February 07, 2000

Dib r, February 7 shkurt (Kosovapress)-Haki Torte, a 97 years man from Dibra town, has sent an open letter to Bill Clinton, United Nations Organization, Un Secretary General Kofi Annan, Tony Blear, European Council, International Red Cross Committee, International Forums of Human Right's and Freedoms, and to all of those who can eventually help in the finding and the release of Ukshin Hotit and other Albanian missing persons and prisoners who are still kept in the Serb jails.

Honored Misters,

I am the oldest alive person of Dibra, a town that stretches between Albanian and Macedonia. Sometimes when walk through the center of the town it does not happen to meet any people of my generesperate need for you. Thanks to your engagement, the people of Kosova survived. You forced the enemy to leave Kosova, that enemy whom I know very well from the time I was very young. And get the sea of Durrwsi( city in Albania) because that was the wish of the Russian cars. The same barbaric methods have been used in the last war in Kosova. Atrocities, massacres, burnings, the violated deportation, the same expelling of Albanians from their homed in which they have lived for centuries. This was more than enough for the countries of Europe and the world to understand, a hundred years later what was going on. And NATO, made the Serb beasts go out from Kosova. Since their first coming in Balkan, the Slavic- Serbs killed Albanians and expanded " their " territories by occupying other lands from Albanian people who were he

re from the beginning of the human's history. I have here a copy of a map, which my son who is

journalist have found in Russiauld not hate anybody, on the contrary during the conversations we shared together, at him, I saw a

very opened man always worried with a big concern about the issue of Albanian people. He used to be very closed person to everybody. Even you see him for the first time , someone creates the impression that he or she has

known him for a long time. He was right here in my heart and I loved him as he was one of my children.

The wise man Ukshin Hoti was close to everybody. He was an excellent student while he graduated from the Political Sciences faculty of Zagreb. He told me that he could not finish the doctortruggling for freedom. Now Ukshin's family members who remained alive such as his mother, two of his sisters Mirvete and Resmie, and his youngest brother are very concerned about the destiny of him. It was written and it was spoken that Mr. Ukshin Hotin was

released on May 17 1999, one day before he finished the serving and suffering sentence in prison. Since the day of his releartured while some others are being brought home in coffins. Please, in the name of Humanity, in the name of democracy, please help me die in peace, make me having fulfilled my last desire for this life. I know that you can do miracles. With what you did recently for Kosova's people, you told the world that You can make people survive. In the end of

this century, You stopped the ethnic cleansing. The Albanian people will never forget you for what you did for them. You are those who can help us release the prisoners again. Please put an end to the suffer of more than 7000 families who have their lovers in the Serb jails. Use our authority and help us. I wish you good health and success in your human work!

Dib r, February 7, 2000. Haki Torte-Dib r