The authorities must not abuse rubber batons and police weapons Yesterday in the People’s Assembly: Socialists against violence at rallies Yesterday in parliament, violence used in Lushnjë was discussed, but days earlier against the opposition. Dokle, on behalf of his parliamentary group, denounced the violence by the “phalanxes”—as he called the perpetrators—and then the deputy from Lushnjë, Gina, described the actions in Lushnjë as “extremely proper.” This led to the irritation of opposition deputies, but also those in power. While Arbnori closed the session, the deputies continued the quarrel with mutual insults and abuse. The situation among the deputies became so heated that the scene from two years ago, when the deputies turned the parliament hall into an “arena” and themselves into “gladiators,” was almost repeated. Once again, the main protagonists were the PD deputy Shaban Memia and the PS deputy Ruka. Having charged toward each other’s jackets, they almost repeated the session from two years earlier, when Memia, in an attempt to snatch a vase and hurl it toward the opposition deputies, had fallen to the ground... Jacket war at the end of the parliamentary session page 2

Pëllumbi: According to unpublished PD polls, PS wins 60% Yesterday a rally of socialists in Tirana Yesterday in the capital, before socialist members and sympathizers, the PS appeared with two of its four political “aces.” The deputy chairmen Servet Pëllumbi and Namik Dokle, at the Academy of Fine Arts, observed among the socialists of Tirana’s Zone Ten what is apparently also being felt within the PD: a decline in the electorate. “Based on the unpublished polls of the PD itself, the PS is said to have over 60 percent of the votes in the upcoming elections” page 3 Dokle yesterday during the rally

Along with him, 12 others are also accused - “They led the “Special Trial” The “Anti-Genocide” law: Another accusation reaches the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office page 4 Prosecutor’s Office, Tirana

Cela: “These are just slanders...” Blerim Çela demands proof of the accusations page 2

The film is prohibited for those under 18 A crowd of teenagers in the cinema “Republika” page 6

Rexhep Uka: “We must strike PS at Marx’s” PD rings the bells. Socialists may take Berati Rexhep Uka: “We must strike PS at Marx’s” In the very same hall where two weeks earlier the PS had laid out its strategy, the PD presented its counterstrategy before more than 70 participants in its active group. The open conversation with the people, to test what will ultimately be decided at the PD congress, represents the first phase of a kind of pre-election strategy. page 3

Wanted for murder for two years MALËSI E MADHE- The most serious event. Perhaps as serious as the first one. This is the criminal line of M.Isufi’s life, from a village in Malësia e Madhe, who was wanted for a murder committed two years earlier. Now he is also wanted for another crime: the rape of a teenager from Shkodër. M. Isufi, 29 years old, from Varfi in Malësia e Madhe, carried out the tragic act on Monday afternoon of this week. According to data confirmed by the police station of this district, the victim, 17 years old, from the city of Shkodër, whose name has not yet been disclosed, had been in this village visiting a relative when she was raped by the murderer. Although the girl’s complaint has reached the local police, they have not been able to arrest him. The aggressor had been living as a fugitive since October 1993, the month when he killed Xh.H., also from this village. Now he will have to beware of a double “revenge”: because of the murder and for sexual intercourse by force. Z.D