INTERVIEW/ ARIF BAKILLARI: THEY WANT OUR WEAPONS, THEY ARE UNDER EMBARGO The three Albanians were sentenced to 18 years in prison for arms trafficking; here is the route of the ship “EOS” over the last 6 months. The officer who arrested them told him: “I like the cargo” By AURORA KOROMANI “We will rot in Yemeni prisons if the Albanian authorities do not help us.” These are the words that the captain of the ship seized some time ago in Yemeni waters, Arif Bakillari, states for “Gazeta Shqiptare”. He says that they are being accused of unfounded charges, while he and the other two Albanians are innocent. “The reason they arrested us is because Yemen wanted to seize our ship’s cargo. We are innocent.” Among other things, Bakillari also recounts the entire route taken by the ship he commanded, adding that throughout the entire time they were being monitored by NATO forces. How many years were you sentenced to? We were all sentenced to 6 years in prison each, on false charges. It is a political case. I myself am in hospital. We have appealed the verdict because all the accusations they are making are baseless. They are accusing us of having entered without permission... Continues on page 7

Opinion of the Day By KIÇO BLUSHI Never in the history of these 100 years of an independent state has so much been said about the elite! Not even then, when Zog proclaimed himself... Our elites Continues on page 20

Opinion of the Day By BESNIK GJONGECAJ Politics, just like the human reality beneath it, has its own universe. Like everything boundless, the universe of politics has everything there, within itself.... Politics’ morgue Continues on page 21

Marko Dajti: Allies with Rama, we seek the support of the SP (In photo:) The chairman of the Reorganized Party of Labour of Albania (PPSHR), Marko Dajti, and Ilir Hoxha, Enver Hoxha’s son The head of the PPSHR: Hoxha, a national hero just like Skanderbeg. Formerly persecuted people write to Berisha: Symbols of democracy, build 20 monuments By DARINA TANUSHI The communists will ask for the bust of Enver Hoxha to be erected again, where it stood in 1991, in the center of Tirana. The chairman of the Reorganized Party of Labour of Albania, Marko Dajti, said in a... Continues on pages 2-3

COFFEE ON THE “SKY TOWER” TERRACE On page 5

THE FORMER HEAD OF PD IS BY TOPALLI’S SIDE On page 3

ALEKSANDER PECI On page 9

ORTHOGRAPHY On page 13

ERIDA PECI On page 8

“THE INVESTIGATION, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FORMER MINISTER” On pages 16-17