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The inhabitants of Zharrez, a small village of the Fier region, which has suffered considerable damage due to fracking by the companies that extract oil there, were not put off by the general indifference of the politicians and the heinous silence of the national media over their hunger strike. Used to years of suffering, with their lands poisoned and unproductive, their house walls cracked and falling and their families in persistent danger, they had nothing to lose. Therefore they organized an original form of protesting: a long journey on foot towards Tirana. This kind of protest through a long march…