ON PAGE 6 Kimoni GJenda in Kosovo is serious

BY Asim PATOZI In the June 27 analysis of the state and order section near the General Committee of the PS, the strategic role currently played by criminal gangs in the power of this political force was once again defined. In addition to some well-known names, which are hardly likely to be renewed in the next selection because they have been used up, it was decided to promote other elements who have gained more experience in carrying out highly delicate missions. We mention here Mr. Fatos Klosi, Vasil Bollano, Mujo Ulqinaku and others. These are people who, a few months ago, took part with weapons in hand in massacres, kidnappings, theft, trafficking and terrorism and who will now be rewarded with promotion. We will initially refer to them by their nicknames, because if we use their real names, there is a risk that they will be caught through SHIK telephone tapping and arrested for the criminal offense of “disclosing data that constitute a state secret”. This is because crime here has been turned into a state secret. 11. For the current members of the KSHSH, who will play the role of top criminals in suits, a rescue plan has been conceived from the very beginning. The most favored among them is certainly the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Mr. Dilaver Goxhaj. He is one of the people who has caused the greatest incalculable damage to public order and safety, but with one difference: since during these months he has acted under the insignia of a state not seized by the plague of the mafia, he must be promoted and not arrested. This means that his comrades are not yet fully convinced that they will remain in power for much longer and therefore are transferring him to a safer post, such as that of lawyer for a possible SHISH in 1997. Prime Minister Nano has decided not to hesitate any longer and to appoint him head of the KSHSH, thinking that the post of deputy minister would be lost with the arrival at the head of the Ministry of the Interior of Berisha’s greatest enemy in Europe, the Socialist MP Spartak Poci. Instead of Fatos Klosi, who apparently is no longer needed by the PS as information director, since the self-defense organization has now extended its activity and control over the entire territory and is successfully carrying out the assigned tasks, a man more trusted by Nano will be appointed. To replace a Kalashnikov specialist with a wild-boar expert, the most suitable candidate is thought to be the former teacher at the United School, currently head of the Vlora gang, Mr. Mujo Ulqinaku. He now meets all the requirements for the new director of the National Intelligence Service, since he has reached a rather high level in the use of foreign languages, specifically for communicating with similar structures abroad. Just remember the way he communicated, pistol in hand, with Italian journalists in Vlora during March of last year. In addition, he is endowed with an admirable chameleon-like ability, which has helped him become president of both the “Flamurtari” and “Kryengritja” clubs. Apart from these “monsters” of our deaf politics, the main executioner of the independent press remains the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Perikli Teta. Recently, thanks also to the courts, which are fully subordinate to the narco-state, he has been more motivated than ever by the gains brought by the punishment of opposition journalists. Faced with extraordinary pressure from his boss, Prime Minister Nano, he has recently concentrated all his energy on finding even more effective forms and means against dissenting voices, which not only remain un-killed, but continue shamelessly to attack from the pages of the press the main perpetrators of this situation. And in order to be as productive as possible in this fight, he has recently discovered a completely original method to silence them. Like rabid dogs, his policemen have flooded all the editorial offices of the independent press in recent days, where they have confiscated, in complete violation of the law, everything they could lay their hands on. They have repeatedly stolen computers, typewriters, printers, fax machines, files, photos, and of course the journalists themselves. The main “culprits” arrested have in most cases been very short, thin, wearing glasses, jeans and bags. At least that is what they say in the Tirana police. Under these conditions, everyone has the right to think that part of the personnel of the Ministry of the Interior, who hold high ranks, began their careers as diligent peasants guarding watermelons. The only difference is that now, instead of melons, the policemen are guarding some prisoners, who are by no means blind. To be more exact, the abduction of Albanian citizens by persons armed in police uniform has been most intense in Tirana, but it has also become a common occurrence in other cities, such as Vlora, Durrës and Korçë, where journalists have been mistreated and blackmailed in barbaric ways by policemen in helmets, by investigators or by masked men brought specially from Tirana in four-wheel drives. If the independent press has survived until now, it has done so only because of the fortunate circumstance that Minister Perikli Teta does not have under his control either combat aviation or the tanks of the general staff. Otherwise, instead of the confiscated papers, he would send several surface-to-surface missiles every day toward the premises of our editorial offices. However, despite the fact that neither he nor his “colleagues” in the government cabinet have a human face, no one can say with certainty that something like this will not happen in the future. On the contrary. The anti-press campaign taking place these days, with arrests, beatings, sentences, confiscations and terrorism, foretells the return of a dangerous situation that cost Albanians dearly during the communist regime. What convinces one that we are dealing with a devilish plan conceived at the highest levels of government is the fact that while the police arrest with a wink of the eye, the courts hand down convictions in the blink of an eye. Apparently, the directors of this ominous scenario have taken care to keep both the machinery of violence and the caricature of justice moving in parallel. At a time when politicians, businessmen, association leaders, newspaper owners, strongmen and ordinary adventurers are being denounced and sued every day by ordinary people such as citizens, nurses, teachers, pensioners and demobilized soldiers, only journalists have no right to complain, even about a vulgar insult or threat. That is because the current law does not provide them with protection from the security forces. On the contrary, instead of protecting them from sudden attacks, the police hawks have been ordered to watch them, tap them and arrest them according to the model of real “executioners”. Woe to anyone who dares call someone who is disliked by Minister Teta or who is under investigation! He is a spokesperson for crime. Woe to anyone who defends a female journalist terrorized by the police of the narco-regime! He is a supporter of prostitution. Woe to anyone who demands the release of a newspaper editor arrested in handcuffs during official working hours! He is a licensed slanderer. Thus, for every denunciation, revolt or protest of theirs, journalists risk ending up in cells as the country’s only criminal residue. At best, they will only be questioned by the policemen of Tulat and Pojan, who have now been activated for the smooth running of the war against the free press. At least that is what the Interior Ministry spokesperson declared yesterday at a press conference, after putting forward the idea that the perpetrators of violence against the press are the journalists themselves who file complaints against his police. This is the new atmosphere being created in Albania on the eve of the approval of the constitution of rejection, which promises to bring back the terror of communist crime and the secret police to our country. At the same time, this is also the clearest proof that with this anti-national government glued together by five powers, the lives of independent journalists are no longer worth even the applause of its mercenaries. Therefore they have every right today to say loudly and confidently, more than ever, that KSHSH is a criminalized institution, which, more than ever, regardless of the name given to it, will be nothing other than the new address of stamps and jail for journalists. ON PAGE 2

Kimoni GJenda in Kosovo is serious

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The opposition asks that its co-governing partners be chosen in the constitutional commission ON PAGE 3

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