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News analysis: Questions abound as interior minister sacked

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Kadri Hazbiu, an interior minister in communist Albania, was executed in 1983 after being sacked. Hazbiu had been the longest serving interior minister during the dictatorship period – a champion of success and undying loyalty for the communist dictator. He was executed in a purge as part of an alleged international effort to eliminate Enver Hoxha, the communist dictator, through a deal with American, Russian and Yugoslav secret services. At least that was the official explanation. The regime believed in an unwritten rule that it never violated: The public needed to be clear about why something had happened – it…

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