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E enjte, 7 dhjetor 2017
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                                                                    ENGLISH EDITION

                                      Rare confession of Vito Kapo






       Published by Independent
       Balkan News Agency ltd.
       Daily newspaper, from Monday             he wife of the clos
       to Friday                                est and most          How did I become Enver
       Adress: P.O Box No. 86,           Ttrusted man of the
       Tirana - Albania                  former dictator, Enver
       Tel:   +355 4 4325539             Hoxha, Hysni Kapo, who
                                         now lives in a modest
       Email: [email protected]                                         Hoxha's first secretary
                                         home, comes with this rare
       Social networks:                  interview for Albanian Free
                                         Press. An interesting con-
              www.twitter.com/afp_al     fession of the life of Vito
                                         Kapo's life. Kapo was
              www.facebook.com/afp.al
                                         former President of the
                                         Union of Albanian Women
       Founder: Spyridon Sideris
       [email protected]                    for 34 years in a row and
       Editor in Chief: Edison Kurani    former minister of the Light
       [email protected]              Industry. But, now, she
       Marketing:                        lives in the ground floor of
       [email protected]                  a former institute of re-
       Tel: +355 4 4325539               search. At a very young
       Cel: +355 67 20 66797
       DIstribution Manager:             age, Vito Kapo has partici-
       Auron Çava                        pated in the National-Lib-
       [email protected]               eration Army, where she
       Cel: +355 67 20 66798             was acquainted with Hysni
       Deputy Editor in Chief &          Kapo, that she later mar-
       Business Affairs:                 ried. Everything on the
       Eglantina Nasi                    former MP who served dur-
       [email protected]
       Health & Society:                 ing several mandates of
       Sonila Isaku                      the communist Parlia-
       [email protected]               ment…
       Culture & Showbiz:
       Juela Meçani                       Prepared exclusively for       National Liberation             What is your opinion?            always be people who will
       [email protected]                Albanian Free Press by         Army, going as far as              It's well known that the      throw mud. Nobody can
       Sport:                                  Albert Z. Zholi           claiming that no war has        Albanian Quisling govern-        deny the role of Enver
       Aranit Muraçi                                                     been done. What is your         ment had four frontists in it.   Hoxha in the war. Enver
       [email protected]
       Online newsroom:                     Vito Kapo's apartment        opinion on this war?            But, can you tell me what        Hoxha was a visionary
       Alket Aliu - [email protected]    is situated in a three storey      I have also heard such       the National Front's military    leader, who never slept in
       Luan Kondi - [email protected]    building in the "21 Dhjetori"   debates on television and       formations were? How             his tent. The tent received
       Florian Çuni - [email protected]  quarter in Tirana. As soon    I have also read on the         many brigades or battal-         couriers from many regions
       English Edition:                  as one goes in, one imme-       press. I read them, but I       ions did it have? Where          of Albania, bringing fresh
       Erdi Ibro                         diately notices the brown       cannot believe my very          have they fought? What are       information there. Enver
       [email protected]                    book shelves, which con-        own eyes. It's a real night-    their historical battles?        gathered this information
       Literary editor:
       Nevila Zeneli                     tain around 1500 books          mare. The National Libera-      Where have they fought?          and offered his recommen-
       [email protected]              published during the com-       tion War is the most heroic     What are their historical        dations. Nobody ever slept
       Design & Layout:                  munist regime, but also         war of the Albanian people.     battles? Where have their        in that tent. Of course, Enver
       Xhorxh Malo                       books published in the          It is the most organized war    martyrs fallen? I can say        could not participate in ev-
       [email protected]                     present days. She stands        and the biggest one in all      that during the war, many of     ery battle, but he fought ev-
       Web development:                  up and shakes our hand,         of its history. I am not the    them who were disap-             ery time the General Staff
       Avin Studio                       inviting us in. Somewhere       only one to say it. This was    pointed by the National          was under siege, along with
       [email protected]
                                         in the living room, we see      also written by ally repre-     Front, joined partisan           other partisans. All over the
       Albanian Free Press columnists    a picture of Hysni Kapo with    sentatives who have been        forces. They were many of        world, war leaders are not
       (In alphabetical order)           Vito Kapo taken in 1970 in      here during the war. The        them. But, I can also say        directly involved in fights.
       Alfred Peza                       Dhermi; on the left there's     war has also been praised       what the great Dritero           Stalin, Churchill or Hitler
       Apollon Baçe                      a family photo, on the right    by the former Soviet Union.     Agolli said: I have never        have not been involved.
       Edison Ypi                        there's a photo of Alqi            But, today, National         heard a song about               Leaders have another role,
       Eduart Zaloshnja                  Kondi, Vito's brother. With     Front Party is throwing         frontists fighting in the war.   they are not soldiers. In such
       Frrok Çupi                        grey hair and a pure and        mud on the war claiming                                          wars, leaders are well pro-
       Plator Nesturi                    soft skin, she speaks           that "the partisans didn't         Another debate is the         tected, because if the
       Roland Qafoku                     slowly, answering all the       fight", "partisans only         debate on the role of            leader is caught or killed,
       Skënder Minxhozi                  questions that addressed        had a few rifles" or that       Enver Hoxha in the war.          then the war ends. These
       Sokol Balla                       her without making any mis-     "invading forces only           They say that he has             are war rules. On the other
       Sonila Meço
                                         takes, despite her age.         passed in the country".         never fired a gun during         hand, when I hear people
         To subscribe at Albanian                                        It's even said that the         the war and that he has          making comparisons be-
            Free Press  please              Comrade Vito, the            National Front has              not been among the               tween Enver and Hitler, I am
         contact: [email protected]         press and TV often make         fought against invaders         leaders of this war.             disgusted. This is a ground-
          or www.afp.al/abonime          allegations about the           as much as partisans.              (She smiles). There will      less comparison.
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