After the massive demonstrations in many districts of Albania: Special forces have taken control of Television. Journalists protest against disinformation while Pollo and Sakajeva threaten

Socialists are for dialogue on equal terms The PD should take concrete measures to create the atmosphere for dialogue on equal terms. To create the necessary environment for reflection by the PD, the last meeting to be held starting from 21 February 1997. Under the precondition that the party chairman Fatos Nano should go to a meeting with the PD, he who was sentenced as a dangerous political prisoner in the prison of Bënça, this day was thought to be postponed until 5 March. Sabi Blokaj and Eduard Alushi Page 2

Government resignation - technical government - early elections Along with the protesters are also students and school pupils. Independent unions also join the demand for the overthrow of the government Page 7

Threats and terror in the families of the protesters Page 5

Let us protest together At the large rally on the anniversary of the fall of the communist dictatorship, on Thursday, 20 February 1997, at 14:00 in the “Ali Demi” field.

They have put honor in the newspaper, first on the road of the financial pyramid schemes and after the popular revolts, the clergy and Albanians, there has come a spectacle, and among them it has discharged both [?]. They have burst out with furious slander against the people, who gave them the uproar with these people, whom the gangsters have put in front not with weapons in hand, but with leeks in hand. They have put honor in the newspaper, first on the road of the financial pyramid schemes and after the popular revolts, the clergy and Albanians, there has come a spectacle, and among them it has discharged both [?]. It sat on a torn sofa and, but it kept attention and gentlemen, which film could the self-righteous, but it kept warning and told them not to be carried away by the slanderers and the people begged me, it had to be tamed with a scarf and with these people, whom the gangsters have put in front not with weapons in hand, but with leeks in hand. Page 6

Today and tomorrow, at 11:00, in the main square of the city of Tepelenë, a large peaceful protest rally is organized against the misery of neo-dictatorship. Gramsh Today at 12:00, the Socialist Party of the district is organizing a peaceful protest rally.