Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of Wounds1948 A.M.) not only didn’t stop us, but they taught us andinspired us for this kind of job. In spite of the other tortures,we have used, during this period, even tortures like: hangingover the neck heavy chains; putting excrement into the mouth,biting a prisoner by another provoker prisoner, which wasmaking as a dog, putting dirty socks into the nose and themouth”.Kopi Niku declares: “K. Xoxe told us to kill, to burnand beat and to do whatever we wanted, the only aim wasdestroying the criminals. Torturing and thrashing was ourduty.”Koçi Xoxe- ex vice prime minister and minister ofInterior Affairs during the period 1945-1948, declaresin front of the court: “I ordered, that to the arrested shouldbe given less food, less water and should be tortured to death.In February of 1945, we ordered V. Koleci, for killing in theNorth without processes. For the executions I was advisedand they were made as comrade commander ordered. (it isunderstood Enver Hoxha). There has been even a bureaudecision about this. (Minute from the Koçi Xoxe sayingsin May 1949. taken from the book “The Dossier of Dictatorship”of Pjetër Pepa).1As cited by Lèon Poliakov,Totalitarizmat e Shekullit të XX, Botime Përpjekja, 1987, f.7.2Stanley Chodorow, Mac Gregory Knox, “ The Mainstream ofCivilization”.3Ibid4B.Fischer, “Shqipëria gjatë Luftës, 1939-1945",Çabej, 1999, f.208278