The pit, the mass grave of Shkodër, a symbol of hundreds and thousands of other pits throughout Albania The killers claim they want to get into politics MENTOR SHEHU It is no coincidence that precisely in Shkodër, in this anti- communist despised city, what was perhaps the largest cemetery of Enverian crime was uncovered. It is not a whim of the dictatorship that precisely Shkodër, its underground, became the most important grave of the political opponents of the regime, patriots, distinguished intellectuals, ordinary people who wanted an Albania without communism, without dictatorship, who wanted a free Albania. This gigantic black pit, opened in Shkodër, one of the most monstrous graves, was unquestionable evidence of communist genocide, that genocide that crossed all the limits of the imaginary of perfected criminals. With medieval inquisitions without a half... how could a criminal regime like that of Enver Hoxha survive for half a century, without at its foundation a gigantic tomb filled with the corpses of opponents? And how could such a criminal state live without extinguishing thousands of innocent lives. And how could this shame of humanity, this vampire of modern times, live without the blood of thousands and (Continued on page 2) SIGURIMI

From the Plenum meeting: “On the marked lack of vigilance and the grave mistakes of Kadri Hazbiu at the time when he was Minister of the Interior” “First of all, what is the story of a firearm in the form of a stick, a cane, specially made for the enemy Mehmet Shehu, which until recently Veli Shehu had been carrying, until recently Veli ...[?]” From the Plenum meeting: “On the marked lack of vigilance and the grave mistakes of Kadri Hazbiu at the time when he was Minister of the Interior” “First of all, what is the story of a firearm in the form of a stick, a cane, specially made for the enemy Mehmet Shehu, which until recently Veli Shehu had been carrying, until recently Veli ...[?]” PAGE 5

President Berisha welcomes the Croat- Bosnian Dayton agreement The President of the Republic, Sali Berisha, warmly welcomes Croatian President Tuđman and Bosnian President Izetbegović for the important agreement reached yesterday in Dayton, Ohio, USA, in the presence of Secretary of State Warren Christopher, which the American and European leaders... It considers this agreement an important contribution to the establishment of peace in the region as well as an expression of the determination of the two presidents for a peaceful and long-term solution to the conflict in former Yugoslavia. The signing of the agreement is also another success of American diplomacy in its energetic efforts to achieve a lasting and fair solution to this conflict. Press and Information Office at the President’s

Before Europeans are expected to wait for and listen to the opposition, it must understand the pulse of today’s Europe. Today’s Europe is not shaped by Marxism, centralized economy, anti-NATO and anti-Western phobia. It is not shaped by former agents of the secret police of communist dictatorships. Today’s opposition must understand the messages of Europe, of a number of its personalities and of the United States, which recently have openly addressed Albanians about the risk of the return to power of Albanian former conservative communists. Europe is sickened by conservative communists Before Europeans are expected to wait for and listen to the opposition, it must understand the pulse of today’s Europe. Today’s Europe is not shaped by Marxism, centralized economy, anti-NATO and anti-Western phobia. It is not shaped by former agents of the secret police of communist dictatorships. Today’s opposition must understand the messages of Europe, of a number of its personalities and of the United States, which recently have openly addressed Albanians about the risk of the return to power of Albanian former conservative communists. LORENC LIGORI At the beginning of this week, a high-level delegation of the Council of Europe visited Albania. The delegation was headed by the Deputy Secretary General of the CoE, Peter Leuprecht, and its members included the Human Rights Department official Pierr Imbert, Legal Affairs director Guy Level, the Deputy President of the Constitutional Court of Austria Karl Priks, and the member of the CoE CPT Rudolf Machacek. As is known, the focus of the visit was important issues of post-communist countries, human rights, the functioning of justice, etc. The CoE delegation formed an opinion on the situation in Albania. After completing a packed program of meetings with high-ranking personalities in the country, the Deputy Secretary General of the CoE declared to RD: “They leave with the firm conviction that Albania has made extraordinarily great progress with regard to democracy, the rule of law, and human rights”. In the agenda of meetings held, the high-level delegation of the Council of Europe lacked meetings with the Albanian opposition. On such matters, delegations of this level visiting other former communist countries begin with the opposition. So why this exception for the Albanian opposition? The reasons are many. First of all, the indifference and disregard toward the PS in their talks with PAD is seen first as a result of an incompatible stance. And the PSD comes as a result of the Albanian opposition being united in its position on the country’s membership in the CoE. Vice-chairman Namik Dokle cannot convince anyone from the European audience with his otherwise generally known stance. The statements about “unripe apples” have as their only equivalent the positions of Zhirinovsky toward the CoE. When Dokle’s “unripe apples”, the Socialist Party opened from the international perspective of Ethem Ruka’s governance. The other vice- chairman, Servet Pëllumbi, regarding the delegation’s disregard toward the PS, “heartbreaker” states: “we will continue the cooperation”. But earlier under the term “cooperation” he had listed only “denunciations”, “numerous violations of human rights”, “tension traffic”, etc. Nothing more about the Albanian democratic processes. Europe knows you and knows what it values. Before Europeans are expected to wait for and listen to the opposition, it must understand the pulse of today’s Europe. Today’s Europe is not made by Marxism, centralized economy, anti-NATO anti-Western phobias. It is not made by former agents of the secret police of communist dictatorships. Today’s opposition must understand the messages of Europe, of a number of its personalities and of the United States, which recently have openly addressed Albanians about the risk of the return to power of Albanian former conservative communists. One does not go to Europe, much less can one claim support and extended hands by calculating from the direction of reformist intellectuals, which is stubbornly handled by the caricature of the chief agency Gramoz Ruçi. One does not go to Europe at the end of the 20th century with the slogans of Marx and those of Hoxhaism, or with the sentimental chronicles of NATO or its bases.

Analogies of extremists Analogies of extremists SAMI MILLOSHI Served up in intrigue, confused in ideas, without friends and without identity, the head of the PS, with Machiavellian methods, tries to exploit for his own political ends the most different events in the world, which have no connection at all with Albanian reality. Thus, for example, it is clear that yesterday through ZP, the head of the PS sought to make an analogy between Rabin’s murder and the situation in Albania, which according to the writers of the ideas of Ruçi and Pëllumbi is “tense” and that “the direct responsibility for this is the President of Albania” (ZP 10.11.1995). The shameless flatterers that the publicity of the PS and its backward videos peddle today go so far as to identify such a difficult, complex and great process as the peace process in the Middle East with the relations between two political parties in Albania. There could be no more classic absurdity. Notice how the cynic expresses himself in yesterday’s ZP. After Rabin’s murder, Shimon Peres declared that even afterward the government’s main commitment would be to continue the peace process, even more important than the commitment to win the elections in (It refers to peace with the Palestinians). Has President Berisha received this same message? In what you scribble, even a person of very low education would be reminded that Albania is not Israel, but a country that is still healing the wounds of a fifty-year dictatorship. So the main commitment of the Albanian government has neither been nor can be the identification with the Israeli government. On the other hand, the stance toward its own failings, nor a stance that is identical or to be imitated, as another name that is the Balkans, and allegedly called the Middle East. Nevertheless, those who analyze ZP, even though it has very often used the word “peace” might remind them that the international devilish authorities have welcomed Albania’s stance and President Berisha as a factor of peace and stability in the Balkans. If Ruçi and Pëllumbi do not want to accept this truth, that is their affair, but in any case it is an undeniable truth. The fact that the head of the PS, through his writers in ZP, seeks to identify Israeli right-wing extremists with the stance of the Albanian opposition is as crude as it is sinister. “Isaac Rabin - writes ZP - fell victim to the hatred of right-wing extremism. Here, too, now the language of hatred and division used by the PD has not taken human lives. However, even in Albania it has produced its bitter fruits..." First of all, anyone to whom the analyst of ZP turns could remind him that the known truth, we believe, is also in Israel, that in Albania it is not the far right that governs, but a party (the PD) that has not only a program, but the whole activity of a center-right party. Whereas Ruçi’s party still has Marxism in its program and some of its leaders have called on “the masses to rush forward under the slogan of smashing skulls.” All this can only place the PS, for now at least, as the far left of the Albanian political spectrum. However, what should this ZP analyst know, who goes all the way to Israel to find analogies, extremists meet, and, somewhat surprisingly, the probability of the identity of the language of hate and of the extreme right-wing extremist analysis of the Israeli murder with someone in Albania is sought more easily in the most criminalized segments of the PS, which have still used as an ideology hatred that has been calculated from afar and near to them. So, willingly or unwillingly, the author of the sensitive article in ZP “The Message from Jerusalem” may have deconspiratorily revealed the mechanism of the language of hatred that thrives in certain segments of the PS. There too is the explosive charge of the tension of the situation, which, in truth, in Albania is completely normal. The tension is in the hot heads of the PS leaders, otherwise, a piece of writing that they just seem to have and finish with demagogy as a “campaign” of defending the interests of the underprivileged.

Asked by RD about Neritan Ceka’s statement that no PAD member had handed in his membership card, the Secretary General of the PD, Tritan Shehu, said: T. Shehu: Ceka can collect the membership cards at the PD offices, Durrës Asked by RD about Neritan Ceka’s statement that no PAD member had handed in his membership card, the Secretary General of the PD, Tritan Shehu, said: “Mr. Ceka, unlike Mr. Llami who admits the departure of 200 PAD members, replies in a deceptive manner and throws dust in the public’s eyes, saying that they did not hand in their party cards at the offices of the PD Branch, Durrës. I tell Mr. Ceka that he is free to go and collect the membership cards of the former members of his party, since they are now deposited at the offices of the PD Branch, Durrës and, perhaps, may be useful to him for new memberships. In addition, I think Mr. Ceka should be concerned by the fact that now, with the approach of the director..., this phenomenon is happening, which, as we know, is spreading throughout the districts of the country. Apparently, this is happening now because the director is once again reminding people of the shameful declarations of Ceka about being on Alia’s side, which together they tried to bring about the destruction of Albanian democracy and, what is worse, they present a kind of ... Particularly, the future of a party, born of failure, which has been created by failures, led by fake failures Ceka, is an outrage.”

After prominent personalities, after NATO and the USA, the Albanian Enterprise Found and its esteemed chairman Domenic Scallone are also being attacked. After prominent personalities, after NATO and the USA, the “Albanian Enterprise Found” and its esteemed chairman Domenic Scallone are also being attacked. EDI PALOKA The madness of “ZP” in its attacks against personalities of the West has crossed every limit. After attacking in the most shameless way senators, congressmen and even ministers of developed democratic countries, after attacking NATO and the USA themselves (through illegal anti-enemy tracts of the attacks on the Albanian- American Investment Fund and the esteemed Domenic Scallone, the chairman of this Fund. This kind of arrogance, once considered devotion to the medieval principles of E. Hoxha, today has completely taken over the conservative leaders of the PS and their poster newspaper. As is known, the American-Albanian Enterprise Found was established under the care of the US President Bill Clinton to help investments in Albania, and it was President Clinton who personally appointed Domenic Scallone, one of the most prominent figures in American business, former Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, to head the board of this Foundation. The establishment of this Fund, which has 30 million dollars, was a true act of friendship to help the Albanian economy at this stage of its development. But the anti-European and anti-American madness that has taken over the press of the far left spares nothing. They are ready to turn against anyone who extends a hand to Berisha and is offering help to Albania today. Through former agents of the Sigurimi (who were paid for their dirty work all over the world), yesterday’s “ZP” manages not only to attack the Albanian-American fund but also to accuse the essteemed Scallone (appointed by President Clinton) of wanting to fill his pockets with the money from the dinner that was hosted for President Berisha in New York. (“And there were even waiters and waitresses in the costs against a very symbolic price of 175 dollars. Business is a hard trade for those who know how to do it. Politics is too. An Italian invites Albanians to meet their president. Scallone’s companion did not come away empty-handed...” writes the veteran collaborator of “ZP”. This kind of cynicism is worthy only of the communists at the head of the PS and the thugs of “ZP”, but it must be reminded to these political corpses that a personality like Scallone honors Albania by chairing the board of the “American-Albanian Enterprise Found.” There are other things: today those condemned by justice were lamenting, while today they stole the Albanians’ money. Above all, no one expects anything positive from communists. They have nothing left but to answer the world’s contempt with hysterical outbursts.

The delegation of the Venice Commission at the Council of Europe praises Albania’s successful achievements in the field of justice PAD, the party of chairmen without members New purges expected in the leadership of the PS Dobrovoda (Ulqin Musa): “Let us fight to win so that we can repeal the genocide law” PAGE 2