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9 minutes ago76 years from massacre in Tirana
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Today it is 74 years since the massacre in Tirana, where 84 anti-fascists were thought to be shot and 400 others were shut down in concentration camps. The February 4th operation, dubbed February 4, 1944, according to the issue “Bashkim”, which emerged a year after the event at the time of the regime [...]
The February 4th operation, dubbed the February 4th massacre of 1944, according to the number “Bashimi”, which emerged a year after the event, at the time of the communist regime, was an operation against the state authorities of the Albanian Kingdom in response to the assassinations that the communists had made political figures.
The February 4, 1944, massacre in Tirana has remained a puzzle about the motive and number of those killed.
Albanian historians still debate the event, as British time documentation of the first days of February 1944 also comes to the aid. In the code file HS 5/96, SOE military intelligence also has a paragraph for the February 4th event.
“Partisans continue to show signs of activity in the Tirana area where they believe the Nationalist Movement Central Committee is located. On February 3rd, an unsuccessful assassination reportedly took place in the life of Xhafer Deva, the interior minister and a prominent collborationist. 60 Partisans from Tirana prison are said to have been massacred as represse”, the British document says.
While only in 2015 would a secret letter be published in the media of a Communist Party leader Naho Spirou, who relates details about the terror and the attacks the communists had experienced in February 1944. His letter is addressed to Koci Joxes (Trace), Miladin Popovic (Ali) and Freedom Gega (Majik), and explains with a note at the top of the letter that was written by Enver Hoxha (Tarasi).
The one in the letter describes the February 4th event as a massacre but does not give the exact number of those killed. As he relates the names of some killed, Naho Spirou expresses concerns that this event can be repeated.
Yet, there is still no clear official explanation from the Albanian state for this event, but according to these facts there has been a real massacre against communists who had rebelled against King Zog's power in Albania.
