12/12/1992
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Koha Jonë

12 December 1992

The new pseudohistory began serving politics

The second anniversary of the student movement is celebrated in the former Enver Hoxha Museum. — The very active students of December ’90, Blendi Gonxhe, Akli Fundo, Spiro Curra, Abdyl Demirazi, Ilir Meta, etc., are not decorated. — At the meeting attended by President Berisha, two of the lecturers who supported the students from the very first day, Messrs. Gramoz Pashko and Arben Imami, are not invited at all. — Not a word about the former student and martyr of democracy, Arben Broci. — Television Buxpapa does not broadcast a single report on the events of the heroic days of December. Read on page 3

BLERIM ÇELA MUST RESIGN

— Wasn’t the statement “Give your votes even to Sllobodanıt, but never to the PS” borne out after the withdrawal from the lawsuit against NIKOLLE LESI? — After Mr. Çela withdrew his lawsuit, inspections are pouring into “KOHA JONË” Read more in the next issue in an article by A. FRANGAJ.

The December student

Pal Serreqi refuses the decoration “Torchbearer of Democracy” According to information from well-informed sources, the former student of December ’90, Mr. Pal Serreqi, who was decorated that day as a “Torchbearer of Democracy,” refused the decoration.

AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER

— Letter from Mr. TOMAS JANSEN, Secretary-General of the European People’s Party and the European Democratic Union, addressed to Mr. Neritan Ceka, Chairman of the Executive Commission of the Democratic Alliance party. Mr. Chairman, Allow me to thank you warmly for your message. I read the Program and the first announcement of the Democratic Alliance with great interest, sympathy, and full approval. I hope that you will be able to carry your action forward and realize your political project. It is clear that only a parliamentary democracy, equipped with solid instruments and functioning according to rules respected by everyone, can fulfill the arduous task of rebuilding a country and restoring the health of its economy. I hope we will have the opportunity to work together in this spirit. Our two organizations, the European People’s Party (PPE) and the European Union of True Democracy (UEC), are following developments in Albania very closely. I wish to inform you that at the beginning of 1993, we will send a delegation there to make contact with you in order to learn more about the reality of your country. I have been informed that you have appointed Mr. Idriz Basha as your party’s representative in Brussels. I am now maintaining regular contact with Mr. Basha, and I am convinced that we will work together in the interests of fruitful cooperation. Please accept the assurance of my very best regards. Brussels, 8-12-1992

THE SHAMELESSNESS OF SAKAJEV A TELEVISION

On Tuesday, our television broadcast several interviews with the editors-in-chief of the main newspapers about the law on the press and the status of the journalist. The chairmen Xh. Mustafës of «RD», Th. Gëllçit of «ZP», V. Rakipit of «Republika», I. Yzeirit of «Zëri», A. Bilacit of «Sindikalisti», M. Bazes of «ATSH», and A. Krasniqit of «TD» were interviewed, as was the Director of the newspaper «Koha jonë», Nikollë Lesi. The television’s shamelessness lies in the fact that only the interview with the representative of the newspaper «Koha jonë» was not broadcast that night. Why? How do the anti-democratic tele-monopolists explain this? What does such censorship mean? Why is «Koha jonë» excluded from the screen—the second-largest newspaper by circulation in the entire press and the largest in the Albanian independent press? How long will Marxist-Leninist censorship on television continue, led by its Director, the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper «Bashkimi», the loyal assistant of the PPSH, Comrade Qemal Sakaj(eva), whose newspaper called RD a BLACK CAT in its very first issue? May God have mercy on these “democrats,” with communism boiling in their veins.