Gazetat — Albanian Newspaper Archive

This is what the Albanian State Security was like

Former Deputy Minister of the Interior, Zylftar Ramizi, recounts the gears of the machine of terror for more than two hours For the first time, everything about the organization, structure, purpose, number of security collaborators, the Albanian intelligence network abroad, the discovery of foreign agents in our country, and the Security Service’s duties for Internment-Expulsions Ministry of the Interior State Security Directorate I - Counterintelligence Directorate II - Counterintelligence Directorate III - Intelligence Branch 1 Intelligence on the activities of foreign agents Branch 2 Intelligence on the intelligence services of foreign embassies Branch 3 Clearance of officers of the Ministry of the Interior Branch 4 Administration of documentation and operational materials Branch 5 Operational techniques Branch 6 Army security [?] Branch 7 Intelligence on economic crimes Branch 8 Activities of hostile elements Secret intelligence network Residence Agents Informants Host 1 Officer in charge of internment-expulsions 2 Officer in charge of camps and prisons It was a hearing announced as an ordinary one, that of the hearing in the Genocide trial, against the so-called "5 heads of Internment-Expulsions", Cela, Mino, Ramizi, Myftiu and Lleshi. Yesterday they were due to give explanations about the evidence presented so far. After the first, Aranit Cela, stood up and for about 120 minutes the former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Zylftar Ramizi, gave explanations. For the first time so far, he has explained in the greatest detail everything about the Albanian State Security. Yesterday the full architecture was seen to be revealed, down to the most detailed details, of the "palace of dreams", the 50-year mire [?] of the Albanians. The head of Albanian counterintelligence, from 1 November 1982 until 7-8 July 1990, took out from the highly secret safe of his mind, in order to thoroughly unravel the hitherto undecipherable code of the game of the Security Service’s agents and collaborators. The darkest part of the past 50 years began to be illuminated yesterday, in one of the first-floor halls of the Court of First Instance in the capital. (Continues on page 2)

Albanians want PD to lose

All those who are on the verge of power are tainted by the past Yesterday the British newspaper “The Independent” wrote about the elections in Albania page 5

Lawbreakers will go to prison

In Albania, criminals and thieves rule PAD press conference on the Divjakë incident page 4

The people of December ’90 are being beaten to a pulp

MP Peshkëpia, Ceka, Pashko, Zogaj, Keko, Çupi, Fevziu, etc. are brutally beaten and prevented from holding their campaign meeting Yesterday, police violence at Blendi Gonxhe’s meeting in Qyteti Studenti Gonxhe: “A scene worthy of the archives of fascist violence in Latin America” The head of Public Order at Police Station No. 1 in Tirana, Lulzim Sallaku, assisted by his lackeys, uses violence against Blendi Gonxhe, Ridvan Peshkëpia, Blendi Fevziu, Arben Hasani and Skënder Minxhozi, all initiators of the December Movement, who are detained and escorted amid filthy insults to the police station. page 3 December ’90, Blendi Gonxhe on the shoulders of students during the anti-communist demonstrations

Prosecution for the head of the Municipality

PS: Kelmendi is manipulating the elections Socialists accuse Sali Kelmendi page 5

Bread and electricity are worrying the campaign

Normalization of the situation before 26 May is requested Korçë, the prefect calls the heads of local government page 7

Fatos Nano is learning Arabic

The sixth language for the imprisoned Socialist leader Accounts from the special security cell in Bënçë page 6

SHIK against the politicians: “We’ll take you to court”

War of statements between the parties and the state institution SHIK against the politicians: “We’ll take you to court” It is not us who ruined your campaign War of statements between SHIK and the Albanian parties. The Albanian intelligence institution strongly accuses leaders of several political forces and rejects the hypotheses raised that its employees were responsible for disrupting rallies, page 3

This is a war of all Albanians

Reuters: Tensions in Kosovo are causing alarm in Macedonia page 10