Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of Woundsthe register of the Institute of Integration of Former PoliticalPersecuted, Tirana, there were executed 2386 personsby the ACP and partisan forces during the periodof December 1941 - November 1944.In “History of Prisons of Albania” facts are includedon massacres of partisan forces in villages of Lushnje(62 victims), Martanesh (22 victims), Diber (103 victims),Lume (24 victims), Moker (75 victims) during 1943-44.Declarations of ocular witnesses have revealed that torturehas been used with the main aim of acquiring information.The establishment of the proletarian dictatorship’sstate: November 1944 - August 1948During this period, the terror against real and possibleopponents of the regime continued. There wereused instruments of massive terror including executions,internally exile and imprisonments. 2102 persons havebeen executed during this period. 5 In 01.03.1945 themilitary court gave 17 capital condemns; 8 life imprisonments;10 condemns with 30 years imprisonment; 23condemns with 2-20 years imprisonments. The capitalcondemns given by Nuremberg court were 10, whileby the Albanian court 17. 6Torture has been used for catching the escapees, disarmingthe population and eliminating any resistanceagainst the dictatorship establishment. Torture has beenalso used for gathering extraordinary taxes, gold and/or other goods merchants had. Torture was used evenfor gathering the taxes of agrarian products.In order to eliminate the resistance of democraticpoliticians many political trials were held. Beside pun-267