Prodi’s motion over the soft stance. Serious accusations against the Albanian government from across the sea, from neighbors forever. The Nano government—drug, arms and migrant-smuggling traffickers . Nano’s Mafia Shakes Italy Fini: Albania has become a free-for-all land where organized crime grows drugs, imports and exports weapons and stolen cars, traffics in dirty money and manages the trafficking of illegal migrants. Nano has let hundreds of tons of drugs through. ON PAGE 3

Tomorrow, “The Black File” resumes in “RD” Tomorrow in our newspaper you will read the black file on Sarandë. Readers will find in it facts and testimony about who incited and led the uprising in Sarandë, who was at the head of the gangs and the burning of institutions, the killings and violence against Democrats. What was the role of Socialist leaders, foreign anti-Albanian circles, etc., etc.

Bode exposes the new government scandal: Ministers and senior officials receive millions from the state coffers The Prime Minister officially rewards those caught smuggling as well as those who fail to denounce government corruption ON PAGE 5

Protests against the terrorist government continue throughout the country. The coastal city demands that crime be removed from power Today, it is Shkodër’s turn. The anti-communist city protests ON PAGE 2

Yesterday, at the Durrës rally Photo: Albs FUSHA Yesterday, at the Durrës rally. Photo: Albs FUSHA

Albanian Democrats now face the historic mission of overthrowing the government of crime, corruption, smuggling and drug traffickers, and above all of bringing down the current Prime Minister, Fatos Nano, who from the very first day of his political career has been the bloodstained enemy of us all. From the formation of the first communist government, when Fatos Nano took the keys to the Prime Minister’s Office from Ramiz Alia with great ceremony, Democrats in Tirana were shot at and some of them lost their lives during the notorious massacres of 1991. Fatos Nano was the infamous Prime Minister on 2 April, when the martyrs of democracy fell in Shkodër, among them Arben Broci, one of the students and, among others, a founder of the Democratic Party. The bullets and killings, mostly targeting Democrats throughout the years, were unfortunately carried out amid Fatos Nano’s terror; his aggression nevertheless increased over the past year and after the violent elections of 29 June. Dozens and hundreds of Democrats were executed without trial, massacred, tortured and robbed during last year’s communist rebellion, whose spiritual and military leader was Fatos Nano. As soon as he got out of prison, where he was serving a sentence for corruption involving millions of dollars, he put himself at the head of this gang and the armed gangs throughout the country. For Fatos Nano, after his faction returned to power on 29 June, he would become the official killer of the Democrats: over the ruins and blood of the communist rebellion, a new dictatorship arose, deteriorating by the day and recalling Hoxha’s worst times, when political opponents were killed, massacred, imprisoned and interned. Sometimes directly on his orders and sometimes with Fatos Nano’s blessing, for less than a year Democrats have repeatedly had to bury their own family members, sit at the bedside of the wounded in hospitals, or console the relatives of political prisoners. Fatos Nano will answer for the execution without trial of Abdyl Matoshi, Gjin Kolbucaj and Naim Dizari, who were caught at home as Democrats by the Prime Minister’s gangs in Tropojë. Their blood, and that of many others who have been killed in recent times, cries out for justice and revenge. Those who killed Bujar Suli, Fredi Sheh-u, Bashkim Shkurti and Edmond Zisi—the last of whom was killed merely for shouting in support, “Fatos Nano”—are only the Prime Minister’s hired killers and accomplices; he is the real killer of the Democrats. Never in history have so many opposition politicians been killed and buried while the government not only feels not the slightest responsibility, but also halts investigations, leaving everyone with the elementary sense that the crimes were political. The people mentioned above and others have been killed or executed by the government headed by Prime Minister Fatos Nano, while the list of those who have lost their lives through violence and execution is far too long. Democratic Party MPs Arian Haxhari and Villi Minarolli were killed for Fatos Nano and his government when they were shot in the back in Tropojë by an unrestrained gang. Leaders, intellectuals—[?]—have been killed three times, by Fatos Nano’s hand: in Parliament by the hand of Gafurr Mazreku, in Milot by the hand of special forces sent on a special mission from Tirana, and in Bajram Curri by the Kalashnikovs of those working in the ranks of Nano’s SHIK and Milošević’s UDB. Likewise, the journalists of “Rilindja Demokratike,” “Muze Buc-papag,” who still limps from the bullets of government policemen, as well as the former director of “Radio Televizion,” Bardhyl Pollo, who was wounded in Tropojë while beside Democratic Party MPs. And like them, dozens of opposition activists and sympathizers have been wounded, beaten and imprisoned by Fatos Nano’s police state, which cannot be compared with any other regime on the continent or beyond, except Milošević’s in Belgrade. The terror unleashed against Democrats whenever Fatos Nano has headed the government, including during his previous governments, has in its aggression only one parallel: the Serbian press and police machine against Albanians. In this respect, Nano and Milošević are two butchers of the continent, left in the Balkans like fossils of monsters resurrected in modern times. But while they are alike in their strategy and brutality, what distinguishes them is that Milošević has proved to be the killer of other peoples, namely Kosovo’s, whereas Fatos Nano is the killer of Albanians—that is, of Albanian Democrats. For all these reasons, and above all because the physical persecution of his opponents is not declining but growing on a frightening scale, opposition activists and sympathizers are all the more motivated to fight with all their hearts against the clique that cannot be sated with the blood of Democrats. “RD”

Berisha welcomed the constitution of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo The Chairman of the DPA, Prof. Dr. Sali Berisha, welcomed the constitution of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo as an important institutional event in Kosovo’s history. Berisha expressed his confidence that cooperation between this Parliament and the other political and institutional actors, as well as with the Kosovo Liberation Army, is the best way to consolidate and prepare the process for a political solution to the Kosovo problem. I take this opportunity once again, Berisha stressed, to call on the political forces in Kosovo and their leaders, the Kosovo Liberation Army and its leaders, to cooperate with one another and with Kosovo’s institutions in the spirit of pursuing the greatest interests that unite them, and to bear in mind that disagreements among them weaken the representative and negotiating power of the 2 million Albanians whose human and national rights have been consolidated by the Belgrade regime, which has one last opportunity to create another Bosnia in Kosovo.

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Statement by the DP protest headquarters on organizing protests against the government violence of Nano’s regime The DP Protest Headquarters thanked the thousands of Democrats who took part in the major march against violence from “Skënderbej” Square to “Nënë Tereza” Square. By demonstrating civic culture, the capital’s Democrats showed that they are not afraid of government violence and that they are, and will remain, in solidarity with every Democrat harmed by the government; they will remember and keep alive the memory of the victims of the dictatorship now in power, today’s martyrs of democracy: A. Matoshi, Dizdari and Kolbucaj, B. Shkurti, F. Shehu, B. Suli. The Headquarters thanked all the Democrats who took part in the spontaneous protest near the Ministry of Public Order, because it was their presence that forced the Nano government to release the participants in the rally who had been detained in front of the police directorate. The Headquarters called on the capital’s Democrats and all Albanians to take an active part in every activity organized by the DP, so that the hand of government violence may be stopped and the conditions prepared for democracy’s return to Albania.

Puka DP protests the government’s deliberate indifference ON PAGE 3

Nano gets rid of another opponent The conference of the Tirana branch of the Socialist Party, to be held on Saturday, is expected to bring changes among the party’s leaders in Tirana. Sources in the party told ENTER on Friday that the new candidates for the post of head of the Tirana Socialist Party are Spartak Poçi and Luan Rama. ON PAGE 3

NATO chief sends message to the Chairman of the Defense Committee The Chairman of the parliamentary Defense Committee, Azem Hajdari, has received a message from the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance... ON PAGE 3

Mustafaj, former Deputy Minister of the Interior under Hoxha, now heads the traffic police ON PAGE 3

Year VIII of publication No. 125 (1984) SATURDAY 18 July 1998 Price: 20 lekë 1,000 lire 250 drachmas