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Anthology of wounds - Arct

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<strong>Anthology</strong> <strong>of</strong> Woundsgave him a villa in Tefta Tashko road and a special pension.He died suddenly and people say that he is poisonedwith order <strong>of</strong> dictator to disappear a live archive<strong>of</strong> crimes.THE DEATH POLIGONSHow many people are accused in Albania during thedictatorship terror nobody knew exactly, but the placeswhere most <strong>of</strong> them are killed are known and called bythe people as the polygons <strong>of</strong> death. There are killedpeople kidnapped from the road in the periphery <strong>of</strong> thetowns. There are killed partisans from behind their back,on the sharp rocks and valleys and buried by the villagerswithout never known their names. There are killedinnocent persons, without any court decision, unregisteredin no list at all, the name <strong>of</strong> who turn up alive onthe civil status <strong>of</strong>fices, and nobody knows where theyare holed. There are killed citizens that tried to pass theborder and their bodies are burned by the commands<strong>of</strong> the border post <strong>of</strong>fices. There are executed peopleand they bodies are thrown in the abyss, where neverpass even the wild beasts. There are shot near the riversother citizens and their cadavers are thrown in seas orrivers. There are dead in the cells <strong>of</strong> the Security <strong>of</strong>ficesand prisons and their bodies without life are thrown inthe garages <strong>of</strong> the cities. During the years 1945-1948, inthe most <strong>of</strong> the cases the executions <strong>of</strong> the enemies weremade during the day, to frighten the citizens. So wereexecuted in Tirana and in the May 1945, in the sunlight,17 personalities <strong>of</strong> the Albanian government, in the placecalled Kodra e Priftit, near the porcelain factory inTirana. Two days before the execution, the municipal-118

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