Inside the Albanian revolution

"Why am I living in England?" Avni, an Albanian in his 40s working in London as a builder, asked me angrily, as we walked to the lines of riot police separating Albania's Flamingo Revolution protesters from the country's parliament. "Albania is a very good country, there is no war here. We shouldn't be immigrants. We should come back home," he added, telling me that his home village in northern Albania was now entirely depopulated, as everyone who could had already decamped to Britain or elsewhere in Western Europe.