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. The Nano-Mejdani clique stages the shameful incident in Parliament. Journalists are beaten and threatened. Committee bandits in the Parliament gallery. The Kalashnikov Parliament lives up fully to the name it bears, identifying itself with the inhuman face of the Enverists. Maksim Hasani and the same cooperative chairmen from the hottest areas of the rebellion. Fatjon Nano, Beqir Mejdani, Skënder Gjinushi, Namik Dokle and the rest of the installed communist Enverist gang spoke yesterday in Hasani’s language, and that of a group of unknown little Enverist thugs, who nearly brought out their own Kalashnikovs and those of their guards when the opposition was hemmed in in Parliament. This entire shameful scenario, whose protagonists are the left-wing rulers emerging from the Kalashnikov Parliament, proves once again the legitimacy of the majority of MPs from the armed gangs. At the moment when the Socialist MP gang gathered around the openly declared Enverist Hasani was further inflaming the situation in the chamber, Deputy Speaker Dokle stared wide-eyed, while Speaker Gjinushi did not even make the formal effort to order the removal of the teachers-turned-MPs. A few minutes later, with criminal composure, Speaker Gjinushi told Radio Tirana that he had expected such a thing to happen. Yesterday’s incident was met with admirable composure by the opposition—it was a burst of Kalashnikov fire with which the gang MPs greeted the Democratic MPs’ entrance into Parliament. They did nothing other than bring into the parliamentary chamber what they had done during the months of chaos and destruction, as well as during the bloody election campaign across most of Albanian territory. The image of the most deranged people screaming and of the servants who sold themselves getting into a brawl is, in fact, the real face of the Kalashnikov Parliament. Besides the gladiators who were the protagonists of the incident in the chamber, the communist rulers had also filled the gallery with fanatical militants provoking a scene like the one in the chamber, as well as with army and police officers who surrounded the journalists. One of the Parliament guards’ chiefs was artfully ordered, armed, to charge at a journalist’s head in front of the cameras, photographers and microphones, while some journalists were prevented for a long time from covering what followed. what followed. Shkëndër Gjinushi. The attack on journalists had begun well before the Democratic Party MPs arrived at Parliament, when a group of thugs from the Socialist Party chamber, who had been constantly present in the gallery since 29 June, and several representatives of the rescue committees had provoked the press in order to stage an incident. The staging of this shameful incident by the highest-ranking former communist rulers is an intensification of extreme revanchism; and, as has often been said in the Democratic Party’s statements, it is directed first and foremost against the opposition. The Kalashnikov MPs also showed that they would prefer the opposition not to come to Parliament at all, and that they are ready to attempt any act of banditry to make its historic mission more difficult: to put an end to the criminal conduct of the communist revanchists. Yesterday, Albanians saw a parliamentary system in the proper sense of the word, in its political mentality and in the tactics used in Tirana. Koci? and the other criminals who were in power. In the face of this war of barbaric violence, the democratic opposition stood firm, facing a politically generated force whose mission is, if not to stop, at least to expand the wrongdoing of the Kalashnikov gang entrenched in power. The democratic opposition, through its example, will withstand all the provocations by the Kalashnikov MPs and their servants, who were not present in Parliament, using all its energy to stop the violence and to defend the rights and freedoms of Albanians against those issuing threats. The gangs’ installed parliament identifies itself with the inhuman face of a chorus of Enverists We are in opposition, and with us in opposition is the deepest Albanian gratitude for the greatest solidarity and generosity Albanians have known throughout their history from the taxpayers, governments and institutions of the major member countries and other countries of the European Union. Through the European Commission, from 1991 until today, they have given Albania more than 800 million dollars free of charge in humanitarian aid, balance-of-payments grants, and through the PHARE, Tempus, Kuprnik, Intereg and Crossborder programs. Friendly countries—Italy, Germany, France, Britain, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.—gave almost the same amount. SPECIAL, pages 2–3

The era of censorship and low-level staging against the opposition begins A distorted montage by Albanian Television For several days, Albanian Radio-Television, occupied by the fierce censorship of the former Communists, has joined the chorus of Enverists who caused the shameful incident in Parliament. Communist censors Eduard Mazi, backed by the servant of those in power, Timo Luto, became the authors of a vile staging, as vile as the incident involving the Enverist officials in power who used Maksim Hasani. Journalist Timo Luto, who in his report did not show the instigator of the incident, Maksim Hasani, at all, but showed some of the consequences of the event, proved that he is more Enverist and more wicked than the Marxist-Leninist from Berat. Likewise, he presented the moment when Berisha and the group of Democratic MPs left the chamber as if it had happened after Majko addressed Parliament to call for two minutes of silence for the recent victims, even though they had left several minutes earlier. A person who can distort the facts in this way, disregarding the presence of hundreds of witnesses, shows that he is cut from the same cloth as those bandits who have killed and burned in many Albanian cities and caused the victims for whom mourning was requested. We know that he has threatened to call in a new team of censors, so that he can then more easily take on 500-dollar reports for private companies, as he has done until now. We also know that this low social stratum can use the right to film and inform in the most criminal way, abusing it by every means to ingratiate themselves with the new people in power, all the more so now that they are on the verge of retirement. Meanwhile, we denounce the order issued by the Enverist Eduard Mazi, who, after reaching an agreement with Gjinushi, ordered that nothing be filmed or shown, so that only Timo Luto’s distorted montage would remain. When several journalists threatened to take the television bus to Parliament, chief censor Mazi replied with a firm “no,” on the grounds that, according to him, there had been no request from the presidium. This proves conclusively that yesterday’s incident was a prepared scenario in which Television, occupied by the Enverists, played its part. Chief censor Eduard Mazi and the vile servant Timo Luto will forever be remembered for the shameful events in Parliament, just like the Enverist Maksim Hasani and the chorus of Kalashnikovs that backed him. Meanwhile, yesterday’s event is a warning that Albanian Television is returning to fierce censorship and vile abuses involving montages and fabrications against the opposition. “RD”

To the Prosecutor General, Mr. Arben Rakipi. For the information of the President of the Republic and the Albanian Helsinki Committee The Tirana police issued a press statement today saying that 23-year-old Aurel Xheka was killed in an exchange of gunfire. That is what the police say. The truth is that this morning we were informed at home that our nephew had been shot in the head. We looked for him at the hospital and, after making inquiries, found him in the morgue. Aurel had been brutalized: his four front teeth were broken, his eye was swollen, he had two cuts above his lip and a bruise on the right side of his chest. We believe that he was killed after being beaten; otherwise, the beating cannot be explained. This is the truth, not what the police statement says—that after the police ambushed him, they found him dead in a car. According to the police, a Zastava pistol was found on the perpetrator, but we say this is not true. We demand that the guilty parties be found, not what the police statement says—that the criminals fled and we do not know who committed the murder. The police conducted the forensic examination today at 11:00, without the family present. We stress that Aurel Xheka had never had any problems with the police. We ask the highest state authorities for help in restoring our family’s honor by uncovering the truth about the incident and holding accountable the criminals who massacred our son. For the Xheka family Agim XHEKA (uncle)

Criminal hands within the police killed Aurel Xheka yesterday, a 23-year-old from the capital. His family members’ tearful testimonies and the photograph we are publishing make it clear that, regrettably, the Albanian police are turning into a killing weapon in the service of the Socialist government, which came to power through the terror of Kalashnikovs. The official statement from the Ministry of the Interior says there was an exchange of gunfire between an armed group and the police, in which one person was killed. The police said they found him dead in a BMW. Looking at the photograph of the body, it is easy to discern on the face of the young man from the capital the signs of inhuman violence inflicted on him. His family members say that Aurel was brutalized: his four side of his chest. The justice authorities must immediately hold accountable those criminal hands within the police who, in order to keep their seats and epaulettes, do not hesitate to kill innocent people. V. E.

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