Chief Prosecutor Rakipi and Police Chief Çeka warn of the political killing of judges Politics rises above the Court's decision. The detainees from Milot are taken to prison Politics rises above the Court's decision. The detainees from Milot are taken to prison

The Assembly: The people does not have the right to appoint the President of the Constitutional Court Rustem Gjata is dismissed illegally

European parliamentary delegation of the CoE at the PD headquarters

By Bardhyl ONO It is unquestionably bleak for a pessimistic atmosphere to settle over the country, and for indifference and a small sense of regret toward what is vital, on a blue afternoon that, with these positive changes, has managed to become even more miserable in the wet streets of the capital. At least that is how yesterday the dim lights of an advertisement for a soft drink reflected artistically, a drink that quite rightly remains a challenge for the buyer of a few coins, but not for a quintal of flour today or for a standard of living below the minimum threshold of misery. This is due to the government’s indifference to the hunger strike of VEFA creditors, toward the hopeless people who for a year have continued to demand, if not a solution, at least calm and non-violation of their status, recognized by court decision, even by the lifeless body that is dying so calmly and so unyieldingly within the walls of a gloomy premises in the capital. When I say that the torment of a human being is being lived, a fourfold (read alphabet) with a sense of collective arrogance (smooth?) by the branch? that has the face to turn into real governance, perhaps I am not referring only to the five people mistreated by hunger, but to the greater indifference that has seized society as a whole because of this frightening image of death and of not reacting to it. The condition of the strikers has become a daily news item, but not a daily alarm. That is also our public tragedy. The government apparatus, fortified within itself by the brutality of political irony, is close to admitting that the lives of these people weigh less than a settled account under the term “political action.” These strikers, whose law has recognized a minimal right over their money, are no longer facing administrative arbitrariness, but a state silence that is taking on the colors of a moral judgment over their fate. Daily action in response to this tragedy cannot be cynical, nor ceremonial. It must be political in the highest sense of the word: that is, a public responsibility, a decision not to allow human life to turn into an argument of force or into a statistic of an endless transition. These people are not asking for privilege; they are asking not to die in silence. And in this sense, the way a government reacts to them is a test not only of the administration, but of the country’s political civilization itself. If institutions remain silent, if the opposition is satisfied with statements, if society tires of the chronicle of a foretold death, then we have entered a phase in which complicity has become the norm. And that is the darkest form of “inclusiveness.”

Broj, 90 residents of Derviçe are held hostage Serbian snipers kill two Albanians The bad weather saved the other residents from the massacre by the Serbian police in the village of Broj in the Kosovo municipality. The latter had left with tractors and other makeshift vehicles toward their village, but the weather had its eye on them. The 28 wounded in the massacre and others near an improvised clinic to save them from the Serbian police. On Saturday morning, the Serbian police continued the reprisals with heavy weapons against the village of Broj, leaving behind two more killed Albanians. Last night, the residents gathered in the village of Broj stated that the Serbian forces were keeping them under siege in their homes. ON PAGE 6-7

PD seeks the release of political prisoners. Political arrests in Shkodër, political revenge Mirarolli: the opposition under state terror Political and psychological detentions against Edi Paloka, the “PD” journalist The PD spokesperson: power manipulates Berisha’s words

The hunger strikers are in serious condition. The Tirana branch of the Association of ... in Germany(?) will pay 1,000 marks a day. VEFA supported the strikers. The condition of the hunger strikers is serious. The Tirana branch of the Association of ... in Germany(?) will pay 1,000 marks a day. VEFA supported the strikers. ON PAGE 5

Hospitals, a place where protection from crime is lacking ON PAGE 5

"We do not agree with the strike but can..." ON PAGE 5

ON PAGE 2 Lushnja: The government mired in corruption

The government’s creditor: public companies under government orders The government’s creditor. Public companies under government orders Prosecution for Arapi ON PAGE 6

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