Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 07:59:11 +1000
From: sjwright-AT-vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Steve Wright)
Subject: (fwd) Albania: Daily Rejects Berisha's Stance on Southern Committees


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World News Review WNR 8-5-97

Albania: Daily Rejects Berisha's Stance on Southern Committees

Tirana Koha Jone in Albanian 6 May 97 p 16
Commentary by Gavrosh Levonja:  "Committees Serving Berisha's Game"

Once the agreement to hold elections on 29 June, or around that time,
was made, in his few contacts with representatives of international
community, Berisha began to play the game of the danger posed by the
citizens' committees that were set up in the south of the country.  It is a
well-known fact that the said committees were set up at the time when even the
slightest trace of local authority had vanished completely.  The people who
undertook to set up and participate in these committees were prompted by their
good will not to let the situation get worse and to prevent further tragic
outcomes.  However, these committees could not fail to express the voice of the
large number of people who had lost their savings in the failure of the pyramid
schemes.  These people had been the main participants in these revolts, and,
therefore, their crucial demand would surely be for Berisha's resignation.  This
accounted for the tension that was created between Berisha and the committees.
However, the calmer the situation, the more remote became the possibility for
Berisha's resignation prior to elections. Under these conditions, although the
committees have somewhat toned down their demands for Berisha's resignation, on
his part, Berisha has never relented his attacks against the committees. Berisha
and his followers continue to complain that "Elections are jeopardized by the
committees' existence," that "rightist parties cannot conduct electoral
campaigns in the South," that "the rightist press cannot go there," and so on.
The truth is that only Berisha and his party, and not the rightist parties,
cannot go to the south to conduct their electoral campaign; and that only
Berisha's newspaper, which has consistently insulted the protesters in several
cities in the south, cannot be read or distributed there.  On the other hand,
the committees themselves have not prevented anyone, either left or right, from
going to the south. King Leka Zog's visit to Vlore and other southern cities is
the best refutation of Berisha's allegation.  Being in a fix, Berisha prefers to
speak from the right-wing position when it is a fact that rightists do not need
any such advocate.  Berisha is justifying his failure to go to the south with
the committees' presence, but no one knows whether Berisha will go to the south
in the event of the committees being dissolved.  It is hard to find an optimist
who even envisions Berisha going to meet the people of Vlore or those of some
other southern city.  It is a fact of life that Berisha has not left Tirana
since the end of February, even to give heart to his two bastions in the other
two-thirds of the country. Thus the committees are unintentionally serving
Berisha to justify his thesis that elections cannot be held in the near future.
It might happen that the committees may declare their dissolution or lay down
their weapons (although there are no records to prove how many arms were taken)
and then they would say to Berisha:  "Here you are, come if you wish!"  However,
knowing that Berisha cannot go to the south even if there are no committees,
nobody can tell what pretext he will find instead of the committees.


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