The Sudists threaten a hunger strike. The companies refuse the administrators Milo resigns. Arbnori is waiting on Meidani. The Greeks open their purse strings

If the weapons are not registered, the disarmament operations will remain lost in the fog Until order is established, it is impossible to understand the chaos that continues to plague Albania. Weapons are still in people’s hands and we hear gunfire every night, now even more so in the capital. Without general disarmament, there will be no stopping the nation’s haemorrhage. Almost every day the black хроникles of the newspapers are full. As long as weapons remain in Albanian hands, logic and temperament suggest, there will be killings. Even the special forces operations have been ineffective, because 90% of those armed have not been disarmed. The question troubling everyone is: Will Albanians hand over their weapons voluntarily? As things stand, the day of general disarmament seems far off. Ceka’s high-profile statements, interviews and television debates have had only a temporary emotional effect. On 20 July, the current Minister of the Interior declared that, through the police, he would organize the most spectacular operations, which would lead step by step to the disarmament of the most heavily armed people in the world. When that statement was made, only in Tirana were 600,000 Kalashnikovs, machine guns, cannons, grenades, tons of explosives, many hand grenades, etc. registered. Yet by last night, only 5,736 weapons of all kinds had been collected in Tirana. The figure speaks for itself about how effective the disarmament campaign has been. Ceka’s phases of the operation seem to be burning out one after another while the statements remain in newspaper columns. Law and order is still under siege. The people are more heavily armed than the police. Not all the gangs have left Albania. Some continue to celebrate their victories over food and dinners and lunches with money snatched from banks by force of arms. At the Ministry of Order it is said that, nationwide, only 120,000 weapons have been collected. When you look at the statistics, you understand that only heavy weapons have been surrendered, while revolvers and Kalashnikovs have remained in homes. Wouldn’t it be better for Ceka to revive the proposal to register the weapons and then collect them? If this is not done, if the houses and the people who possess the weapons are not identified precisely, Ceka’s operations will wander for a long time in the fog. Perhaps the example of Devoll, where police stations in cooperation with the local elders are handing over weapons, could serve as a starting model for Ceka’s operations.

p.21 - Shall I bring you a few more too? Brokaj: Foreign agencies have exploited the Albanian fog. 18 million $ from Belgrade p.20

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