Today marks 5 years since 8 December 1990. The youth opened the way for a new history. The protagonists speak The December activists are split in two. The Democrats are once again monopolizing the activities dedicated to the fifth anniversary Today in “Democracy” Square, the cornerstone of a memorial will be laid as a symbol of the Albanian student movement. Afterwards, two commemorative plaques will be installed near the Italian Bar-Restaurant, where the students clashed with the police, and at the Artistic Lyceum, the place where the citizens of Tirana joined the students in protest. One of Tirana’s high schools will also be named after Arben Broci. From the meeting of former President Ramiz Alia with the group of students and teachers representing the student movement in December 1990 Former President Ramiz Alia speaks about the December 1990 movement pages 6-7

By order of Minister Zhulali Another 40 cuts are also expected GJIROKASTËR - For the fourth time in a row, career officers are being shaken by cutbacks. 180 officers of the Southern Division, based in Gjirokastër, learned yesterday that they are no longer part of the Albanian armed forces. The order for their dismissal arrived yesterday at the command of the Gjirokastër division and was signed by Minister Zhulali himself. According to some sources, the long list of names of the 180 officers dismissed from the Gjirokastër division will be expanded in a few days by another 40 names. The dismissals of officers from the Gjirokastër division have followed other cutbacks that the Ministry of Defense carried out in other divisions of the country, as well as in Shkodër and Korçë some time ago. All these cutbacks bear Minister Zhulali’s signature. Since March 1992, the time when the PD came to power, this is the fourth time that cutbacks have been carried out in the ranks of the Albanian army. At that time, with his first intervention as Minister of Defense, Zhulali declared that compulsory military service for all Albanian citizens would be reduced to one year and the number of active officers and non-commissioned officers would reach 60% of the existing total. After that statement, in the name of army reform, the ranks of the Albanian army have been hit by successive cutbacks. ILIR BABARAMO

Brojka’s proposal overturns the consensus of the Presidential table “It is not right to take five naive people and lie to them,” says Imani about the participants in the meeting with the President page 3

Yesterday at the Constitutional Court Arbnori in the dock page 2

Berisha and Arbnori meet the Bulgarian President At the invitation of the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha, yesterday the Bulgarian President, Zhelyu Zhelev, arrived in Tirana for an official visit. During this two-day visit, President Zhelev is accompanied by a group of Bulgarian parliamentarians and businessmen, as well as his wife. page 3 President Berisha yesterday welcomed the President of Bulgaria, Mr. Zhelyu Zhelev, at Rinas airport photo A. BABANI

3 people from Lezha arrested on the way to Greece SARANDË - They tried to head to Corfu as clandestines and to sell that amount of narcotic plants, but ended up in the police net in Sarandë. The news was made public by the judge of this district court, Nevrie Halo, who also signed the arrest warrant for the citizens Mark Nikolla, Gjergj Nikolla and Pjetër Lleshi, all three from the district of Lezhë. These three citizens are accused of committing the criminal offense under Article 283 of the Criminal Code for cultivating, transporting and selling narcotic plants in an amount of 7.5 kilograms. Meanwhile, for the citizens Sokol Lluctshi and Hasan Daja, the measure was taken to release them from detention. One of them was the driver of the “Benz” that transported the arrested men from Lezhë to Sarandë, while the second had assisted them with this vehicle. It is also learned that the police confiscated the drug trafficking substance.

After the death of the 27-year-old pregnant woman Buried without a gynecological examination page 2