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Rilindja Demokratike

15 June 2000

Kosovo in protest: We want Berisha

Berisha: Here is my message to the Albanians of Kosovo Kosovo in protest: We want Berisha The Albanians of Kosovo condemn the absurd decision of the authorities to ban the PD chairman on page 2 From yesterday’s protests in Kosovo, over the banning of the chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha

Berisha’s small defeat and great victory

From Pristina, Astrit PATOZI The opposition leader, Sali Berisha, lost a single battle yesterday. Pristina, one of the places where the representative of chief demonstrator Tomi Bërnsi, who was illustrating the name of Kosovo’s capital, was banned by Mr. Kushtet for “security reasons” with the utmost zeal. Even so, yesterday was undoubtedly a great victory for him. Berisha was the cause, the pretext and the epicenter of everything that happened yesterday in Kosovo. He enlivened the lukewarm political climate, awakened lost hopes for another life beyond misery, and restored people’s thirst for freedom. The chief demonstrators of Kosovo were not only numerous Albanians, but also outraged and clear-minded. Likely equally clear was the question they asked in chorus of the demonstrator, why it happened that the chief administrator of Kosovo would confirm him as a man who had carried out the administrative acts contrary to those of a free country. on page 5

Berisha: “I will go to Kosovo when it has its own president and prime minister”

The PD chairman considers the decision by UNMIK structures a violation of international conventions on page 4

Berisha united Kosovo’s political forces

Kosovo’s political forces condemn Kushner’s decision aut[?]or[?] condemn Kushner’s decision on page 6

The government sidesteps Azem’s killers

Today, 542 days since the killing of the December leader Gado and Ikon, the violent killing of democracy in Prizren?! Fatos Nano and the endless former communists of the left-wing government can continue with the same indifference to the problems and hardships of Albanian life that they have grown accustomed to so far. The government of the former communists and their successors is used to this kind of reporting