. This is not the time to reopen the budgets and cells of the dictatorship. This is not the time to build concentration camps. This is not the time for freedom to be silenced and imprisoned. This is not the time for human life and spirit to be massacred. It is time for Musine Kokalari, that fragile young woman, and her civic ideal to win and rise again tomorrow. REMEMBER! The Albanian sons and daughters who were subjugated by the dictatorship, intellectuals and patriots whose ideas, bodies and spirits the long communist dictatorship massacred. They will be absent from tomorrow’s vote. Remember, it is the vote that will say “Yes” to the Republic, “Yes” to civilization, “Yes” to freedom. You farmers and workers, you their sons and daughters, you their grandsons and granddaughters, tomorrow you will vote for THEM, too. Tomorrow you will win for them, too. Because it is time for Albania to win. REMEMBER! The Albanian sons and daughters, martyrs of the national liberation war, will be absent from tomorrow’s vote. Their dream of freedom and civilization, brutally betrayed by the dictatorship, will win tomorrow. Tomorrow is the time for Albania to win. REMEMBER! Only three years ago, the dictatorship had occupied our streets; savagely, the dictatorship killed and violated our lives, our dreams and our spirits. The dictatorship had forcibly entered our homes. It barbarically killed us at the border. Remember, the shadow of the dictatorship still haunts our streets. Vote for the death of the dictatorship. Because it is time for the dictatorship to win. Because it is time for Albania to win. Tomorrow is the time for our murdered Albanians, for our divided souls. Tomorrow is the time for reconciliation. THE TIME FOR ALBANIA TO WIN! FOR ALBANIA TO WIN, REMEMBER! Albania has been endangered and sold out by a handful of people with corrupted blood, a group of anti-Albanians. Tomorrow is not their time. Tomorrow is not their chance. Tomorrow is the time for Albania to win. REMEMBER! The shadow of General Zerva’s massacre over Çamëria still hovers near our souls. Remember, Çamëria continues to be betrayed by a handful of people. Remember, divided Kosovo is tragically being targeted for further division and for hostility toward the motherland. Tomorrow is the moment for Albania to win. Tomorrow Albania wins, Kosovo wins, Çamëria wins. Tomorrow is the time for Albania to win. REMEMBER! God has been imprisoned. Man has been imprisoned. Tomorrow is the moment to hear the word of God. Tomorrow is the time to love God. TOMORROW IS THE TIME FOR ALBANIA TO WIN! View of the large rally in Tirana. Photo: A. Babani

Communist conservatives try to resemble royalist conservatives, both aiming for the legislative quotas of the systems they defend There is now another attempt to cover the political landscape of our opposition with national colors. A clause has been found in the Draft Constitution which, according to some politicians, does not make the unification of Albanians possible. In connection with this reasoning come some of the shells of “patriots” and beati, but what is needed is political analysis and a real decoding of this understandable effort. Whenever political forces are humiliated in Albania, they call for progress in the process of integration into Europe, something that hinders things and is exploited by those who think Europeans do not dance. Whenever Albania, during these two years, has been faced with a mind, they have sought to defend the rights of the elderly and integration into Europe, something that obstructs and is exploited by others. The communist conservatives try to resemble the royalist conservatives, both seeking the legislative quotas of the systems they defend, or to be independent in politics, wanting to be one step ahead of Albanian politics—not to lead it, but to block its way. This is what happened with “independent politicians” from Kosovo and Albania two years ago, when Berisha sent NATO Albania’s request for membership. They did not look at what integration into NATO structures could actually do for Albania, but at what would entirely strengthen Berisha’s position in defining the geography of the Albanian nation. As if Albania would change in one year, when the Albanian “democrat” was completely isolated amid the Greeks and Serbs, rather than accept the framework of the official European protocol and make way for another future for itself. The same thing has now happened with the draft Constitution, where, for political purposes, greater importance is being given to the fact that a formulation about “Albanians” for the unification of the nation is missing, rather than to the real fact that the Constitution opens up political and human potential to achieve it. And they have presented a shortcoming of the Constitution, first from the right, to the Albanians, beating ... with the Constitution and “Albanian” replies in the presentation of integration, rather than Albanians, beating ... Zogu is proclaimed king of all Albanians; this thesis was immediately taken up again by the left-wing (inter)nationalists, who call it here “national betrayal”. Servet Pëllumbi in Pezë tries to give a national coloring to his reservations about the Constitution by demanding that it guarantee the unification of Albanians, without pausing to explain where this Constitution obstructs that unification. Apparently, there is another reason, greater than the national one, for creating confusion with this thesis. The first reason is domestic political tactics aimed at opposing the Constitution, while the other serves the political struggle to thwart Albania’s integration into Europe. It is, at its core, conservative. MERO BAZE (continued on page 2)

The “Intellectuals for Democratic Culture” Association continued its survey during these days in Tirana, Durrës, Shkodër, Vlorë, Korçë and Elbasan. The number of respondents reached 28,964, with the same questions that had also been formulated in the first survey. It is worth noting that, following the progressive change in the political situation, the number of people who refused to answer has decreased considerably. SURVEY RESULTS: - 75.8% will vote for the Constitution. - 13.6% will vote against the draft presented. - 10.2% had not yet decided whether to go to the polling stations. “INTELLECTUALS FOR DEMOCRATIC CULTURE” ASSOCIATION Tirana, 4 11. 1994 In the coming issues you will read

According to the recollections of a former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs “...Ramizi (Alia — editor’s note) did not tell me any specific names, but when I went to the place I found Skënder Gjinushi, Luan Hajdaraga, Sabit Broka, Xhevat Llohi, Paskali... There were others too whom I did not know well. That was the first, brief meeting. Later I went again.”

DR. IBRAHIM RUGOVA: Adem Demaçi: BALLOT PAPER Do you accept the draft Constitution of the Republic of Albania approved by the Parliamentary Constitutional Commission? YES NO Your “Yes” vote Will mean: - Yes to the rule of law - Yes to pluralism and human freedom - Yes to the cause of national unification - Yes to the revival of the impoverished Homeland - Yes to reconciliation between people.

Honorable Mr. President, Sali Berisha, dear citizens of Tirana and Albania, dear Albanians wherever you are, I greet you in the name of the people of Kosovo and the other Albanian regions. Congratulations on the solemn act of the referendum on the Constitution! Congratulations on the democratic Constitution! Long live Albanian integration! I greet you in the name of the brave people of Kosovo, the people of sacrifice. Cheers, and may God bless us!

We want our Albania to be strong, because when Albania is strong, we are strong too; and we will become so because every citizen has freedom of speech, has the opportunity to express himself freely, to think freely, and to develop his talents and abilities freely, for his own good, for the good of the homeland, for the good of the whole world. This Constitution guarantees the citizen and the individual all social and national rights; therefore, long live the Constitution!

The madwoman N of Tirana was seen earlier on Thursday in the streets of the capital, shouting: “Don’t mistake soap for cheese! Justice is not on Albania’s side,” she said. “Justice is with Servet Pëllumbi, Gramoz Ruçi, Luan Hajdaraga, Moikom Zeqo. The truth is with them. Leave Albania to these people. They know how to put Albania right. The Socialist Party has no members,” the madwoman said. “The members belong to the Democratic Alliance. Have we ever heard Milo speak against Camëria?” the madwoman asked. “Now I’ll tell you a little story,” she said. “Three years ago, a football match began. For 80 minutes the referee favored Team A. He awarded every foul to Team A. The fans in the stadium stands believed that Team B would score. Ah, when the 80th minute had been played against Team B, in the final minute the referee awarded a ‘penalty’ to Team B. This is a living thing. Who is the referee? Where is the soldier? The blood apostle of Besnik Shaqiri. Down with Kosovo!” shouted the madwoman. “Long live Albania’s maneuvers! ... let’s help them prepare the ropes for Albania. ‘I will vote against,’ said Gramoz Ruçi. ‘This serves democracy,’ the man dressed in Muslim robes told him. ‘I too will vote against,’ said a short man. ‘And you call this the Constitution? That was his Constitution,’ added the man who looked like Enver Hoxha. ‘I too am against,’ said someone dressed extravagantly. Late in the afternoon the madwoman was seen on the outskirts of Tirana, surrounded by a crowd of people growling as if howling in unison. ‘Albania needs former minister Ruçi and the other former ministers,’ said the madwoman. ‘These people are all too social,’ she said. ‘We hear bayonets and red. These others carry red treachery. These others are liberal democrats. They were European,’ said the madwoman. ‘Those others over there,’ she said, ‘have a red rose; red roses grow in Albania,’ said the madwoman. The other group is profoundly liberal democratic. Albania. This madwoman, the other group is profoundly liberal democratic. Albania.’ THE CHRONICLER