Judges are pardoning murderers, three in just a few days TIRANA- While the files of the official cases of Xhafani, Çakalli, etc. are in court, the court, meeting behind closed doors, is pardoning one after another the bosses, the gang prosecutors, leaving them unaccountable to politics. This is scandalizing the sentence, the reversal, and the handing back of the state’s lost passport, with more than 200 killed. The judges have vacated the President’s chair, while ordering the pardon of three of Shkodra’s “strongmen.” They were left in the cells of Gramsh and Durrës; the army and police were told not to stop them. In a convoy they went to Tirana and in their hands is expected the decision on Çakalli, Bujari, Aliaj, and the preparation, sending it into the valley of the slander of the “taking and the value of release.” It has been five days since the deadline for the request to pardon Çakalli expired, and instead of being examined by Zuri, it has been sent to the Ministry of Public Order for implementation. TIRANA- According to information from Delvina and from the Salina trial for a boy in Gjirokastër, another strongman from the area was arrested last week. But just one week later he was released by order from above. Yesterday another murderer from Burrel, sentenced to 14 years, was pardoned. 40.9 and 0.3 and 0 arrest 13% pardon and almost as many steps of penance by agreement. The Lushnjë branch, the center of the cells with deception 52.8%, is turning into a place of openings. Within a month, it is heard, 102 more have been pardoned from the cells. 200 pardoned? This figure is unconfirmed, but the secretary general of parliament and of his boss has calculated it precisely. The number of murderers and thieves released is approaching the number of prisoners granted amnesty by law in 1991. According to data, 3,000 murderers have clearly repented, and the benefiting courts as many. As many as 70.8 percent of those pardoned so far in Albania are from 1991, although the dam of pardons ends with 1062 percent (!). TIRANA[?]- The large number likewise for health Sllam, the new government, including the issuance of the amnesty Alixhoni. Alixhoni has announced 35 pardons a day, and the government be it for the lawyer for the well-wishers. And with this rate, by the end of next month in 1999 the cells will remain empty through the general amnesty. Instead of relying on the rules of the decision, the court continues accelerating. According to data, Albania has only 2–3 people per cell compared with the number of offenders for punishment. For this reason, many acquittals and releases have also been issued by the courts. Because of the moment, no punishment for past will has been paid.

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President Meidani meets the KLA leaders TIRANA- Kosovo President, Aliu to the police. Alia assured him that the new government will be able to cope with the situation created in Albania and respond to the large flow of refugees forced to flee by the war in Kosovo, writes “Beta”. Later, the chief of the KLA General Staff, Agim Çeku, and the director of the KLA Political Directorate, Hashim Thaçi, also met yesterday with the U.S. representative for the unresolved Kosovo issue, Christopher Hill, a member of the Albanian delegation in Rambouillet, and the Albanian envoy in Rambouillet, Arta Dade. Present at the meeting was also the prime minister of the provisional government of Kosovo, Rexhep Qosja. The media in Tirana presented Hill’s meeting with the KLA leaders as an effort to persuade them to accept the peace agreement. During the joint meeting of the KLA council with the provisional government and the Albanian parliamentary group, Thaçi said that the composition of the new Kosovo government must also satisfy the representatives of the KLA. The U.S. needs a KLA Hashim Thaçi, head of the Albanian delegation in Rambouillet

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