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Rilindja Demokratike

E DIEL 29 NENTOR 1998

War in Vlorë, three killed

The city is bloodied. Sacrifice with the arrival of government leaders[?] Four others were seriously injured. Yesterday’s battle took place at the site where, a year earlier, the leaders of the rebellion gathered together with Skënder Gjinushi to prepare the plans for the year’s tragedy and the rebels’ attacks toward Tiranë ON PAGE 2
Skënder Gjinushi Vlorë Tiranë

Meladini signed the Constitution of the committees

Meladini signed The Constitution of the committees The Constitution signed by Fatos is a summary of his concept for the organization of a non-legal and undemocratic state, a guiding code for the so-called new Albanian democracy. The President is not a high-ranking official of the people, and the country will not in the future be run like the office of the prime minister above parliament. He has been left completely passive as a signatory under Fatos’s government, gradually losing the attributes that in a democratic constitutional order belong to the head of state. A powerful prime minister, not reflecting the will of parliament, is emerging from the constitutional draft; he will not be subject to parliament, but will be equipped with powers to disregard it. The speaker of parliament remains in the shadows, while the government gains the right to impose not only the legislative agenda, but also the very way power functions. All this serves to create a centralized regime in which checks and balances have been deliberately weakened. This constitution of the committees is not a document of consensus, but an instrument for capturing the state. If this were approved, Albania would enter a new phase of institutional and political insecurity.
Fatosi Shqipëri

Carrying weapons with all[?] of you!

Carrying weapons with all of you![?] Berisha consoles the families of the victims of Orhanos The criminal unrest that has erupted severely in the Elbasan area is a grave sign of the condition in which the country finds itself today. It comes at a time when the government seeks to impose a false order through force and propaganda, while citizens remain without protection and their lives are put at risk every day. The state is powerless in the face of armed gangs that move around armed, and the police appear only to strike the opposition. The victims of Orhanos are evidence of this tragic climate, where the lack of order and justice is producing innocent victims. Berisha has expressed his condolences to the families and has demanded that the perpetrators be brought to justice.
Berisha Elbasan Orhanos

The government protects the killers of Azem Hajdari

Today, 77 days since the murder of the leader of December Shocking accusations and facts about the state police and the government’s affairs. For weeks, state institutions have failed to uncover the truth about the assassination that took Azem Hajdari’s life, while instead every action of theirs has suggested that the perpetrators are being protected and the investigation is being obstructed. Family members, collaborators, and representatives of the opposition have repeatedly denounced the destruction of evidence, the sidestepping of witnesses, and the manipulation of the file. This behavior by the government has raised serious suspicions about its political involvement in the event.
Azem Hajdari

Our protest will escalate

The students of Elbasan express solidarity with the students of Shkodrës and all of Albania ON PAGE 3 It strongly condemns Mediu’s decision to award "qafë Tara" the title "Honor of the Nation" for treason[?] Jdedi Ahmeti, Ismet Dola and students from several faculties promise an expansion of the protests and boycotts amid an escalating protest
Mediu Jdedi Ahmeti Ismet Dola Elbasan Shkodër Shqipëri

National section / opening headlines

NATIONAL SECTION Tiranë 28 November in the capital, same and with kinship ON PAGE 8 Tomorrow a prosecutor from Norway enters our country Rakipi manipulated the investigations into Azem ON PAGE 4 Government, it collapses and is killed; there are penalized employees[?] Dressed as police, 23 people with complaints[?] ON PAGE 4
Azemin Tiranë Norvegjia