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Zëri i Popullit

E shtunë 23.09.1995

Servet Pëllumbi: "We understand it clearly, and we will try to make it clear to everyone, that Berisha, with the notorious anti-genocide law, which will go down in history as the “Berisha Law,” aims to pave the way for the use of genocide in the upcoming elections, to add to the “Bouquets” of May 1994, gathered in Libofshë, the bouquets of September gathered in Kasacion, of October and so on, all the way to the elections. And what about the winter months, when “flowers” are harder to find — what have Berisha’s and PD’s scenarios devised?

So, gentlemen deputies, the anti-genocide draft law is a bluff. Both in content and in the time chosen to discuss and approve it in parliament, it is diametrically opposed to the logical course of democratic processes, so I urge you to say a firm “NO.” Pages 2-3-4
Servet Pëllumbi Dr.alfred Paloka Libofshë

"The Berisha Law" or "The Law of Political Blood Feud"

"The Berisha Law" or "The Law of Political Blood Feud," announced in the press as the initiative of a group of pro-government intellectuals, arrived yesterday in the Albanian Parliament to take the votes of the people's deputies. Albanian democracy suffered yesterday its latest crisis, deepening the fissure toward a neo-dictatorship in Albania. The only element that separates democracy from dictatorship — the right to choose — was attempted to be taken yesterday from an entire political group within the Albanian political opposition. Although the votes of the one-seat majority supported stripping away this right, Albanian constitutional law seems to have remained once again on the side of this political grouping that was attempted to be cast out of the temple of democracy. Yesterday's vote was reflected in principle discussions held throughout the day. Supporters of Berisha, or "his marionettes," as the opposition called them, insisted on not rejecting and approving this law, making incriminating insinuations about the SP and other opposition representatives. Meanwhile, their political opponents, the opposition forces, condemned the crimes of the former dictatorship and emphasized that Albanian legislation — for which all deputies have voted — had been sufficient to penalize criminals in time. The dividing line in positions, announced in the press, appeared yesterday in Parliament first through Arbnori. "In these three years no political process was carried out, but so that no more staged processes should be repeated" "The Berisha Law" or "The Law of Political Blood Feud," announced in the press as the initiative of a group of pro-government intellectuals, arrived yesterday in the Albanian Parliament to take the votes of the people's deputies. Albanian democracy suffered yesterday its latest crisis (continued on page 4)
Dr.alfred Paloka Arbnori Shqipëri

Why so much damage?!

A chronicle of a flood foretold by the state's indifference Page 7

"Turkish" "experience"...

.:Even Tansu Ciller, the friendly Turkish prime minister, resigned We emphasize: . No one is surprised by this act of hers, just as they were not surprised when U.S. President Nixon resigned, when former Italian Prime Minister Andreotti resigned several times, when the “Iron Lady,” former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, resigned, when the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, when the first president of pluralist and democratic Albania, Ramiz Alia, resigned, when the “New Democracy,” Konstantinos Mitsotakis, resigned. Only Prime Minister Meksi and the Albanian government officials remain like monuments of culture in the seats they have occupied.
Nikson Andreoti Margaret Theçer Mihal Gorbaçov Ramiz Alia Turqi SHBA Britani Shqipëri