Memorials for victims of political persecution planned

TIRANA, July 18 – Head of the Former Politically Persecuted Association Besim Ndregjoni said that memorial placates would be set all over the country in the places where people were persecuted or executed by the former communist regime.
The association wants to set an obelisk at the center of Tirana, at the place where the monument of the former communist dictator Enver Hoxha was toppled in 1992.
The association says that the communist regime executed for political reasons 6,178 persons and persecuted up to 100,000 sending them to remote villages or in prison.
The association also repeated the call that the files of the former communist secret police should be opened.
Albania is likely the last country in former Eastern Europe that has not opened such files.
The government also seems to have decided to turn the Spac former prison, a symbol of the communist persecution, into a museum.