Head of the Special Forces: Avenir Peka threatened me, I filed a complaint. Peka sues Shemsi Prençi Shemsi Prençi interview: FNSH does not enter elections, only criminal incidents. Burgaj gives me orders. In Tirana, a 7-hour ‘clash’ over the PS election tent By KLODIAN LALA Strong clashes between the Ministry of the Interior and the State Police in these “heated” days of the campaign for the local elections of 8 May 2011. Shemsi Prençi, one of the top officials in the State Police, has filed a complaint with the Tirana prosecutor’s office against the acting Interior Minister, Avenir Peka,... On pages 2-3, 5 (In the photo) Yesterday’s clash in the center of Tirana over the PS tent between socialists and the Construction Inspectorate (right) The head of the FNSH, Shemsi Prençi

Skënderi: They told me ‘we’ll put you in a pit where no one will find you’ News24, Xhungël/ Hysen Shoshori’s friend, Skënder Tufa recounts how he was threatened with death after the interview The former political prisoner Hysen Shoshori escaped execution by death only 47 days after he had been sentenced to be shot by the Tirana District Court. It took the 19 signatures of the members of the Supreme Court Plenum to convert the death sentence into just 25 years in prison. Hysen Shoshori was only 41 years old and had managed to distribute 41,100 leaflets against the communist dictatorship. In the two decisions of the communist courts, that of the Tirana district court that sentenced him to death and later also that of the Supreme Court Plenum that sentenced him to 25 years in prison, it is shown what actually happened to the record-holder of leaflets. The capital sentence for Shoshori was handed down by the Tirana Court. According to the archived copy... By ARTAN HOXHA On pages 18-19 Hysen Shoshori

The academic analyzes the Pacolli phenomenon On pages 16-17

Yesterday in “Reuters” What lessons are the dictators of the dark days drawing as North Africa and the Middle East become engaged? The most obvious and most disappointing... Continues on page 28 By CHRYSTIA FREELAND Autocrats and their role

Today’s opinion Now the war in Libya, despite being fought almost on Europe’s shores, risks turning into one of many wars... Continues on page 29 By DRITAN HILA The long road to freedom

MOTHER: WHEN HE LEFT, HE SAID GOODBYE Bardhosh Myrtaj ‘I won the lottery’ the son of the man killed on 21 January, Myrtaj, kills himself On page 4

PATIENTS ON ALERT On pages 14-15

NEW TAXES On page 13

STATEMENTS IN KOSOVO On page 10

THE CAUSE IS SPEED On page 20