阿尔巴尼亚领导人谴责暴力，抗议者要求辞职。因生活和教育成本不满的学生重燃抗议活动。总理埃迪·拉马表示，他们正被“外部势力”利用。
Albania’s Leader Denounces Violence as Protesters Demand Resignation Students upset by living and educational costs have revived protests. Prime Minister Edi Rama said they were being used by “outside forces.”
面对暴力抗议，阿尔巴尼亚长期领导人埃迪·拉马周日呼吁年轻示威者保持冷静，警告说，这个巴尔干国家正面临一种“可怕的瘟疫”，这种瘟疫由“社交网络的混乱、虚假信息的混乱、仇恨的混乱、分裂的混乱”所滋生。阿尔巴尼亚的抗议活动始于5月，最初是和平的，由环保活动人士领导，他们对一项与美国总统特朗普女婿贾里德·库什纳有关的计划中的豪华开发项目感到愤怒。但它很快演变成一场关于腐败、生活水平以及拉马长期担任总理的更广泛的不满爆发。
Confronted with violent protests, Albania’s longtime leader, Edi Rama, on Sunday appealed to young demonstrators for calm, warning that the Balkan nation faced a “terrifying plague” fed by “the chaos of social networks, the chaos of disinformation, the chaos of hatred, of division.”Albania’s protest movement began in May and was initially peaceful, led by environmental activists angered by a planned luxury development linked to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law. But it quickly morphed into a wider eruption of discontent over corruption, living standards and Mr. Rama’s long tenure as prime minister.
上周，这场运动再次改变形态，因教育成本高昂和生活成本上升而不满的学生加入战斗，为日渐衰弱的抗议活动注入了新的活力。与此同时，周四突然爆发的暴力事件使首都蒂拉纳陷入停滞。
Last week, the movement changed shape again when students, upset over the high cost of education and increased living costs, joined the fray, breathing new life into flagging protests. At the same time, a sudden explosion of violence on Thursday brought the capital, Tirana, to a standstill.
周日，蒙面抗议者冲进蒂拉纳市中心的一个警察局，并用燃烧瓶将其点燃。媒体报道称，五名警官受伤。内政部和基础设施部的外墙和门也被点燃。
On Sunday, masked protesters stormed a police station in central Tirana and set it ablaze with Molotov cocktails. Media reports said five officers were injured. The exterior walls and doors of the ministry of interior and the ministry of infrastructure were also set alight.
拉马领导的执政社会党总部也遭到袭击，其窗户被投掷石块的人砸碎。
The headquarters of Mr. Rama’s governing Socialist Party was attacked, too, its windows smashed by people hurling stones.
学生们已从最初关于生活成本和教育的诉求转变为将拉马辞职作为唯一要求。
Students have moved on from their original complaints over the cost of living and education to declare Mr. Rama’s resignation their sole demand.
阿尔巴尼亚主要反对党领袖萨利·贝里沙试图利用这些动荡局势来提升自己日益下滑的政治声望，他支持要求拉马辞职的呼声，认为只有这样才能平息紧张局势。抗议者们与反对党保持距离，同时要求将前总理贝里沙和拉马两人都关进监狱。
The leader of Albania’s main opposition party, Sali Berisha, who has tried to capitalize on the unrest to boost his sagging political fortunes, backed calls for Mr. Rama’s resignation, saying that only this would calm tensions. Protesters have kept their distance from the opposition, demanding that both Mr. Berisha, a former prime minister, and Mr. Rama be sent to jail.
在针对这些暴力事件的第一次详细回应中，拉马于周日表示：那些名义上处于抗议活动前沿的学生实际上被200到300名“戴面具的人”劫持了；这些人与学生毫无关系，他们的目的只是制造混乱、破坏阿尔巴尼亚加入欧盟的进程。阿尔巴尼亚已经是北约的成员国。
In his first detailed response to the violence, Mr. Rama said on Sunday that students, nominally in the vanguard of the protests, had been “taken hostage” by a small group of 200 to 300 “masked people who have nothing to do with the students” and only want to create chaos and derail Albania’s ambitions to join the European Union. The country is already a member of NATO.
拉马将上周暴力事件的爆发归咎于“外部势力”，称社交媒体上散布的虚假信息加剧了民众的愤怒情绪。这些虚假信息主要来自伊朗（长期以来一直与拉马政府为敌，因为阿尔巴尼亚政府拒绝驱逐藏匿在该国的伊朗异见人士）以及俄罗斯。
He blamed “outside forces” for last week’s abrupt violent turn, saying that tempers had been inflamed by disinformation pumped out on social media by Iran, long hostile to Mr. Rama because his government has refused to expel Iranian dissidents sheltering in Albania, and also Russia.
欧盟的执行机构——欧盟委员会在周日发表声明称：“我们谴责在蒂拉纳及其他阿尔巴尼亚城市发生的暴力行为，包括纵火、袭击政府机构以及破坏公共和私有财产的行为。”声明还强调：“希望加入欧盟的国家必须以和平方式处理民众的不满情绪。”委员会表示：“我们支持阿尔巴尼亚政府承诺保护民众的抗议权利。”由于社交媒体上流传着法国抗议者焚烧建筑物的照片，一些阿尔巴尼亚示威者也开始呼吁在自己的国家发动革命。
The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive arm in Brussels, said in a statement Sunday that “we condemn the use of violence in Tirana and other cities in Albania, including arson, attacks on state institutions and the destruction of public and private property.”Adding that countries hoping to join the European bloc must handle grievances “in a peaceful manner,” it said: “We welcome the Albanian authorities’ commitment that the right to protest will be protected.”With images of buildings set ablaze in France by protesters circulating on social media, some Albanian demonstrators have started calling for revolution in their own country.
由于数月来的和平抗议未能成功推翻拉马政府，这些示威者表示他们受到了法国事件的启发。
Frustrated by their failure to oust Mr. Rama through months of peaceful protest, they say that they had been inspired by events in France.
拉马先生说，安全部队在无人机携带炸药用于袭击总理办公室并在其院子里的木结构纵火之前，已将其“中和”。他表示，这架无人机是“外部势力的所作所为”，但未指明具体对象。“没有年轻人、没有学生、没有未成年人会想到这种计划，更别说付诸行动了，”他说。
Mr. Rama said that security forces had “neutralized” a drone carrying explosives before it could be used to strike the prime minister’s office and set fire to a wooden structure in its courtyard. The drone, he said, was the “work of an outside hand,” without indicating if he had someone in mind. “No young person, no student and no minor would think of such a plan, let alone put it into action,” he said.
拉马先生谴责他所称的“盲目暴力”，并说：“年轻人确实感到沮丧，他们愤怒。学生想要更多，他们想要改变。他们一直如此，也将永远如此。这是他们的本性。”但他指出，这些年轻人正被暴力极端分子“几乎当作人肉盾牌”，后者企图冲破警戒线攻击政府大楼、银行和企业。
Denouncing what he described as “blind violence,” Mr. Rama said: “Young people are frustrated, yes. They are angry. Students want more; they want change. They always have, and they always will. It is in their nature.”But he said they were being used “almost as human shields” by violent extremists intent on breaking through police lines to attack government buildings, banks and businesses.
他说：“我们在其他地方也看到同样的情形，只是背景不同：在法国、意大利、葡萄牙、布鲁塞尔和比利时以及西班牙。”总理表示，“在所有这些地方，我们都看到了同样的现象，这所谓的‘反法西斯’运动——一群疯子和新共产主义者的瘟疫。”但他指出，阿尔巴尼亚不同于西欧因Z世代抗议而动荡的国家，因为1997年曾因快速致富的投资计划崩溃而陷入无政府状态，因而更有可能遏制混乱。“我们曾看到阿尔巴尼亚被疯狂所挟持，”他说。
“We have seen this same film play out elsewhere, though in a different context: in France, Italy, Portugal, Brussels and Belgium, and Spain,” he said. The prime minister said that “in all these places, we have seen the same phenomenon, this so-called Antifa movement — a plague of lunatics and neo-communists.”But Albania, he said, unlike countries rocked by Gen-Z protests in Western Europe, has a better chance of holding back chaos because of its brush with anarchy in 1997, when the collapse of get-rich-quick investment schemes led to widespread civil unrest. “We have seen Albania held hostage by madness,” he said.
拉马先生去年以压倒性优势连任第四届，总计执政13年，自1998年以来在阿尔巴尼亚政府中时进时出。
Mr. Rama, who last year won re-election for a fourth term by a landslide, has held office for 13 years and been in and out of Albanian government since 1998.
俄罗斯哲学家亚历山大·杜金因其激进的民族主义和反西方观点在克里姆林宫受到青睐，他对阿尔巴尼亚抗议者表示欢呼。周六，他在社交媒体上写道，阿尔巴尼亚人是“一支非常有趣且勇敢的民族”，正“现在觉醒”。安德鲁·希金斯是《泰晤士报》驻华沙的东欧和中欧分社社长。
Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher whose virulent nationalism and anti-Western views have found favor in the Kremlin, has cheered on Albanian protesters. In social media post on Saturday, he said Albanians are a “very interesting and brave people” who are “awakening now.”Andrew Higgins is the East and Central Europe bureau chief for The Times based in Warsaw.