Life imprisonment overturned THE LUSHNJA GANG, THE APPEALS COURT FOR SERIOUS CRIMES SENDS THE FILE BACK FOR RETRIAL The court finds procedural violations in the sentencing of the organization boss. Alfred Shkurti is accused of at least 5 murders, and was extradited 3 years ago from Turkey By KLODIANA LALA Aldo Bare, described as the leader of the notorious Lushnja gang, won his first battle with Albanian justice, and perhaps the most important one. The Appeals Court for Serious Crimes overturned the life sentence and decided to send Bare’s case back for retrial in the first-instance Serious Crimes court. The decision, signed yesterday by the five-judge panel of the second instance, gives Aldo Bare a green light for a possible release from prison. In fact, this was also implied by his lawyer, Vladimir Meçi, who stressed that “we will look at the possibility...” Continues on page 9

Yesterday in “Times” EDITORIAL The brave ones of freedom None of the prizes bearing Alfred Nobel’s name causes as much controversy as the annual peace prize. The committee of Norwegian parliamentarians,... Continues on page 22

Opinion of the Day By Dr. PËRPARIM KABO The non-forgiveness of blood, or freedom as escape! Is blood forgiven or not forgiven, that is the question? They are all settled in the “prisons” of the “lacked freedom”, like creatures of a wasteland.... Continues on page 23

Interview/ Arben Çejku: The encyclopedia is a provocative publication (In photo:) The Ambassador of Albania in Macedonia, Arben Çejku “It saddens me to repeat that there are still nostalgic remnants of the former Yugoslav past, which view Albanians and their role with negativity” The texts from Skopje describe the Illyrians as people of Roma origin. Macedonian Foreign Minister in Tirana: the minority should become part of the census On pages 6-7

MINORITY/ Original documents In 1930 there were 40,000 Greeks counted; 15 years later there were 30,000 The 1945 registration was the fourth census carried out by the Albanian state in its history. If we do not count the partial population censuses carried out during the First World War by the Austrians, the Albanian population had been registered in 1921, 1923 and 1930. No data has survived from the 1921 register. All these censuses were carried out for a specific purpose, to meet an administrative need. Thus, the first census was conducted because... On pages 12-13

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