WOMEN OF THE SOCIALIST OF IRAN IN HER REALM? [illegible handwritten note] WOMEN OF THE SOCIALIST OF IRAN IN HER REALM? [?] The population of this republic that emerged from the earth after 40 years of dictatorship, when it asked to know what had happened to the dead, the prisoners, the internments, the hunger, the violence, the fear and the poverty, was met with a great silence. At the center of this silence stood the figure of Nexhmie Hoxha, wife of the dictator and a direct part of the machinery of terror. She was not only the companion of Enver Hoxha’s life, but an active figure in building the cult, controlling ideology, selecting trusted people and feeding the climate of persecution. In offices, committees, institutions and the party apparatus, her name was mentioned with fear. The decisions were not those of one man alone. They passed through a narrow circle in which she had weight. Now that the truth is coming out piece by piece, it is impossible to speak about the crimes of the regime without mentioning the moral and political responsibility of the woman who for decades was presented as the ‘first lady’ of Albanian socialism. The relatives of those executed, the families of the prisoners, the internees, the convicted and the humiliated have the right to demand justice. The court must not be frightened by name, age or symbol. Justice is not done with honors, but with evidence. And the evidence of an entire era is speaking every day: orders, testimonies, documents, decisions, public positions, criminal silence. All this calls for investigation. It is not revenge to ask for a trial. It is the duty of a state that claims to be breaking with the past. Without this step, the transition remains a lie and democracy only decoration. If a country condemns only the small tools and stays silent about the big names, then that country is not doing justice, but merely repairing the façade. Therefore Nexhmie Hoxha must go to trial. (continued on page 4)

A? Albanian Jean Valjean. Enver Hoxha and M. Chapman kill the Biellas people. When will the great bell of amnesty sound for the prisoners? • A? Albanian Jean Valjean. • Enver Hoxha and M. Chapman kill the Biellas people. • When will the great bell of amnesty sound for the prisoners? Xhevdet [S]h?my [?] stood above the world as a person with the calmest traits, but in truth we knew very well that he was hated by the system and by the nomenklatura of that time, which had judged him a mentally ill man since his youth and as an enemy already marked long ago by the first sentence in the 1970s. So many priceless works? Or faith? So many verses? So much pain? So many tears? So many reproaches of man toward the distraught human being? So many departures? So many promises? So many words? So many dreams? All of them, in his eyes, seemed like an unusual burden of a time without light and full of pain. He remained among people like a great bell that kept ringing without pause. It was said he would come out. It was said he would be released. It was said the day of amnesty would come. But the bell still did not ring for him. We saw up close the man who carried this cry in his soul. We knew that prisons did not crush only the body, but also the soul. We knew that behind barbed wire a person clothed himself in silence, waiting, anxiety, shattered dreams. And yet, he wrote, he thought, he lived. The city knew him as a quiet man, but the files knew him differently. The rare meetings, the low voices, the long rows of women, the tears of mothers, the waiting of children, the iron gates, the faces of the guards, the slamming of doors, the censored pages, the mutilated news — all this was the world in which he faded away, but did not go out. In this country bells have often rung for the wrong things. They have fallen silent when they should have sounded for the innocent. They have pealed for empty celebrations and remained frozen for real tragedies. Therefore the question remains: when will the great bell of amnesty sound for the prisoners? MARK SIMONI

GEORGE BUSH among a group of old people.

INFORMATION FROM MJEFTA On Friday, 12 July, the journalists’ active group of R.D. met to analyze its situation after the opposition’s failure to win on 31 March. Since this meeting took place without the presence of Frok Çupi, its editor-in-chief until that day, we can say that it carries within it a great deal of responsibility and question marks. Some interpreted his departure as an organizational measure, others as the result of political disagreements and the internal crisis. The discussions were harsh and there was talk about the way it was run, about publications, about the loss of influence and about clashes with some structures of the PD. At the meeting, according to our sources, criticism was expressed about the style of management and the newspaper’s recent positions. It was said that the editorial line needed to be reviewed and that the newspaper had to be brought back more strongly in service of the opposition. Various names circulated as possible replacements, while officially there were no clear explanations. Is this only an administrative issue, or a sign of a deeper conflict within the opposition? Time will tell. ZEF MARKU

The crime? of the trade sectors, the P.S. and ... [?] cannot be defined with a single model. They depend on the features of the terrain, on the distribution of the population, on the distance from services and on the conditions of infrastructure. As a result, every work scheme must be built according to the characteristics of the areas. In some places a concentration of services is required, in others greater mobility of teams. Experience shows that where the terrain and the rhythm of the residents’ lives have been taken into account, the results have been better. This is especially true for peripheral areas and for new settlements. (Continued on page 5)

Moral persecution — the credo of the Enverist dictatorship. Interview with Ms. DRITA KOSTURI. IN THE NEXT ISSUE: Interview with Mr. PREÇ ZOGAJ. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports given to our editor-in-chief NIKOLLË LESI. The poetry cycle by MARASH MIRASHI