Dashnor Kaloçi
Part forty-seven
Memorie.al publishes a voluminous archival file issued by the institution of the Authority for Information of Former State Security Files, where there are hundreds of documents with the logo “Top secret” belonging to the former political prisoner, Xhavit Qesja, originally from the city of Kruja, whose family during the period of occupation of the country, 1939-1944, was closely associated with the Anti-Fascist Movement, being one of its main bases and made available all the wealth it had, as Xhavit was one of the first members of the Albanian Communist Party for the Kruja district, leading the Kruja-Ishëm partisan battalion and the 22nd Assault Brigade. Xhavit Qese’s political career after the end of the War, where he was appointed and served in senior positions in the Albanian Army, the apparatus of the Central Committee of the ALP, and several districts of the country, from where he was sent to study in the Soviet Union, where stayed until 1957, when he was announced to return to Albania urgently, after openly expressing his views in favor of the political line being pursued by the main Kremlin leader, Nikita Khrushchev, condemning the Stalin cult. Enver Hoxha’s conversation with Xhavit Qesen in his office in the Central Committee, where he sharply criticized him for the wrong views he had expressed during his studies in Moscow, urging him to reflect and make self-criticism, but Xhavit rejected the suggestion of the first secretary of the Albanian Labor Party, which caused him to no longer be allowed to go to the Soviet Union to complete his studies, but to be sent to work as deputy chairman of the Elbasan Executive Committee, from where a year later, he was expelled from the Party and exiled to Zvërnec Island, where the communist regime kept isolated some of the former senior party and state cadres whom he had condemned for their anti-party views. Xhavit Qesva’s long ordeal and persecution from 1957 to 1990, where he spent a full 32 years in prison and internment, being one of the few convicts in Burrell Prison who went on long hunger strikes in protest of the treatment and savage attitude that the communist regime of Enver Hoxha was holding towards him. The complete form, investigative and judicial file in charge of Xhavit Qeses, which is published for the first time by Memorie.al, which contains the documents of the former State Security that reflect the prosecution and wiretapping against him, the reports of Security collaborators with pseudonyms their correspondence with the letters he sent to the highest party and state instances, as well as the highest leaders of the ALP, until 1991 when he was released from prison!
Continued from the previous issue
The secret document of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the information about the conversations held by the convicts of Burrel prison, Xhavit Qesja, Muhamet Prodani, Todi Lubonja and Andon Sheti, which were taken with Operational Technicians (interception) and were uncovered by the recordings of their
People’s Republic Soc. Of Albania “SECRET”
Ministry of Internal Affairs Copy No.2
Internal Affairs Branch Group II
(Security Side) Burrel on 29.1.1984
No .___
Reproduction Prohibited!
LEGEND:
T – Todi Lubonja
A – Andon Sheti
M – Muhamet Prodani
Xh – Xhavit Qesja
(————-) Clarifications of Operational Worker T. Operative.
Information
On the hearing with Stationary Operational Technicians, the anti-party convicts Todi Lubonja, Andon Sheti, Muhamet Prodani and Xhavit Qesja. Room No. 2 dated 26.1.1984.
T – O, o, o, ti je?
A – Yes
T – How are you?
A – Yes good.
T – What about a strong man in good health? … (Said, etc., without operational significance). How are you Andon, if you are very well s (starts laughing with great irony)
A – I was heartbroken, I was sick and once they tied me up, I was suffering from a heart attack and they took me and tied me up… (Laughs). I suffer from a heart condition and my blood pressure is high.
M – Did you receive a letter from the children, did they see you?
A – And yes from the children I got and they are all fine, I got a letter and that little boy soldier had left (etc., etc., without operational importance). How are you Todd?
T – Well, good hour, three days ago my wife and that little boy came to meet me here.
A – Yes, they came to the meeting, but now they are in Fishtë?
T – In Fishta… (etc., etc., irrelevant). What about Fatos (Lubonja) you did not stay at all?
A – Yes, Fatos had fled to Spaç.
T – It’s still there.
A – Yes he was good when he was in Zejmen. Do you have Xhavit’s mother?
Xh – Po.
A – Is your mother coming?
Xh – No, she has been banned for years, but she is 89 years old… (etc., no matter).
M – So you, in the other rooms how do you go?
A – Po ku?
M – Here, when you were not coming to us.
A – But now how to say… a very heterogeneous society both in age and in all things, but they told me the truth, I had about three or four that I knew and they even tried to help me, but I did not want to, then after I got acclimated and found peace.
T – And now how did they bring you here?
A – Now as if I found the car there you hear.
T – E, e, e, e…
A – Now I found peace and more movement.
T – E, ë, ë, ë, now you have found peace and you have shown pleasure there and therefore they asked you here… (laughs with great irony) hey heck o work!
M – And they say so by surprise.
A – Eee surprise ë (laughs)
T – What about Fatosi (Lubonja)?
A – Yes, well.
T – Well maintained ëëë?
A – Yes from all points of view you are well maintained.
T – Is that so?
A – O, o, o, yes for each other yes.
T – Ë, ë, ë.
A – Strong was all
T – That’s right!
A – Yes, strong from all and polite and with all that it was good to see him, he had some time, he made some field of view there, we played there somewhere.
T – Did you play there?
A – We were playing… (laughs)
T – Hey heck o work.
A – Well, well, well, well, she was coming…
T – Yes, that Zana and his wife.
A – It depends on how two or three years pass or more.
T – Are you taking its (laughs with great irony) j hey damn, how are you from home, okay everyone?
A – Well, it must be said that they suffer morally and physically, but everyone is suffering, suffering a lot.
M – What about this do not ask the same boy soldiers and wall eh?
A – They got it yes; there from Patos it seems to have made the instruction center… (etc., no matter how long it takes)
T – How many children do you have, Andon?
A – Yes I have two sons and a daughter.
T – A, a, a, to live… (etc., etc.)
M – Yes, I saw your children, but when I came, you were arrested.
T – What since when you were arrested ore Andon?
A – In April of ’76
T – In April of ’76, do not take.
A – How were you when you went there to that new palace that was being built?
M – In the same building… (etc., for these)
T – How ——— what happened?
A – Yes —– they sent him back there to Zejmen.
T – What about Zejmen ë ë? But what did he have or was he sick, or was he suffering from a heart condition?
A – Yes others know doorbell, like everyone else.
T – E, e, e, like everyone else.
M – Yes, where he was sick like a clock, yes he was like a pig, yes how he was like a pig, I was kicking him, kaush.
A – Ë, ë, ë, ë. If it was a strong hour and stay in Zejmen.
M – Yes, yes, I put it in the cup etj (etc., etc., no matter how long it lasts)
T – Damn, was he there with Dalip? (Has it for the chef)
A – Yes with Dalip yes (he has it for the trio, for Dalip Gaba).
Q – Yes, we had Dalip cook in this area.
A – Yes he is good and the conversations so a little help with a little so we went well, then then there were young people from the latter.
T – More, more, turli.
A – Then they were from Bulqiza
T – O, bo, bo, bo…! (The door opens to ventilate and they come in turn to meet him near the door)… A. a, a, a, you were arrested early, at 76 o’clock Andon, but under what article were you arrested?
A – Yes, with the article… for agitation of propaganda and use of official position, you understand… you also deal with that literature, supposedly you are aware and you have published and you have multiplied and you have distributed and you have used them. (etc., etc., no matter how long it takes).
T – But with these they did not connect you, with these Beqir Balluku and these, right?
A – Any words that they have met and are so, ore dearbardhë accusations.
T – A, a, a, a, a, those accusations had and Vaska say.
A – The indictment had put… (etc., etc., those of the investigation irrelevant).
T – Yes, they took my Fatos to me there on that hill-Spaç ore, oh my god.
A – If I write hours to ask and leave at all.
T – No, he wrote and wrote and nothing at all (. (Etc., etc. old at 50 years and up.
A – No ore there and young people.
T – Yes apparently does not work there in Spaç… (etc., etc.,) asks and for the sentence of Todi Lubonja and Todi gives the answer). We were there once with my friend Dhon. (His name is not understood) there in Dhërmi and he said he told me the truth he said, it is good to come here and spend the pension he told me If we spend hours passing, I agree I… (laughed the loudest and ironically).
A – You are passing me by… (Laughs and mixes conversations with great irony).
T – Yes, I did well with him.
M – What about your wife still working?
A – Posi ore… (etc., etc.,. No matter how long it lasts).
T – Ej more devil ore devil. (Long pause) What about the Lover (Mamaqi) there in Zejmen?
A – Yes
T – What about agitation and propaganda? Now for this I am about to ask Fadil (Paçrami) Fadil is excited and I will ask about the job ——– (laugh with irony).
A – Yes, well, let me ask… (laughs)
T – Fadil has stayed with him, but he is a greyhound and si
M – Yes dog son dog. (laughs) Yes he is very bad…
T – Was Vasili with you?
A – Both were done, but Vasili felt pleasure… but both are completely finished…
T – Are they over?!
M -… but we did not find out that the trial took place in Fier.
A – No, no, no at all, we did not find out (it is not known who he is asking about) Yes, he was arrested, it was found out.
M – If he was arrested and we found out that the director Ganiu (Kodra) was in the room with us and they had put him in a dungeon, I met him in the kitchen, and …… Qemal Pashaj.
A – And he was there too.
T – Yes, my son there when he was sentenced for the second time, they said that he refused to sign any trial and they did not initiate any trial, do you understand or not, throughout the investigation.
A – Yes, yes right, he told me that too. I was very sober and they loved him very much
T – Well now, M. Shehu, a police agent, has been working to capture CIA agents.
A – Yes.
T – Yes, now.
A – You had an article, but I do not know in which…?
T – Yes in one more articles, on the way to the Party.
A – On the way to the Party, it seems I have seen it.
T – Kadri Hazbiu and Feçor Shehu say, they tried to make arrests in the foreground, at a time when it was said that the arrest should be the last bullet…!
M – Here is the leadership of the Party in the bodies of the Ministry of Interior…!
T – Yes, now these cases could be resolved in other ways, but it is one thing to say, another to decide the court.
A – If people let you go, it’s not your fault.
T – Not for justice it matters great, it matters.
A – Immediate importance is to dress at home to children, now well done step by step.
T – More to achieve it that has not played out of mind.
A – Well that’s good, but do not wait… (Mix up conversations and quarrel).
T – Yes, I do not start from the hell that it emits, but I start from the other one, which is important for the Party and the Government, you understand, the issue of where the law has been violated, since.
A – Po pra.
T – A dangerous group has emerged and let them be as they are, but where it is to fix, let them fix.
A – Good hour, yes, now the state is in danger, yes….
T – Yes, where it has been violated, I say, that there are people who have been put in prisons.
A – Well, good hour, there are some of them, there are also clowns, there are those who have entered twice and three times, but not for the same guilt, for the same accusations.
T – Ë, ëëë!
A – Yes now he has put them inside…
T – E hë.
A – If you took the man ore, you took the most expensive thing.
T – I was telling M. Bares, that where you took my son, there are witnesses. But they were not done, so… (laughed ironically), but I did not want to prolong the conversation, because if I spoke to you, he would say yes, where did you find out all these things, or not, but they did half of it pelde and have beaten them in the bucket.
A – E eee!
T – They beat them with sticks, beatings and halves, scattered and introduced these witnesses. Yes now the witness is a witness and if he has told a truth, you will defend him, you understand and not leave it in the hands of the one who distorted it.
A – Just as they got up there in Ballsh, making letters.
T – Makes letters ëëë?!
A – Yes, he makes letters from these witnesses.
T – Is that so?
A – Po po…
T – Yes, they are being pressured.
A – Yes they have come out once and twice and three times and it were written…
T – Ë, ë, ë, ë they wrote themselves, that they forced us with lies.
A – Self self-created them.
T – But now the door, where your conscience works a little, however… (etc., etc., and Andoni begins to browse the newspapers to find an article).
A – The same Gjin Marku is aman aman, but those children are very educated and especially the girls.
T – Yes, the girls are like that, but now they have removed them from Fier and taken them to the village, to Hoxhare.
M – Yes, they removed them and put the Deputy Minister of the Army in his house.
T – Father Barber?
A – Yes to those of the military.
M – How is he known, Nazari is known to be in Fier, while Vebi was taken to Cërrik, these are known, that Arif had some, Arif’s son, after they were engaged —— —-
A – E he
M ————————————————- ————————————————– —————————
T – Were there many who were released from the Ballsh camp, oh you Andon?
A – Yes, some 300 or so people, but these were of the same categories…!
T – What does not matter? But many of them were released?
A – They were being released but those that were unimportant, some of them 60 years old, some that had less than a year left… (etc., etc., unimportant)
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