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Shkruar nga Pamfleti
It can rarely happen that a person, in addition to his mother tongue, speaks five other languages, such as: English, Greek, Armenian, Turkish and Italian. In addition to his high military education, he was known for his deep sympathy for the champion country of democracy, the United States of America. This was Dino (Kostandin) Shani. The departure of the American mission from Tirana in November 1946, brought a heavy wave of arrests and beatings for the people who had been connected with this mission. His visitors, those Albanians who had no other purpose than sympathy for America, fell prey to an unusual barbarity of the security executioners.
The communist regime showed low brutality with them, as it massacred them, kept them in the interrogatories, executed them or imprisoned them for a long time. This was not enough, but together with him, in order to create the idea of a group, there were also people with whom he only did shopping, bought meat, onions, or grapes for consumption.
Dino Shan's death sentence
On 8.10.1946, Dino Shani was interrogated at the Directorate of the Military Prison in Tirana. He introduced himself as having been born in Istanbul, he was 36 years old, married, with complete education. He had started studying at the American elementary school (finished in 1929), the Technical School in Tirana and higher education, the military in Italy. At the time of Zog, Dino Shani, had been a lieutenant in the army, in 1937, he had fled for personal reasons. After a stay of 13 months in Italy and 8 months in Greece, he came to Albania on 15.3.1939, joining the ranks of the Albanian army again. This was influenced by the fact that Dino's father, Mihali, was the personal tailor of King Zog.
With the advent of the fascist regime, Dino remained an officer until 15.9.1939, when he was released "for health reasons". In December 1940, until March 1944, he worked as a clerk at the National Bank. So far, Dino Shani's life is going normally. As a pro-American, he was simply a visitor to the American mission in Albania. The other parts of the investigation are not publishable, as Dino rejected them during the trial, as untrue. On 31.10.1946, is his last interrogation. Then there will be a long silence, an unimaginable isolation.
Minutes for Dino Shani; Accusation and trial
Only on 31.3.1948, the Military Prosecutor's Office of Tirana would send to the Garrison Military Court, the indictments for the defendants, friends of Dino Shani.
The Military Court of Tirana, led by Captain I Abdyl Hakiu (chairman), Captain II, Shaban Rezha and candidate Thanas Hima, with the prosecutor, Captain Petrit Hakan, started the trial against a group that had been held for almost 2 years in the investigator:
1. Dino (Kostandin) Shani, son of Mihal and Andromaqi, born in Istanbul and living in Tirana, graduated from the technical school in Tirana, as well as the Military Academy in Modena, arrested on 27.9.1946. At the beginning of the process, he said: As far as I am accused, they are not true and I do not accept them. I don't accept the minutes, because I didn't do it myself, but I hardly signed it".
Dino rejected the prosecution's accusations that he was an "American agent", "leader of spies", etc. "I have sympathized with the Anglo-Americans, but not to become their spy" - claimed Shani. At the end of November 1944, he went to the American military mission.
On December 15, 1944, he met Captain Tomas Stefani in the mission, to whom he sent a cake for Christmas. "I sympathized with American democracy, as I grew up with that spirit," Shani declared. Such issues as agrarian reform, taxes, etc., he did not welcome.
2. Fori Vardhami, i biri i Golit dhe Poliksenit, 30 vjeç, lindur në Tërbuq të Tepelenës, banues në Tiranë, marangoz, arrestuar më 29.10.1946. Mohonte çdo akuzë, duke thënë që “nuk dinte fare nga këto”, që dëgjonte.
3. Xhafer Lika, i biri i Muharremit dhe Mihanes, vjeç 34, lindur në Tapizë, pemëshitës, arrestuar më 29.10.1946, deklaronte se; kishte nënshkruar procesverbale të hetuesisë, por as që dinte çfarë ishte shkruar aty.
4. Shyqyri Kodra, i biri i Aliut dhe Emines, 28 vjeç, lindur e banues në Tiranë, tregtar bulmeti, arrestuar më 29.10.1946, deklaronte se; nuk i pranonte akuzat dhe nuk e njihte proces-verbalin, pasi nuk ishte bërë prej tij. Deklaronte se nuk njihte as Fultz-in e, as gjërat e tjera që shkruheshin për të.
5. Telemak Dilo, i biri i Vasilit dhe Fotinës, 25 vjeç, lindur në Labovë të Tepelenës, me 6 klasë lice, arrestuar më 29.10.1946. Akuzohej se; kishte dekonspiruar edhe punën e ngarkuar nga Mbrojtja e Popullit.
6. Stefan Cara, i biri i Llukanit dhe Mides, 32 vjeç, lindur në Përmet dhe banues në Zherë, i arsimuar për shkenca ekonomike. Babanë ia kishin vrarë gjermanët, arrestuar më 28.10.1946. Deklaroi se; nuk e pranonte akuzën. Edhe ky nxirrte hetuesinë jashtë loje, pasi nuk i pranonte të tijat deklarimet e paraqitura.
7.Misto Vardhami, i biri i Golit dhe 32 vjeç, lindur në Tërbuq të Tepelenës, banues në Tiranë, marangoz, arrestuar më 29.10.1946.
Pretenca e prokurorit
“Është e nevojshme që t’ju vë në dukje jetën personale të të akuzuarit Dino Shani” niste akt-akuzën e tij, prokurori i çështjes. E kaluara normale e Dino Shanit merret në analizë sikur brenda saj, janë veprimtari shumta agjenturore. Kjo nga vitet e karrierës së tij ushtarake, në të cilat ishin përzierë edhe çështje personale e, deri te nëntori i vitit 1941, koha kur misioni ushtarak amerikan, u vendos në Tiranë, ku ishte takuar me Nick Cooky dhe Njohne Okof.
“Më dhjetor 1944, Dino Shani, shpie peshqeshin e parë në mision, një tortë me rastin e pashkëve dhe për këtë i jepet si kundra-dhuratë, një peshqesh 1.000 franga dhe një pako me cigare” – akuzonte për spiunazh prokurori. Dino, kishte shërbyer si “informator i paorganizuar” – thoshte prokurori. Pjesën më të madhe në aktakuzë, e zë Dino Shani, ndërsa tjerët akuzohen se ishin paguar prej tij për të dhënë informata.
Dënimi i shkallës së parë
Me vendimin nr. 221, datë 7.4.1948, gjykata dha dënimet si më poshtë:
1. Dino Shani, me vdekje, pushkatim.
2. Misto Vardhami e Telemak Dilo, me 10 vjet burg.
3. Shyqyri Kodra, me 7 vjet burg.
4. Xhafer Lika, me 5 vjet burg.
5. Fori Vardhami dhe Stefan Cara, me 3 vjet burg.
Me përjashtim të këtyre dy të fundit, të gjithëve iu konfiskohej pasuria, si dhe humbnin të drejtat politike në kohën e dënimit.
Dino (Kostandin) Shani
Letra e fundit
Mban datën 10.4.1948.
“Nuk kam pasur asnjë dijeni për organizatën e Sami Qeribashit” – shkruante Dino, në letrën drejtuar Gjykatës së Lartë Ushtarake, në të cilën vijonte të mohonte, se kishte shërbyer si informator i amerikanëve. “Nuk kam asnjë pasuri, jam martuar dhe kam jetuar duke punuar” – pohonte Dino.
Gjykata e Lartë
With decision no. 181, dated 21.4.1948, the Supreme Court, composed of Major Niko Ceta, First Captain Nexhat Hysen and Second Captain Mustafa Iljazit, with the Prosecutor First Captain Nevzat Hazdenari, changed the decisions for Telemak Dilo, sentencing him to 7 years in prison and for Shyqyri Kodra e Misto Vardham, to 5 years. He left the other decisions in force, taking final form.
Execution of Dino Shani
On 27.4.1948, Dino Shani was executed. In the presence of the prison commander, lieutenant Adem Skëndaj, the delegate of the Security, lieutenant Maqo Pecani and the military prosecutor captain Petrit Hakanit./Memorie.al
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