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Eight years after the December Student Movement “Bashkimi për Demokraci” and the “Dhjetori ’90” group are organizing a large rally on Tuesday, December 8, 1998, at 12:30, in “Skënderbej” Square, in honor of the work of the Albanian students led by the Hero of the Student Movement, Azem Hajdari. All citizens of Tirana are invited to attend this rally.

The students are determined to bring back the unforgettable days of 1990. Azem Hajdari remains the immortal symbol of all Albanian anti-communists Albanians will commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Student Movement with powerful protests. The government is losing its footing. Europe awaits the victory of the PD

. The communists have been recycled. This is the first thing that should come to mind as soon as we remember December 1990, when thousands of students, and later tens of thousands of Albanians, overthrew Europe’s most Stalinist regime, the fifty-year communist dictatorship. Today, after all these years in which Albania has been governed by former communists, one understands that a rotation around itself has taken place with one’s country, taking it nowhere except back to the beginning. Government by former communists is no longer taboo in any of the Eastern countries. They have come to power and left it over these eight years in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, etc., without burdening their departures and arrivals with major traumas for their countries. The former communists in these countries seem to have understood democracy not as power, but as a value through which governments are built to serve the well-being and future of these countries. Meanwhile, the Albanian former communists chose another path to power: precisely the one their predecessors chose in 1945, with weapons and an armed uprising against the state and its democratic institutions. This is why, in Albania, when judging the left-wing government, a long and bitter history of the Albanians immediately comes to mind. Likewise, a feeling of guilt naturally arises toward those students who that day resisted the dictatorship and the State Security so well. After a year and a half of left-wing government, Albania has suffered some of its darkest days. Crime, corruption, terrorism in all its forms, smuggling and trafficking have been the identity of the left-wing ministers and the government’s entire activity, from its very first day until today. Under their rule, no one in Albania feels free and safe, except for the gangs of the Socialist Party, which have now turned this country into a typical camp from the years of dictatorship. The old structures have returned to their pre-1990 offices, with the same methods and aims as many years ago. They have forgotten that they were overthrown once before. Their government’s instruments, such as SHIK, and the experience of the Ministry of the Interior have by now built up a pile of victims, while the Albanian opposition is under constant state attack. Now, after eight years, the former communists punished the Leader of December, Azem Hajdari, by murdering him after several failed attempts on his life. This is open war against the December of democracy. A war that has begun and must be stopped, along with the end of the rule of the terrorists at the head of the country. Our former communists have returned to the country and brought with them the bandits, ministers, counter-bandits and their entourage, along with all the curs that circle around them. Today’s former communists are the very same communists, just as brutal, just as defiant toward democracy, and just as destined to be defeated as they were then. December was made so that they could be defeated. Eight years after the December Movement, democrats and all those who aspire to democracy are under their rule. This, too, is the most negative reversal that has happened to the country. Those who were defeated then, with all the vices of an ideology breathing its last and all the brutality of structures destined to disappear, stand at the head of the country. They want to destroy along with themselves Albania, its existence, its people. December must stop this return. their communist weight. Today, after eight you realize that your country has gone around in a circle, which has taken you nowhere, back to the beginning. ON PAGE 5

Students: The government is ignoring our demands

PD deputy: We have nothing to testify to those who killed him I was personally present on the trip with Azem to Tropojë, and I saw with my own eyes the preparations for the attempt on his life. They pointed out one of the assailants to me. The police station chief told me: “We don’t care about Azem.” It has been six months that the prosecution has not questioned us about the attac-

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Today, 84 days since the murder of the December leader Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and its authorities in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world. The governments of the former communists, which leave the criminals who took the life of the December Leader free and undisturbed, show Albanians that they have been and are on the side of the murderers, who have names and identities but are not touched by those in power. Democrats and all Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari can in no way tolerate this fact. The government must either capture the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself carried out the murder of Azem Hajdari.

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On December 8, a ceremony at the place where Hajdari was killed We hereby inform the citizens of Tirana and the entire country that, on the occasion of the anniversary of the December Student Movement, on Tuesday, December 8, 1998, at 12:00, the memorial to the Hero of Pluralism, Azem Hajdari, will be inaugurated. The memorial was built with the gratitude and contributions of his well-wishers, as a sign of respect and tribute to the valuable contribution made by the tribune of Albanian nationalism, Azem Hajdari, in overthrowing the 50-year dictatorship. This memorial is being erected at the place where Hero Hajdari and his companion, Besim Cera, were killed on September 12, 1998. The citizens of Tirana and the entire country are invited to take part in this ceremony. THE COMMISSION

I was personally present on the trip to Azem in for the attack against him. The attackers told me all the same things. Azem.” Months have passed, and the prosecution has not questioned us about the attack in Tropojë; it is hypocritical of them to ask us now, after his murder. ON PAGE 4