Word: skanderbeg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grew even more plausible when a second wave of would-be emigrants headed for the embassies late in the week. Police, who had earlier cordoned off the diplomatic district, made no attempt to stop them. They did, however, intervene to disperse 10,000 pro-democracy demonstrators gathered in nearby Skanderbeg Square. By then more than 1,500 Albanians had taken refuge in the West German embassy, and hundreds more were holed up in other missions...
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