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According to the data, in Autumn 1951, Unit no. 301 was transferred from Korça to Gosë, Kavaja to open the Peqin-Kavaja irrigation canal. It is mentioned that during this period, political convict Ram Halili was killed on 26 December 1951 while attempting to escape the camp. Halili had been serving his sentence for two years. At that same date, convict Hysen Mustafa is found dead from the mines.

Camp No. 2 convicts, who worked for the Peqin-Kavaja canal, was also moved to Gosë, which appears to be the center of the camp in March 1952. They worked there for a few months and then were moved to Çengelaj and Peqin in July-August.

Prisoners:

• Ahmet Bushati (Maj, 1951 )
• Ahmet Sadedin (Maj 1951)

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According to a record from 27 July 1954, provided in on the operative daily communication, it was required for Unit 301, Bulqiza that 515 prisoners work underground and 223 outside. As there were 732 prisoners, 400 were sent to work underground and 110 on the ground. To guard the convicts, a military personnel of 152 people was established here.

In 1969, a share of the prisoners classified as dangerous for committing serious crimes worked here.

In 1979, due to severe work conditions, it was reported that on 26 January 1979, a serious accident took the lives of nine prisoners, which is one of the most tragic accidents having occurred in this mine.

In 1980, there were 80 political convicts in Unit 301, Bulqiza.

There were multiple deaths not only in the mine, but also among the guards. Between the years 1954-1982, according to official statistics, 81 prisoners died in the mine of Bulqiza (Unit 301).

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To extract the chromium ore, a new re-education unit was opened, the Batër-Martanesh Camp.On 16 August 1975, works commenced, and after a few days, the first 70 ordinary prisoners were transferred to this camp.

The Batër-Martanesh Unit was numbered 301/1.At this time, Bulqiza’s Unit 301 continued operating.In 1976, the first year of the work, 382 prisoners were registered at this camp.The unit’s capacity was 600 prisoners, but this figure was frequently exceeded.In the years 1977-1983, there were on average 700-900 prisoners per year in the camp.

By Order no. 4 dated 06 January 1983, Unit 301/1 Batër was renamed as “Unit 301, Batër”.Some prisoners were transferred there from Camp 301, Bulqiza, which was closed.In 1984, the new figure of convicts was 739, but by that year’s end, it reaches 912.According to the report dated 12 April 1984, 523 convicts worked in this unit with three shifts in five galleries.This unit was closed in 1991 after the fall of the communist regime.

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Ten ha of agricultural land were available to the school for the minors’ engagement in labour. Even after this unit (Re-education School) became operational, the previous prison of Unit 302 was not completely emptied. In 1987, 39 ordinary convicts and 36 children worked at this unit. In 1989, this school had 104 children in for re-education.

Facing the new conditions in the country after 1990, on 13 April 1991, the re-education school was transferred to Lezha forestry state enterprise.

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Unit 305/1 Përparim had a capacity of 515 people.  In the beginning of 1978, there were 506 and by the end of that year, 550 ordinary convicts.There were only two political convicts among them.

In April 1982, by request of the Executive Committee of the Saranda District’s Party Committee, 200 convicts from that camp were moved to the Limion Neighbourhood of Saranda to construct apartments.

In 1984, Unit 305 worked for the arboriculture area in Lukovë, and an autonomous unit worked to construct apartments in Saranda.

A record from 1987 mentions that there were 235 political and 928 ordinary convicts here.In 1988, 227 political convicts and 976 ordinary convicts worked here.

On 15 May 1990, the command numbered 87 political convicts (of which 3 emigrants).

This was the camp where Sami Dangëllia died on 23 April 1987, who had been sentenced to 38 years in prison and five years of internment.On 13 January 1989, at the age of 67, Catholic priest Pjetër Palok Gjeloshi died paralyzed at this camp. He had been convicted three times.

Prisoners:

• Gjergj Ndreca
•  Ilir Dibra
• Muhamet Pojani
• Hysen Sheshori
• Sotir Qiriazati
• Qani Sadiku
•  Bujar Sala
• Vladimir Xhelo
• Vladimir Balluku
• Sami Dangëllia
• Pjetër Palok Gjeloshi

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In 1956, 700 convicts worked in the unit. In 1957, there were 566 political convicts in the camp and not a single ordinary one.That’s the time ordinary prisoners come too.

According to a report dated 2 April 1958, there were 527 prisoners in the Tërbuf Camp, divided into five work brigades and 3 prison cells. “The camp is entirely made of enemy and dangerous elements, who had started a wide enemy activity such as organization, escape attempt, propaganda etc,” – the report states.

It is understood by one of the 1957 records that there were also seven Greeks, 18 Yugoslavs and 24 women at this camp.

In June 1958, the works on the drying of the swamp finished. This was why the camp’s transfer was requested.

Prisoners

• • Refat Çaushaj
  • Agim Vrioni
  • Kapo Leka
  •  Mark Gjon Nikolli
  •  Musa Koshena
  •  Qani Dervishi
  • Sabaudin Resuli
  • Gjon Përjaku
  • Abdurrahman Leka
  • Ndoc Naraçi

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By decree of the Minister of Internal Affairs, in August 1958 the camp was moved to Gjorm, Kruja, to continue drying the swamp.

In the autumn of 1958, the unit was in Thumanë.Ordinary convicts had been transferred to Tirana.

In 1958, 540 political convicts worked there and not a single ordinary one.

According to 1952 data, 742 convicts worked in the camp.

Meanwhile, in 1960 there were few records mentioning 642 prisoners, all political, of which five were foreign.

Convict Mark Alija testifies:

“In 1958, the Tërbuf Camp was moved to Thumanë. There were around 700 political convicts in the camp. A canal was built from Ishëm River’s mouth to Shullaz completely by political prisoners Everything was done by wheelbarrows, spades and shovels.

There was non-stop rain, so much so that the convicts would tell each other jokingly:“ Even God has taken ‘their’ side!” We would take the soil by hands from a hill and transport it by wheelbarrows to the embankment.

The barracks were located in Thumanë. From the barrack to the workplace, we had to walk for five kilometers and another five to come back. We left the barracks at 06:00, walked for an hour and a half and started working. We ended at 03:00 pm and did another hour and a half to return. Usually, in rain and on mud.

Hygiene conditions were so bad that it was surprising that there was no cholera outbreak. We were in the worst of conditions. There was no water to wash clothes. Even in the canal, when there was water, if they found us washing clothes, they would put us in the cell for three days for being out of order. Imagine, we couldn’t even use the canal water. There was no bathroom. We couldn’t have a shower or anything. We had the ground for a toilet. Imagine 700 people and no toilets…”

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The railway to which this unit’s prisoners also contributed was the 30 km long Vorë-Laç railway, which was inaugurated on 1 May 1963.

In 1961, it was reported that there were around 600 prisoners working.

Some of the prisoners

• Mark Frrok Nikolla
• Latif Hamja
•  Nikoll Syziu

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