The lawyer who signed Albania's independence but died in prison from the torture of communism

Many of the names and home figures that contributed and signed Albania's Declaration of Independence did not end as heroes.

Many were persecuted, imprisoned and killed by the communist system, accused of being traitors of the country.

The distorted history of Communism tried to wipe out their homelands and tarnish their name, but today the truth is out.

One of them was Shefqet Dajiu.

Dajiu was a lawyer, political activist, loving education, and an associate of the Declaration of Independence.

Dajiu was imprisoned by communist dictatorships along with his 21-year-old son as an enemy of his people, calling him a collborationist after defending Shefqet Bej Vllacin (the country's prime minister during the Italian occupation). He was sentenced to 30 years of freedom and died in prison”. Feriti was sentenced to 9 years in prison”.

During the Communist dictatorship, Shefqet Dajiu's family would experience much suffering. Feriti, his son who was arrested with him, was sentenced to nine years in prison, and his children were later denied education.

He was born in 1882 in Elbasan, where he carried out his first lessons at Turkish school “Idadee”. Later in 1905, he continued his studies in Istanbul for Justice. He returned to Albania and was appointed mayor in the towns of Skrapar and Pogradec. In 1910-1912 Shefqeti worked as a teacher in Debar, where he gave Albanian.

In Debar he runs the Normal School, where he also opened the Albanian branch along with the Turkish branch. In 1912 Shefqet Dajiu selects Elbasan's delegate to the Vlora National Assembly and is named second letter after Luigj Gurakuqi. He was one of the Independence firms who, along with Ismail Kemal, declared the country independent.

By 1914-1920 he worked as a lawyer in the city of Elbasan. In 1919 he published a <x0); Absare” in Albanian, and in 1938 he translated the book from Turkish. “CH is Qur'an”, also equipped with a passage.

After 1920, Shefqet Dajiu was deputy and represented the grouping of political forces in the city of Elbasan.

Co-operated with Alexander Xhuvan in cultural society “Literary garden” and the same title in this club's temporary magazine. In 1946 he died in prison, after a serious illness at 64 years of age. At the time of the dictatorship, all that belonged to Shefqet Dajiu's family was replaced, his eldest son Feriti was forced to work in the olive and then as a painter, while five Shefqet girls married some poor families and other prominent but intellectually persecuted by dictatorships. / COMM NICA. AL/