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I'd forgotten that Albania is considered to be very pro-America, but it's wonderful that despite being a poor country, they're being so generous with taking in Afghan refugees.
And they're even having the Afghans stay at their resorts. Hey, why doesn't Trump do that, and open up his resorts to Afghan refugees for free? After all, it was his bad deal that created this mess.
For Afghan Refugees, a Mix of Luxury and Trauma at Albania’s Beach Resorts
Albania, one of Europe’s poorest nations, has committed to taking in up to 4,000 refugees from Afghanistan, more than any other country. The 677 who have arrived, including about 250 children, are being housed in resorts along the Adriatic coast, a practice based on an emergency-response approach that Albania developed after a devastating earthquake in 2019, when people left homeless were put up in beach hotels...
“We don’t put people in camps. They are dehumanizing and where all the problems start psychologically,” the prime minister said. “We have been like them many times in our own history. They are just trying to escape from hell.” For Afghan Refugees, a Mix of Luxury and Trauma at Albania’s Beach Resorts – Poitical Diplomacy
This is the story of a rare kink in the supply chain: a dispute over a shipment in the UK that led to a kidnapping in Albania. Criminal organisations from Albania have become major players in the UK market, playing “a significant role in the wholesale movement of cocaine”, according to Britain’s National Crime Agency, the NCA. A spokesperson for the agency said the Albanians were part of a broader trend in which gangs from the Balkans have been drawn to cocaine trafficking by its “higher profits” and to the UK by its “buoyant market” for the drug.
This story reveals how the European cocaine trade, once dominated by mafias from Italy and Spain, is being transformed by new entrants. And it shows how the cost of this transformation – in terms of chronic corruption and sporadic violence – is being diverted away from the market, to poorer countries such as Albania.
A former director general of the Albanian police force, Ahmet Prenci, said the country’s feuding criminals, based abroad, were choosing to settle scores “at home” – because they knew that any subsequent investigations there would not be as thorough as in West. What’s more, he said, there was “always the opportunity to corrupt the police and judiciary.”
Anyone watched Taken? Yep, human trafficking, prostitution, organ trade, narcotics... that country was gateway for narcotics from countries, like Afghanistan, into Europe. It's hilarious, really, how OP drools over their humanitarianism.
Religion could be part of it. Afghanistan is a Muslim country. And so is Albania. Albania is a majority Muslim country.
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