Ramiz Alia

guardian
Albania's last communist ruler and the architect of his country's perestroika

Miranda Vickers

guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 October 2011 16.49 BST

Ramiz Alia, who has died aged 85, was Albania's last communist ruler and the architect of his country's perestroika. He became leader of the tiny, impoverished Balkan state – with a population of 3 million people – following the death in 1985 of the dictator Enver Hoxha, who had been in office since the end of the second world war....more...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/07/ramiz-alia

Serbia: longing for the past

deutsche welle

EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Retailers in Belgrade can earn good money selling Yugoslavian flags and other symbols of the former multi-ethnic state. Many have yet to come to terms with the breakup of the country.

After arresting and handing over the last war crimes suspect to The Hague, Belgrade is another step closer towards membership of the European Union. But many Serbs still mourn the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, particularly those who are not doing so well economically....more...
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15316650,00.html

Relay for Tito Leaves Croatia En Route to Belgrade

balkan insight
18 May 2011 / 13:00

Dozens of nostalgic Yugoslavs gathered in front of the 'Tito' bar in the Croatian town of Umag on Tuesday to launch the annual relay in honour of their late leader Josip Broz Tito.
Bojana Barlovac

Belgrade
The old Yugoslav slogan of 'Brotherhood and Unity' was back in style for at least for an hour in Umag, with people in the crowd wearing blue pioneer caps and badges with Tito's portrait....more....

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/famous-tito-s-relay-heads-to-belgrade

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Int. minister: Resistance to investigations into communist crimes

tportal.hr
COMMUNIST CRIMES
14.05.2011 13:52

Author: Radio.net

Commenting on the fact that this year is the first time that the Croatian government had a speaker at the Bleiburg commemoration, its envoy, Interior Minister Tomislav Karamarko, said at Bleiburg field in Austria on Saturday the government did have something to say at commemorations of such mass killings whose perpetrators had still not been found or punished....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/127835/Int-minister-There-is-resistance-to-investigations-into-communist-crimes.html

Hebrang: Communist crimes must be prosecuted

tportal.hr
BLEIBURG
14.05.2011 18:36

Author: Radio.net

Croatian parliamentary envoy Andrija Hebrang said at Bleiburg field in Austria on Saturday that here were killed those who did not have the right to a trial and because they were different from their killers....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/127871/Hebrang-Communist-crimes-must-be-prosecuted.html

31 years since death of Yugoslav dictator

b92.net
Society

Wednesday 4.05.2011
14:08
Source: Tanjug

BELGRADE -- Today marks the 31st anniversary of the death of Josip Broz Tito, lifelong president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ)....more....
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=04&nav_id=74145

Sad snapshot: the toll taken on one family

se times
19/04/2011
One Tirana resident's memories of the communist regime's brutality are shared by so many.
By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Tirana -- 19/04/11
Albania has no official figures of how many opponents of the communist regime were killed, persecuted, or sent to concentration camps and isolated areas. ...more...
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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/04/19/feature-04