Ruli and Uka’s immunity to be put to a vote in Parliament
Yesterday, the parliamentary Mandates Committee decided
With three votes in favor, two against and two abstentions, the Committee decided that the “Walnut Tree” case should be discussed in Parliament
As expected, after 5 March, the axe would also fall on the “Walnut Tree”
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The last “one killed” after 5 March, Selami
When and how “they killed us”
Speaking to “K J”: Neritan Ceka, Gramoz Pashko, Preç Zogaj, Errok Çupi, Teodor Keko, Perikli Teta, Ridvan Peshkëpia and the Unknown Democrat
It was December. It was cold and raining. The “good weather” that had been unsettled for more than a year in Eastern Europe also turned bad in Albania.
That December 1990, in the Student City, Albanian hearts beat with impatience. The rainy, muddy days went by until 11 December arrived, the day when Pashko, Zogaj, Berisha, Hajdari, Imami and Ceka announced the creation of the Democratic Party.
Not much time has passed since 11 December 1990, only four years, and in those four years many initiators fell on the “battlefield.” On Sunday, 5 March 1995, the last “fell,” to date: Selami. That is war. People will be killed, too. And perhaps everyone remembers their names today; what is still unclear is whether they are “martyrs of democracy” or “martyred by democracy.”
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Four years after the exodus
The day of return will surely come
Human rights advocates speak about the event
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Nano’s release—a condition for admission to the Council of Europe
Selami opposes Ali Spahia at yesterday’s meeting of the parliamentary committee
Yesterday, at a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Socialist MP Bashkim Zeneli insisted that Selami present to the committee the second condition put forward in Strasbourg for Albania’s admission to the Council of Europe.
Selami said that, in addition to the constitution, the other condition was the opposition’s demand for the release of Fatos Nano. A debate then began between Selami, the chair of this Committee, and PD MP Ali Spahia, who denied that this was a condition. Selami stated that Spahia had indeed been, and still was, a member of the committee, but that did not mean he had taken part in all the discussions. He also clarified that the matter was not simply the Nano case, but all the possible conditions the opposition might set for our entry into the Council of Europe.
We will provide more information about this matter in our next issue.
