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Rilindja Demokratike

19 August 2000

The OSCE/ODIHR mission is part of the government

Berisha calls on Albanians to take ownership of their vote All the opposition’s reservations about OSCE observers, from 1996 to the role of experts in drafting the Electoral Code on page 3

International Crisis Group slaps the Tirana government

Hooper: There is no state in Albania The International Crisis Group warns that if Albania continues down this path, then there can be no hope that the US and European countries will provide financial aid on page 3

Bank lending in agony

By Mitro ÇELA On the occasion of the elections, the Mënjgjer Government has begun to “entertain” the people with “feats” in the field of the economy. While Rama has “taken the brush in hand” to paint the disakteret, Prime Minister Meta, scissors in hand, has not left a single canal, village sheepfold or village spring without inaugurating it! The return to one’s roots is also lovely: a toast with crystal-clear mountain water, just as comrade Enver used to do! on page 5

Klosi is preparing further terrorist acts

The government threatens the opposition with murder on page 2

Meta under investigation for the theft of the gold

Through the arrests of several villagers from Krraba, the Prime Minister seeks to conceal the Treasury scandal on page 11

The government endlessly postpones Corridor 8

on page 9

The government protects Azem’s killers

Today, 707 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 governments of the former communists, who are free and untroubled, while the criminals who took the life of the December Leader remain so, show Albanians that they were and are on the side of the killers, who have names and surnames but are untouched by those in power. Democrats and all Albanians who loved and honoured Azem Hajdari cannot in any way tolerate this fact. The government must either catch the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.

The Tropoja ambush was orchestrated by the UDB and Nano

The 4 June 1998 assassination attempt was foreshadowed by former Interior Minister Teta and former Shkodër police chief Ndreu on page 6

The embezzlement of funds for the restoration of the QNK

on page 4