After yesterday’s shocking Rugova-Milosheviç meeting By Nikollë Lesi The events unfolded before foreign cameras while Albanians were being sacrificed before the eyes of the world. So how is it that just after midnight, the President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, met with the Serbian dictator Sllobodan Millosheviç? And from the footage, at least the Albanian leader and the Serbian one appear to be at a table, even though the protocol presenters described the meeting between them as a surprise. But this is propaganda. Just as the Albanian people are free while in a cell of Sllobodan Millosheviç, they are with their family and safe. If the film images have been manipulated, we must take a breath. In any case, we are dealing with time. How is it that, from one of Rugova’s residences, Ibrahim Rugova on Thursday surprisingly met in Belgrade with the Serbian president Sllobodan Millosheviç? At this meeting, the latter stated that it was a peace agreement that would immediately end NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia. But our newspaper has seriously distorted the world into having as its only point of reference the meeting between Rugova and Millosheviç. The first version: The Serbs forced Rugova to meet that man and to meet a man who is the leader with the force through which Kosovo can still be saved from extermination? For “NATO” to stop all the bombings? Or is something else hidden? If so, then the Albanians of Kosovo and those of Albania are paying a very high price for any clarity regarding such a meeting with the Serbs. Is this submission?! A second version: That Ibrahim Rugova is not the one who appears before the world, but a look-alike. Such a conclusion is not so far outside logic. In fact, it seems the only explanation for saving the Kosovar president’s life. If he was in the hands of the Serbs, they found a person with a perfect resemblance and put him on television to say the words that suit Belgrade. But does this really happen? If they truly kidnapped some double, then one must ask where the real Rugova was at that moment. On the other hand, if everything is true, then the situation becomes even more dramatic for Kosovo. Accepting the meeting with Millosheviç under these conditions can be read as a political surrender or as a desperate attempt to save whatever can be saved. However, the images and the timing of their appearance leave room for doubt. Serbian victims Milosheviç and Ibrahimi Rugova photo REUTERS

“They loaded a truck with corpses, poured gasoline on them and set them on fire...” P 3

Kosovo, for the moment, under NATO’s best protection, resulting in independence P 9

The hopes of Kosovars seeking a better life P 17

“It would have been better if he had died” P 24 (continued on page 2)

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Notice to readers On Sunday “Ky” starts again with 32 pages “Koha Jonë” expenses also in these countries: Germany, Greece, Italy and America During the last few days, since the vehicles of the Serbian army began attacking Kosovo, a large part of the Albanian and foreign population has been fleeing their homes in search of shelter. This has created a shortage in transportation, sales and in the distribution of the newspaper “Koha Jonë” in several centers in Kosovo, Albania and beyond. The newspaper printing press continues to work, while distribution in some of these places is carried out with difficulty. P 24 [?]