Our lead article As announced, on February 8 of this year, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Albania will announce its final decision on whether the entry into the People’s Assembly, out of turn, of deputies Mira Katurri, Arben Lika and Napoleon... As announced, on February 8 of this year, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Albania will announce its final decision on whether the entry into the People’s Assembly, out of turn, of deputies Mira Katurri, Arben Lika and Napoleon… Roshi, in place of the next candidates, Arben Demeti, Preç Zogaj and Shahin Kadare, was illegal or not. Albanian and foreign public opinion is already familiar with this unconstitutional and unlawful act by the party in power. This took place in August of last year, during that hot summer of political passions when the machinery of government and the Democratic Party reached one of the peaks of its arrogance, with the unfortunate aim of smothering every critical idea, every independent idea and every opposition idea in Albania. It was the time when, with ultra-leftist slogans, in the name of the so-called democratic revolution (?), the Democratic Party threatened to isolate all those who had not voted for it. It was the time when it had inspection squads for searching homes; pretexts of illegal possession of weapons were cynically used to threaten all those who did not conform to the blue membership cards in the dark. It was the time when the chief of the fight against corruption and fraud, Blerim Çela, ordered the non-commissioned officer Markasen, in A. Barbytsi’s novel «Qartëritë», to attack citizens singled out by the authorities and the independent press, and gave a further example of public deception by falsifying a list of 30 false witnesses against deception by falsifying a list of … (continued on page 2)

Only anti-communists are worse than communists READ ON PAGES 3, 4, 5 I did not accept political commissars lecturing me about democracy By your actions and conduct, you have served to preserve the tyrannical regime in Albania After Your denunciation letter, Serbia will find it easier to kill our boys on the roads of Kosovo

Shocking events took place in Albania within one week. — It is said that the son of the chairman of the National Unity Party, Mr. Idajet Beqiri, was kidnapped by unidentified persons. This act took place after the arrest of the thieves who broke into the safe of the UK Party. — The sum of 300,000 USD was stolen at 12:00 in the middle of Tirana. No one was caught. — The Municipality of the city of Durrës was robbed. The perpetrators are said to have been arrested and then released. — It is said that there was also an attempted burglary at the President’s home. Someone has been arrested. To date, there has been no official announcement about any of this!

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