“The Ministry of Interior had information that a mass escape was being prepared in the Qafë-Bar camp and it staged the ev

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“In the Spaç camp, the conditions did not change much, the regulations of the Reps were in effect, the same criminal atrocities, even more horrific, the same armed soldiers, who shouted; ‘stop or I will shoot’, and…”/ The rare testimony of a former political prisoner

“During 22 years in prison, I have seen horrors with suicides, like the Dibrani Maliq Skuka in the Rubik camp, who covered himself with a blanket and gouged out his eyes with his nails…”! / The horrors of Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship

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“The day the revolt broke out, the guard officer was a Matjan, Asllan Kurti, he shot Kosta Gjordeni, after…”/ The unknown side of the Qafë-Barit revolt, according to its main organizers, former political prisoners

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“After 34 years, when the grave of Father Serafini was opened by nurse Marie, a Catholic believer, who had buried him herself, it was found…”/ The sad story of the friar who died under the torture of the Security Service in 1947

“In the cells of Durrës, they brought me a new investigator, Lieutenant Colonel Irakli Kocani, a ‘gorilla’ who interrogated me after midnight and with a board he kept on the table…”/ Testimony of Uran Kalakulla

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“When I refused to sign the indictment, the deputy head of the Durrës Internal Affairs Branch, Kapllan Sako, stood up to punch me in the face, but…”/ Testimony of the former political prisoner

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“I turned the shelter from the dictatorship era, which would protect us from the imaginary enemy, into a winery, where I produce wine, brandy and other drinks, because…”!/ The rare story of the famous sports doctor

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Memorie.al / To transform a place of refuge from the dictatorship into a winery, you must have an extraordinary imagination....

“When the wounded Kosta Gjordeni shouted; ‘communists, criminals, convicts H. Tabaku, L. Shkëmbi and N. Skrapari are approaching, but the barrage of weapons…”/ Memories of former prisoners of Qafë-Bar

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“In the cell of Region No. 2, I found two people, the younger one, Mihallaq Havaleja, from Tirana, the other Qemali, from Vlora, and from their gestures, I understood that they were…”/ Testimony of a former political prisoner

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“When the Prosecutor asked him if he had any message to leave, the convict replied: I have nothing, long live the Party, the Republic and Stalin. He judged me and sentenced me…”! / The last words of Koci Xoxe, before being shot, June 11, ’49

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“A room was improvised above the bathrooms, where all the new prisoners initially passed through that environment, where three times a day they were beaten by police officers, under the direction of the chief…”/ Memories of a former prisoner of Qafë-Bar