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Anthology of wounds - Arct

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AGIM MUSTA<strong>Anthology</strong> <strong>of</strong> WoundsHe was born in Gjirokastër in21.08.1930. He finished the elementaryschool in his hometown,and finished high school inTirana. He then graduated with adegree in Literature and Languagesfrom the High PedagogicInstitute. He worked as a historyteacher in Saranda, Kuçova andTirana for about a decade.In 1962, he was sentenced to a prison term <strong>of</strong> 13years from the Military Court for anticommunist activity.Agim Musta is a well-known scholar and serious researcher<strong>of</strong> the dictatorship period. He has published many<strong>of</strong> books that present harsh reality <strong>of</strong> the time <strong>of</strong> dictatorship.We can mention here “Alive files” 1944, “Who wasEnver Hoxha? “(as coo writer) 1996, “The State prisons”(Albanian-English) 2000, “The deeds <strong>of</strong> Communism inAlbania” 2001, and “It happened like this” 2003.We have chosen for this anthology a short, but veryimportant, description <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the cruelest people in theEnver Hoxha regime, who the author himself has giventhe nickname “Black General.” We have also chosen thearticle “The polygons <strong>of</strong> death” that describes a problemstill not seen in this book, the one <strong>of</strong> finding the siteswhere people were executed and killed during the dictatorshipsystem.111

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