Riza Alizoti, engineer, son of Fejzi Alizoti, was born in Istanbul. He was born in Istanbul, where his father held important positions in the Turkish government. After graduating from “Robert College” in Istanbul, he returned to Tirana to continue his studies at the “Harry Fultz” technical school. Then, with a scholarship from the Albanian state, in 1929 he began higher studies in mining engineering in Camborne, England. After graduating in 1933, he specialized in the exploitation of mines in Strasbourg. Upon returning to Albania, he was appointed to work in the oil wells of Kuçova. In 1943, he was interned by the Italians in Porto Romano, as a participant in the Kuçova workers’ demonstration. By decision of the Council of Ministers, on December 22, 1945, he was decorated with the Work Order, but not even two years later, on June 11, 1947, he was arrested as a saboteur. On September 27 of the same year, the Supreme Military Court declared him guilty as an “enemy of the people and a saboteur of power” and sentenced him to hanging on a rope, confiscation of movable and immovable property and the loss of civil and political rights. He was executed on October 10, 1947; he was hanged on the branches of a vine in Kuçova Square . (In the photo: Riza Alizoti in the courtroom, 1947.)
Text: Encyclopedic dictionary of victims of communist terror – Vol. I , “West Print”, Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2012, pages 107-108.
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