About the latest tragedy off the Italian coast What else has to happen for the President of the Republic, Parliament, the government and other state bodies to react?... The state media cannot find time to report on the tragic fate of the Albanians lost at sea because it is busy with five skulls from the Second World War In the photo: Efforts by the Italian forces searching for the missing Albanians Prime Minister Meksi at a cocktail reception In the photo: Efforts by the Italian forces searching for the missing Albanians; Prime Minister Meksi at a cocktail reception

Editorial Another 15 or 20 young Albanians were swallowed by the sea. In their search for a better life, they disappeared in the waters of the Adriatic, bringing grief to their families. It is an understatement to say that the miserable "Italian adventure" of tens of thousands of young people is not the road to an easy, rosy life, but rather an expression of the will to confront the endless hardships brought by clandestine emigration in order to secure bread for oneself, support for the family, clothes for the children, a little more than that: prospects. The rule of the Democratic Party, which promises order and calm, work and security, forces people to see their homeland as a foreign land that does not want them, that cannot keep them, to the point of cursing it. Albanians have always loved their homeland and have shown it even with their lives. But Albanians are tired, disappointed, they do not see a secure future, they do not find peace and security for their homes, and therefore they take the roads of exile as in old times. Within these years of transition, the tragic end of hundreds of young people, some in the streets of the metropolises, some while crossing the border, others at the bottom of the sea, accuses and severely accuses. No effort is being made by the authorities to stop this clandestine traffic also called the Albanian mafia. The government makes no effort regarding organized emigration, one of the major promises of the PD election campaign. No state pain is felt anywhere for these dozens of new victims added to the misery of those who have left the homeland, except for a dry news item that turns the chronicle of misery into dust. Transition requires work; there is no work. Transition requires fair laws; anti-law reigns on stage. Transition is becoming an arena for the massive theft of state property by those in power, corruption is being masked, and wealth is being destroyed. This forces people to turn their eyes toward foreign shores, and Albania today has the lowest reputation in the world in its history, as a country without stability, without opportunities and misery, without prospects for its people. The accumulation of party statements and the triumphs and successes of the "autumn of the PD" cannot cover up this tragic truth, which prevents a better life and forces hundreds of Albanians to leave every day and disappear in seas and roads. To intensify to an extreme degree against the "genocide" of oppression, the attempts to destroy the opposition by every means and to prevent its coming to power, have no relation to realities that do not implement logic together with the truth, especially when today this has had and has not left wasted time and effort of the people for placing [it?] on a path more just than ever, words and promises set down by it. It is ridiculous and makes one laugh to feel that this power from the party of Koman [?] will calm the present Democratic Party from [a?]s and the setting [right?] of ... [illegible text]

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