Meta, Spartak Braho’s rival
The prosecution is holding the smuggling boats hostage
Rilindja Demokratike
30 June 2000
Ismail Kadare, the distinguished writer, speaks from Paris after returning from Albania
For the past two years, Stalinism has returned to Albania
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Three years under the mafia state
By Sali BERISHA
Today marks three years since the Albanian nation replaced free elections with the establishment of the harshest dictatorship, under which laws and order were no longer applied, but instead the country was governed by terrorist gangs linked by political crime and mafia clans. In power through such an election, honest people never rose to the helm of the state. The only success of Nano’s government and of his successors has been crime and the enrichment of their families through corrupt means. His communist retreat, as I call this government, which throughout the world was made into a ten-year affair by Belgrade and its clique from Kosovo and the whole of them appears in Shkup and Tetovë, so many percent, fully recounted and inaugurated for the creation of a dictatorship based on the power of gangs and mafia clans. Their only goal is the destruction of the freedom, wealth and democracy of Albanians and the majority of them down to the level of poverty. In three years every state institution was destroyed. The country was turned into Albania of ignorance, unemployment, misery and crime. The average salary in the public sector was cut in half. The teacher’s and nurse’s salary, the pension, social assistance and unemployment benefit became ridiculous. Per-capita consumption in Europe, thus the lowest level, remained at the level of the world’s poorest countries. The decline in industrial production by over 100%, in the production of goods by 100%, in agricultural production by 100%, in exports and losses in the private sector and in foreign aid show that Albania’s fall in three years has been plunged into hopeless misery. The growth of trafficking, corruption, delinquency and impunity of successive groups, as well as the theft of wealth by their legal and illegitimate and illegitimate and illegitimate sponsors
Nano has brought Milosević’s allies to Tirana
The Socialist Party continues the close cooperation with Belgrade started in Crete by Nano
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Berisha in Kranis Mortena
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From America to Bathore
By Bardhyl LONDO
on page 3
Chief police officer of Skrapar, passport trafficker
on page 5
Pluka at the protests: We are dying for bread
Pluka at the protests:
We are dying for bread
on page 10
Koço Danaj sells Nano for Meta
on page 12
Bushi to head the editorial board at “Koha Jonë”
on page 2