Persons killed and missing during escapes in the years 1988-1991

FEBRUARY 20 1991
FEBRUARY 20, 1991 The fall of Enver Hoxha’s statue in February 20, 1991 is undoubtedly one of the most prominent events that led to the total decline of the communist …
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THE REVOLTS
The revolt of Spaç started on May 21, 1973 as an opposition to some of the rules, it was just a trigger for a deep and meaningful opposition against the …
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THE DICTATOR AND HIS CHILDREN
Enver Hoxha was the communist leader of Albania from 1944 until 1985, and the First Secretary of the Labour Party of Albania. He was the leader of the Democratic Front …
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FORCED LABOR & WORKS
FORCED LABOR & The building construction During the 50 years under the communist dictatorship, Albanians were sentenced with 914,000 years of prison and 256,146 years in internment camps. Political prisoners …
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SELF-ISOLATION
Communist dictatorship isolated Albania from the world by barbed and wires, soldiers and border dog wanting to hide the truth about oppression on political imprisonment, and that the world believed …
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RELIGION
Communism viewed religion as the biggest obstacle for the new communist order because of the “principles of forgiveness, universal love, compassion and the concept of nonresistance were the exact opposites …
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ARTISTS (Condemned & Interned)
Dictatorship condemned art as a political enemy! In the Communist Albania political rivals and war traitors were not the only ones that were sentenced but also writers, artists, books, readers, …
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WOMEN (sentenced & interned)
Were women sentenced? Albanian communist state did not sentence only men, but also women and even children were condemned from birth and grew up in internment camps. Dozens of women …
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TORTURES
The definition of torture according to the UN Convention: TORTURES The definition of torture according to the UN Convention: “Torture is any act by which severe pain of suffering, whether …
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