By Llazar Semini, Associated Press, January 28, 2011

TIRANA, Albania — Tens of thousands of Albanians holding flowers and candles marched silently through Albania's capital Friday in a peaceful anti-government demonstration to honor three opposition supporters shot dead during a protest last week.....

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Albania and Kosovo: A Bad Week, The Economist, January 27, 2011

WHAT a miserable few days for Albanians. In Kosovo their leaders stand accused of criminality on a grand scale. In Albania violence erupted at an opposition rally on January 21st and three protesters were shot dead, apparently by the security forces. Sali Berisha, Albania’s prime minister, accused the opposition, led by Edi Rama, mayor of Tirana, of orchestrating bands of criminals and terrorists. Mr Rama retorted that the prime minister was responsible for a bloodbath and that the interior minister was a socially dangerous worm who should be arrested.....