A Greek officer violently robbed ON PAGE 6

Yzberish fills up with illegal military troops ON PAGE 6

Oversight: We will create new credit associations ON PAGE 5

Concern is growing within the Atlantic Alliance over the risk of the conflict spreading to the southern Balkans. Solana on an urgent mission to Albania today Serbs, suspicious movements at the border TIRANA, 11 MARCH, ENTER - Albania’s Ministry of the Interior said on Wednesday that yesterday, 10 March, from 10:00 to 16:00, the Yugoslav side reinforced its border service opposite the Pogaj and Qafë Prush police-post sectors in the district of Has. In a press release, the Ministry of the Interior announced that civilians were observed using binoculars from across the border, looking toward Albanian territory. It also reported that after 12:00 secret surveillance was carried out toward border markers C13/9, C14/5, D1 and D7.

Serbian barbarity continues. Albanians are buried unidentified Serbian barbarity continues. Albanians are buried unidentified

The White House reacts sharply to Millosheviç The White House has reacted strongly to Millosheviç’s responses in Kosovo and his position on a peaceful solution to the Kosovo problem. On Wednesday, U.S. President Bill Clinton condemned “the Serbian government’s inappropriate response to the legitimate concerns of Kosovo’s Albanian population.” “The United States and I personally firmly condemn the intolerable violence perpetrated by the Serbian authorities, which caused the deaths of innocent civilians,” he told the press in the Oval Office of the White House before a meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan. “For me, one more life is a source of great concern,” he continued.

Milo: International Community interested in securing the Albania–Serbia border The EU’s special envoy for Kosovo welcomes the DP’s entry into parliament ON PAGE 3

Murder in Llogara ON PAGE 6 Gjergj Dede’s trial postponed ON PAGE 6

Almost all the major global media networks broadcast the Serbian massacre in Drenica throughout the day yesterday. Dozens of mutilated corpses recall the still-fresh images of the unprecedented violence that the same people inflicted in Srebrenica only a few years ago. Serbian brutality has included children and women in its massacres. Moreover, the victims were abused, disfigured and tortured in the most inhumane ways by people driven by primitive Serbian nationalism. What is more, those killed were buried the previous day by Serbian police in a mass grave, while their relatives were forced to exhume each of the victims. Such a human crime, committed even after death, has not been seen for a long time. Apart from those who have been killed, many others may face no better fate: perhaps 100 Albanians have been confined in a village near the areas where the massacres took place. Sources close to this place of detention describe it as a concentration camp and say the hostages are being treated inhumanely. Many people think they may be killed, or perhaps have already been killed. It seems that, little by little, as what happened in Drenica is recreated, the tables of Serb-Albanian coexistence have been overturned, while the International Community has once again been confronted with images of the massacres committed in Bosnia. Despite the Contact Group’s statements, now that we are faced with the victims, we see how abandoned the children and women of Drenica were a week ago. Anyone who has had the chance to see the consequences of unprecedented violence has understood that there is no longer room for advice or conditions, suggestions or partial sanctions, but for immediate action. The presence of a macabre state in the Balkans is a daily threat to peace in this region; Millosheviç has proven that he recognizes no principles in the face of the primitivism he represents. For the Albanians of Kosovo, meanwhile, the great disappointment with their choice of peace has taken hold. Many of them have begun to think that the ambushes that proved fatal, and their decision to stay put, encouraged the massacres that took place in Drenica and could happen anywhere in Kosovo. Serbian threats have also prompted national resistance. It has become clearly visible in Tirana, Shkup, Stramboll, and also in Athens, Rome, etc., where many Albanians live. The initial reserve and silence show that the paths followed so far have led to delays, although there are still signs that the delay that has occurred can be avoided.

Tirana guarantees protection for diplomats and the FRY embassy Yesterday, the Albanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs assured the Yugoslav authorities that the FRY Embassy in Tirana and its staff are under the full protection of the specialized agencies, as stipulated in the Vienna Convention. Tirana’s official statement came after Vladimir Krsjanin, director of Neighboring Countries, informed the Albanian ambassador in Belgrade, Florian Nova, yesterday that “attacks against the FRY embassy in Tirana are being prepared.” Amid the tensions in relations between the two countries following the Serbian army’s massacres in Drenica, the Yugoslav claim is another provocation, following the claim that weapons are being sent to Kosovo from Albanian territory. A spokesperson for the ministry said in a press statement that the specialized Albanian agencies currently had no information about any possible “attack” against the FRY embassy in Tirana. If the Yugoslav authorities had any such information, he said, it would be best for them to make it available to the Albanian authorities. He explained that the same request had also been made to Krusjanin, who said he had only been instructed to pass on the “information” and that he had “no knowledge” of its source.

Sahit, chairman of the creditors: “There was violence against the heads of the associations” ON PAGE 5

Eurovefa will be sold for next to nothing. Alimucaj has spent 80 thousand dollars on it VEFA distributed money in January–February 1997 ON PAGE 5

The state is unable to stimulate the manufacturing activity of foreign businesses that have invested their capital in joint ventures. Fourteen manufacturing enterprises co-owned by foreign investors are heading toward bankruptcy. ON PAGE 5

The supervisory group will condemn as fraudsters “the individuals who benefited in collusion with the pyramid schemes” Arapi: Every person involved in fraudulent activities will be investigated ON PAGE 5

NATO Secretary General, Havier Solana

The moment the bodies massacred in Drenica by the Serbian army were exhumed

Serbian forces increase along the border with Albania. Suspicious surveillance of Albanian pyramids