09/07/1999
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Republika

9 July 1999

Godo: The Albanian state should protect our emigrants in Greece

Godo: The Albanian state should protect our emigrants in Greece P. 3

Karamitro: We are on the verge of the collapse of new pyramid schemes

Karamitro: We are on the verge of the collapse of new pyramid schemes P. 9

Thaçi: Beware, Bukoshi’s forces will destabilize Albania

Thaçi: Beware, Bukoshi’s forces will destabilize Albania P. 3

The Shkodër gang is exposed

P. 9 “This family invested a great deal in the Shkodër gang. According to the Prosecutor’s Office evidence, they spent 25,000 lekë a day on fruit and cigarettes. The producers had made an international telephone line available to the people of Shkodër through the Berat Post Office, so that it could be made available to the people of Shkodër” P. 6 URA VAJGURORË: Few mysteries of the gruesome tragedy revealed. “This family invested a great deal in the Shkodër gang. According to the Prosecutor’s Office evidence, they spent 25,000 lekë a day on fruit and cigarettes. The producers had made an international telephone line available to the people of Shkodër through the Berat Post Office, so that it could be made available to the people of Shkodër”

A shameful diplomatic bargain

The Albanian government prefers the role of “self-censorship.” Although the Greek government has committed acts of defiant violence and terrorism against Albanian emigrants, ignoring all international norms, bilateral agreements and its many promises, the representative of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without doing anything... [text missing] launched a campaign against crime. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs agrees with the absurd, amplified idea of the “criminality” supposedly associated with Albanians, merely to justify the stance of the Greek authorities, who are deporting innocent people, people in hardship, and family members who are trying to earn their daily bread. Our diplomats and government officials do not ask why innocent Albanian citizens are being recruited, why their documents are torn up, or why women and children are terrorized by the police. In fact, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson says that “the figures for the number of emigrants returned, given by the press, are contradictory.” The Ministry’s spokesperson clarifies that it is not 3,465 people who were turned back, but 3,464! Even Greek officials themselves would not think of compiling statistics like these. Things are different with our government officials. They want to be precise, but only for Greek public opinion. Albanian public opinion does not matter. After all, it was not the Albanian government that sent the emigrants to work in Greece to earn their bread. Bread is available here too. Continued on page 3

Prosecution: Here is how they will eliminate Nano

The prosecutor in the case challenges the Supreme Court’s decision. He asks for the case to be tried by the Berat Court P. 6

Greece: Out, anyone who is not a Vorio-Epirote

Inside: Greece: Out, anyone who is not a Vorio-Epirote Around 1,400 people turned back yesterday at Kapshticë and Kakavijë TIRANA: Another 1,400 Albanians were turned back yesterday by Serbian military and police forces at both of Albania’s border crossings with Greece, P. 2

Kosovo: Albanian fighters in a period of transition

KLA maintains order in Kosovo

Kosovo: Albanian fighters in a period of transition We will hand over our weapons, but will soon join the UN police and be armed again By Silvi Grult In the schoolyard in Rudnik, right next to the Serbian villages in northern Kosovo, the KLA’s policemen, unarmed but in uniform, return from patrol: as almost everywhere in Kosovo, former KLA fighters have their own police force, without waiting for that of the UN. Very officially, “commander” Naser Aliu explains his troops’ mission: “night patrols, to prevent thefts; inspections at night to make sure everything goes well between Albanians and Serbs.” Further south, where tensions are high between Albanians and the Serbian minority, another “officer” of the Kosovo Liberation Army in Rahovec confirms: “We are a police force. We patrol 24 hours a day.” The Albanian organization, obliged to demilitarize under the agreement reached by NATO chiefs in June, plans to retain control of the

“CARMEN” also comes to Greece

At the invitation of the Ioannina Opera Theatre (Greece), the four-act opera “Carmen,” following its success in the capital, will also travel to Greece, specifically to Ioannina. It is on Monday,

The police were trying to make Roka disappear

The vehicle used in the disappearance of Commissioner Agron Roka is impounded in Elbasan TIRANA: The Military [text truncated] for the initial charge of “abuse of office.” The former Saranda commissioner Agron Roka, now declared wanted by the Prosecutor’s Office [text truncated]. Official sources at the Ministry of Public Order said that “the car

Where did the bodies of the Albanians disappear?

Clothing, shoes, photographs and identification documents found near the smelting vats and the galleries of the Trepça mine . P. 5

A woman is abducted

LATE NEWS Last night, at around 23:00, unidentified persons terrorized residents of an apartment building on “Sami Frashëri” Street in New Tirana with a barrage of gunfire. Three people, after firing their weapons, forcibly entered a citizen’s home and abducted a woman by force. According to the Police, she remains unidentified, since there was no one else in the house. The heads of the Tirana Police arrived at the scene and gathered several statements from nearby residents.

The government approves military pensions

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Spectacular theft in Athens

The secret documents on American F-16 aircraft disappear. It is hoped that the act was carried out by an ordinary thief. P. 4

“CARMEN”