Afghans in Albania for New York Times: Here's the Garden, we're going to the beach. There's a girl in the shell.

The prestigious American newspaper “The New York Times” has dedicated their new life to Albania a long coverage. The coverage, presenting the overall situation, focuses particularly on the refugee housing strategy in summer resorts on the Adriatic coast, naming the “the world's most luxurious and bizarre refugee camps”, rather oddly from the fact that Albania remains, according to author, “one of the poorest countries in Europe”.

Reporting It underlines, however, that the <x0-feat of refugees is paid mainly by organisations such as National Endowment for Democracy, the Yilda Hakim Foundation, but also the Soros” foundation.

The American newspaper particularly follows the fate of refugees sheltered in the Shengini resorts, where Afghan men and women still seem somewhat confused, hostage to memories and fear of family members still at home, but also grateful for the opportunity the Albanian people are giving them.

For many, this is also the opportunity to experience things they could not do in Afghanistan. Tarera, a 21-year-old medical student, wants to learn swimming and bicycle, something banned in Kabul. Albanian invaders, mainly from Kosovo, appear to be welcoming them, and do not appear disturbed by their presence.

“We are luxury refugees. We go to the beach, we see half-naked girls, sleep and eat regularly. For most people, this is heaven”, says a former translator who claims that despite comfort he still doesn't sleep from the nightmare when he remembers the way he left his hometown of Herat, escaping the checks of the Taliban.

Insincereness for the future but also for the country from which they have fled forcedly, fades the happiness of the moment. THE luxury is fantastic, but we can't enjoy it, with all my thoughts on my head”, sums up one of them. /A2