Berisha admits to the killings: “They got what they deserved”
Private TV stations saw it — Berisha admits the crimes of March ’97 in southern and central Albania
Sensational statement by the former President of the Republic
• The state did not collapse. In some districts in the South, yes, but not throughout Albania • I kept the government going with deputy ministers • They made some attempts, but they got what they deserved
TIRANA—Sali Berisha, chairman of the opposition Democratic Party—former president of Albania from 1992 to 1997—admitted yesterday that the people who protested in the first days of March against his government “got what they deserved.”
Sali Berisha made this statement yesterday in a television interview on several priv...
That is what had happened in the South. But, according to him, “the institutions did not collapse throughout Albania.”
“I kept the government going for several days even with the deputy ministers, until they brought him, Bashkim Fino. the former president declared proudly yesterday.
...in the first days of March, several dozen Albanians are believed to have been killed in protests in various cities in southern Albania. Meanwhile, numerous arms depots were recorded to arm the paramilitaries who, on his orders, were mobilized throughout the North of the country.
Sali Berisha, currently a member of the Assembly of...
...armed uprising against the state institutions.
A great deal of evidence has been gathered and submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office. Meanwhile, the sensational statement, made yesterday in a moment of delirium and documented by a television station that boasts of having broadcast it, is an admission
against his rule “got what they deserved.” Sali Berisha said this yesterday in a television interview on several private—unlicensed—television channels that are strictly controlled by him. Responding to a question about the collapse of the state during March 1997, Berisha said that the state institutions did not suffer such a fate. He said that in several districts they kept governing for nine days, even with deputy ministers, until they brought in Bashkim Fino. “They made a few attempts, but they got what they deserved,” former President of Albania Sali Berisha boasted yesterday. Perhaps realizing what he had said, today’s opposition leader immediately avoided the subject. Meanwhile, looking at those same events, it emerges that it was precisely during the days Berisha is talking about—[?]—that a multitude of depots were broken into member of the Assembly of the Republic, has been without immunity since two years ago, when Parliament authorized the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate Berisha on the charge of “crimes against humanity.” It was precisely this charge that, in September 1998, was joined by the charge of organizing the [?], which was yesterday in a moment of delirium, and documented on a television channel that boasts of having broadcast it, is an admission of all the facts gathered to date about the events of the first nine days of March. The Prosecutor’s Office has not yet concluded its investigation into former President Sali Berisha, and has given no details about its current stage.