Hito Çako

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Hito Çako (born March 3, 1923 in Progonat , Kurvelesh , † December 5, 1975 ) was an Albanian general and politician of the Party of Labor of Albania .

biography

After attending schools in Saranda , Çako joined the communist anti-fascist resistance movement during World War II and took part in the war of liberation. After serving as political commissar of the 5th Brigade deployed in Lura and Prizren from May 28, 1944, he became commander of the 1st division on May 9, 1945 .

After the founding of the People's Republic of Albania on January 11, 1946, he first attended the war school and then later between 1950 and 1954 the military academy Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze in Moscow . In addition, he was a graduate of the General Staff Academy of the USSR Marshal Kliment Yefremowitsch Voroshilov and the Lenin Military Political Academy .

After the arrest of the Commander of the Navy ( Flota Luftarake Detare ) , Rear Admiral Temo Sejko , in August 1960 for alleged espionage for the Soviet Union , the United States and Greece , Çako, who was also a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PPSh, was appointed First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PPSh Enver Hoxha under promotion to rear admiral with the performance of official business. He held this position until September 1961 and was then replaced by Rear Admiral Abdi Mati .

He was also a member of the People's Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) and represented the Vlora district there .

On January 15, 1962 he was promoted to General by the Presidium of the People's Assembly and at the same time appointed Vice Minister for Defense and Head of the Central Political Administration of the Armed Forces ( Forcat e Armatosura të Shqipërisë ) .

He was also one of 154 people who were awarded the title "Hero of the People" ( Hero i Popullit ).

In July 1974, as a confidante of Defense Minister Beqir Balluku , he was accused of inciting revisionist ideas and charged in a military court with an attempted military coup and treason .

A little later he was sentenced to death together with Balluku and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Petrit Dume and later executed .

After the collapse of communism, his body was exhumed on July 18, 2000 at the request of his family and buried in a secret grave in Horë-Vranisht in the district of Vlora together with Generals Balluku and Çako, who were convicted at the time with him .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Borba Claims Terror Ruling in Albania (March 21, 1961) ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.osaarchivum.org
  2. ↑ List Of The Member Of Leading Albanian Party ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.osaarchivum.org
  3. ↑ List Of The Member Of Leading Albanian Party ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.osaarchivum.org
  4. ↑ 154 personat qe kane marre titullin "Hero i Popullit" (Zëri YT !, March 18, 2006) ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeriyt.com
  5. ↑ Excerpts from a speech by Enver Hoxha (1978)
  6. ↑ Ilir Berisha: General Veli Llakaj on Kosova- Enver Hoxha and Mehmet Sehu. Kosova aktuell, March 17, 2010, accessed on November 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Anita Niegelhell, Gabriele Ponisch: We are always on fire: Reports of former political prisoners in communist Albania (=  To the customer of Southeast Europe: Albanological studies . Volume 2 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99290-3 , p. 177 (293 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ THE SERIOUS ECONOMIC PRESSURE ON THE CHINESE HAS BEGUN, BUT WE WILL NEVER BEND (June 17, 1975)
personal data
SURNAME Çako, Hito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian communist politician and general
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Progonat , Kurvelesh
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1975