July 8. in the Washington Post. The author of the article. Mary Battiata. of the Posts foreign service bureau. reported that. and again I am quoting from the article. "Other Albanians. some believed to be members of the feared secret police. the Sigurimi. stood near the embassy fences today trying to persuade refugees to leave embassy grounds." The article also goes on to say that. "The Albanian crisis followed street protests over the governments failure to make good on promises made in May that all citizens would be granted the right to passports and foreign travel." I would ask my colleagues. "What conclusion can we draw from this collection of articles about the crisis in Albania?" I think the most significant point is that Albania is indeed the last Stalinist outpost in Europe. The Albanian Government has failed to carry through on even the smallest promises it made toward increased human rights standards. and when the Albanian people dared criticize the government. through peaceful means. they were chased with bullets into foreign embassies. As if that were not bad enough. the Government of Albania has refused Western nations permission to fly in food and medical supplies to care for the people holed up in these embassies.
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