Former key PD leaders, killed or deceased, such as Broci, Hajdari, Arbnori and Pashko. Only Berisha, Imami, Pollo and Ruli remained. The others are emigrants like Selami or opposition figures like Meksi and Zogaj

The company asked for the Kosovo line, gets German KFW financing TIRANA Genc Kondi The government has awarded the Bosnian company Energoinvest the tender for the construction of the new 110 kV power line in the south of the country (Southern Ring). This entity... Page 9

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Former leader of December, half-naked

He also adds the old anti-corruption mobile phone

IN PHOTO: Prime Minister Sali Berisha and Fatmira Hajadri unveil the statue of former December leader Azem Hajdari in “Democracy” Square in Student City

At the celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the student movement in December 1990, a negative balance is presented between those who have left and those who have survived in this party. Thus only a few people, with Berisha at the head, have remained from the founding members; the others have gone. TIRANE Jakin Marena As of today, 22 years ago, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PPSH, Ramiz Alia, would send to the Student City his most trusted man to calm the student protests, Sali Berisha the professor and distinguished doctor of cardiac surgery... continues on pages 2-5

Editorial BY ARBEN KROZHANI The re-killing of Azem Hajdari 22 years after the start of the Student Movement in Albania, which would lead to the creation of the country’s first opposition party, the PD, and later the country’s entry into the irreversible, though difficult, path toward Europe, its leader Azem Hajdari was killed again, publicly in the presence of family members and the highest officials of the government and the PD. A bronze statue, placed where everything began, in December 1990. But with a construction that leaves one speechless: Azem Hajdari is naked from the waist up. He is wearing trousers and a coat with a raised collar. His nakedness is muscular, and the author of the work has simply imitated a body shaped in a gym. To say the least, it is naïveté, a return to the monumental works of socialist realism, which personified as such partisans or martyrs who fell in the war against the occupiers, more than six decades ago. Azem Hajdari was not a partisan, nor muscular, nor a vagabond, as he is in this statue placed here... continues on page 22

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