Authored by Petrit Latifi

In a document from the 1950s we can read of atrocities by Rankovic and the Yugoslav secret service comitted against Albanians of Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo.

“Recently, in Gjakove, the brothers Nazir aka Jahja Nimani were imprisoned together with their 60-year-old mother Gjyslyme, Ibrahim Luslliu, Sokol Ramadani, Ramadan Reka, Abdyl Bairami, Secretary of the Botush locality, Cun Ajdari, Chairman of the Kuqvan locality, Cun Sadrija, Secretary of the Rugova Locality, Rexhep Qerimi, Secretary of the Imernig Locality, etc.

The chairman of the agricultural cooperative in Ramoc, the 60-year-old Net Dauti, together with his sons Sali Nusa Dauti, former captain and Sadik Awan Dauti, lieutenant. It has been more than two years since Tito’s prisons, the patriot Lus Zeneli, have also been imprisoned. Arif Sadiku, ex-Chairman of Rini from Ligoveci, Vat Mirashi of the Trade Section in the Executive Committee of Gjakovo, Chief Nua Marku, Ismail Cena, Ded Lleshi, Fadil Ramadani, Qamil Hoxha and many others.

In the prisons of Rankovic in Macedonia, many patriots and Albanian Communists have been tortured for a long time. such as Sali Lisi, former Deputy Minister Abdyram Urugi, former Deputy of the Macedonian People’s Assembly, Vesel Hyseni, former chairman of the Executive Committee of the Gostivar District, Teki Aliti, former member of the Provincial Executive Committee of Skopje, professors Idris Selimi Shani Mina, middle school teacher Riza Shehu, etc.

During the massacres of Rankovic in Montenegro, many Albanian communists were also imprisoned, such as Marko Nicko, a fighter since 1941, Ibrahim Dema, former People’s Deputy, professor Nikoll Perkaj, Communists Zef Perkaj Kol Marko and many others. (11.5.1951).

In the basements of the U.D.B., Kosovar and Albanian sons of Macedonia, like Beqir Kuemari from Viladova, are barbarically trampled until crazy. Rankovic’s janissaries have unsheathed their swords and tortured the Albanian youth and masses in an inhuman way, such as Sami Pejen, a fighter against fascism, who was tortured and maimed in the extermination camps of the Gestapo, Naim Zajimit, Director of schools for the district of Gjakova, Ali Selmani, Brahim Hysenit together with his wife and mother, professor and patriot Kinush Lipavec, priest of the Catholic Church Ndon Pjeter Berishes, Jak Sules, Ndue Mark Koles (11.5.1950).

The masses of the Albanian people of Kosovo and Macedonia with revolvers behind their backs are recruited into labor brigades and sent to work in mines and moguls. In these camps, they guard in fear of a large number of spies and police and security officers who keep the Albanians in very bad living conditions, forcing them to work for more than 12 hours a day with only 250 grams of bread on such days are the camps in the chrome mines of Deva where more than 200 Albanians are concentrated, in the mines of Trepçe where 2000 people are concentrated, in the construction site of Deçan where there are 3 thousand Kosovar Albanian Macedonians. (11.5.1950).

Recently, the U.D.E. has arrested many citizens and villagers in the district of Gjakova, such as Vat Lirashin, Asan Ducin, Ismail Cenen and Avdyl Cenen, accusing them of being bureaucratic informants. In Gostivar, the U.D.B. deports the Ali Zajmi family, a total of 28 people, and the family of Ramadan Kalishti, 6 people accused of activity against Tito, also deported, and the family of Vesel Jashe, because a part of it escaped to Albania.

Especially in the border areas, a difficult regime has been created for Albanian villagers, they cannot move around without a permit and even many villagers who call them suspicious cannot go to the city. Tito’s clique has increased the military forces in this country. Recently, a group of officers of the Yugoslav General Staff headed by Colonel General Koca Popovic arrived in Pristina, who held a meeting with all the officers of this area. (15.7.1950).

Titoists are also selling the property of the Albanian people of Kosovo. The beautiful forests of this country are being cut down with the aim of sending the material to England and America. Only in the forests of Deçan are working sheds with hundreds of Albanian villagers. In the hills of Ulcinj, under the leadership of American engineers, works are being carried out for the opening of oil wells, which the Yugoslav government has given a concession to the Americans for three years. (15.VII.1950).”

Source

Arkivi i Ministrisë së Punëve të Brendshme (Ministry of Internal Affairs Archive of Albania).