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Albanian parliament okays limited amnesty for escaped prisoners
TIRANA. Mar 28: Hoping to curb the violence and banditry that has convulsed Albania the past month. Parliament passed a law authorising a limited amnesty to escaped prisoners, reports AP.
Justice Minister Spartak Ng-Kia, an opposition member of emier Bashkim Fino's caretaker government, submitted the legislation Thursday, which grants amnesty to about 700 convicts who had three years or less to serve.
Parliament, controlled by President Sail Berisha’s Democratic Party, unanimously approved the amnesty, state television reported.
Civilians have looted armories around the country and prisoners have escaped from early all of the country’s prisons in the unrest that started after the January collapse of
high-risk investment schemes. Public rage over the funds, in which nearly every family lost money, soon escalated into anti-government protests.
Much of the insurgency that started in the south has moved north, making banditry and general lawlessness almost a way of life here.
An argument between two families near the southern town of Fier left 20 people dead Thursday, illustrating the danger in a country where many people now seem to be anned.
Hurma Rredhi, a local reporter quoting police and hospital officials, said three Gypsies were killed Thursday morning when the argument between a Gypsy and another family began at Levan, a village Just south of Fier.
The Gypsy family took revenge later in the day. and a
shootout killed another 17 people. Other details were not immediately available.
A 6-year-old boy also died Thursday, one day after men fired machine guns at the passenger bus he was riding in. One man had died instantly in Wednesday’s attack.
The climate of lawlessness Jeopardises European aid shipments needed to stave off famine. More than 180 people have died so far and hundreds have been injured since the year began.
Count Jan de Marchant et d'Ansembourg. the head of a Eu ropean Union delegation that arrived Wednesday, said the Albanian government has asked for EU help in securing the main airport and the ports of Durres and Volora to facilitate aid shipments.
"I think it's obvious that Al-
bania does need protection even for the humanitarian aid. and this is what we re working for. he told reporters.
He said any European force would be between a few hundred and a few thousand troops, adding details were still being worked out.
In Vienna, the 54-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe decided to send a mission — coordinated by former Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky — as soon as possible to "provide advice and assistance" in the fields of democratisation. the media and human rights as well as election preparation and monitoring.
In a memorandum to the UN Security Council in New York, the OSCE also said it would "explore other possibilities" for assistance, including monitor
ing the collection of weapons looted from Albanian armories.
OSCE officials said, however. that the operation was contingent on Security Council approval.
Later Thursday. Italy recommended that the UN Security Council approve sending a European force to Albania to protect humanitarian aid deliveries and help the government recover from a nationwide upheaval.
In the south, gunfire by rival Albanian gangs on Thursday forced the Red Cross to suspend plans to bring a truck carrying nine tons of food and other supplies across the Greek border.
Fino has made restoration of law and order a priority of his caretaker administration. He has said stability is necessary if early elections are to be heldjn June. ... .
The insurgency has sent nearly 12.000 Albanians fleeing to Italy, which has set up a naval blockade to keep more Albanian vessels from reaching Italian ports. Italy is sending back would be refugees it deems dangerous. Military flights carried 109 people back Thursday.
In Tirana, heavily armed police and pro-Berisha vigilantes patrol the street of the capital after the 7 pm curfew.
Berisha's Democratic Party still controls the Interior Ministry and secret police. Armed vigilantes that cruise the capital with impunity are thought to be Democratic Party supporters.
"It is very dangerous. There are too many people with guns, including some of our people’ we don't even know,” said one police officer as he cruised the streets in an unmarked car.