EDM 899: Site of Witness and Memory, Albania

That this House commends the work of the museum, The Site of Witness and Memory, in Shkodër, which is the first site of remembrance in Albania that commemorates the atrocities committed by Albania’s Communist regime; acknowledges the crimes committed in Albania in the name of Marxism–Leninism and Albania’s totalitarian dictator, Enver Hoxha; notes with sadness the lives lost in the site of the museum which was then one of the local branches of the Ministry of Interior, as well as the twenty-two other branches in Shkodër, where unspeakable violence, torture, and murder was perpetrated on people of faith, those with differing political beliefs, and those associated with counter-revolutionary activity; and acclaims the museum’s efforts in raising awareness of the crimes of Hoxhaism.