Have you ever heard of Albanian blood fueds?

[Swede]

The second link is to a google search. Children never leave their houses because they are sanctuararies and only attacked once in public.

In the best tradition of Balkans quarrels, it all began with a mix of strong brandy, fiery tempers and very long memories. One hot summer's night in 2000, Pëllumb Morevataj, a man with a big thirst and a bigger ego, was out drinking in his village in northern Albania, when a friend made a chance remark about how the Morevataj family had backed down in a feud some half a century before. An argument ensued, and an evening that should have ended with nothing worse than bad hangovers all round saw Pëllumb shoot his drinking companion dead.The blood has not stopped flowing ever since.

Ten years later, on the wall above the doorway of her dingy parlour, Pëllumb's sister-in-law, Shkurte, has a gallery of photos of dead relatives, all martyrs to the family honour that was offended that night. In one are Pëllumb's two brothers, killed in revenge by his victim's relatives in 2002. In another is Pëllumb himself, who was shot dead in 2006, although not before he had avenged his brothers' deaths with two more murders.And in a third is his grieving wife, who committed suicide a year later.

'So many deaths from that one night,' sighs Shkurte, a gaunt, dark-haired woman who looks 10 years older than her 38 years.'Pëllumb was a good man, but hot-headed and macho. If he hadn't gone drinking that evening, none of this would ever have happened.' And what, exactly, was the 50-year-old feud about that he took such offence? Shkurte shakes her head.'It all happened so long ago that not even my aunt here really knows what caused it,' she says. A wizened, grey face in the corner, clad in a traditional all-black shawl and scarf, nods in assent.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/albania/7843351/Albanias-modern-day-blood-fueds.html


http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&q=albanian+blood+feuds+2010+kanun&aq=f&aqi=&aql=f&oq=albanian+blood+feuds+2010+kanun&gs_rfai=&fp=15e43db975cb2de6

[Boudica the Lyoness]

1. Yes I heard about them!

They really know how to carry a grudge.