16/08/2000
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Rilindja Demokratike

16 August 2000

Monika Kryemadhi’s lookalike wins

Nehat Kulla’s lawyer, deputy chair of the CEC on page 3

Police fire on the crowd

Revolt in Kukës. Poçi’s police officers surrender the police station for 5 minutes Bloody toll: At least three injured, the police station destroyed, cars burned and tension in the northern city. Small traders against the government. The Prime Minister orders the use of firearms against the citizens of Kukës. A few days earlier, Poçi had declared that law and order were under control on page 2

Politics of appearances

The day before yesterday, Prime Minister Meta appeared on television screens cutting not one but several inauguration ribbons in villages in the district of Berat, together with Agriculture Minister Xhuveli, who was elected as an MP precisely in this area and hopes to gain something again on the eve of the new elections on page 5

OSCE and Council of Europe split over the autumn elections

Grunet: Our report on the autumn elections is independent of the reports of other institutions on page 3

Special forces mistreat Colonel Fatos Hoxha

on page 6

Fatos Muço’s son caught with 7 kg of cocaine

on page 6

Mazreku was ordered by Gjinushi and Nano to kill Azem

New facts about the assassination attempt against Azem Hajdari, carried out on 18 September 1997 inside the Parliament building on page 7

Këllira plunders by painting 3 of the 4 sides of the ministries

on page 4

Tomorrow in RD you will read:

Everything about the villa scandal involving the Meta couple in the block

The government protects Azem’s killers

Today, 704 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, who have kept the criminals who took the life of the Leader of Democracy free and unpunished, shows Albanians that they have been and remain on the side of the killers, who have names and identities but are untouched 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 arrest the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.