THE MACABRE CRIME IN DURRËS The 18-year-old Ajshe Vata, massacred in a field 450 meters from her home in Xhafzotaj 18-year-old Ajshe Vata, massacred in a field 450 meters from her home in Xhafzotaj HER HEAD IS CUT OFF ■ POLICE: THE KILLING AROUND 03:30, SHOCK & MYSTERY ■ FATHER MUHAMET’S GRIEF: THEY KILLED MY GIRL The news 18-year-old Ajshe Vata was due in a few days to start nursing studies at the University of Tirana and had graduated from the Durrës Medrese. Yesterday she was found massacred by a resident of her own village in a field, wearing only underwear. She also had six other sisters, but their mother had died several years ago. Her father, the witnesses and the police were left shocked by the reasons and motives for such a macabre killing. DURRËS BY OUR CORRESPONDENT IN XHAFZOTAJ Habjon Hasani An unprecedented and macabre crime was recorded yesterday in Xhafzotaj, Durrës; Ajshe Vata, an 18-year-old, was found decapitated (with her head cut off) in a vacant piece of land about 450 meters from the villa where she lived with her family. The body was found completely by chance by the owner of the land, at around 08:30 in the morning. ► continues on pages 2-3 In the photo: Ajshe Vata, the 18-year-old who was found yesterday with her head cut off in Xhafzotaj, Durrës

Comment BY Preç Zogaj Sacrifice for Law and Justice Sidebar Names and minds, looking at the flames on the bodies of Gjergj Ndreca and Lirak Bejko, make many people in Albania and around the world remember the twenty-one-year-old Czech student Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in the center of Prague in 1969 to protest Soviet repression. Meanwhile, I am also remembering the terrible self-immolation in the Puka forests of Luke Ndue Lleshi on 11 July 1987. Interned in Tepelenë since childhood together with his brother Zef, because the communist regime had killed their father, later imprisoned for attempted escape, physically and spiritually beaten down to the point where a human being can hardly endure, Luka finally let the then-laughing matter fall and decided to make another uprising, the striking, final uprising: he went deep into the forest, prepared the pile of twigs and branches, lit it, waited until the flames took hold well, and threw himself into it to burn as... ► continues on page 8

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THE BURNED ► Pages 4-5 PS: Ndreca and Bejko, treated abroad. A third attempts to self-immolate

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