Site of Witness and Memory Skoder, Albania
Thunderstorm if you listen carefully
The tunnel – the arches symbolize handcuffs, the red, blood, and the cracks in the walls, broken bones and broken hearts.
Study Visit to Sites of Memory in Shkodra & Lezha 20 03 19
Finalists of Ask Your Grandparents 3 competition were awarded a study visit to sites of memory in Albania. From 18-21 March, they visited Spac Prison, Site of Witness & Memory in Shkodra, prison area in Lezha, Gjirokastra Castle, the prison inside the castle, Tepelena Internment Camp and BunkArt2. This video is a summary of the visit at the Site of Witness & Memory in Shkodra and in the former prison in Lezha.
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In Between? The Albanian-Montenegrin borderland
In Between? is an educational project started by European Network Remembrance and Solidarity in April 2016 and continued in 2017. The participants are given a unique opportunity to learn collecting and documenting oral stories. Gaining both interdisciplinary, theoretical knowledge and practical skills, they collect audio- and video recordings of individual historical narrations, as well as scans of domestic photography archives in order to share them with museums and historical archives. Read more at: enrs.eu/inbetween
In the study visit in Albanian-Montenegrin borderland in September 2017 participated Ljumi Bekjiri, Piotr Brzeski, Sara Gavran, Krystof Nerold, Florentina Qorri, Agnieszka Szajewska. The group was leaded by Małgorzata Czyżewska (ENRS), Pjerin Mirdita (local coordinator in Albania) and representatives of Youth Initiative for Human Rights (local coordination in Montenegro). The audiovisual documentation is avaiable to be used by museums, historical organisations and archives in educational purposes. Please contact us directly at office@enrs.eu for further information.
The project is organised by ENRS in cooperation with the strategic partners, including the National Film Library - Audiovisual Institute and the National Digital Archive. In Albanian-Montenegrin borderland we collaborated with Institute of the Integration of the Politically Persecuted in Albania, Institute for Democracy, Media and Culture (IDMC) in Albania, Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Tirana, University of Shkoder, The Site of Witness and Memory in Shkoder, Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Montenegro. In Between? project in 2017 was co-funded by the International Visegrad Fund.
ALBANIA: SITUATION UPDATE
Albanian/Nat
Albania's growing revolt crept closer to the capital Wednesday despite the appointment of a new prime minister from insurgent-held territory.
Militants distributed old rifles from a truck outside Fier, one of the few southern Albanian centers with a government presence.
And in Tirana, gangs apparently supporting embattled President Sali Berisha took guns from a vacated military academy.
As the conflict in Albania continued to spiral out of control, young men were seen emerging from the Albanian military academy in the capital Tirana, making off with weapons and ammunition.
Witnesses say the men were all supporters of President Sali Berisha and included some secret police.
According to sources conscripted military service ended last night.
The armoury doors were then apparently left open, enabling the now ex-government soldiers to help themselves.
This is the most dramatic incident reported so far in the capital as the unrest in the south spreads to the north.
In the south of the country, the rebels are consolidating their control on the towns they hold.
Rebel tanks patrolled the streets of Gjirokastra: a formidable show of strength by the insurgents, who, despite their chaotic formation, are now a relatively well-armed force.
This anti-aircraft gun on the road between Berat and Fier in southern Albania is also part of the armoury of weapons that the rebels have looted in recent days.
Except it has no ammunition.
The rebels are now deploying across the south.
Trucks like this can now be seen outside Fier, one of the few southern Albanian centers with a government presence.
About every kilometre they stop to off-load rebels by the side of the road -- some are manning checkpoints, some are simply dropped off with a rifle and a box of ammunition by the roadside.
There are signs that the rebels are becoming more organised. Eight rebel town councils met Tuesday in Gjirokastra to form an umbrella group.
Calling themselves the National Front for the Salvation of the People, the group says it must be part of the political negotiations in the capital, Tirana.
The umbrella group joins together rebel councils from the town of Berat to the port of Saranda.
It is not yet known whether the port of Vlora, the rebellion's starting point, is included in the group.
At a press conference in Saranda, the 55-year-old head of the Saranda rebels, Xhevat Kocin, set out the umbrella group's demands.
SOUNDBITE: (Albanian with simultaneous English translation)
We've asked these things. First, the immediate resignation and without any conditions of the President Sali Berisha. The creation of a coalition government. The declaration of the early parliamentary elections. We also have asked that in every talks in the round table between the political parties we, the representatives of the people, be a separate part.
SUPER CAPTION: Xhevat Kocin, head of Saranda Rebels and ex-army colonel
But the overwhelmingly chaotic nature of the uprising is leading to casualties.
In Kucove -- a town that fell Tuesday to the rebels -- locals held a rally demanding that the rebels turn their weapons in: many are becoming concerned by the number of accidents caused by young armed rebels.
One of the latest places the rebels have looted -- an army barracks outside Polican.
The medicines: all Chinese made. There are still uniforms scattered across the floor.
But the locals have taken the situation into their own hands here and have kept the door of this Kalashnikov factory firmly locked.
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Study Visit in Spaç Prison (19.03.19)
Finalists of Ask Your Grandparents 3 competition were awarded a study visit in sites of memory in Albania. From 18-21 March, they visited Spac Prison, Site of Witness and Memory in Shkodra, Gjirokastra Castle, the prison inside the castle and Tepelena Internment Camp, BunkArt2. This video is a summary of the visit in the former prison and forced labour camp of Spac.
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Albania - Reactions to Mother Teresa's funeral
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Albanians watched closely the emotional funeral of Mother Teresa on Saturday (13/09), not only because she was so well regarded for her work with the poor, but because she comes from Albania. For many, Mother Teresa was a local girl who did good and they want her back. Albanians feel outraged she was buried in her country of work, India, and that her body was not returned home for burial. The Albanian government, in a bid to pacify the nation, has said it is negotiating to bring Mother Teresa home.
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TIRANA, ALBANIA 13/09
pan of Albanian family watching tv coverage of Mother Teresa's funeral from their living room in Tirana;
cu tv screen with images from Mother Teresa's funeral;
ms of girl and young woman in family sitting on couch, watching screen;
SOT (in Italian) Eridona Sulaj, young girl in family: When Mother Teresa of Calcutta came here for the first time I was very lucky to meet her. When I met her my emotions were very strong;
cu photo of girl embracing Mother Teresa, holding a spray of flowers;
SOT continues, Eridona Sulaj: I say that she will remain in our hearts for always;
ms mother and father watching sadly from couch;
Ext. Tirana International Cultural Centre, where there is currently a homage to Mother Teresa;
SOT (in English) Prime Minister Fatos Nano outside cultural centre: I'm fully committed to and responsible to not only understand but make the government's best - the government of Albania - for having Mother Teresa as a mortal human being here, by her relatives, by her brothers and sisters of the same blood;
Int. cultural centre;
vs cus of old and new Mother Teresa stamps, issued in 1996 and specially reissued today in honor of the funeral;
SOT (in Albanian) Thoma Kalami, director of Albanian Postal Service: Albania is the first country that published stamps with Mother Teresa's face. Today is a special edition for her.
cu Mother Teresa stamps in stamp collecting book.
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Teacher risks her life for Albania's hidden children
(19 Oct 2016) Where most people and even police fear to set foot, Liljana Luani takes books, household supplies, and a lifetime of experience on how to help families marked for murder.
The 56-year-old school teacher from Shkodra in northern Albania uses her spare time to travel to remote hillside villages where children are trapped in a centuries-old tradition of blood feuds and hidden by their families.
The guard dogs recognise her and villagers barely react as she opens the metal gate and steps into a protected house.
But the sense of danger is constant.
Luani knows what she is doing is perilous but she thinks of her job not just as a profession but as a mission.
Speaking to The Associated Press in the home of a young boy hidden away to protect him from a vendetta after giving him a lesson in maths, grammar and the ancient Greek tale of The Odyssey, Luani said she was emotionally involved and couldn't bear to witness the children suffering.
She called in on the rundown house where a 40-year-old woman stays with her three teenage sons, aged 14 to 19. They use a small yard to grow vegetables, and keep chickens and a cow.
Neighbours and relatives provided some assistance, while Luani persuaded the power company to offer electricity at a discount.
The woman's husband is in jail for murder and the family is unaccustomed to visitors. The mother cried frequently, while the two older boys disappear into another room, apparently ashamed to admit they never leave the house.
Luani teaches her youngest son, in the hope it will help him escape the cycle of violence.
I believe that when people are educated they usually do not fall prey to the blood feud phenomenon, she said.
Much of her effort, Luani says, is now focused on trying to persuade mothers not to bring up their sons to continue the vendettas. She accompanies them to municipal classes to teach women basic cooking, hygiene and personal care skills.
While often related to criminal rivalry, generation-spanning feuds in Albania stem from an ancient code of conduct known as the Kanun, a detailed but primitive form of self-administration.
Typically only men are targeted or tasked to take revenge. But blood feuds, largely suppressed during communism, have been revived mainly in remote areas where the rule of law is perceived as weak.
Victims are typically pursued over years and eventually ambushed, gunned down in the street, in a country awash with unlicensed weapons.
Police don't report figures on the motives of murders, but revenge killings are blamed for dozens of deaths every year.
A cycle of reciprocal killings may be started from a number of causes, including murder, causing accidental death, land disputes, and making a grave false accusation.
Women are generally exempt from vendettas, allowing her to travel without being targeted or followed. But post-communist revenge murders have occasionally strayed from traditional rules and the male blood-line to include women, minors, multiple killings and the use of assassins.
Luani says she is still haunted by the memory of a teenage boy who insisted on attending school and was shot dead in an ambush.
For that reason, she doesn't give specifics about the victims she visits or why they are embroiled in blood feuds, because she's scared that they will be identified.
AP journalists also met with some blood feud targets who asked not to be identified for fear they would be found and killed.
On a typical weekday, she finishes classes, cooks at home for her family, and then sets off into what locals call the Accursed Mountains, steep and inhospitable, traveling by taxi van for up to an hour to reach the stranded children.
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Albanian genocide
Melody from Tonin Harapi - Kenge
This video contains testimonials made by third parts. No Albanian reports. No Serbian ones. Just independent ones (American, Hungarian, English, Austrian). It's just a small contribute to the memory of those thousands and tens of thousands of people who were slaughtered during the occupation of Kosovo from Serbia (in the autumn-winter of 1912). All the theories of Serbs claiming about Albanians forcing Serbs out of Kosovo is not based in anything. Not a single proof, not a single photograph or a report from an international witness. Everything forged in the kitchen of the maddest of nationalistic propaganda, which still nowadays feeds the conscience of Serbian people with the illusion of Kosovo as a genuine possession of Serbia, and tries to conceal the truth about 100 years of occupation, deportation, killings, forced poverty and extermination of Albanians from this region.
For more testimonials consult the book Balkan wars from Leon Trotsky.
Habib Malik's eye-witness account during fundraising Pakistan Floods 2010
Orchid Trip - Spring (with lyrics)
so isolated kiss the sun that brings you home
feel these words penetrating, on the shore he stands alone
so this wooden savior meets the waves crashing on
stars they shine the only witness
to bid farewell to this lands son...
he will find a way X 7 home
hey you will never break now hey you won't fade
hey they will never break you so far awaay
cold blood stained memories
of the ones he left behind
where is god in all his mercy
how could he be so blind
wake up boy
on your feet
one last fight
don't be weak
back and forth
side to side
electric sky
heaven cries
hey you will never break now hey you won't fade
hey they will never break you so far away
hey boy the winter's over
hey boy the spring is closer
hey boy your spirit will live on
breeze strokes the surface
not a cloud just dead calm sea
on the shore a body's lying
you may weep but now he's free
hey you will never break now hey you won't fade
hey they will never break you so far away
hey boy the winter's over
hey boy the spring is closer
hey boy your spirit will live on
AROUND THE WORLD without visas
You will not surprise anyone with around-the-world travel in the 21st century. People span the globe by land, water and air, on foot and by bicycles, alone and with their families. Generally speaking, any around the world travel is, in fact, a journey home with the longest detour.
Nonsense! Thus, around the world travelers are forced to think of new vehicles – from stilts to a children's scooter, or of new conceptual ideas.
Valery Shanin can not complain about lack of ideas. The professional traveler, writer and journalist, began his first circumnavigation back in 1999. He returned home only in 2002, traveling mostly hitchhiking. On the one hand, he has spent 1080 days for this travel. And on the other – only 280 dollars! This way having made one of the most economical circumnavigations.
Five years later, Valery Shanin had another idea. How about trying to circle the Earth as quickly as possible, by saving time instead of money? How many days would be necessary for this purpose? 108 – such is Valery's answer. After having returned home from such a high-speed expedition, Shanin decided, that the subject of circumnavigations was settled for him.
But how can the traveler stay still at home? And here, a new idea turned out! It came obviously from the former traveling experience, that was often connected with the burdensome procedure of obtaining visas. Communication with the embassy and consulate officials, unfortunately, inevitably saddens any most interesting travel. However, there are countries, visa-free for Russians! So, it is possible to go traveling, without addressing consulates. This is how the project The World without Visas was brought to life.
Valery decided to begin with no less, than with a circumnavigation.
Around the world without visas! - Shanin put forward the loud slogan, and left for Europe, Africa, Middle East, Indochina, South East Asia, Oceania, South America, Carribean islands. 38 countries in 255 days and with no one visit to any consulate.
Enver Sekiraqa bashkëpunon me policinë - Vizion Plus - News - Lajme
Enver Sekiraqa, nje nga njerëzit me te kërkuar te Kosovës nder vite e i arrestuar disa dite me pare, mund te behet dëshmitar bashkëpunues per veprimtaritë kriminale te Kosovës, pjese e te cilës ka qene edhe vete. Teksa rasti i tij po trajtohet nga autoritetet e EULEX, Sekiraqa po mbahet ne burgun e Dubraves, burg ne te cilin mbahen vetëm dëshmitarët e rasteve kyçe dhe bashkëpunuesit me drejtësinë. Sekiraqa pritet te tregoje ne mënyrë te veçante gjithçka di per policine e Kosovës dhe përvojën e tij si i burgosur ne nje kamp te UCK-së, e per kete mund te perfitoje ulje te dënimit. 39 vjeçari Enver Sekiraqa akuzohet si autor i vrasjes se policit Triumf Riza. Shkak per kete mendohet te jete nje konflikt mes Sekiraqes dhe Rizes, i nisur ne vitin 2006 ne nje kazino te Prishtinës per këngëtaren Adelina Ismajli. Ne ate kohe Sekiraqa njihej si udhëheqës i nje bande kriminelesh ndërsa Triumf Riza, i fejuari i këngëtares, ishte polic i forcave speciale te Kosovës. Pas sherrit ne 2006, Riza i ka shpëtuar shume atentateve deri atij ne 31 gusht te 2007. Sipas mediave vendase, Enver Sakiraqa, mbi te cilin rendojnë edhe shume vepra te tjera penale, eshte nje nga njerëzit me te afërt te zv. kryeministrit te Kosovës, Behxhet Pacolli, i cili ne kohen e vrasjes se policit Riza ne 2007 kur u akuzua Sekiraqa, kërkoi qe figura e tij te mos njolloset.
Enver Sekiraqa, one of the people wanted to Kosovo over the years and the arrested several days ago, could become a cooperative witness for the Kosovo criminal activities, part of which was himself. While his case is being handled by the authorities of EULEX, Sekiraqa being held in prison in Dubrava prison which held only key cases witnesses and collaborators of justice. Sekiraqa expected to demonstrate in particular the Kosovo all know the police and his experience as a prisoner in a KLA camp, this could be eligible for reduced sentences. 39-year-old Enver Sekiraqa charged as the author of the murder of the police officer Triumf Riza. The reason for this is thought to be a conflict between Sekiraqes and Riza, launched in 2006 in a casino to Pristina for singer Adelina Ismaili. At that time Sekiraqa known as the leader of a gang of criminals while Triumf Riza, the singer's husband, was Kosovo special forces officer. After a brawl in 2006, Riza has escaped many attacks to him on 31 August 2007. According to local media, Enver Sakiraqa, which exacerbate the many other offenses, is one of the people closest to vice. Prime Minister of Kosovo, Behgjet Pacolli, who at the time of the murder of police officer Riza in 2007 when charged Sekiraqa, asked that his figures are not soiled.
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Enver Hoxha | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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Enver Halil Hoxha (; Albanian: [ɛnˈvɛɾ ˈhɔdʒa] (listen); 16 October 1908 – 11 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who served as the head of state of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. He was chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania and commander-in-chief of the armed forces from 1944 until his death. He served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as foreign minister and defence minister as well.
Born in Gjirokastër in 1908, Hoxha became a teacher in grammar school in 1936. Following Italy's invasion of Albania, he entered into the Party of Labour of Albania at its creation in 1941. Hoxha was elected First Secretary in March 1943 at the age of 34. The Yugoslav Partisans assisted the Albanians. Less than two years after the liberation of the country, the monarchy was abolished, King Zog was deposed and Hoxha rose to power as the head of state of Albania.
During his 40-year-rule, he focused on rebuilding the country, which was left in ruins after World War II, building Albania's first railway line, raising the adult literacy rate from 5% to 98%, and leading Albania towards becoming agriculturally self-sufficient. However, detractors criticize him for a series of political repressions which included the establishment and use of forced labor camps, extrajudicial killings and executions that targeted and eliminated anti-communists, a large number of which was carried out by the Sigurimi secret police.
Hoxha's government was characterized by his proclaimed firm adherence to anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism from the mid-1970s onwards. After his break with Maoism in the 1976–1978 period, numerous Maoist parties around the world declared themselves Hoxhaist. The International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle) is the best-known association of these parties today.
Imzot George Frendo: Në shpirt ndihem shqiptar, mos e braktisni vendin!
Një ditë pas emërimit nga Ati i Shenjtë, Papa Françesku, Arqipeshkëvi i ri i Tiranë- Durrës, Imzot George Frendo, i cili në shpirt u deklarua shqiptar, ftesën e para ia drejtoi veçanërisht të rinjve për të mos braktisur vendin e tyre.
Ashtu si edhe paraardhësi, Imzot Rrok Mirdita, edhe ai do të ndjekë të njëjtën rrugë, të nxisë harmoninë mes besimeve fetare.
Nisur nga eksperienca personale, i rritur jetim dhe në varfëri, Imzot George Frendo kërkoi më shumë vëmendje ndaj pakicave siç është komuniteti rom dhe jetimëve e të pamundurve.
Përmes një mesazhi, Presidenti i Republikës Bujar Nishani në emër të qytetarëve shqiptarë uroi Imzot George Frendon për detyrën e arqipeshkëvit të ri të Tiranë Durrës, duke shprehur bindjen se nën kujdesin dhe drejtimin e tij, roli i Kishës Katolike do të vazhdojë të kontribuojë në forcimin e bashkëjetesës fetare.
ALBINA GJERGJI
Lëmshi
Referuar rrëfimit të Xhemal Meçit “Dëshmi për dhunën në kampin e Tepelenës”, “Koha Jonë”, 24 prill 2018
The wool ball
Story of Xhemal Meçi, “Witness of violence at the Camp of Tepelena”, “Koha Jonë” newspaper, April 24, 2018