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Extinguishes Gëzim The key to Spaç's revolt, his legacy: Remember what happened!

Politiko 2024-07-23 15:30:12

Extinguishes Gëzim The key to Spaç's revolt, his legacy:

Today, Gëzim Çela, a smiling man, who experienced an ordeal of trauma and pain, died. He was 22 years old when he was arrested for the "crime of treason" through an escape attempt on October 1, 1957. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In 1971, he was again sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment, on the charge of "agitation and propaganda against the government."

He was re-sentenced for the second time, for participating in the Spaç revolt, with 12 years of imprisonment. He entered Spaçi prison in 1971 and was released in 1984. He was among the first to request the opening of his file in AIDSSH.

His life in the Spaçi prison labor camp was accompanied by the humane gesture of a great artist, like Vaçe Zela. Her guitar was a comforting gift, and as the new light shone upon Terri, it helped her survive. In the sounds of that guitar, Joy and others resisted and revolted. Fate had to be re-sentenced, but escaped the death penalty.

Friend of the Authority, on the occasion of Spaç's 50th anniversary, in May 2023, Gëzim Çela left his testimony on life and the revolt.

Joy came from a family that the regime branded with bad biography since he was 15 years old. Completely innocent, his scholarship was taken away and no one hired him. Escape was his only hope, but from the dream of freedom he ended up as an investigator. The young political prisoner built Rinas, opened the irrigation canals in Thuman, etc., worked in the mines, and then ended up in Spaçi, a witness and sufferer of unpaid hard work, dangerous, violence, bad life as in hygiene and food.

He left this message for the Information Authority on the former State Security Documents 1944-1991: "With all the efforts that are made every day, sometimes left, sometimes right, we are still left with that old system. It is in the interest of the state and our society to base the past on facts, documents, places of memory such as Spaçi. The Spaç prison is a monument that would serve the history of humanity. Cultural monuments that belong to the system of suffering people in the communist system, such as concentration camps, prisons, should be preserved and serve to remember what was possible."

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