In truth, Albania has been liberated several times—just as many times as it has been occupied. In general, Albanians achieved liberation through rivers of blood, but at times the occupier was only passing through and, moreover, there was no time to organize resistance; nevertheless, after such departures, the word liberation was used. The last liberation, that is, the liberation in the Second World War, was in November 1944. If the Albanian partisans had not fought then, the day Albania was liberated would have been the day Germany surrendered. This is for the simple reason that the Germans would not have stayed in Albania alone. The Albanian Communists trumpeted Albania’s liberation as the Albanian people’s greatest victory, as the true victory. This is precisely one of the greatest historical falsifications. What was trumpeted as the greatest victory was merely the Albanian people’s most brutally violated victory. Bearing this great falsification in mind, one can see that this great falsifier of lies found it quite simple to falsify dates. There is a letter from Nako Spiru addressed to Enver Hoxha which, among other things, says: “Albania was liberated today at 16:00. What a wonderful coincidence! On the same day as Flag Day.” But the commander had other calculations. He was taking heads, not changing dates. Some of the former Albanian Communists know the contents of this letter. All it takes is one act of honesty to declare it. When was Albania liberated? Albanian MPs discuss it for two days, as if in a comedy scene. It is not normal to discuss for so long a date that falls within 50 years of history. What on earth will happen when the 500-year history is discussed? The important thing is to say that those who falsified everything, or their sons, should not be involved at all in rewriting history. They were given their chance once, and they abused it. Albania has been liberated several times, just as many times as it has been…

NEXHMEDIN SPAHIU On several occasions we have had the opportunity to hear statements by the leaders of Sandžak about their political will to break away from Serbia and join either Kosovo or Bosnia. When the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was recognized as a sovereign state, while Kosovo and Sandžak remained under Serbian occupation, the will of the people of Sandžak increasingly began to lean toward union with Kosovo. This territory, situated northwest of Kosovo and north of Malësia e Madhe, separating Serbia from Montenegro (that is, lying between them) and bordering Bosnia, is of considerable geostrategic importance, even though it is mountainous and sparsely populated. The inhabitants of Sandžak call themselves Muslims, but not Bosniaks; they speak a Slavic language, but feel themselves to be Albanian. In some villages, the older people wear white caps, like other Albanian highlanders. The well-known writer Zuvd Hoxhiq, in his work “Viti i Gusices,” writes about the events of 1878, when, in fact, this tragic half-conversion of the Albanians of these parts took place. That is, when these Albanians were forcibly made to change their language and clothing. The writer himself says that he descends from the Berisha tribe, while many Sandžak families bear Albanian surnames with the imposed suffix -iq. Thus, for example, Shkreli became Shkreliq, and Lajqi became Lajqi (Rasim Lajqi is one of the leaders of Sandžak). For the rest, most of the inhabitants of Sandžak descend from the Kelmend tribe. But history is history, and today’s political reality is political reality. Sandžak is now divided between Serbia and Montenegro, and its inhabitants’ wish is to unite with Kosovo. The demands of Sandžak’s leaders fall on deaf ears. Why? Since the beginning of the democratic movement in Kosovo and the drive to separate Kosovo from Serbia (Yugoslavia), two of the fundamental actions of Ibrahim Rugova’s political strategy have been: 1. Kosovo has had its own political identity as a constitutional unit of the Yugoslav federation (Sandžak has not); and 2. the fact that the demands of Kosovo’s Albanians are Muslim demands should not be emphasized at all. In other words, a sort of slogan: Albanians are Europeans, not Muslims. These two reasons were the main obstacles preventing Rugova from orienting himself toward this cooperation. Fortunately, however, the people of Sandžak, seeing that closer ties and cooperation with Kosovo were possible, were not deterred by Rugova’s disregard for their requests and their cooperation. On the basis of these relations, forged despite Rugova’s disregard for their requests for cooperation, the diplomacy of the Republic of Albania has never yet publicly mentioned the issue of Sandžak. Many may say that Albanian diplomacy already has enough problems with Kosovo, ‘Western Macedonia, etc., without also taking on the problem of Sandžak! These people should remember that solutions to problems do not gain priority because of their small weight, but precisely because of their great weight. And the problem of Sandžak is not an issue we can avoid, because we cannot escape it. It is a problem that naturally concerns us. It is not a problem we are taking onto our backs; it is a problem already on our backs, and it must be addressed. In the course of the processes toward a New World Order, in which the powerful Western states are trying to separate Montenegro from Serbia, the issue of Sandžak becomes a key issue in this regard. If Kosovo seriously intends to break away from Serbia, and if the diplomacy of the Republic of Albania seriously intends to help Kosovo in this direction, then this issue gains weight through the union of Sandžak with Kosovo. In this way, the work of the international community is made easier (continued on page 4).

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“Gentlemen! I depart this life with the thought that you are the people who understood me first in this land. The earth will not consume me if (...) all those who call themselves Albanians do not let my memory dissolve in the motherland. I have set aside my sorrows for the lifeless body and the sum for two meters of land in Albania. I close my eyes (...) in Albanian honor (...) you will fulfill this trust for me.” “Gentlemen! I depart this life with the thought that you are the people who understood me first in this land. The earth will not consume me if (...) all those who call themselves Albanians do not let my memory dissolve in the motherland. I have set aside my sorrows for the lifeless body and the sum for two meters of land in Albania. I close my eyes (...) in Albanian honor (...) you will fulfill this trust for me. Faik Konica WILL 1942 Faik Konica’s anti-funeral Visar ZHITI This is his testament, the last exhortation of the one who dies, which sometimes explains life better than life itself. A view of joy and of the most traditional life, meaningful, so brief, liberating and accusatory at the same time. We discover in it the account of a man who believes in people, who will love his homeland naturally and in Latin. He is someone who wants to be in the ranks, and with the determination that, as in antiquity, when we placed a gold coin between the dead person’s teeth to pay for death, Konica has a gold Albanian coin for the guilty. Somehow, in the... [garbled text] ... Faik Konica. Faik was a brilliant young man and, through ... [garbled text] ... Albania rejected its son; they buried him across the ocean to the funeral music of Wagner, whom he loved so much. But I would say that even our hearts were frozen, or that Faik Konica was in a column in Albania, in the name of dictatorship. Without a grave in that land, he, without water, without glory, faded away, and then silence-intrigue wrapped him like a muddy, tattered shroud. But despite these two deaths, poets and works bear witness: Faik Konica is one of those fortunate people who experience their own two deaths. He is a man with a rich and active life, intelligent and productive, with a lasting brilliance. The stages of his life are Albania, Turkey, Greece, France, Belgium, England, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, America. He knew the languages of these countries and many others, praised or ... [garbled text]. He graduated several times, ... [garbled text] ... artistically and linguistically ... [as it seems [?]] journalist, [?]. much. ... [garbled text] ... And so, as if from a good nightmare, his death is condemned to an endless life. F. Konica, back in the previous century, when he was an exceptional intellectual, accidentally became educated. “Union is the most [garbled] thing a person can believe in: to say what the heart desires, to write what the heart desires, to do what the heart desires, with the exception of those who are against another person’s freedom.” Konica founded Albanian journalism, its own aesthetics and not aesthetics—on the contrary. His feasts are brilliant. Not because they had the darkness of the past as their background, but also because of today’s revolutionary ... [garbled text]. In someone’s hands, as if there were portraits of Abdyl Frashëri, Naim Frashëri, Ali Gjergj Kastrioti, Mëkë [?]. much. The man of [?] and [?] is to be [?], [?] and [?]. Ali Pasha, he rediscovered Gjergj Kastrioti and his forgotten flag, discovered Çajupi and Asdreni, and what is astonishing is that he [?] from a distance and managed to reach where it is not so easy to see one’s contemporaries together, to see, to gain distance and discover why they will matter. Konica is also merciless: he strikes and knocks down justly, just as he rightly accepts or ... [garbled text]. As much as he is a warm enrichment of the day and of history, he is an angry whip; a leaping knife that opens wounds that can be healed. From poets of the rallying cry, who find the ... [garbled text] ... as much within their companions as beyond them, he becomes a divine, anthology-worthy figure and then writes true fairy tales whose events, although set in Africa, have their ... [garbled text] and paradox in Albania. He would never manage to complete his novel “Doktor Gjilpëra [?],” the novel of the drama of Matura, just as in [?].

After the entry of the Macedonians into the People’s Assembly, my four-percent words are proven true: there are mice in Parliament. I told you this m[?] beforehand, but for your own truth, you are not listening seriously to my accounts. That is your business, but I will continue doing this too. These words, called N A, were so enlivened in a dictator, and the constitutionalists had the opportunity not to age p[?] permanently throughout all the days of the week, so that they could get away from the dictator; he could not find Her, but She approved, waving with her hand the newspapers that approached the entrance and the Parliament with her. Meanwhile, in Parliament you have seen it par[?] in a [?]. The prisoners of [?] sent to [?] open space, in [?] they force [?] to head 16 [?] with [?] in the morning[?] [?] It seems it was [?] like [?] that for 100 years it would not [?] [?] to [?] Some [?] under [?] passed[?] [?] from [?] [?] [?] [?] . “How did you decide to identify that [?] a [?] [?], you, Alja, truly [?], [?] [?] [?] .”

Photo: Muharrem Mjek.

After 54 years, Leka Zogu, the son of Ahmet Zogu, king of Albania until 1944, entered Albania. After 54 years, Leka Zogu, the son of Ahmet Zogu, entered Albania. Ahmet Zogu was king of Albania until 1944, when the newly issued constitution declared him illegitimate. A tearful arrival after several months. And also by a party called the Legality Party, which seeks the return of Leka Zogu as king of the Albanians, perhaps to fulfill that time about which we can say: once upon a time there was a king. One could even say: once upon a time there were many (note: on page 4).