HONORABLE PJETËR ARBNORI, Speaker of the People’s Assembly of the Republic of Albania Dear Mr. Speaker, Please accept my sincere appreciation for your warm words on the occasion of the 217th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America. On the Fourth of July, my country celebrates more than an anniversary; it celebrates the democratic ideals on which our country was founded. I wish your Parliament and you personally success in your work to advance democracy for the good of Albania and its people. Sincerely, AL GORE, Vice President of the United States of America President of the United States Senate.

After talks with his counterpart, Italy’s Defense Minister Fabri, and a reception hosted for him by the President of the Republic of Italy, Skalfaro, Defense Minister Safet Zhulali, continuing his official visit, met with Italy’s Foreign Minister, Mr. Andreatta, as well as with the Vatican’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Monsignor Tyfo. Following his successful visit to Italy, our Defense Minister, Mr. Zhulali, returned to the Homeland at the head of a high-level military delegation. (ATSH)

- THE ANTIDEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION — AN ISSUE PUT FORWARD FOR A SOLUTION — - SOCIAL-COMMUNISTS, OLD AND NEW ENVERISTS TAKE THE FIELD OF BATTLE. - WHOEVER DOES NOT DEFEND CORRUPTION AND FATOS NANO IS DECLARED AN AGENT OF IMPERIALISM AND AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. - FATOS NANO HAS FOUND MIRACLE CURES TO SAVE HIS HONOR AND HIS TAINTED, DISGRACED POSITION. The speech by PSSH chairman Fatos Nano at the meeting of the Party’s General Steering Committee, from its first word to its last, reminds us of the Enverist tracts from the time of the national liberation war, which called for fighting side by side with Tito, Dushan and Miladin, and without compromise against the fascist occupiers, who, in the end, did us a great favor: they gave us Kosovo, which the Serbian kings had taken from us, and which was then snatched away by our comrades in ideology, or the patrons of Enver Hoxha. Fatos Nano’s speech also reminds us of the calls Enver Hoxha made to the world proletariat to enter the battlefield, overthrow capitalism and establish communism across the entire globe. That is why those who read and hear Fatos Nano and the mourners surrounding him feel like whispering: let them sort out his troubles and take responsibility for healing the wounds they themselves opened with their own hands and weapons. By trying to present themselves in words as guardian angels of the underprivileged, such privileged people, father and son, the whole clan and entourage, like Fatos Nano, Kastriot Islami, Bashkim Zeneli and Mago Lakrori, convince the people completely that Fatos Nano’s pseudo-socialists of today want to deceive them just as Enver Hoxha’s and Ramiz Alia’s communists did for 47 years. In this “programmatic” speech FATOS NANO HAS FINALLY TAKEN OFF HIS MASK ON THE SITUATION Millionaire Nano dreams of and strives to win over, to draw behind him, crowds in mass protests and openly antidemocratic, unlawful and de- [text continues outside the photograph] ...who had been deceived for nearly half a century by communism. In this “programmatic” speech ...“all the laws passed by the current Parliament”—“we will crush their heads,” “we will drag them along the ground,” “we will split their skulls”... There could be no more open confession or purer sincerity in proclaiming revanchism. Naturally, after crushing our heads and dragging us along the ground, after annulling all democratic laws, they will reopen the prisons and internment camps and restore Enverist justice, under which people were buried alive for so much as a spoken word, with those responsible chained up. With the high temperatures of these hot July days and the fever of punishment and the destruction of his career, Nano is, it seems, in a hallucinatory state that makes him see dreams with his eyes open and imagine that the people might follow him in a war against the colonels because two-thirds of the population supposedly suffers from hunger, and that he can stand up for the people and the country. But would our people really leave themselves in Fatos Nano’s hands? He robbed our hungry children of their daily bread and, as anemic as he was, made a filthy business out of the generous aid from the Italian people and government, cutting that fund by 8–9 million dollars, which ... [text continues outside the photograph] Chairman Nano finally takes off his mask. After making the sensational discovery that “a neo-dictatorship is crystallizing in Albania,” he declares that “no one should expect dictators to leave of their own accord.” ...the front page of yesterday’s “ZP,” with “dragging people along the ground,” “splitting skulls” and “civil strife”! Neither the deputies’ community nor their small-bodied, hormone-driven clique of corruption and crime is, or will ever be, able to violate the first principle of democracy: submission to the law. The law is the same for Nano, who is the leader of the communist conservatives in the PS, as it is for N. Allaj, who leads the PD in the local government of Elbasan! And if the latter is being pursued by the PD-majority government on corruption charges, there is no reason why the law should not also be applied to F. Nano. He knows how this will end. He is convinced that he has been compromised. He senses the shameful end awaiting him, just as he himself prepared it, when, with four eyes (two on his face and two behind his glasses), violating the state’s legal norms, he compromised himself and the party he represents. His end is shameful... [text continues outside the photograph] [They will] drag us away as fascists, they will crack our PS is against violence!!! The purpose of Nano’s [qemunder] and the monkey skulls who accompany and defend him at the head of the PS is supplemented by a dose of diplomatic fabrications from unscrupulous, adventurist, corrupt and compromised minds of the Nano type. To distance himself as much as possible from the factual accusation against him, he furiously attacks the PD leader, Mr. Selami, over his relations with Italian party counterparts—an accusation that has been refuted and proven false. The people put the people of the country. If our people leave themselves in Fatos Nano’s hands, he will take away the bread from the mouths of our hungry and anemic children, as he did by making a filthy business out of the generous aid of the Italian people and government, shortchanging this fund by 8–9 million dollars, which they presumably know have ended up in whose pockets. led or defended by Fatos Nano, who with his own hand, in full conviction and with far- and near-reaching calculations, signed the declaration with Papandreou of PASOK. It constitutes a profoundly anti-Albanian manifesto, a serious attack against protect the seat he occupies and seize higher ones. Perhaps the others do not trust the jurists—those jurists whom, 24 hours earlier in parliament and in “ZP,” he threatened with [barb], calling them “hornets, criminals, [të shtitur],” and closing his “trust” in [anost të ma të madh], while saying that he would take revenge against everyone! More than Don Quixote, he looks like Sancho Panza. On the one hand Nano professes political dialogue; on the other, he calls the unanimous vote of the five parliamentary parties (PD, PSD, PR, PBNDJ, and PAD) a balisto-fascist-revanchist-dictatorial vote!!! In this way Nano excludes himself from the concept of pluralism and the democratic vote, indirectly demanding absolute power, which [e ndërtohen ai fashizimin e tij universität]—criminal, corrupt executioners of civic dignity. With a [filloveneriste] and expansionist logic, F. Nano claims that from today onward a great confrontation will begin, [Serizve], like the confrontations K. Islam, the university vampire, [skikon] on the page of the His end is shameful, because he himself wants to take all the members of his former communist party with him, just like Ceaușescu; and, like the ancient dictators, with the “avar” of shame he wants to take all the innocent servants and slaves with him. Like Slobodan, he wants to throw into his downfall the apple of discord, the apple of division and extreme political and social tensions. Unsated by the 8 million in Italian aid, which is only the tip of the iceberg of his moral, financial, political and civic corruption, Nano and Fatos want to bury every democratic attempt, every initiative of the law. If he wants only 1 percent, as he says in the press, to protect the people from injustices and abuses, then Nano the [vulledhtarit] should go straight before justice. Behind him lie political corruption and immorality, the massacres of Shkodër, Tirana, Fushë-Arrëz, Pogradec, Poliçan and Bulqizë, and precisely because he is conscious of this living dossier of the political and economic transition, Fatos Nano declares that he will be [krer ar no] to be arrested. [Kushërinjtë] would be proud if he were convicted! May God make them proud and forgive his sins, while may justice grant him his wish to be proud, so that Albanians understand that corruption is black and that its end is “the pride of prison.”

Through communist leader F. Nano, the Albanian-Italian newspaper “Gazeta shqiptare” offered its readers a spectacle of political adventurers. With the joy and pride of being arrested, Nano begins threatening the PDSH and, when that seems insufficient to him, starts taking swings at the Balkans, Italy and the distant West. He threatens to use every possible means, leaving open the question of how “possible means” are to be classified in a pluralist democracy. One can only hope he means peaceful means, while he himself is convinced that his wish does not go beyond the classic bounds of the word “wish”; yet in his Albanian newspaper, on the same day, he says: “We’ll drag you along the ground like fascists; we’ll crack your skulls like political corpses.” And without a shred of shame, he ends the interview with the prostitute-like declaration that the PS is against violence!!! The dose of diplomatic slander from the minds ... [text continues outside the photograph] adds to the purpose of this “opposition” of Nano and the simian skulls who surround him and cheer him on in the PS.

Millionaire Nano dreams of and strives to win over, to draw behind him, crowds in mass protests and openly antidemocratic, unlawful and destabilizing actions—not only these people, but also citizens and villagers who truly have been and remain underprivileged, who have had and still have many troubles, but who have long understood that the cause of all their hardships and wounds is the PK, PP or PS of Enver Hoxha, Ramiz Alia and Fatos Nano. across the entire globe. The fate of these “historical documents,” which were included in the kilometer-long series of Enver Hoxha’s works, is now clear. They were torn up and used to wrap cheese, sausage, peppers and oregano. Naturally, the tracts and lectures of Fatos Nano, which once again produce the dark words of “ZP” or “24 orë,” are destined for the same fate. Conscious of his guilt, supported by facts he cannot refute, and aware that his days in the golden chair of PS chairman are numbered, he is using the full arsenal of his demagoguery, hypocrisy and oratory to deceive— unlawful and destabilizing actions—not only these people, but also citizens and villagers who truly have been and remain underprivileged, who have had and still have many troubles, but who have long understood that the cause of all their hardships and wounds is the PK, PP or PS of Enver Hoxha, Ramiz Alia and Fatos Nano. The transition and reform are causing them new hardships, but they are determined to endure and overcome them with patience, hope and complete confidence, because they can see with their own eyes, minds and hearts that the peace sown on 22 March 1992 is bearing fruit they had never seen— Chairman Nano, in Albania,” their own accord.” The greatest Marxist-Leninist of this decade, Fatos Nano, also sets out the weapons, paths and methods by which dictators can be removed. Here he is no innovator, since he refers to the theoretical and practical treasury of his predecessors Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Enver Hoxha. Thus Fatos Nano calls on his loyal followers to take to the battle squares and violently overthrow the democratic “dictatorship” through revolution, in order to restore the Enverists to power. The threats made by the PS through F. Nano, Namik Dokle and K. Islami are proof enough: “we’ll remove them and put [someone else] in.” Last year our people [text unclear in source] ... He [text unclear in source] our hungry children’s daily bread, and, that fund by 8–9 million dollars. You can imagine whose pockets it ended up in. Woe to our country if it is left to be led or defended by Fatos Nano, who, of his own accord and with full conviction and calculations for both the near and distant future, signed the declaration with Papandreou of PASOK—a profoundly anti-Albanian manifesto, a grave attack on Albania and our new, genuine democracy, and clear proof that Fatos Nano is ready to sell and destroy Albania to protect the chair he occupies and seize even higher ones.

Recently, on the BBC, Mr. Eshli made a broadcast about Albania in which he misrepresented, perhaps through lack of information, the functions and practical activities of the President of the Republic, Mr. Sali Berisha, and the prosecutor. We cannot judge Mr. Eshli’s political position or personal sympathies, since that is his right. If he wishes, he may still be a communist, a socialist or even a Marxist-Leninist, as Enver Hoxha used to pay him to be. But he has no right to misinform the Albanian public through the BBC’s airwaves, whether deliberately or otherwise. Mr. Eshli writes that a witch hunt is taking place in Albania! His comments, making as much noise as those of “ZP,” are entirely baseless, tendentious and extremely unfair for a serious radio station such as the BBC. PPS leader Mr. Nano is being tried over 9 million dollars. His responsibility for the loss of this sum, in this corruption case, has been conclusively established with all the necessary evidence. For this reason, the Albanian Parliament, with only the socialist deputies absent, voted unanimously to lift Fatos Nano’s immunity and bring him before the courts. This was not done by the President of the Republic, Mr. Eshli. From no objective standpoint can the decision of this Parliament be prejudged either. The Albanian reality shows that the PPSH stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the people, plunging them into extreme poverty; in this situation Fatos Nano continued the corruption and theft, thus acting for narrow interests and deepening that misery, while playing with a people’s hunger and very existence. In this reality, it is normal for an information outlet to report one truth, while another is told to criminals. In Albania, no one has been punished for their past, but the justice system of democracy cannot refrain from acting, as it has acted, against concrete crimes. Applying the law against crime is the foundation and advancement of democracy! To act otherwise is to destroy it. And only in this suffocation could Mr. Eshli’s witch-hunt story satisfy him.

The Fatos Nano clan has erupted into a savage, aggressive war against the democratic order. Fatos Nano and the clan of today’s communist hyenas, worthy successors of Enver Hoxha and his idiot-ignorant-criminals, on this day of communist carnivals organized to defend their corrupt leader, have donned the wolf’s skin and bared their teeth. Thus Nano, with his howling, recalls the blood-sucking Wolf Father, Enver Hoxha, and generally proclaims anti-democratic threats, just as that monster did at the first congress of the PKSH and afterward. Meanwhile, Dokle, Islami, Ruçi, Broka—the hyenas of Fatos Nano’s clan, this shadow but also a copy of Enver Hoxha—bring to mind their own Xoxras, Mehmetas, Hazbirat, Ramizarat, Myftirat, whose worth is now evident and who declared smearing and [janpinëno] to be the first law. The same fate awaits their copies, who have not stopped denouncing the democratic order as neo-dictatorship, revanchism, fascism, and with other Enverian epithets. This offspring of communist ghosts cannot accept true democracy, which is coming to life and is visible in Albania today, precisely because it knows that democracy means the rule of law for everyone and punishment for anyone who violates it. That is why it is fighting to bring back “proletarian democracy.” Only in this way can Nano benefit from [Vraçin], massacre, and commit [genolti] against opponents without a hair on his head being touched. This is what the clans of servants dream of with their eyes open: the use of violence and terror. Kastriot Islami, when he cynically declares, “we will crush your heads, we will drag you away,” classifies himself and the others as communist-fascists of the Envero-Milošević type. Gentlemen! Forget who you have been; look at where you stand, so that you may understand better. Take off the wolf’s skin: it is still damp and reeks so strongly of communist carrion that you can smell it from kilometers away, let alone when you follow behind it. Come to your senses; you have made yourselves ridiculous like Don Quixote.

[They will] drag us away as fascists, they will crack our skulls like political corpses*. And without a shred of shame, he ends the interview with the prostitute-like declaration that the PS is against violence!!! The purpose of Nano’s [qemunder] and the monkey skulls who accompany and defend him at the head of the PS is supplemented by a dose of diplomatic fabrications from unscrupulous, adventurist, corrupt and compromised minds of the Nano type. To distance himself as much as possible from the factual accusation against him, he furiously attacks the PD leader, Mr. Selami, over his relations with Italian party counterparts—an accusation that has been refuted and proven false.

Tirana, 30 July 1993. At 14:30, Fatos Thanas Nano, Chairman of the PSSH, was arrested. CHARGE: Abuse of office and falsification of official documents in connection with Italian aid.