New Remains Discovered in Albania Mass Grave

Tirana | 08 February 2010 | By Gjergj Erebara

New remains found at Barracks 313

Criminologists probing a communist execution site find new remains, while Albania’s prime minister describes the discovery as “shocking” and calls for the creation of an institute that will seek to find the graves of thousands of others still missing.Prosecutors and criminologists discovered on Tuesday a part of another human skull in an Albanian communist mass grave site, where the remains of 19 people have so far been found.

According to a classified document obtained by Balkan Insight, which gives a list of people executed at the site, over thirty victims killed by the state in the mid-seventies are believed to have been buried there. The site is a former army base known as Barracks 313.

The mass grave was discovered by a local man who led a nearly two decade search for the remains of his father, executed by the regime in 1976. On Saturday he turned the remains over to Tirana’s city morgue after several months of digging in the mass grave site.

Following the publication of his story by Balkan Insight, the authorities have launched a probe to identify the victims and recover other remains from the area.

List of people execued at Barracks 313

Albania is one of the few former Iron Curtain countries not to have opened the archives of its communist-era security services. As a result, precise data on the number of political prisoners killed by the regime is not available.

However, the country’s association of former political prisoners believes that 5,577 men and 450 women were executed under communist rule from 1946 to 1991.

Almost two decades after the regime collapsed, thousands of relatives of executed political prisoners are still wondering where the bodies of their loved-ones lie.

Reacting to the publication of the story, which has received ample coverage in the local broadcast media, Prime Minister Sali Berisha called the investigation “shocking, touching to the depths of the human soul and consciousness.”

Speaking to MPs from his centre-right Democratic Party, the Albanian premier called for the creation of an institute of national memory, modeled after a similar institution created in the Czech Republic that deals with communist crimes.

“In parliament we have a bill for the creation of an institute of national memory,” Berisha told MPs. “Please review this bill and advance the creation of this institute, which aims to shed light on all the barbarity of communist crimes,” he added.

According to the Albanian premier, such an institute would help the country move forward from one of its darkest periods, the Stalinist regime of former dictator Enver Hoxha.

“The creation of an institution, a task-force to find the graves of those fallen for freedom and human dignity, for faith in god and country, is necessary,” Berisha underlined.

To read more about the investigation, see: Son’s Search For Father Uncovers Albanian Mass Grave

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/25676/

Kommentar: Die Entdeckung gelang, weil durch die starken Regenfälle im Winter, sich überall im Lande Erdrutsche ereignenten und Überschwemmungen. Man wird versuchen mittels DNA die Ermordeten zu ermitteln. Es wird vermutet, das es sich um diese ermordeten Minister und Direktoren handelt!

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