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29 Nëntori Farm Camp, Plug, Lushnja

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Emri Plug Camp
Vendndodhja: Plug, Lushnja
Viti i Ndërtimit: 1950
Viti i Mbylljes: 1953
Burimi i Informacionit: Burgjet dhe kampet e Shqipërisë komuniste, Kastriot Dervishi

The 29 Nëntori Farm Camp in Plug, Lushnja, was formed in 1950 as an enclosed camp.

In summer 1951, Greek immigrants were taken here. They were exploited for forced labour in agriculture. Plug had been chosen as an appropriate concentration site, where checks were performed more easily. Other prison convicts started to come here, gradually populating the camp with a large majority of Albanian prisoners, whereas the Greeks became a small minority.

In 1953, internees from barbed-wire camps, which were closed by law, were taken there, but the internees continued to be surrounded by barbed wire as prisoners worked at this camp too. Until 1955, it operated as an internment camp.

*During their stay in Plug, 2 Greek monarchic-fascists died without leaving any trace. They stayed at the first sector of the 29 Nëntori Farm. In a notification from the Lushnja Directorate of Internal Affairs dated 20 January 1956, it was said that there was no certain knowledge on their bodies or whereabouts.

As Albanian prisoners were joined with the Greeks ones, a group of 500 convicted labourers was created. Here, prisoners performed works such as cultivation and opening irrigation canals etc. At the Plug field, the camp operated until November 1953.

*Lieutenant Besnik Çomo was commissar. The camp’s operative worker called Mantho, according to a report dated 7 June 1952, tortured, robbed and stole from “monarchic-fascists”, whereas he had also tried to rape a woman.

Later on, the internment camp would eventually be called an internment site and continued so until the fall of the communist regime. The internees were not isoalted but appeared on roll call and had to get authorization to leave the locality.