Trial of socialist attacker Gafur Mazreku postponed ON PAGE 4 NATIONAL LIBRARY TIRANA Trial of socialist attacker Gafur Mazreku postponed Laskaj: “Hajdari’s testimony is of no interest to us” ON PAGE 4

Trial begins against Nehat Kulla and Muharrem Haka ON PAGE 4 Trial begins against Nehat Kulla and Muharrem Haka The accused are being tried in absentia ON PAGE 4

The state rewards the people who brought destruction ON PAGE 4 The state rewards the people who brought destruction Bandits are dressed up as police station chiefs ON PAGE 4

The EU strongly reprimands the Albanian Parliament and Government. The judiciary, local government and Parliament have been violated. Albania must meet European conditions and standards. Don’t take Çeka seriously. European parliamentarians leave Albania worried: We called for reconciliation, but found the majority seeking revenge PS GOVERNMENT

The Milot–Burrel road, a deadly stretch for travelers. Five victims in two days. There is no safety anymore; masked men rule the road. . Laç — A major massacre on the national road between Milot and Burrel. Three people were brutally massacred, their heads and limbs cut off, while two others were beaten and left unconscious by the roadside. A group of five masked men, at around 18:00 near Shkëpet in the district of Kurbin, stopped a truck with a burst of automatic gunfire, forcing the five people accompanying it to get out of the vehicle. First, the masked men beat them and robbed them of 15 million lekë, as well as valuables the victims had with them. Then the horrific massacre took place. Three of the truck drivers were subjected to the masked men’s fury. After killing them, the masked men were not satisfied; they cut off their ears, hands, legs and then their heads. The other two were also beaten but did not die; passers-by later found them unconscious. After the crime, the masked men quickly fled the scene, while the bodies have still not been identified. They are in the Lezhë morgue, with their limbs missing. The vehicle’s license plate is unknown because it too was completely destroyed by bullets. The police of Kurbin and Burrel are searching for the masked men. People passing along the road saw the massacre but had no way to intervene. One day earlier, on this same road and very close to this spot, two people were killed by masked men. As they were traveling in a Mercedes-Benz, they were hit by a burst of automatic gunfire, and the car, together with its victims, plunged into the ravine.

Albanians celebrate the 85th anniversary of National Independence and the 53rd anniversary of the country’s Liberation Flag Day and Liberation Day today convey the call of all those who fell so that we could be free: let us restore to Albania and our Flag the dignity, respect, and love they deserve ON PAGE 2

Today Albanians celebrate Independence Day and the country’s Liberation Day The leading figures of the Democratic Party will take part today in the celebrations marking 53rd anniversary of the country’s liberation. DP Chairman Sali Berisha and Tirana Mayor Albert Brojka will attend the events taking place in Tirana to mark November 28. Parliamentary Group Chairman Genc Pollo, former Speaker of Parliament Pjetër Arbnori, and Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jozefina Topalli are in Shkodër today, while DP Secretary General Ridvan Bode is in Korçë. Members of the DP leadership and party officials will also take part in the celebrations of National Independence Day and the country’s Liberation Day in other cities around the country.

Today Elbasan celebrates Independence and Liberation from the occupiers ON PAGE 2

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Xhuveli confirmed the Nano Government’s determination to establish a land market, which could bring an end to cooperation between the PR and the Government ON PAGE 2

The roundtable on pyramid schemes. Who is not interested in transparency? The government, the PS, and the PSD left the chairs empty

Today, one part of the Albanian people celebrates the 85th anniversary of the proclamation of independence and the 53rd anniversary of the liberation of the homeland, while another part celebrates only the proclamation of independence. Such a division on a day of celebration was prepared a month ago by the Albanian Parliament, or rather by that part of Parliament that emerged from the Leninist revolution of the spring. In a way, they split the holiday in two, and the Albanians as well, continuing the same pattern of falsification as their predecessors. Among the first group of celebrants are the large number of people who are aware that they have been [unclear] about history for at least fifty years and cannot bear this lie growing even larger. They have managed to understand all the falsifications of their history by the servants of the dictatorship, who worked on historical scenes and fabricated holidays, facts, dates, figures, memorials, heroes, and many other things of this kind. The first group celebrates independence and, along with independence, the liberation of Albania, while the second group celebrates the event as it has been designated. Now everyone in Albania knows that November 29 is a changeable holiday. For the 24 hours after liberation, it was an ordinary day for Albanians. Two years later it was designated Albania’s Liberation Day; 49 years later it was designated what it had been—a normal day after the holiday, when people go to work, to school, or nowhere at all, but in any case a day that is not a holiday. Four years later, November 29 was designated a holiday again, making this date a symbol of historical instability: a holiday appointed like a local government secretary whenever governments change. As such, an unstable day, which is sometimes a holiday and sometimes not, sometimes an ordinary day and sometimes not, can remain in our memory in either case as a joke politicians play on people who celebrate—and one that suits the post-holiday period so well. Albanians have received this joke as a gift from the Communists twice, once in ’46 and once in ’97, stripping even an ordinary day such as November 30 of its seriousness. The Communists and former Communists are obsessed with holidays and love for things that have no connection. For more than forty years, they took at least ten holidays away from the Albanians. All this great [unclear] of taking away blessed dates has been brought back only because of the false splendor of November 29. The destroyers of holidays—that is, those who once again made November 29 Liberation Day—have taken Christmas, Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Fitr and many other holidays away from people, saddling the Albanians with an unstable date, November 29. It has never happened that people’s holidays are appointed for them as Albanian Communists and former Communists have done and continue to do. The pursuit of November 29, besides being a mockery rooted in deep political and internationalist motives, reminds the people of this country that their holidays are in politicians’ hands. Why can they take away actual holiday dates and invent new holidays? Why did they invent, and why do they keep inventing, new holidays? Why are they always [unclear] and better than everyone else, and where the country’s liberation [unclear]? For those celebrating with the second group, who commemorate the liberation of Shkodër, this will mean a day after the Shkodër anniversary, when the people of Shkodër celebrate. One more thing: the former Communists are managing to divide the Albanians. But this time the division falls on one and the same day of celebration, which also represents the absurdity of Albania’s left.

Respect for the laws, respect for the agreements, and respect for the EU’s conditions The government’s stubbornness risks leaving Albanians without aid. The timing of new elections will be decided by the Albanians and the political forces ON PAGE 3