Flowers and lit candles for Azem

The 11th month since the murder of the December Leader is commemorated throughout Albania on page 7

Three more witnesses disappear

The victims were friends of Zani and Gjinushi Massacre at the Mifol Bridge. The Gërdhuqi brothers are killed

Azem face to face with his killers

EDITORIAL Edi PALOKA Much time has passed since that black night when the bullets of darkness separated us from Azem, but however many days and nights may pass, they will never be so many as to make us forget. Azem’s blood, as on that terrible night, continues to cry out; it demands justice, it demands retribution. That blood now flows through the veins of every Democrat; therefore, none of us will find peace of mind until justice is served. on page 3

Beyond postwar illusions in the former Yugoslavia

By Mal BERISHA on page 12

“RD” opens the debate

The DP, ahead of its Congress: What should be changed and improved in its program The newspaper “RD” invites the leaders of the DP, intellectuals, specialists and its activists to a public debate on the Democratic Party’s program and alternatives, ahead of the Congress on 30 September. What should be changed and what should be improved in the political pillars of the largest opposition party? What tracks should the future course of elections follow, and above all, what will the Democratic Party do in power to change the lives of Albanians and Albania’s image in the world? Our newspaper welcomes your articles, opinions, suggestions and analyses.

Gjinushi: Majko’s people are spies

“Those who accuse my ministers of corruption want to take their seats and then steal with both hands” The Speaker of Parliament: The governing coalition should be dissolved on page 4

Majko legitimizes unauthorized construction

on page 4

Specimens of politics

No one has forgotten those who led the crowds of the 1997 rebellion on page 2

The government protects Azem Hajdari’s killers

Today, 333 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 successor in the crime that shocked the entire Albanian world. The government of the former communists, which leaves the criminals who took the life of the December Leader free and undisturbed, shows Albanians that they have been and remain on the side of the killers, who have names and identities but are untouchable by those in power. The 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 before justice, or publicly declare that it itself carried out the murder of Azem Hajdari.