The toppling of the mighty statue of Enver Hoxha, Albania’s former communist leader, made a big impression on Erion Veliaj, who describes the day in 1991 as “the most exciting event of my boyhood”.
Mr Veliaj, now 29 and a prominent political activist, still draws inspiration from a struggle that started when students at the Enver Hoxha university in Tirana campaigned to rename their institution.
