Berisha: Europe knows that Fatos Nano’s Albania and Milošević’s Serbia are the only countries in today’s Europe with political prisons and political prisoners Not only memory By Bahriyl ONONO The anti-rational monument: It was left without including in the doors and windows the broken tower of the government building and the Albanian pederasts. All the city’s elegant buildings, the park, the historical museum, the opera and the library, as well as the high walls of the ministries, stood under an oppressive calm. A group of policemen wearing masks lay along the pavement in front of the Skanderbeg monument. Silent, as if blinded, something frightening showed on their faces, like those carved on Assyrian sculptures. Beyond them, two armored vehicles placed crosswise had blocked the road. Further on, on a wooden platform, where until a few years earlier children used to come out in parade with painted faces and with masks and flags of dictator Enver Hoxha, two deaf-mute conductors were waving their hands at those who had come to speak. Others lay on the steps of the monument, along with banners and photographs of thousands of Albanians killed and tortured. Everything seemed blurred and the spark of tears and anger, the painful anger of a people whose hopes had been killed, seemed ready to burst. Yesterday afternoon, Skanderbeg Square filled with thousands of protesters who came from Tirana and the districts. The demonstration, the first of this scale after the killing of Azem Hajdari, began with the national anthem and a minute of silence for the four boys killed on 14 September. The parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, the Council of Europe, and other authorities continues that Azem Hajdari, as well as the raccoon of the parliament for the chairman of the PD, Sali Berisha that Azem Hajdari, as well as the raccoon of the parliamentary minute for the chairman of the PD, Sali Berisha[?] Yesterday, before thousands and thousands of demonstrators in Skanderbeg Square, the chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, repeated that the government of Fatos Nano must go to make way for a political solution to the crisis in Albania. “There can be no way out for the Albanian crisis except the removal of the government. Nothing other than the removal of the government can solve the situation,” Berisha said. Calling for peaceful resistance, Berisha stressed that Albanians want only one thing: “the removal of the government of crime.” Berisha said that Albania and Serbia are the only countries in Europe with political prisons. “In today’s Europe, Fatos Nano’s Albania and Milošević’s Serbia are the only countries with political prisons and political prisoners,” he declared. He accused the authorities of violence, manipulation, and using the police against the opposition. At the protest, banners with photographs of the victims and calls against the government were seen. The crowd delivered speeches, chanted slogans, and demanded Nano’s resignation. The protest was described as a broad political and civic demonstration against the government. Continued on page 4 Yesterday, protesters in Skanderbeg Square

Pollo: A first step toward resuming political dialogue is for the government to respect and implement all of the Council of Europe’s recommendations The parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe calls for an end to political arrests, the status of the authorities responsible for Azem Hajdari’s burial, as well as the restoration of parliamentary immunity for the chairman of the PD, Sali Berisha ON PAGE 3

On Wednesday, 30 September at 18:00, all of Tirana in Skanderbeg Square. Everyone to the square against the dictatorship of Fatos Nano! Come out and fill it, on 30 September at 18:00 all of Tirana in Skanderbeg Square. The final hour has come! The squares of democracy are the squares of victory! Today Albania needs us! Everyone to Skanderbeg Square! (Continued on page 4)

By Bahriyl ONONO Nano’s anti-national monument has wrapped the center of Tirana in an oppressive silence, a center that by now has forgotten that for days on end there was killing and mourning. Few houses have been lit up with banners and black flags, but police cordons rise around the anti-national monument. All the city’s elegant buildings, the park, the historical museum, the opera and the library, as well as the high walls of the ministries, stood under an oppressive calm. A group of policemen wearing masks lay along the pavement in front of the Skanderbeg monument. Silent, as if blinded, something frightening showed on their faces, like those carved on Assyrian sculptures. Beyond them, two armored vehicles placed crosswise had blocked the road. Further on, on a wooden platform, where until a few years earlier children used to come out in parade with painted faces and with masks and flags of dictator Enver Hoxha, two deaf-mute conductors were waving their hands at those who had come to speak. Others lay on the steps of the monument, along with banners and photographs of thousands of Albanians killed and tortured. Yesterday afternoon, Skanderbeg Square filled with thousands of protesters who came from Tirana and the districts. The demonstration, the first of this scale after the killing of Azem Hajdari, began with the national anthem and a minute of silence for the four boys killed on 14 September. The president of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, at this large protest rally said that the Nano government must go to make way for a political solution to the crisis in Albania. Everyone is demanding a political solution. (Continued on page 4)

The cycle of intrigues begins by incriminating former Deputy Minister Nano ON PAGE 5

Nano ordered the imprisonment of the man in charge of the “depots” in Saranda and Vlora ON PAGE 4

The prosecutor’s office is preparing a wave of political arrests ON PAGE 4

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Television, the barren fields of national impoverishment Demonstrations of the Albanian crisis