Albanian Illegal Immigrants
In the summer of 1991 thousands of Albanians commandeered cargo ships to take them Italy
Witness History: Archive 2014 · BBC World Service
June 24, 20149m 0s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (open.live.bbc.co.uk) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
In the spring and summer of 1991 tens of thousands of Albanians commandeered cargo ships to take them to Italy. The immigrants were escaping a collapsing communist dictatorship. Robert Budina was one of the Albanians on board the Vlora, a cargo ship which had been carrying sugar from Cuba.
(Photo: Albanian immigrants on board the Vlora. Copyright: Associated Press)