Dashnor Kaloçi
Part forty-six
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 Burrel Branch of Internal Affairs, with the conversations made in the prison of that city by the convicts: Muhamet Prodani, Vaskë Gjino, Todi Lubonja and Xhavit Qesja, which were uncovered by the interceptions with Operational Technicians
SOCIALIST PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA Secret
Ministry of Internal Affairs Copy no. 2
Branch of Internal Affairs Group II
Security Side Burrel, 23.7.1983
No. 33
Reproduction is prohibited!
Legend:
M – Muhamet Prodani
V – Gjino bath
T – Todi Lubonja
Xh – Xhavit Qesja
…………………………………… Clarifications of the Operational Worker, T. Operative
I N F O R M A T I O N
On running with T.O. of the anti-party convicts, Muhamet Prodani, Vaskë Gjino, Todi Lubonja and Xhavit Qesja, on 14.7.1983
M – And that’s the way it was.
V – How did it keep you warm, huh?
M – …….
T – You are riding one or the other hour you brother, the low level hour, the very low level!
M – Low level.
T – Terrible, this nation would pass, inevitable!
M – Ehhh, very low level!
V – Varja.
M – The first ones, immediately and the investigation was done.
T – Did they get it?
M – Yes them immediately in front of the people.
T – In front of the people, huh?
M – Yes Yes
T – So they terrified the people too!
M – They told the people who thought…!
T – How are these?
M – Otherwise, whoever talked to someone close to the Party does not hold….!
T – Did they say anything to you?
M – Yes, they said.
T – They said, huh?
M – But some were convicted and some were punished.
T – Hey more damn, you got the devil…!
V -… But did not Muhamet tell you, who made you commander of the First Brigade?
M – Me, no.
T – But they did not go…?
M – Mehmet of Mehmet Shehu and Fiqiret Shehu.
V – Hëëëë….!
M – This was the first mission?
T – Yes.
M – I told them, that I have t .the mother of Fiqireta and Mehmet….
T – Together?
V – Both, soy and sorollop.
M – They did not repeat me. “Relations with him”, they told me “after the liberation”, but I did not have relations with him, I told them.
V – What about no relationship?
M – Well, it came to me in ’72 for the New Year once and I went to it once or twice when his mother died, even this with friends.
T – It seems to me that then I was there in those days.
M – Ehhh…. yes, but I did not go home and they did not come to me.
T – Even did not insist anymore and did not last…?
V – Yes they know ore.
M – They are leaving that indictment, with his relationship….
T – They left it open, huh…?
M – Open.
V – And it remained unclear, huh?
T – But why, for Mehmet Shehu you fought, and …… Mr..
V – Did I say that they did not tell you that Mehmet Shehu proposed you to become a commander?
T – What about them we fought for us, under the shadow of the bayraktars?!
M – Yes,… They told me that you had an inseparable friend… Yes and you wanted to tell me. Yes, I loved him, I told him, yes, war comrade, I told him it was him, not only did I love him, but I helped him.
T – But you were not friends with Petrit Dumen yet, if you were not friends with him, you would have been a ballist at that time.
V – Yes, I said, how could you not have a friend Petrit Dumen who was the Chief of General Staff and Deputy Minister of National Defense and Commander of B. Politike?
M – They want to justify these, how I was hit, for these I am surprised.
V – Yes me, I got angry with him.
M – That they appointed me Mehmet’s deputy, when Beqiri was hit with Petrit Dumen.
T – So huh…?!
M – What an hour, they gave me that entire grudge; all the directors depended on me.
V – Not?
M – Yes.
V – What if you had grown up?!
M – Po si ore.
V – And then, when did you get four?
M – And then, we got involved with him, on the issue of why the Army is punished and taken out in black, on the issues of the Army’s readiness …then they told me, you will stay, where to go it .I do not know who even Kadri, Kadri said and this, how well (does not understand).
T – Shi… shi… shi…?!
M – He told me then, that you also removed the needles of tanks and cannons!
V – Ëëëë needles…?!
M – Yes, yes I told you that I do not know this job and this is a big offense done to the Army.
V – Yes, this is like what they said: you will become a coup yes so they had done it, they were telling me!
M – No, I do not know him yes I was told this even before he is not taking this seriously and we expected a lot of things yes he said: Army cadres, infected and I did not accept these!
T – And yes, this gossip raised your head then…You told the Party this, and why do not you say it?!
M – I told her everything.
T – Haaa, did you write them?
M – Yes, and I have even insisted and that I insist not only on my interest, but on the interest of society and the Party.
T – If you do not mind, she and in the first case of society and the Party.
M – And the prosecutor.
T – What if they did not give her hours?
M – All the letters I had with me were taken by the investigator.
T – Investigation?
M – Now
T – Shame on me, shame on me?!
M – Also from the Investigation, I put this…
T – Yes, you should have given it to him that you should know this, that without his approval, not a single hair moved Muhamet Prodan or man (laughs ironically).
M – He was also coming out with what has disformed the Party and I told them that with the slanders and fabrications by Mehmeti!
T – You said the same thing well and do not regret it at all.
M – Why should I regret it…?!
T – Yes, with this you have told the truth… !
Working T. Workshop
Ndue Sulejmani
1.8.1983
Document with biographical data of Xhavit Qeses, compiled by the Operational Worker, Maksim Çela
BIOGRAPHICAL CERTIFICATION
XHAVIT HAJDAR BAG
Xhavit is the son of Hajdari and Sabrija, born in 1922, born in the city of Kruja and today convicted as anti-party, of rich commercial background, married, has two children, with higher education, nationality and citizenship Albanian.
During Zog’s anti-popular regime, his family was linked to and supported by that regime, as his grandfather, Ismaili, was a great merchant and man of influence for that period. This family has friendly relations with Abaz Kupi, after Xhavit’s uncle married Abaz Kupi’s brother’s daughter.
During the Nazi-fascist occupation, during the National Liberation War, Xhavit’s family was involved in trade, while Xhavit himself was associated with the National Liberation Movement; he was a commissar of the Kruja-Ishëm battalion. After the liberation as a large trading family, part of their property was confiscated.
Xhaviti, after the liberation, held leading positions in the party, as the First Secretary of the Shkodra and Berat Party Committee. In 1956, he was arrested and convicted as an anti-party element.
Xhavit’s mother, Sabrija, is the sister of Hajdar Ferra from the city of Kruja, currently living in the city of Durrës, Sabrija and Hajdari have a second cousin Xhemal Ferra (Count Ferra) living in Italy.
Xhaviti has three brothers, Xhaferr Qesen, a member of the Party, living and working in the city of Durrës, Besim and Tuç Qesen, living and working in the city of Durrës, whose residence is not known to us. Xhavit’s uncles are Xhemal Qesja living in Ibë, Tirana, Haxhi Qesja living in Tirana, the first for extraordinary taxes, while the second for the tendency to flee abroad.
Xhavit’s first cousins are: Lutfi Qesja, resident in Kruja, worker, is registered in the contingent, Ibrahim Qesen, teacher in the villages of Laç, Agim and Ismail Qesen, resident in Kruja, worker, all identified in the contingent, maintain a good attitude. In the city of Tirana, there are two first cousins, Fadil and Gani Qesen, whose attitude is not known to us. He has second cousins Sabri, Haxhi, Fitnete Qesen, all members of the Party.
Xhavit was married to Neriban Nejdeni, from the city of Tirana, with whom he has two children; he separated at the time when Xhavit was convicted.
Biographical data were taken from the N.G.F.H. b.C. and was compiled by me./Memorie.al
OPERATIVE WORKSHOP
MAKSIM ÇELA
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