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Fri 06 Jun 2009Albania's deadly tradition of blood feuds as pervasive as ever
The EU is anxious that Albania stamps out the kanun, the exacting of revenge, before it can be seriously assessed as an EU applicant
I AM on Corfu’s northeast coast, looking across the straits at the Albanian coastline. Two articles in The Irish Times of June 15th jump off the page: Conor Lally’s “Finglas- based Hyland gang are the chief suspects for 12 gun murders” and Courtney Brooks’s “Immigrants meet gardaí about ways of cracking cultural barriers”.
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