Suchergebnisse

After six centuries of tyranny, dictatorship and oppression, Albanians are finding democratic reform a slow and painful business

Examines control of flow of information and ideas since the Serbian military took over in 1990; censorhip of television and radio, short-wave broadcasts from foreign stations, shutting down of Rilindja, the only Albanian-language daily, efforts to "serbify" the region and wipe out all traces of Albanian culture, harassment of intellectuals, and other issues.

Since the Serbian government ended autonomous rule in Kosovo in mid-1990, 115,000 Albanians have lost their livelihood, victims of systematic ethnic discrimination known as differencim (differentiation)

In 1953, one of Albania's more outspoken writers warned Enver Hoxha that he was leading his country down an irreversible road to ruin. It cost him 23 years in prison. Today, he is one of a handful of survivors to have emerged from the concentration camps since the fall of the dictatorship