The war is not over and Pristina has still not been liberated By Mero BAZE, Pristina A convoy stretching for about three kilometres heralds the entrance to the Bllacë border crossing, now remembered only for the terror Albanians endured during the first week of April as they tried to leave Kosovo. The remains of the camp are still there. Piles of plastic sheeting, several fresh graves, and about 500 metres farther on, beside the Cement Factory on Kosovo soil, a large lot filled with looted vehicles that travellers left there when they fled Kosovo. There is now an Albanian flag at the car lot, and an UÇK commando patrols the area. A witness to those days recalls how the humanitarian association “El Hilal” did everything it could to save people from catastrophe. Pillosh, a young man from Tetova who is one of the association’s leaders, says they did everything they could to help people survive, enduring blows from rubber batons wielded by the Macedonian police and witnessing humiliating scenes as police seized aid supplies and ate them or squandered them in front of starving people. ON PAGE 2

The “General” who performed an autopsy on those in power: “The PS and PAD are Albania’s two cesspools” ON PAGE 4 A political prosecution’s revenge. Handcuffs in the courtroom for the former interior minister. He had made serious accusations against those in power and had remained in his office on 14 September

The former Interior Minister accuses the top leaders of the PS and PAD of being responsible for his arrest “The only mistake in my life was 14 September, when my stance and that of the police that day brought socialism back to power.” “Let us leave this cesspool called a coalition.” “My PS friends who live off handouts” Former Interior Minister Perikli Teta has described his arrest yesterday as a political act by today’s officials, accusing the top leaders of the Socialist Party and the Democratic Alliance Party. In a statement, he said ...[text continues outside the frame of the photograph] ...tion and start fighting for democracy as they did ten years ago.” Speaking about his coalitions in government, he said, “My comrades are PS lackeys.” Teta also described as shameful the act of releasing him by order of the Prosecutor General ...[text continues outside the frame of the photograph] the arrest is a ridiculous act by the levers of power and was sought only because I stayed in my office that day, while the others left. Explaining the reasons for his arrest, Teta said, “The only mistake in my life was 14 September, when my stance and that of the police that day brought socialism back to power.” The former Interior Minister, who was handcuffed yesterday in the courtroom following an order from the political prosecution, yesterday called on all members of his party to leave the left-wing coalition. “Everyone who has even a little shame left should leave this cesspool called a coalition comrades are PS lackeys.” Teta also described as shameful his release by order of Prosecutor General Arben Rakipi. The release order, signed by Rakipi, is shameful because it says I am being released because of their poor health and old age. “If that is the case, I am ready to go back to prison,” Teta said. According to sources in the prosecutor’s office, PAD President Ceka also intervened to secure Teta’s release, but as soon as Teta learned of such an intervention, he declared, “I spit on Ceka’s intervention.” “I belong to PAD, which I never want to see again,” former Interior Minister Perikli Teta concluded.

Berisha alongside Colonel Hudson at the American camp in Seman, speaking to the arrivals from Kosovo

The vast majority of Albanians will return to Kosovo before winter begins 50,000 Serbs have left Kosovo since the first NATO soldier entered Kosovo, senior UNCHR officials announced yesterday in Geneva ON PAGE 7 since the arrival of the first NATO soldier in Kosovo, senior UNCHR officials announced yesterday in Geneva ON PAGE 7

Police forces surround the protesting miners. The city under terror 2,500 infants in Memaliaj have been without bread for four months as a result of Bufi’s decision to close the mine, and no one is paying attention to their parents, who are confined on hunger strike ON PAGE 5

A scenario by Fatos Klosi to justify expelling non-Marxist UÇK fighters from Albania Fake UÇK fighters have recently been using a gray RENO minibus without license plates, a gray FIAT 131 with plate 47 10 A, and a green OPEL with a roof rack and plate 81 15 A—all vehicles at the disposal of the Tirana SHIK directorate. Meanwhile, reliable sources said that the field operation was directed by a group of officers from the central SHIK directorate, riding in a BENZ with plate 14 50 E. SHIK officers and agents disguise themselves and pose as FARK soldiers to create a negative image, in order to justify the expulsion from Albania of the non-Marxist UÇK fighters gathered at several assembly points in the country. Sources from the National Intelligence Service, as well as eyewitnesses, told “RD” yesterday that [text unclear], but also Fatos Klosi, dressed in FARK uniforms, [garbled text] conduct checks in Pazari i Ri and on the Linza road. This entire scenario, personally directed by the head of SHIK, is intended to create discontent and give the impression that UÇK fighters in FARK uniforms are causing trouble and violating the Constitution in Albania. According to the sources, SHIK officers and agents have been seen at various locations in Tirana wearing the black uniforms of the UÇK, getting out of several vehicles with private license plates. These fake FARK Tirana SHIK directorate. Meanwhile, a BENZ with plate 14 50 E. This entire operation, carried out at the same time as that fierce and aggressive campaign by SHIP in the direct construction of the National Intelligence Service and [garbled text] political-party movement clans still in Albania, [garbled text] the free non-Marxist fighters [garbled text] the front. This differentiated attack was put forward by [garbled text], including those wounded at the front. This attack was carried out by parliamentary party groups of the Socialist Party and by UDB units, as Braho pointed out, while professional killers and SHIK agents are behind [garbled text]. These [garbled text] have not gone unidentified, as have the government structures of Pandeli Majko. But the despicable mission of Fatos Klosi’s agents—to confuse Albanians about their true role, which was solely to fight for Kosovo’s liberation—is the height of audacity. This calls to mind scenes from old communist films, which are being shown more and more often by some private television stations, which also put out pro-government or pro-presidential newspapers. F.K.

The coastal city is bloodied once again. 12 killed in two weeks ON PAGE 4

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Berisha alongside Colonel Hudson at the American camp in Seman, speaking to the arrivals from Kosovo

How and why did the miners’ strike begin?

Today, 281 days since the murder of the December Leader Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, provides proof of the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and its successors in the crime that shook all of Albania. The government of the former communists, who have left free and unpunished the criminals who took the life of the December Leader, shows Albanians that they were and remain on the side of the killers, who have names and identities but are untouched by those in power. Democracy and all the Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari cannot tolerate this fact under any circumstances. The government must either arrest the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly step down, since it is itself the one that committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.