Mr. Kurti, 66, said he had unearthed 21 skeletons, put them in black garbage bags and taken them to the Tirana coroner’s office, where they still sit. “People are only interested in one thing: Who was a collaborator?” Mr. Dervishi said. A name appearance on the list of informers does not necessarily mean the person aided repression or harmed others, Mr. Dervishi said. Instead, Mr. Lubonja said, members of both main parties — Mr. Rama’s Socialists (the renamed Communist Party) and the anti-Communist Democrats — were compromised during the Communist era. “In the West, they like these topics which are seen as a sign that something positive is happening in the country,” Mr. Lubonja said.

Source: New York Times February 26, 2017 19:18 UTC