Citizens are freed after the massacre in Berat P. 2-5

The police of the capital intervened late in the village of Ndroq, Tirana; most of the bullets were fired at the police forces. Eyewitnesses to this horrific घटना testified that, at around 10:00, they shot without leaving a ray of light, and called for the dissolution of the “Misia” group. Eyewitnesses who were not far from this bar said that after the shooting, “Koha Jonë” learned that the police drove armored vehicles toward the bar, while on the other side [according to witnesses] near the high walls of the bar and inside several houses people were found with multiple gunshot wounds. The walls of the bar and the glass showed clear signs of bullets. In this bloody situation the police and the anti-crime operation were approaching. In fact, human responsibility will have to be borne.

Faint hopes for the life of the injured baby “Why did you kill my baby?” Kupini[?] — speaks the father of the killed baby, in anger, duka Mervela[?], after her 18 bullets in the uprising of her duska Mervela. This white child with a polka-dot blouse and blue eyes, who has not yet completed her second year, was killed in the Berat hospital. He says they carried her in her mother’s arms, still alive. “I have no hope left for her,” the mother confesses amid anguish. The killed child is 4 years old, the only victim of the evening. Within an hour, doctors in Tirana had hoped that the wreath of a bar located on the national road would bring punishment to the perpetrators. “I have no hope left,” he says, crying with tears, and that is all in this serious tragedy. They had shaken her after five years and so quickly; and the honored death had not yet come to take her away. We cannot sleep, the word momje[?] is outside. In the middle of shock and revolt, amid all the ugliness of last night, the father has become the symbol of a destroyed family. We found him in the intensive care room of the Berat hospital, crying for his wife, his daughter and his son who had just managed to come out alive from that turmoil. Accompanied by his brother as well, he stated that he is a survivor, that the whole terrible event was enough. “After they cut off her leg, they also killed my wife’s sister’s son,” he says. “She also took a bullet in the neck and another one in the eye. Most of the family was in the Berat bar while they were having dinner. They had only just turned back. “I have no hope left,” he repeats. He had stayed all night in the hospital corridors to learn at least something about the little girl’s life. But in the morning the hospital doctors cautiously told him that she had been badly shot in the belly. The 2-year-old girl has a chance of living if there are no major complications. “They killed my cousin’s daughter and her friend,” he says tearfully. “Yesterday we were having dinner and they shot at us mercilessly. We knew no one; they just came and wreaked havoc. My wife’s brother had his son killed, my wife’s sister had her son and daughter killed, while the son’s wife was left living through the terror. The brother’s wife has received treatment. Now we have to find blood.” A heavy silence had fallen, because you could not speak to the people. No one could understand how they had shot this family so barbarically. In that bar there were children, women and men eating as well. Faced with the question of what these people had done to deserve this tragedy, the father shook his head. “If we had been men standing side by side, yes, I would understand. But these people? The children? Why?” He lowers his head. “Better they had killed me,” he says sadly. He now had to care for his second son, wounded in the leg. His wife, who had received several wounds, remained in serious condition.

Last night in Tirana: The anti-crime campaign begins

■ The Bockor government before the murdered police officers: No mercy for criminals ■ The massacre, we promise, is a blow to the Ministry of Interior[?] ■ PD: The minister should resign immediately ■ The parents of the criminals: We do not want them as children, let the army kill them ■ The villagers saw the terror: “Oh God, what happened to us”