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Koha Jonë

E Premte 25 Prill 1997

How the PD was armed

The interpellation of Defense Minister Shaqir Vukaj shakes Parliament, PD deputies leave the chamber page 3 The Minister: “The PD wanted a North-South war as well as the bombing of the Mifol Bridge” The false calm The propaganda they make, with half-failed efforts and instead of the daily disagreements, in order to create an atmosphere of calm and to normalize life throughout the country, needs to show that everything is going according to the government’s predictions. It is not hard to understand that this is a propaganda game analogous to that of finger pain: we hang and crush the finger of suffering, and the new government is soothed by the noise about clashes and strikes in the south. They are provoked, “the armed uprising of Vlora,” for the preparation of “gangs” and “terrorists of the south” and the preparation to open the “corridor of salvation” in the south to restore calm. It is also being planned from below and above to hide the real organizers of the situation that has been created, as it is still being written. There is no proof. They only delay the scenarios that even now the current government of the state, driven by the opposition, sought from the government and declared that the way and direction of governance and order, after reintroducing the entire previous administration with a displayed card. In particular, a list would be made of those who are “kept” and “controlled” in the many levels of opposition and conflict. Calmed within the ranks of Briska and elsewhere in the reports of the Westerners! Can such scenarios be called that? Yes, because today’s situation cannot be explained by Sali Berisha’s government, I would think so with an unspoken sentence, and today it comes out more clearly. Moreover, even the forces close to him are calming down in the face of confrontation with him. The North-South civil war could not be only implied by loud proclamations and in Albania. Isn’t it only obvious? The silent bomb that was being prepared during December and January, for blowing up the Mifol Bridge and crossing the Vjosa to the other side, was part of the larger scenario, the preparation to plunge Albania into chaos. It would seem clear that this was part of the overall North-South war that Sali Berisha’s government was waging. They kept that bridge to destroy it and used it before the current government came back. Thus it seemed that this destruction was planned, and not only to further tarnish Albania and partly worsen the state of the country. If that were not so, why is this bridge still standing, why can’t the government repair it? It could cause even greater destruction with it, but it would stop its entirety and its dual nature. So Berisha, afraid that the revolt might spread further, has ordered his armed groups to take their positions as well. He tried to drag out the resistance until a general mobilization was carried out, after the recapture of some northern cities. The former president has also thought of such a policy, without taking as an example the absurd concept of his own, “former president,” which this alarmed situation circulates and demonstrates, that the arrival of the people’s civil government is being played out in a half-confrontation. And that Berisha’s power is still listening to the rumors and hysteria about arming?! Why does the surface of the incitement still continue? Because the minister of Sali Berisha’s government still has control and will not be able to govern with the old people, with traffickers and friends of the “bandit,” more than with officers and policemen of the lowest dictatorship. As the administration also said, from the deer that has slipped and the scandalized things which the government objectively, briefly, slipped into reforming. No one in the government wants everyone to be disarmed and to take measures to make it a civic matter and not to stimulate terror. Water as the sun of the unexplained arrival of the opposition? Yes, again the old scenario; the civil war deliberately sought. In short, in Berisha’s denunciations and his public demand to arm the entire population, there is no hysteria for weapons at all. It is an indicator of another goal; the blowing up of the Mifol Bridge. If the revolt in the south had continued at this pace, if the new government had not been created, the eventual prepared scenario could also have opened the fire in Gjirokastër. But this and this are parts of the topography and the political aims of that government and its opposition. page 3 Austrian forces are preparing to come to Albania Reuters photo
Shaqir Vukaj Sali Berisha Shqipëri Vlorë Vjosës Mifolit Veri