AIDSSH today opened the archive fund of the Petroleum Insurance Branch and holds a symposium in honor of the memory, work and knowledge that this sector inherits thanks to their unconditional service to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why was the communist regime unable to control state violence and the abuse of the rights of these precious people, who kept such an important sector afloat to overcome the economic blockade?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dictatorship without violence is unstable. The history of the communist regime began like this: Whoever should order, should also punish. Oil production plans were no longer drawn up by scientific calculations, but were negotiated by the Government \u2013 Politburo and Party Congresses. The figures were inflated like Enverist dogma with the slogan: \u201cAlbania sails on oil.\u201d, at a time when scientists claimed \u201cAlbania is an oil-rich country.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The clash between propaganda and science produced a desperate result both for the human lives lost, and for the most profitable oil sector in the country\u2019s economy, a successful but unstable sector, which after the elite\u2019s blows only suffered a decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Propaganda did not recognize the technical condition of ineffective drilling in the multitude of open wells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through the opening of the documentary archive and their study by experts in history and geological science, we today provide an irreplaceable contribution to illuminating the dark recesses of the State Security, which with its infamous investigations, persecutions and executions shamed every human feeling and put the development of the oil sector in Albania to a standstill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First they destroyed the man, then the scientist, the family and as in a chain reaction they damaged the economy and deepened the isolation of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We reveal the unsaid things, the bright figures of this sector to show society that they have left us a documentary, scientific wealth in the field of oil exploration on which, in the new conditions, today's society is capable of building successful economic programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prominent Polish geologist Stanislav Zuber, who died from torture in the communist inquisition in 1947, left us a geological and tectonic map of Albania, which is still used today by local geologists. He designed wells in Ku\u00e7ova and managed to extract industrial oil from the sandy areas. Riza Alizoti and Thoma Pojani, restored the Ku\u00e7ova oilfield to operation. The two small oil refineries, both suffered a tragic fate, as \u201csaboteurs and agents of the Americans\u201d, by hanging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The author of the extraordinarily valuable discoveries of new oil fields in Visoka, Patos, Ballsh, Gorisht, from which 2 million tons of oil were extracted in 1970, Ko\u00e7o Plaku, and his colleagues Milto Gjikopulli, Beqir Aliaj, Protoko Murati, Dhimit\u00ebr Stefa, Jani Konomi, Academician Teki Bi\u00e7oku, Kadri Rama, Nuredin Skrapari, Thanas Nasto, Niko Goxhobashi, were arrested and sentenced as saboteurs on March 25, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ko\u00e7o Plaku and Milto Gjikopulli were sentenced to death. The unbridled hatred of the dogma did not stop even with the disappearance of their bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Petraq Xha\u00e7ka, Enriko Veizi, Mynyr Arapi, Petrit Sadushi and Luan K\u00eblli\u00e7i, all with scientific degrees, were arrested in 1986 as the third hostile group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite their qualifications and expertise, these technical professionals were essentially completely apolitical, not part of the regime\u2019s elite loyalists. The lack of accountability and transparency, the culture of fear and intimidation, the prioritization of productivity over workers\u2019 rights, and the absence of effective legal mechanisms \u2013 all of these created the conditions in which their abuse could occur with impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From this tragic story, we learn that a sustainable balance between economic productivity and the protection of workers\u2019 rights requires democratic processes, accountability, and independent oversight. Economic development should never come at the expense of people\u2019s fundamental rights, but should aim to achieve it in a balanced manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, we honor the memory of these engineers as unsung heroes, who sacrificed everything to keep a key sector of the national economy afloat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They will go down in history as men of progress. Their courage to challenge the brutal machinery of state security, both in the courtroom and before death, will serve generations above all in the moral sphere and in the consolidation of freedom of thought, free from fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us learn lessons from this history, and commit ourselves to ensuring that such a tragedy never happens again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*<\/strong>Fjala e kryetares s\u00eb AIDSSH-s\u00eb,\u00a0 Dr.Gentiana Sula, n\u00eb\u00a0 DSimpoziumin shkencor: \u201cEksplorimi dhe Zhvillimi i sektorit t\u00eb naft\u00ebs n\u00ebn kontrollin e Sigurimit t\u00eb Shtetit 1944-1991\u201d,\u00a0Tiran\u00eb 3. 07. 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AIDSSH \u00e7eli sot fondin arkivor t\u00eb Deg\u00ebs s\u00eb Sigurimit Naft\u00ebs dhe mban nj\u00eb simpozium n\u00eb nderim t\u00eb kujtimit, pun\u00ebs dhe dijes q\u00eb trash\u00ebgon ky sektor fal\u00eb sh\u00ebrbimit pakushte t\u00eb tyre ndaj vendit. P\u00ebrse regjimi komunist nuk qe n\u00eb gjendje t\u00eb kontrollonte dhun\u00ebn shtet\u00ebrore dhe abuzimin e t\u00eb drejtave t\u00eb k\u00ebtyre njer\u00ebzve t\u00eb \u00e7muar, q\u00eb mbanin n\u00eb […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fjalimet-e-kryetares"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}