24/08/1999
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Rilindja Demokratike

24 August 1999

Official Tirana has paved the way for dirty money

The tax amnesty overturns Majko’s decision on the declaration of officials’ assets on page 7

SHIK, weapons base in Tropojë

Special forces uncover the hub of the Albania–Kosovo ammunition-trafficking network on page 5

A road built with Albanians’ pennies?!

EDITORIAL By Edi PALOKA Prime Minister Majko has appeared before journalists with a somewhat strange proposal for Albanians. The idea of building a road linking Prishtina with Durrës is truly interesting and should be welcomed, but Majko’s proposal for how this investment should be financed is not very serious, for several reasons. The country’s Prime Minister is offering Albanians only a bank account number and asking them to deposit money for the construction of this road. on page 2

Here’s who executed the guards

on page 4

Nano ordered the arrest of all six

One of the three prosecutors refused to sign the former prime minister’s order on page 3

Kosovo disdains Albanian Television

More than 90 percent of surveyed Kosovars do not trust official Tirana on page 9

Former president of the “M.Leka” company arrested

Handcuffs for the pyramid-scheme boss on page 6

13 foreign prostitutes caught in Shkodër

on page 6

Bullets and grenades raining down on Kosovars

Gangs control the country’s main arteries on page 6

Kukës “tough guy” killed

on page 5

Russians “persona non grata” in Rahovec

Barricade formed by more than 40,000 Albanians against the arrival of Russian troops on page 9

The government protects Azem Hajdari’s killers

Today, 343 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 his successor in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world. The government of the former communists, which leaves free and undisturbed the criminals who took the life of the December Leader, shows Albanians that they have been and remain on the side of the killers, who have names and identities but are not touched by those in power. Democrats and all Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari cannot tolerate this fact under any circumstances. The government must either capture the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.