The testimony of the hero's grandson: "The revenge of the communist regime against our family began in 1943, when the Shkodra communists led by Vasil Shanto assassinated Isa's son and my father Adem Boletini. As a result of the policy followed by communist Belgrade and Tirana, after the murder of my grandfather in 1913, 15 people from our family were killed or executed and ten others spent years in prisons and exiles".
The revenge of the Slavo-communists against the well-known family of Isa Boletini, began in November 1943, when the Shkodra communists led by Vasil Shanto assassinated my father, lieutenant colonel Adem Boletini, the third son of Isa, who had graduated from the Military Academy in Vienna.
After that, both in Mitrovica, where most of the Boletins lived, and in Albania, our family found itself under a fierce and barbaric persecution by the communist regimes of Tito and Enver Hoxha. From this unprecedented repression that followed the sons, nephews and nieces of Isa Boletini, the number of killed and executed from our family reached 15 people and ten others suffered for years in the terrible prisons of Serbia and Albania. Enver Hoxha's communist regime towards the Boletini family followed the same policy that Tito's communist regime had followed for many years and as a result only in 1962, Isa Boletini was awarded the high title of People's Hero. Even after that, our family only once had an official invitation to go to Vlora on the anniversaries of the flag raising day, and in 1981, when the monument of my grandfather Isa Boletini was inaugurated in Shkodër, our family was not invited, saying that we they had forgotten". The man who speaks and testifies for Memorie.al is 67-year-old Isa Boletini, (grandson of Isa Boletini) former Physical Education teacher, Sports Master and international volleyball referee, who tells how his family was treated by the regime Tito's communist in Yugoslavia, as well as Enver Hoxha's in Albania. How did the revenge of the communist regime of Tirana against the family of Isa Boletini begin and who were the victims of that family who were executed, killed, imprisoned and exiled by the official policy of Belgrade? Regarding these and other facts from the tragic history of the Boletini family, we are informed by the confession of his young nephew Isa Boletini, who himself felt the heavy weight of the violence of Enver Hoxha's communist regime on his shoulders.
Genocide on Bulletins
What about the truth about the murder of Isa Boletini's son by the Shkodra communists in 1944 and what was the attitude of the communist regime towards this family after the end of the war? Regarding this, the young Isa Boletini testifies: "The murder of my father, lieutenant colonel Adem Boletini, was carried out on November 23, 1943 by the Shkodra communists led by Vasil Shanto. That murder was instigated and ordered by the Serbian communists who at that time led the Communist Party in Albania, as a sign of revenge against my grandfather Isa Boletini who fought for years against the Serbo-Montenegros. At that time, Adem's murder was met with great indignation by all the people of Shkodra who condemned that barbaric act, because Adem Boletini served as a soldier and had never been involved in politics. Although I was not more than nine years old, I remember very well the magnificent funeral that the people of Shkodra did for my father Adem, where the Anti-Fascist youth of the city was forced to bring its crown. Since that time, in order to cover up that crime and the great indignation of the people of Shkodra, communists opened the word that allegedly Adem Boletini had been killed unintentionally and the target of the assassination had been Major Ndrec Prenga, the district commander of the Shkodra Gendarmerie. This was also rejected by them from the two tracts that they released immediately after that murder. Of those two tracts, I remember as of now only the first one that we could find, where the killing of the father was talked about only in the last two lines. It said: "Adem Boletini was not sentenced to death by the NPSH, but his attitude with Major Ndrec Prengë was unjustified", Isa Boletini recalls about the murder of his father Adem, who was also the third son of Isa Boletini.
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The Ordeal of Bulletins in Albania
The attitude that the communist regime of Tirana held after 1944 towards the family of Adem Boletini's son showed best that the murder of Adem Boletini had been premeditated by them and not by mistake as they tried to present it. Regarding this, the testimony of Isa Boletini sheds light, which states: "As if the execution of our father Adem was not enough, the communist regime that came to power in 1944, encouraged by the official policy of Belgrade, continued its revenge against the family of Isa Boletini. Thus, in 1947, my mother Adile Bekteshi was arrested, who suffered five years in the hellish communist prisons, where from the bad conditions she also got some diseases that were not shared with her until she died. The imprisonment of my mother by the communists was also a consequence of the fact that her sister was the wife of Jup Kazazi, one of the most well-known anti-communists who in 1947 organized the armed revolt aimed at overthrowing the communist regime. After our mother's sentence, the court gave the decision for the sequestration of the property, although we did not have any property and in Shkodër we lived in the house of our uncle, the well-known doctor Dr. Selaudin Bektesh. Until then, from the beginning of the 60s, three decisions were made for us as a family to leave Tirana. The third time we stayed hidden for a month and it took the intervention of our uncle Dr. Bektesh that the order that was given for our expulsion from Tirana be returned. Even after that, the attitude of the communist regime towards our family has been flexible depending on the political conjunctures. So there were many cases when I was removed from Education and sent to work as a laborer. Likewise, brother Enisi who could barely graduate as a doctor (under the care of his uncle Dr. Bektesh) after two years of night school, although he was a well-known doctor, he was fired three times and sent to the morgue. The attitude of the communist regime towards our family changed only after the installation of the magnificent monument of Isa Boletini in the city of Shkodra in 1981, where at its inauguration our family was not called, telling us that they had forgotten. Similarly, during the entire period of the communist regime until 1990, our family was called only once to participate in the anniversaries of the Declaration of Independence in Vlora, while after the 90s we were never called", he concludes his story. Isa Boletini adding that the assessment that Isa Boletini was not properly made by the communist regime in Albania, was made in Kosovo, where with the initiative of President Rugova himself, several scientific sessions have been held and dozens of studies have been published about his figure.
Killed by the Serbs
Halil Bulletin 1833
Muje Boletini 1892
Ahmet Bulletin 1894
Isa Bulletin 1916
Halil Bulletin 1916
Seid Bulletin 1916
Jonuz Bulletin 1916
Halit Bulletin 1916
Musa Bulletin 1944
Skender Boletini 1944
Aslan Bulletin 1945
Faik Bulletin 1947
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Isuf Bulletin 1947
Rasim Dajçi (nephew) 1945
Hysni Rudi (nephew) 1945
Prisoners in Yugoslavia
Muje Boletini 3 years
Kaplan Boletini 20 years
Ali Boletini, released from prison
Tafil Boletini imprisoned in 1945
Iqbale Boletini imprisoned in 1945
Kumrie Boletini imprisoned in 1945
Killed and imprisoned in Albania
Adem Boletini killed in 1943
Tafil Boletini imprisoned in 1945
Adile Boletini imprisoned in 1947
Ismet Boletini imprisoned in Spaç
Enver Dajçi (nephew) imprisoned in Spaç
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The early origin of the Boletin family, from where the famous Isa Boletini comes, is from the village of Isniq in Mitrovica. The first of them, named Lekë, who had three sons: Nika, Cana and Preka, is said to have lived in that village before the Skanderbeg period. From these three brothers who lived in the village of Isniq, three neighborhoods flowed and were created, which received the names: Niklekaj, Canalekaj and Preklekaj, which multiplied and reached up to 500 houses. Like many large patriarchal families of that period, Leka's family and those who came after him for up to five generations, forced by the Ottoman pressures and invasions and to avoid paying taxes and obligations to Turkey, were assigned to the children of different names such as Muje, Demë, Hajdar and Myrsel. Thus, from the womb of the family of Hajdar and his brother Halit, the Zhazhë neighborhood flowed and was created, while from the womb of the other brother Ahmet, the Muslije neighborhood flowed and was created. From the belly of Adem Myrseli, the house of Ahmet and Isa Boletini flowed. Then increasing their number, about 180 houses moved from the village of Isniq and settled around Istog where they formed the towns of Tomoe, Muzhevina, Prekalle, Rudicë,
Zabllac, Trubuhovce, Boletin and Zharce. Likewise, at that time, more than 50-60 other houses were moved from Isniqi and settled in various villages and towns of Kosovo. According to a study by Prof. Skënder Luarasi, it is said that the ancestors of this family, forced by the incursions of the Ottoman invaders, came down from the northern villages where they lived at that time and settled in the village of Boletin around 1529, where they took the surname Boletini. This village, which is also the birthplace of Isa Boletini, is located not far from the city of Mitrovica (to its north), which looks like a small town located on the face of a large rock, next to a slope that the locals call Sokolaj . Around the year 1750, the towers of the Boletins were burned for the first time by the camps of the Turkish army, when they marched in the direction of that province to capture Hajdar and Demë Mujë Nika and his brothers Halil and Ahmet. As the Boletin tribe never agreed with the policy of the High Gate of Istanbul and was always in a state of war with them, their towers in Boletin village were burned again in 1830-1832 when the Turkish army came to capture Adem Boletin. . Likewise, in 1892, that tower was burned again by the Turks in the wars they waged against Ahmet Boletin. The story of the Boletini family continues with Isa Boletini (born in the village of Boletin on January 15, 1864) who continued the wars against the Turks and as a result, the fire was set on the Boletini towers again by Hafëz Pasha who burned them in 1895 . After that, the towers of the Boletins were burned twice in a row by the Young Turks in 1908 and 1914, in the wars they waged against Isa Adem Boletini. Isa Boletini had nine sons and five daughters, whose names were: Halil, Zahid, Muje, Adem, Musa, Bajazit, Asllan, Faik, Kapllan, Azize, Havize, Shehdije, Ajete and Feride. Isa Boletini after becoming one of the main prijs of the Kosovo Albanians in their wars against the Ottoman occupation, one of the most famous events of his life, is the participation in the raising of the Flag in Vlora in November 1912 where Ismail Qemali announced Independence of Albania. Isa Boletini was killed by the Serb-Maltese forces of General Vuković, while crossing the Ribinica bridge in the city of Podgorica. Together with Isa Boletini, seven members of his family were killed that day, starting with his eldest son Halili (24 years old), the other son Zahidi (18 years old) who was a student in Vienna at the time, two nephews Jonuzi (26 years old) and Halili (24 years old) as well as their three cousins named Hajdar Selim Radisheva, Misin Niman Bala and Idriz Bislimi. After the murder of Isa Boletin, in 1916, which also coincides with the departure of the Ottoman army from Albania, the large family of Boletins who lived in the village of the same name near Mitrovica, took care of the administration of their properties. In addition to these properties, which consisted of agricultural lands, livestock with thousands of sheep and pastures that stretched throughout the village of Boletin, the Boletini family was also known for the production of Mademi stones for grinding mills, which were sold as far as Hungary. In 1944, with the coming to power of Tito's communist regime, the Boletini family was subjected to a vicious and barbaric persecution, causing Isa Boletini's sons, nephews and nieces to be pursued, shot and imprisoned. The same thing happened with the rest of Isa Boletini's family that was in Albania, where in 1943 Isa's son, lieutenant colonel Adem Boletini, was assassinated and then some of the nephews of this family suffered in prisons and exiles. As a result of this policy that was followed by the Belgrade and Tirana regimes in the span of 80 years, 15 people from Isa Boletini's family were killed or executed and ten others suffered for years in prisons and exiles. The communist regime of Tirana, following and maintaining the same attitude towards the Boletini family as that of Belgrade, did not give Isa Boletini the place she deserved in the history of Albania. As a result of this attitude, until 1962 he only held the order "Skenderbeu" and in that year, in the framework of the 50th Anniversary of Independence, he was awarded the high title "Hero of the People". After this, about 20 years later in 1981, a magnificent monument was erected to him in the city of Shkodra and Isa Boletini's two nephews, Enisi and Isai, who lived in Tirana, were not invited to its inauguration./Memorie.al
