanian society is facing theft of a kind never seen before. They even stole the lists of deputies from the table of the presidium of the first pluralist parliament. This remains the most unprecedented theft. In recent days, Mr. Sejdi Kondi was robbed in a barbaric manner. According to his testimony, while he was in Italy, a group of people linked by social ties to the party... its former chairman is now without a party. I will leave it to the source cited to ... bring the matter before the court. In recent days, the People’s Assembly discussed the situation in the Balkans. In the halls of the foreign [ministry/affairs], a very unusual incident involving ambassadors took place. They (knowing a [unclear]) listened attentively to the deputies’ discussions. As soon as Comrade Fatos Nano began speaking, the ambassadors called for help...

— VILSON LARKO AND PANDELI CHALA FROM THE DISTRICT OF FIER HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED IN IRAQ FOR A YEAR — The exodus of Albanians over the last two years has surpassed every kind of imagination. The citizens Vilson Lako and Pandeli Chala, not “preferring” the chance offered by neighboring countries (Italy, Greece), tried another option. After entering Turkey, they sought work in Iraq. Having passports and entry visas for Turkey, they were allowed by Turkish customs to cross into Iraq, where, after wandering for several days in several cities, they were arrested by police in one of them, Basra. After two months in isolation, the Iraqi authorities staged a trial and sentenced the two Albanians to five years in prison on November 27, 1991. Our two citizens explain that the trial took place without any interpreter or lawyer, and that the court did not take into consideration even one kilogram of the explanations given by the two Albanians. Our two citizens remain in prison today, although several times they have written letters and sought help from various organizations, such as the U.N. (International) and others. Can the two Albanian citizens imprisoned through their own fault be helped, and how—since they crossed into Iraq via Turkey back in November of last year?