Former politically persecuted want assistance to find their dead brethren

SHKODRA, Aug 31 – The former politically persecuted called on the government to help them find the bones of some 4,000 executed and dead brethren.
Besim Ndregjoni of their association called on the government to assist them find the bones of some 4,000 still disappeared and executed persons, “Ƣecause only like that our society may go ahead.”
Almost two decades after the fall of communism the former politically persecuted said they had still to find the bones of their family members executed by the former communist regime.
They recently made some efforts to find some of their murdered brethren in the Kuc village in northern Shkodra district looking for the bones of two men who were executed for opposing the communist regime. They failed.
They were executed after a protest of the imprisoned in Qafe Bari, Puka district in 1984 when some 700 prisoners held a protest against violence of the regime. The two killed men were the initiators of the protest.
Some 100,000 Albanians were politically persecuted by the four-and-a-half decade communist regime after the World War II. Some thousands were executed, more imprisoned and even more sent to internment camps, usually in far remote areas where it was hard for them to survive.