Balkan Cold Cases #3: Young Men Killed in Crackdown as Albanian Communism Fell

When police attacked the first demonstrations against Albania’s repressive communist regime in April 1991, four students were killed. The officials who were initially convicted were amnestied, and there has never been a proper investigation into what happened.

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