Results across collections

These instructions issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1980 and 1987 document how the communist regime institutionalized and implemented various forms of administrative control and repression. They reveal the procedures governing internment and deportation, preventive measures, and mechanisms for monitoring activities considered hostile to the regime.

Drita Çomo was the daughter of Liri Belishova and Maqo Çomo, former high-ranking officials of the Party of Labour of Albania who, in the 1960s, were removed from their political and state positions and subsequently sentenced to imprisonment and internment.

Drita Çomo’s file was opened in December 1974 and closed in 1983, following her death.

The file documents a case of surveillance by the former State Security targeting an adolescent from a family regarded by the regime as “anti-Party”.

Rexhep Mitrovica, an activist for the national cause, a signatory of the Act of Independence in 1912, Minister of Education, and Prime Minister of Albania during a difficult period of the Second World War (1943–1944).

Despite his contribution in Kosovo in opposing Serbian Chetnik forces, his role in helping save Jews and Roma from deportation, and his efforts to defend Albania’s northern border, he was labelled a “collaborator” by the post-war government. This designation was linked to his election, on 16 October 1943, by the National Assembly in Tirana as a member of the High Council of the Regency, followed on 5 November of the same year by his appointment as Prime Minister of Albania.