Protests in support of the hunger-striking students from Skanderbeg Square to the Student City ON PAGE 3 Bode: We will be here in the square every day, protesting every day in front of the Prime Minister’s Office until the government fulfills the hunger strikers’ demands [?]

Today, at 12:00, again in protest against neo-dictatorship CITIZENS OF TIRANA! In the height of summer, the headquarters of an Albanian opposition force was burned and reduced to ashes; its activists and leaders have been killed and threatened with death; political opponents have been killed and imprisoned, mistreated and assaulted by a state that has lost all sense of civility. The offices of the opposition press have been occupied with weapons, and its employees have been abused and threatened. People have been killed on the orders of the government and the prime minister, and an entire people has been bloodied in the name of defending Fatos Nano’s power. Opposition deputies have been shot without trial, activists for freedom and democracy have been abducted and killed, and Albanian land and property have been robbed and plundered. Under the mask of “Either now or never,” of the delayed revolution, the prime minister seeks to make with the Albanians of 1998 what Russian perestroika and the purge of the former communist nomenklatura were shaking out of the world in 1989. He is seeking to turn Albania back 12 years and Albanians back into the “new man” who died together with Marxism. Never has so little hope remained in this state, never have Albanian democracy and especially the opposition had so few opportunities to be free, to be European and Western. Never has the danger of further economic, moral, and spiritual ruin been so close. The Democratic Party has not chosen confrontation with the police, neither on 14 September nor afterward. It has warned citizens that Fatos Nano’s government has issued an order to block peaceful citizens and protesters by force, but it has not declared the protest illegal. It has invited Europeans to lunch in the Prime Minister’s restaurants, while it invites Albanians to violent beer halls and to Skanderbeg Square. Today, at 12:00, in the face of this terror, in the face of this government of hatred, prison, and killing, in the face of this neo-dictatorship, the Albanian opposition will come out into the square with clean hands and a clear conscience. It will demand the restoration of constitutional freedoms and rights, the return of the country to democratic normality, and the departure of the government that has plunged Albania into crisis. Join the opposition’s peaceful protest. Take part in today’s gathering. Help, with your presence, a just cause, a battle for democracy, pluralism, and freedom. Do not be absent today at 12:00 in Skanderbeg Square.

PS, more criminal than the government itself The Socialist Party said that it has not condemned the entire power in its hands in order to give Albanians an immediate political solution to the serious crisis. ON PAGE 3

Chairman of the U.S. Congress Committee on International Relations, Benjamin Gilman, warns the government That by removing the government through force, the country can be saved and the conflict that weighs so heavily on Albania can be avoided Mr. Berisha’s arrest is both unreasonable and unforgivable. If it happens, it will deepen tensions in Albania and worsen relations with the United States. [...] ON PAGE 2

Albania, gateway for drug trafficking The London newspaper “The Guardian”: Organized crime helped turn Albania into a gateway for smuggling drugs to Western Europe, adding that more is generated in the U.S.- ON PAGE 5

Shocking developments in the testimony of how Çani killed them, said with his help ON PAGE 5

Large rally in the city of Fier “Iraqis protest against the Majko government” ON PAGE 6

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“In the context of the situation in the country, this program does not ensure economic development” By Dh.a Albina MAHITO ON PAGE 5