Her mother’s lament: I never saw you in white while you were alive 22-YEAR-OLD SINGER ELSINA IDERSHAJ DIED IN HOSPITAL. HER FATHER: SHE WAS SELF-RELIANT Handcuffs for 47-year-old Kosovar Aziz Kelmendi, the singer’s ex-boyfriend. Police: He is accused of murder. Valza Bajra, another singer, the key witness to the event Death has struck the home of the singer Ammy or Elsina Idershaj, the 22-year-old who was hit by a car on Sunday morning, after an argument with her ex-boyfriend, Kosovar businessman Aziz Kelmendi, 44. People dressed in black stand in front of the house, while her mother, just as she comes out of a fit, lets out a chilling scream. She asks for her daughter, wants her back, wants to see her. Emmy’s house is located near... On pages 2-3 (In photo) The 22-year-old singer Emmy, who passed away after a tragic accident. (Right) The doors of mourning are opened in the 22-year-old girl’s home

THE WRITER IN “SHQIP” WITH RUDINA XHUNGA On pages 16-17

IN SHKODER AND FIER WHERE TRAGEDY STRIKES On pages 4-5

Yesterday on “Transition Online” By BARBARA FRYE The European Union is using diplomatic, conciliatory language as it tries to intervene in the dead end of politics in Albania.... Berisha’s grotesque disobedience Continues on page 28

Opinion of the Day By ILIR DHIMA A few days ago, when the small screens of our television stations were broadcasting the events marking 20 February twenty years earlier in Tirana, among others the Director of Albapost also appeared.... A stamp - a message for today too Continues on page 29

THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE On page 6

FULL LIST On pages 22-23

“THE LAW WAS VIOLATED” On page 8

“Let the people put an end to the Berisha-Gaddafi power concept” The academic “turns up” the pen: I was wrong to compare him with Ben Ali and Mubarak Since I have been writing about the political, institutional, constitutional, moral, and general crisis in Albania, I have made a mistake that I cannot forgive myself for: I have compared the Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha, with the President of Tunisia, Ben Ali, and with the President of Egypt, By REXHEP QOSJA Hosni Mubarak. I feel that, by making this comparison, I have also wronged both the Tunisian president and the Egyptian president. I say this because both the first, Ben Ali, and the second, Hosni Mubarak, turned out to be statesmen with a political and state responsibility that the Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha, has never demonstrated. When one observes that their rule does not truly correspond... On pages 10-11

THE DEADLINE EXPIRED YESTERDAY On pages 14-15