President Melidani from Italy on the elections in Serbia and the problem of Kosovo The Albanian head of state: "Slobodan is not the lesser evil for Albania" Page 3

BY BLENDI FEVZIU Yesterday's report, which lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes and had people standing at the door, the cable, which was broadcast in the electronic media, made the news yesterday very provocative: that a woman, paralyzed and covered with a bulletproof vest and in uniform, was supposed to put a bullet in the middle of the house in the center for a few days a month. Surely the coldest was the weather. What is the police for and what does our vocabulary say? Yesterday's report, which lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes and had people standing at the door, the cable, which was broadcast in the electronic media, made the news yesterday very provocative: that a woman, paralyzed and covered with a bulletproof vest and in uniform, was supposed to put a bullet in the middle of the house in the center for a few days a month. Surely the coldest was the weather. People who have greeted the police with high numbers and in dangerous situations have seen this as the only guarantee of order. Others, fearing it, seem to understand that in those days shots are fired, but not for peace. People condemned to calm down once and for all. In confrontation with the promised man, the hope for a controlled Albania is completely absent. In a country with 11 million heavy weapons and, at the start, wounded by firearms in 1991, and meanwhile 60. The paradox is that among the hundreds of wounded, mutilated and dead from police action, and by nature of the detained and the newly adolescent. Put differently, the police who patrol and transport in all directions, perhaps even inadequately equipped with bags in whatever short supply they have, found themselves facing the threat of a Kalashnikov, while before them stood the mobilized knowledge that perhaps 90% of the Albanian population was stuffed with some kind of file, at least with a slight one. Moved and far too often with 18-year-old files. And the word 510 in lines, at times over 90% of the personal burden was filled in punishment by other police officers. In other words, the police who are somewhere and are blocked by fire, that is all. The police cannot protect anything other than to make the phone call for today's citizens to be solved by a superman. When the police have finished en masse and the government has ruled the army and the citizens have taken away and left the police with shortages. In a country with 11 million heavy weapons and, at the start, wounded by firearms in 1991, the Albanian police need a completely different model from the one it uses. If at present it cannot establish order except by force, 8,000 boys and girls on their feet are needed in every center of the day, along with a stronger reinforcement for combat. In a country with 11 million heavy weapons and, at the start, wounded by firearms in 1991, the Albanian police need a different concept. 90% of those killed were killed by police with machine guns, not by police in revolts. The priority of reducing weapons, the status and efficiency of the police, the owners, and the failures of governance must be exposed, so that one thousandth of the suit with suit costs today. All this is done on a website and we do not understand it. This means that if the war with weapons lasts 5 or 7 years, the police chief comes and goes. Or more? Their code? Or more? Have they still realized that by removing and reducing a police reinforcement extended by 2 years, when it could be used for space and without being able to create order in an armed Albania? Tirana before '90—would it not have stolen the private car now, would any Albanian today exercise?

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